The animal surgery course is a crucial component in training medical students. However, certain deficiencies have been identified in teaching practice, such as the high difficulty of interdisciplinary teaching, students’ weak concepts of sterility, poor clinical thinking, insufficient teamwork, shallow emotional investment, and ineffective value guidance. By integrating the characteristics of student learning and utilizing virtual simulation experiments alongside peer role models, an emotional guidance teaching model has been established to enhance the effectiveness of "life education" through strengthened emotional identification and improved value guidance. Research results indicate that this teaching model forms a closed-loop teaching process, aligns with students" cognitive patterns, cultivates students" comprehensive abilities, and enhances teaching effectiveness.