From October 13th to 20th, Party Secretary Guo Yongjin led a delegation to visit the United Kingdom and Ireland, visiting King's College London, the University of Nottingham, the University of Edinburgh, and University College Dublin. They conducted extensive, in-depth, and fruitful exchanges on faculty and student short-term exchanges, talent cultivation, and scientific research cooperation.
During the visit to King's College London, Guo Yongjin met with Gorka Ortiz, head of the International Education Center, and Charlotte Taylor, project specialist, introducing Shanghai Health Medical College as the first medical college named after health in China that keeps up with the times and serves the national strategy in terms of professional construction and talent cultivation. Both sides had in-depth exchanges on undergraduate summer short-term exchanges and biomedical engineering research projects, and discussed customized curriculum design. After the meeting, they visited the Strand Campus in the heart of London, learning about the university's history, campus facilities, and student life. They also visited institutions such as the Department of Biomedical Engineering and Imaging Science, the London Health Engineering Research Institute, and St. Thomas' Hospital. With Kawal Rhod, the teaching minister of the Department of Biomedical Engineering and Imaging Science, they discussed future summer research exchange programs and combined bachelor's and master's cooperation projects, clarifying the main directions and forms of future cooperation.
During the visit to the University of Nottingham, Guo Yongjin met with Nigel Mongan, Vice Chancellor for Global Cooperation, and Claire Stewart, Dean of the Medical School, introducing the university's history and current teaching and research status. They had in-depth exchanges on course alignment for combined bachelor's and master's programs, short-term training projects, summer student exchanges, management cadre training, scientific research cooperation, and faculty training, and formed a preliminary cooperation plan. Accompanied by Nick Prover, head of the International Cooperation Department, they visited the VR Virtual Reality Simulation Teaching Center at the Nottingham University Engineering College, the Queen's Medical Center affiliated with the University of Nottingham, the Medical School, and the Clinical Technology Center (Simulation Training Center).
During the visit to the Medical School of the University of Edinburgh, the delegation visited the university's Anatomical Museum. The museum's director led the group through the museum's important collections, sharing the 300-year history of anatomical teaching at the University of Edinburgh and the university's anatomical teaching arrangements. The group had in-depth exchanges with university staff on issues such as anatomical teaching faculty exchanges and daily student management.
During the visit to University College Dublin, Guo Yongjin met with Margaret Tiuchta, Director of International Relations at the Medical School, and Joycelyn, a staff member of the International Department, who led the group on a tour of the University College Dublin campus. As a research university and the largest higher education institution in Ireland, the Medical School of University College Dublin represents the highest level of medical education in Ireland. Both sides had in-depth exchanges on short-term medical research courses, master's student recruitment, scientific research cooperation, and faculty training. The delegation also paid a visit to the Ireland China Research Institute and the Confucius Institute, meeting with Dean Wang Liming. Guo Yongjin and Wang Liming discussed the educational and cultural exchange situation between China and Ireland in recent years and measures to promote faculty and student exchanges and academic cooperation between the two schools in the future.
During the visit, Secretary Guo Yongjin and the delegation also visited our school's current master's students studying at King's College London and Trinity College Dublin, learning about their daily study and life, expressing the concern and care of their alma mater, and sharing the school's latest development dynamics with the alumni. They encouraged the students to strive for excellence, cherish the opportunity to understand different cultures, learn new skills, and improve language abilities. They welcomed the alumni to return to their alma mater often, encouraged continuous communication among alumni to enhance alumni cohesion, and jointly contributed to the construction and development of their alma mater.
The delegation included relevant responsible persons from the Party Committee Organization Department, Propaganda Department, School of Medical Technology, School of Rehabilitation, and Chongming Hospital affiliated with the school.