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MBBS NEWS Tongji University School of Medicine News letter

A note from the editor,

Summer clinical practice in 10th

People’s Hospital Congratulations to the students who are going to carry out their summer clinical practice in shanghai. Our syllabus in Tongji medical University requires us to annually carry out a 10-days early period of clinic practice, which helps us familiarize with the duty of medicine, contents and process of medical practice and the relationship of doctors and patients, which we will be assessed upon. Let’s embrace this opportunity!

Summer practice 2014/06/30 to 2014/08/30

Classes start! 2014/09/15

Courses will

resume on the 15th

of September.

MBBS open day 21014/10/18

All MBBS students

will be involved in

organizing the

event to celebrate!

All students are

required to do their

summer clinical

practice between

those dates.

Welcome to the first issue of MBBS NEWS. This semester has been eventful to say the least, as we have approached our final exams the semester has finally come to an end, and as we are all preparing for our long-waited holidays, we have few highlights we would like to share with you.

In this first edition we will be giving an insight into the progress of the Medical school as well as the events that took place in this semester. One of which is the formation of the Alumni Core Group. I must say it is a pleasure that the Dean has a word to share with us! Have a nice summer!

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SPRING 2014 THE MBBS NEWS

The Alumni core Group, the council elected by their

peers to represent every batch, is a group of diligent

students becoming the growth engine of all MBBS

students. They are engaged to ensure improvement and

development in the University, working hard to perfect the

communication bridge between the fellow international

students and the faculty, organize student’s events,

actively involving students in helping society and provide

orientation guidance for incoming students.

Alumni Core Group

Their Missions…

“Our mission is to create fun and

working environment between the

students, faculty and community”

A Dean’s word "Dear Students, Alumni, Colleagues and Friends, Our

commitment to excellence that inspires and drives the Tongji

University School Of Medicine is no less relevant today than it was at

the time of its establishment. As one of the top leading Universities in

China we are committed in maintaining our tradition of excellence in

teaching, research and patient care. We have a dedicated and

outstanding faculty of over 1300 physicians, surgeons and

researchers, to provide knowledge and experience to the groups of

diverse and talented students interested in becoming the outstanding

health-care givers and researchers of tomorrow. The striving for

excellence also extends of course to our relations to other

Universities in China and abroad. The university is home to

professors and scholars of national reputation carrying out reputable

research. We also invite guest lectures from all over the world to

share their knowledge and experiences with our students and alumni,

to take part in events, activities and conferences that highlight the

relations between the theory and practice.

This has been a very delightful academic year, wish all the best

luck!"

Guo-Tong Xu, PhD, MD

Dean of Tongji University School

of Medicine

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MBBS student’s logo contest

The winning logo will be used to represent the Alumni

Core Group!

Students enthusiastically brought about efforts and

inspirations using creativity and challenging their

skills, to individually custom design what they think it

would be the best representative logo for the Alumni

core Group council. The winning logo is going to be

voted by the all MBBS students. The winner will have

the honor to have his/her logo to represent the Core

group and all the MBBS students as well as winning a

price.

The 5th Annual National Medical Competition held at Tongji

In effect, such institutional context will encourage

undergraduate students to focus further on their level of

experience, as they understand that medical practice will

constantly put them under pressure and therefore expose

them to the real world of medical practice. This will drive

future professionals to an increasing awareness of everyday

life situations and therefore improve healthcare quality all

over the nation, which is the main goal of this grand

competition.

It is a great honor for Tongji University School of

Medicine (TUSM) to host the 5th annual National Clinical

Medical Competition (east region) for the year 2014 under

the organization of the medical education department of the

State Ministry of Education. The opening ceremony

conducted by the organizing committee members has

successfully taken place on the 12th of April in the south

campus stadium of Tongji University. 35 Nationwide

western-based medical colleges have proudly been selected

to participate into the first phase of the competition, which is

aimed to highlight and promote basic medical training.

This competition has made a huge impact on student’s

clinical skills and on clinical practice teaching. From now on

all the medical schools nationwide will be inspired and

focused on improving their standards of studies in order to

be able to take part in the prestigious event. Professors may

change their teaching methods in order to prepare their

students better for the competition, thus letting medical

students gain far more experience in their practice instead of focusing mostly on the theory.

