Ding Wenxiang is the pioneer of pediatric cardiothoracic surgery in China. In the early 1980s, by chance, Dr. Ding introduced the process of my country’s self-reliance to carry out pediatric cardiac surgery to the president of the World Health Foundation (USA), and demonstrated the self-developed surgical instruments. The spirit of Chinese doctors greatly shocked and moved American friends.
Subsequently, with the support of the Shanghai Municipal People’s Government and Shanghai Second Medical University, a pediatric hospital led by Boston Children’s Hospital The Cardiovascular Medicine and Surgery team came to Xinhua Hospital to guide and carry out the first case of large vessel dislocation correction surgery in China, which also opened the door to international cooperation for pediatric cardiovascular science. From 1988 to 1998, Ding Wenxiang worked tirelessly for ten years, from university to government, from Shanghai to Beijing. Finally, he was looking forward to the approval of the Shanghai Municipal People’s Government for agreeing to build the Sino-American Children’s Hospital (later renamed “Shanghai Children’s Medical Center”).
In 1998, the Shanghai Children’s Medical Center, which was jointly established by the Shanghai Municipal Government and the World Health Foundation, was born along with the development and opening of Pudong, and the cause of pediatric medicine in China has turned a new page. The World Health Foundation not only donated a lot of the world’s most advanced medical equipment at that time, but also provided 6 million US dollars of sponsorship for the study and training of Chinese medical staff.
Ji Qingying, Secretary of the Party Committee of Shanghai Children’s Medical Center, said that the design concept of Shanghai Children’s Medical Center is to build a “garden-style children’s hospital”, which is green all year round and provides high-quality services for children. The American designers at that time also integrated the “Legend of the Dragon” into the construction of the hospital. “The blood of the dragon” is the hospital pipeline, and the “nerve of the dragon” is the circuit system of the hospital… The whole hospital is full of “Legend of the Dragon”. Upright.
Today’s Shanghai Children’s Medical Center has become a first-class children’s hospital with significant international influence. Pediatric Cardiology and Pediatric Hematology and Oncology have become the largest diagnosis and treatment centers in Asia and even in the world, and are known as a “city card” in the medical community of Shanghai.
In Shanghai, the close exchanges and cooperation between China and the United States in the field of medical and health care have brought many benefits in promoting technology and innovation in both countries and improving people’s health.
Medical talent is the main source of the hospital’s most important competitive advantage. In Huashan Hospital, the clinical medical staff training platform has developed rapidly in the past ten years. By implementing the management idea of ”internationalization of talent training”, the hospital selects more outstanding talents to participate in overseas training programs in an open and fair manner. , The echeloned international talent cultivation covers medical teaching and research work.
According to Mao Ying, president of Huashan Hospital, in 2005, Huashan Hospital signed a contract with the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH). The first round of strategic cooperation agreement has been completed, and three rounds of cooperation have been completed so far. In the past 15 years, Huashan has successively sent 84 key clinical doctors and head nurses with senior professional titles to MGH for training. In 2008, he began to send outstanding talents to the Mayo Clinic in the United States for clinical observation and training, with a total of 45 people. Neurosurgery, Orthopedics, Hand Surgery, Respiratory Medicine and other clinical departments have jointly hosted training courses for specialists with Mayo Clinic for many times, so that Chinese specialists can receive simultaneous clinical training from top US hospitals without going abroad.
In 2019, Huashan Hospital and the Cleveland Medical Center reached a training consensus, and selected key physicians to participate in the clinical Preceptor training program, covering clinical, scientific research, and education, and each batch lasted 2 months.
The clinical backbones who returned to China after the training are all active in various clinical departments of Huashan Hospital and become the leading soldiers of clinical and management. They not only have an international vision, strong clinical individual combat capabilities, but also enhance their ability to communicate and cooperate with their peers.
In addition, starting from 2016, Huashan Hospital has selected 5 batches of 97 key personnel from clinical departments to participate in the “Global Clinical Scholars Research Training Program” organized by Harvard Medical School, aiming to cultivate both clinical skills. He is also a compound talent with clinical research ideas. In 2018, Shanghai Medical School of Fudan University and Harvard Medical School jointly created a training course for training clinical teachers. Huashan Hospital selected 4 batches of 22 clinical teaching backbones to participate. The teachers of these training programs are all from the faculty of Harvard Medical School, including many Harvard medical tutors such as the editor-in-chief of the New England Journal of Medicine, which ranks first in the United States, and the founder of the famous statistical software STATA.
Cooperative training is multi-dimensional, and improvement is all-round. In the past six years, Harvard’s trainees have achieved a series of outstanding achievements, being approved for major scientific and technological projects in the 13th Five-Year Plan, applying for a number of national patent achievements, and a number of research results being listed in mainstream SCI magazines (such as in ” The first author of the hand surgery team who published a paper in the New England Journal of Medicine); a number of new scientific research stars have emerged—Shanghai Municipal Education Commission Oriental Scholars, Shanghai Science and Technology Commission Pujiang Talents, Venus, Changjiang Scholars Youth Program, etc.
“I hope we can create such a platform, an ecosystem where doctors from China and the United States and even at home and abroad can interact effectively. When this ecosystem grows to a certain extent, it can serve the public. Only if the common people are healthy If there is no guarantee, the people will realize their medical dreams, and the doctors and experts in our public hospitals will have real value.” Mao Ying said.