From December 20^th to 21^st, the 4^th Council Session of China Medical Integrated Curriculum Alliance and the 4^th China Medical Integrated Curriculum Forum were held at MUSM, where over 200 experts and scholars from more than 50 universities at home attended the meeting to exchange their idea on medical integrated curriculum. The conference was hosted by People’s Medical Publishing House, Xi’an Jiaotong University and organized by MUSM.

Tang Qizhu, Vice President of WHU, delivered a welcoming speech. He said that the construction of “New Medical Science” has given a new mission to medical education, and we should grasp the opportunity of China’s health cause and medical education to strive to realize the transformation of medical personnel training from biomedical science as the main supporting medical education model to a new mode based on medicine cooperating with multiple subjects.

At the opening ceremony, Yan Hong, President of China Medical Integration Alliance, Vice President of Xi’an Jiaotong University and Du Xian, Editor-in-Chief of People’s Medical Publishing House, make a report respectively. Yang Jin, Deputy Editor of People’s Medical Publishing House hosted the meeting.

The keynote speech of the conference was hosted by Du Xian. Yu Baoping, Vice Minister of WUSM; Deng Shixiong, Vice President of Chongqing Medical University, and Guo Liping, Associate Dean of Peking University School of Health Humanities, delivered keynote speeches on issues such as “Medical Education Reform”, “Integrated Medical Education” and “Narrative Medicine”.

The forum also established two seminars. Experts and scholars discussed the topic of organ-system integration planning materials for clinical medicine in the 13^th Five-Year and the construction of PBL case library of Chinese medical education.

Established in Xi’an Jiaotong University in 2015, China Medical Integrated Curriculum Alliance strives to promote the in-depth exchange of medical integrated curriculum in universities, the sharing of the resources, and the joint exploration of integrated courses.