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Professor Dai Qiuping戴秋萍, deputy director of the Institute

of Nutrition and health Food at Tongji University. Professor Dai’s research areas include studying the effects of food on health, extending to the field of toxicology and functional studies of healthy food on the human body. She has long been engaged in the development of pharmaceutical products via photochemical studies and related processes.

Professor Dai also is responsible for lecturing the scheduled MBBS course of “Preventive Medicine”, which consists measures taken for disease prevention as opposed to disease treatment. The subject will give students a further insight on the effects of environmental factors, life style and disease agents on the mental and physical state of a being.

The international student conference on environment and sustainability

(ISCES) was successfully held in Tongji University on 5th June 2014.

Since 2011 Tongji University has the privilege of hosting the annual

gathering of more than 400 students and young experts in the field of

environmental science to discuss the most pressing environmental issues,

raise awareness of global events and explore innovative solutions and

different measures in response to global issues and challenges in

sustainable development.

The 5-day youth summit attracts participants and audience from nearly 50

countries of diversified background. The participants were divided in 5

groups, according to the specialized fields of: Sustainable Education,

Ecosystem, Climate Change, Green Development and Food & Health. The

students were strongly encouraged to participate and engage in group-

discussions, lectures and field visits in light of working together to make a

final presentation that would raise public awareness on ongoing

sustainable development challenges.

Tongji School of medicine had convened the Food & health Group. Led by

Ms. Lisa and three volunteers from the School of Medicine, the group was

encouraged to participate into an activity specially designed to explore all

the positive and negative aspects of food and health in everyday life.

The lecture given by Dr.戴秋萍 In the Institute of nutrition located in the

medical building on campus, was extremely engaging for the students, and

played an important role in the understanding of correlations of

environment and food.

The Dean of Tongji School of Medicine addressed an interesting and

intensive speech about sustainable development and the increasing

advances of Medicine and Health in china and all over the globe. Then

attending members had then been transferred to visit 10th people's hospital

where they learned how Chinese health services has been developing in

the last decade and the importance TCM (Traditional Chinese Medicine) in

the nation by getting involved in simple medicine procedures.

International Student Conference Environmental Science

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Medical students at Tongji University have now the

privilege to access several more world-class scientific and

medical databases in addition to the already available ones,

including “AccessMedicine” and “AccessSurgery” databases as

well as new USMLE exam board websites that would help them

exceed in their studies.

Access to new Databases

The University library has recently widened its archive material for the students in the medical faculty. By purchasing access to three new databases, the library is now licensed to allow individual authorized users to access the databases in support of teaching, study and research at the university, with the addition of enabling students to print-off search results or make a copy of limited extracts for personal use.

Users can only access the databases via the library website. The library pays for the

student access to databases but the databases must recognize or authenticate the IP

Domain of the campus. Therefore the databases are not accessible off-campus.

MBBS Students Contributing To The Community!

In the eyes medical students helping the

community and volunteering is equally

important as working hard to gain

experience and knowledge in their line of

duty. This year, the International

Student’s Association (ISA) and

Chinese Student Union (ISO) of

Tongji University have

successfully worked in

collaboration with MBBS students

to organize an exemplary blood

donation drive for the 6000

International students on campus.

The event held for the first time for the

international students was a BOOM!

With as many as 8 MBBS students

volunteering to help publicize the time and

location of the vent, as well as helping

prepare the facility where a lecture was

given to highlight the benefits, rules and

procedures of donating blood. ISA is

now preparing to extend an invitation

to other universities in Shanghai to

launch a blood donation competition.

Special thanks for the fellow students

who paid efforts in making this event a

successful and delightful one.

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Discovery Shanghai…

Psychology conference The 21st International Federation for Psychotherapy World

Congress was held in Shanghai in early May. Tongji

University’s very own esteemed psychology professor

Dr.Xudong Zhao chaired the congress. The congress boasted

over a thousand participants from 29 different countries, and

included a myriad of programs such as workshops, plenary

speeches etc. Students from the MBBS program had the

privileged opportunity to attend the congress, and they were

able to discover more about the main theme of the event:

“Psychotherapy Contributing to Global Health”.

Mandarin is now becoming one of the most important

international languages, and Shanghai has now become a “hot

spot” for students to study. While looking into china I realized

how a country with such a vast ancient history has over the last

two decades been able to successfully integrate to its current

status. More than being surprised by that I was also attracted

by the idea of living in a global city, you really get to know

about China's vibrant culture from the vantage point of one of

its best University. It’s common knowledge that Shanghai is

annually home to a variety of major International expos and

conferences. Being first-year only we have already been

exposed to such events of international importance!

