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On June 1, the Faculty Development Plan (FDP) of Tsinghua University School of Clinical Medicine was officially launched. Professor George Daley, Dean of Harvard Medical School, Academician Jiahong Dong, Dean of Tsinghua School of Clinical Medicine, Harvard Faculty Development Plan (FDP) instructor and operation team, and the first 100 trainees from the School of Medicine, School of Clinical Medicine, Tsinghua Changgung Hospital, Huaxin Hospital, Yuquan Hospital, and Capital Institute of Pediatrics attended the program launch ceremony. The project initiation ceremony was co-chaired by Ajay Singh, senior vice president of postgraduate medical education at Harvard Medical School and Ping Zhang, assistant dean of clinical medicine of Tsinghua University and vice president of Beijing Tsinghua Changgung Hospital.

On behalf of Harvard Medical School, George Daley first congratulated Tsinghua University School of Clinical Medicine on the initiation of the faculty training program. He said that the Tsinghua University School of Clinical Medicine is reforming its medical education curriculum under the leadership of Dean Jiahong Dong. In order to support the clinical teaching reform of Tsinghua University, the team of Harvard Medical College has elaborately designed this teacher training program, which covers such topics as curriculum design, teaching methods, and teacher development. Over the next six months, the Harvard Medical School team will systematically introduce modern medical education concepts, models and methods. In addition, in the next three years, 5 faculty members from Tsinghua University School of Clinical Medicine will go to Harvard University for degree study and 30 faculty members will receive Global Clinical Scholars Research Training Program (GCRST) training at Harvard Center (Shanghai). Affected by the outbreak of COVID-19, this important teacher training program has been converted to an online web-based format. Harvard University has a good teaching tradition and rich teaching experience. We hope that all the teachers will benefit from this program and apply what they have learned to their teaching practice to promote the reform of medical education.

George Daley oration

In his speech, David Roberts, Dean of foreign education at Harvard Medical School, briefly introduced the design concept, overall requirements and curriculum plans of the teacher training program, expecting the students of Tsinghua University School of Clinical Medicine would understand the frontiers and trends of world medical education through this project and gain some achievements. David Roberts pointed out that the initiation of the teacher training program marked the official opening of the cooperation between the clinical medical school of Tsinghua University and Harvard University. He hoped that there would be more opportunities for cooperation in the future through the master's degree program and the research capacity project of clinical scholars.

David Roberts oration

On behalf of Tsinghua University School of Clinical Medicine, Jiahong Dong expressed his heartfelt gratitude to his Harvard University colleagues and friends in Boston, USA. He pointed out that the launch of the teacher training program is not only a milestone in the cooperation between Harvard University and Tsinghua University in medical education, but also has great significance for the reform of medical education beyond Tsinghua University to China. Jiahong Dong reviewed the journey of exploring medical education cooperation with Harvard Medical School since he led a team to Harvard in April 2019, saying that the faculty training program took only one year from initial proposal to implementation, demonstrating the world-class efficiency and level of the Harvard Medical School team. Their sincere help will open a new chapter in medical education at Tsinghua University. Jiahong Dong hopes that the participants of the teacher training will cherish the opportunity to learn advanced teaching concepts and methods, actively devote themselves to the reform of medical education at Tsinghua University, and in the future, represent Tsinghua University in the world stage of medical education. Jiahong Dong hopes that all of you will work together to make due contributions to the training of future medical leaders, the protection of the health and life safety of all mankind, the protection of the earth where we live and the construction of a community of human health and destiny.

Jiahong Dong oration

Jeremy Richards, Program Director of the Teacher Training Program at Harvard Medical School, introduced the overall plan of the Teacher Training Program at Tsinghua University School of Clinical Medicine, the topics and contents of the training, the training content of the first workshop, the instructors, the assignment and examination requirements, and the detailed arrangements of the course.

Jeremy Richards Introduces Teacher Program

Teacher Training Course Site

Tsinghua University School of Clinical Medicine has signed a cooperation agreement with the Harvard Medical School (HMS) School of Continuing Education to assist in training clinical medical education teachers of Tsinghua University. Based on the advanced educational concept of HMS, the Faculty Development Plan (FDP) is specially designed to meet the needs of Tsinghua University's clinical medical education development, to improve the overall teaching ability and level of the clinical medical faculty of Tsinghua University. The training will focus on curriculum design, teaching methods, and assessment, and will be supervised and evaluated by an expert committee composed of HMS and the School of Clinical Medicine.

Harvard Medical School is the world's leading medical school, founded in 1782. It is located in Boston, Massachusetts, USA, and has more than 11,000 faculty members from 11 basic and social science departments, including the Blavatnik Institute, and 15 Harvard Medical School-affiliated teaching hospitals and research institutes. Harvard Medical School has made significant contributions to the advancement of human medicine and created many firsts in the world in medical history: the invention and application of a vaccine for poliovirus, artificial respirators, visual brain mapping, the application of ether anesthesia, external pacemakers, kidney transplantation, and heart valve surgery etc.

Harvard Medical School has always been committed to the reform of medical education, and has been highly effective in clinical teaching and medical education research. Since 1985, when the "New Pathway" teaching model began to be reformed, it has been continuously innovated and optimized over the past 30 years, and has gone through several rounds of reform to form an "organ-system" based medical curriculum teaching model, which has provided a model and benchmark for medical education reform in many medical schools around the world.(Reviewer Yunshuo Li)