On July 13, the Ministry of Education’s website released the “Announcement on the List of Universities for the Construction of High-level Schools of Public Health”, including 18 universities including Peking University and Tsinghua University.
On July 15, Rao Yi, President of Capital Medical University, published an article on his personal account “Rao Yi Science”, expressing his different opinions on the public list: “Beijing Of the four medical schools in China, three (Peking University, Tsinghua University, and Union Medical College) are among them, with the exception of Capital Medical University (Shouyi)… If the deans of the selected 15 non-local public health schools are anonymous and fair If they vote, they can only vote for the first doctor to be the first in Beijing. Of course, if the contribution to Beijing’s epidemic prevention and anti-epidemic has nothing to do with the construction of a high-level public health school, the first doctor can also be ranked out of the top 200 in the country.
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…For the medical and health community, there is no doubt that the first medical system, the strong pillar of public health (infectious diseases and respiratory system) closely related to this outbreak, is the number one unit in Beijing . “
What is the point of contention?
Rao Yi raised two core questions in the article.
First, it starts from the strength of the affiliated hospitals in public health and infectious disease prevention and treatment.
Rao Yi believes: “All Beijing citizens know that the two major infectious disease hospitals in Beijing shoulder the biggest task of epidemic prevention and anti-epidemic in the capital. An integral part of the public health education system.
…Infectious respiratory diseases, Chaoyang Hospital of Shouyi is also one of the top hospitals in the country. In Beijing, the China-Japan Friendship Hospital can keep pace with Chaoyang Hospital of Shouyi in respiratory infectious diseases. The part of China-Japan Friendship Hospital is mainly divided from Chaoyang Hospital. The China-Japan Friendship Hospital is not affiliated with the Union Medical College. The respiratory department of Xiehe Hospital does not focus on infectious diseases. Therefore, the respiratory infectious diseases of the first medical system are also ahead of Peking University, Union Medical College and Tsinghua University. ”
For reference, the comprehensive list of specialties in the Fudan Hospital Ranking List in 2020,Among them, under the category of infectious infections, the two major infectious disease hospitals in the first medical system are ranked Ranked 9th and 10th, and in the list of key public health colleges and universities, Union Medical College and Peking University also have affiliated hospitals on the list respectively.
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In the respiratory department ranking, in addition to the China-Japan Friendship Hospital named by Rao Yi, there are Beijing Chaoyang Hospital affiliated to Peking Union Medical College and Capital Medical University.
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In addition to the strength of the affiliated hospitals and departments, Rao Yi also raised questions about the evaluation of the public health education system in colleges and universities. He believes that “Concord has not been involved in infectious diseases for many years. Public health. The School of Public Health at Tsinghua University is still in its infancy. None of them cultivate undergraduate public health talents.”
From the perspective of the education and training systems of the three colleges and universities, the public health discipline of Xiehe was established the earliest (1921), and its curriculum includes many courses such as macro policy and humanities and social sciences.
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Tsinghua University Vanke School of Public Health and Health was established on April 2, 2020. Its main major, the Master of Public Health and Health (MPH), is also more inclined to macro-level health in terms of curriculum. health policy.
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According to the official website of Capital Medical University, its School of Public Health currently has doctorate degree programs in the first-level disciplines of public health and preventive medicine; Public health and preventive medicine, and public administration 1 first-level discipline master’s degree authorization point, professional master’s degree in public health (MPH) awarding point and first-level discipline postdoctoral station; Toxicology and pharmacology are ranked in the top 3‰ of ESI, and the first-level discipline of public health and preventive medicine is in the country Ranked B+ in similar subjects (the fourth round of subject evaluation by the Ministry of Education).
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How is medical education evaluated?
In the evaluation of medical education, the Ministry of Education and the National Health Commission have always had some overlapping responsibilities.
In the Department of Science, Technology and Education of the Health and Health Commission, the General Office, the Major Project Office, the Planning and Evaluation Office, the Biosafety Office, and the Medical Education Office have been established, which are responsible for laboratory biosafety supervision. Organize and carry out post-graduation medical education and continuing education such as resident physician and specialist physician training, and coordinate and guide the education of medical schools.
The Higher Education Department of the Ministry of Education also undertakes the macro management of higher education teaching; guides the basic construction and reform of higher education teaching; guides and improves the evaluation of higher education; Teaching Guidance Documents.
In 2005, the Ministry of Education and the former Ministry of Health established the Inter-Ministerial Coordination Mechanism for Macro-Management of Medical Education.
In January 2022, the Ministry of Education, the National Development and Reform Commission, the National Health Commission, and the National Center for Disease Control and Prevention jointly issued the Guidelines for the Construction of High-Level Schools of Public Health, proposed to use In about 10 years, a number of public health schools with Chinese characteristics and reaching the world-class level will be built, and a high-quality education development system adapted to the construction of a modern public health system will be formed.
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The guideline proposes to coordinate the Ministry of Education, the National Development and Reform Commission, the National Health Commission, and the National Bureau of Disease Control and Prevention to plan the construction of a high-level school of public health in accordance with the development needs of the health and health undertakings. Approved as a high-level public health school construction unit.
Among them, the construction period is 10 years (2021-2030), and the construction unit should take 5 years as a stage, formulate phased construction tasks and goals, and report to the Ministry of Education in December each year. The Department of Higher Education submitted the “Annual Progress Report on the Construction of a High-Level School of Public Health.” The Ministry of Education, the National Development and Reform Commission, the National Health Commission, and the National Bureau of Disease Control and Prevention will conduct dynamic monitoring, inspection and evaluation.
For medical education, the construction list of high-level public health schools is also the direction of resource investment in the next round of construction. For the evaluation of medical education, the direction of resource investment is the direction of the tide. (planned by: Leu.)
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