(By Dongye Han)In the summer of 2020, four personnels from the Beijing Tsinghua Changgung Hospital were selected to join the Young Faculty Overseas Degree Program, an international exchange program at Clinical Medicine School of Tsinghua University, and began their Harvard research journey.

Jiahong Dong lead a team to visit Harvard Medical School

In April 2019, academician Jiahong Dong, dean of Clinical Medicine School of Tsinghua University and dean of Beijing Tsinghua Changgung Hospital, led a team to visit Harvard Medical School. The two sides reached a preliminary intention to carry out medical education cooperation, and eventually agreed on a number of talent cultivation plans, striving to cultivate a number of outstanding talents with international vision and standards. In October 2019, Clinical Medicine School officially released a report on the " Clinical Medicine School selects outstanding young physicians and hospital administrators to study for a master's degree at Harvard Medical School.”. And currently has three programs open, namely Master of Medical Science in Clinical Investigation，(MMSCI) Master of Healthcare Safety and Quality，(MHQS) and Master of Clinical Service Operations ( MCSO).

Harvard Medical School faculty member coming to our hospital for an on-site interview (Photographed by Jiyao Wang)

Dr. Kun Li from Cardiology, Dr. Wen Wen from Nephrology, and Dr. Yuzhe Tang from Urology were selected for the MMSCI program and Yingqian Wang, Medical Management Specialist, was selected for the MHQS program after an in-hospital interview, an interview of School of Clinical Medicine, a video interview at Harvard Medical School, and an on-site interview.

Affected by the Covid-19 pandemic, four colleagues are now participating in the project course through online learning in China. At the end of June, Yingqian Wang started the course first, "The course development and content arrangement is very systematic, and the teaching methods are diverse, which promotes student thinking. Not only did they learn the theoretical system, they also learned the practical tools." The phrase "first, do no harm" was particularly memorable to her from the Harvard Medical School course on patient safety management, where the goal of no harm is the first thing to be achieved, both for patients and for medical staff. On July 27, three physicians also started classes. The first session focused on the “clinical research”. The young physicians are learning from real clinical research cases and gaining a deeper understanding of research methods. Dr. Kun Li has just finished his assignment in support of the Beijing Ditan Hospital and entered the project during the quarantine observation period. He said, "After I successfully completing the assignment I can happily start the Harvard trip."

Four Personnels from Beijing Tsinghua Changgung Hospital Attend Online Classes(Reviewer Xin Liu)