The 14th China medical devices exhibition was held in Shanghai in early June. The purpose of the event was to

gather the suppliers of medical devices with their potential customers, and to explore the world of

medical technology innovation. A group of ambitious MBBS students were able to visit the expo, where they learned about medical technology supply, production,

and demand.

Medical Devices Exhibition

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Psychology symposium

In the first year MBBS syllabus, Psychology is a subject that is not

taken lightly! Complete with 3 Professors, the course is highly

focused to let the students perceive the importance understating

the patient, but more importantly to cohere the relation between

doctor-patients. This year Dr. Angela Fan has especially organized

a symposium for us, inviting 4 students from her university in

Taiwan to come shanghai meet us. The symposium was on

Medical education and it was held in order for students to

exchange ideas and opinions regarding the topic.

Congratulations to our three MBBS lads: Ismail, Inesh, Abdullah who have proudly participated in

2014 Tongji World Cup are representing their

continent. Playing for the Asian team, they were all in all partially disappointed for losing the tournament but happy at the same time for

securing the third place. They are now looking forward for the next tournament in

the near future.

Performing On Stage

Thanks to Jessy, Kombo and Lydia for giving an astonishing performance to the students who have graduated in this academic year. Also, special thanks to the volunteers who

contributed in issuing this newsletter!

Sporting Edge

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Introduction

My name is Inesh Thureraja from Srilanka, I am completing second year of my 6 year MBBS course in Tongji University, school of medicine (TUSM) Shanghai. I have been granted one of the Dean’s Scholarships for this year. I chose to study medicine as I feel it’s a service to mankind, which can be pursued by the strong hearted.

WHY TONGJI?

First and foremost the question should be why Shanghai? For those of you who don’t know much of Shanghai, it’s very busy cosmopolitan city, which is very expat friendly, which means you are able to get around with less amount of Chinese language fluency. Tongji is one of China’s most reputed and famous Universities. Even though the medical school is quite new but it provides holistic medical education, which grooms students to become good doctors. The facilities of the university are state of the art, be it the various medical labs both for learning and research purposes are up to standard. The local professors are well trained and many overseas teachers are brought to do certain modules for the MBBS program. Most Professors range from America, Europe, and Hong Kong etc. Tongji is one of the very few universities that have a vast number of foreign students studying various disciplines and Tongji has an International Students Association (ISA), which is an action packed association. Tongji promotes students to take part in many sports and has facilities for almost all the sport.

What I have achieved

I have gained knowledge in the Chinese language which is highly beneficial not only in shanghai but also in my home country as Chinese (mandarin) is a very fast growing language throughout the world. I have been able to have hands on experience for subjects such as Pathology, Anatomy, Pathophysiology, Genetics, and Physiology, Microbiology etc., which is not provided in many universities, this is a huge bonus for me as a budding doctor. I had the chance for pursuing my passion for Football, there is an International student football team, which I got selected to play for team. The school hosted its own version of the Tongji World cup, in which I played for the Asian team along with two other members from the medical school. The medical school analyzed every student’s academic results and the extra-curricular activities for the dean’s scholarship, for which I was one of the recipients. I was able to be a part of many activities such as Blood donation campaign, charity campaign and environmental campaign. I CAN WHOLE HEARTEDLY SAY THAT IN TONGJI I AM ABLE TO ACHIEVE AN ALL-ROUND EDUCATION WITH EXPOSURE TO

VARIOUS SPORTS AND CULTURES.

Scholar’s Corner

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Our Ultimate Commitment To Advancement Every day as a student at Tongji University School of Medicine, I

continue to unearth the intense energy that underlies the

commitment to excellence of this institution.

This year’s scientific endeavors of Tongji University School of

Medicine span on a astonishing range of disciplines across the

Biomedical research field. Many scientific findings were

successfully published in national and international top-tier

scientific journals. Their reputable work is further advanced

through innovative collaborations and groundbreaking

partnerships with world-class institutions all over the globe. There

are solid foundations to further establish the institution as a top

leading research enterprise.

New Batch As an MBBS program student at Tongji University I can

say that this is a tough but interesting and exciting

program! We have great classmates, cool and

hardworking supervisors, and qualified, experienced and

helpful teachers. The program so far has been far more

fun than stressful. I’m happy to be studying MBBS here

at Tongji University! ~ 孔琉宁 ~

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