On May 18-24, experts of WUMER project team from University of Chicago Medical School came to MUSM to participate in teaching and teacher development.

Project team members include Dr. Jon Lio, an expert in resident training management; Professor Scott Stern, an expert in internal medicine; Professor Sonia P. Oyola, Director of Family Medicine Practice Teaching and Professor Sandy Tun, an expert in geriatric and palliative medicine. Senior students in clinical medicine, postgraduates, resident doctors and clinical teachers attended the event.

Scott Stern, as a senior member of American Board of Internal Medicine, put forward the clinical thinking concept— “from symptom to diagnosis”. During his work, he gave lectures on diagnosis steps of diseases and ways to form clinical thinking. Basing on themes of “syncope” and “acute kidney injury”, he made a theoretical teaching and a teaching demonstration for case discussion.

Sonia Oyola introduced the overview of current family medicine and family medicine resident training system in America and discussed how to apply their model to Chinese medical education system. A short-term skill training was given to the teachers of the general clinical college and the doctors in community health service bases.

Sandy Thun introduced the American palliative medicine and discussed similarities and differences between Chinese and American medical humanistic education. People attended the lecture all agreed on the idea that it is very important to improve the humanistic quality of medical students.

Experts also reached an agreement with MUSM on cooperating with the China-US Medical Education Academic Conference, jointly developing a clinical thinking teaching platform, and expanding the selection of teachers to the US for training. (translated by Wang Dingying and Wu Xia)