Introduction to International Student Education

The First School of Medicine (School of Information and Engineering) and the First Affiliated Hospital of Wenzhou Medical University have an integrated operation and management mechanism. Since the school started to recruit international students in 2006, the hospital has been involved in the education and teaching of international students, building the curriculum platform, training the teaching staff and designing the teaching program.

At present, our hospital is responsible for teaching 23 courses of clinical medicine, dentistry and pharmacy in the College of International Education of Wenzhou Medical University. 285 teachers are qualified to teach international students, 13 books of teaching materials and auxiliary teaching materials for international students have been compiled, 12 special topics for international students have been declared, and 11 articles related to teaching international students have been published. Among them, the course of Nuclear Medicine was awarded the first-class course under the provincial internationalization line in 2021.

In order to improve the quality of international students' education, the college has sent 46 key teachers to receive high-quality teacher training abroad in recent years, with the cooperation of training programs from the University of Alberta (Canada), Columbia University (New York), State University of New York, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), New England College of Optometry, St. George's Hospital (London, UK), Monash University (Australia), The University of Western Australia, University of Lublin, Poland, University of Graz, Austria, University of the East, Thailand, Chiang Mai University, Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman, Malaysia, and other internationally renowned institutions.

The hospital has so far received and completed more than 10 batches of 252 international interns from Wen Medical University, including Adheesh Bhandari, a 2006 clinical medicine intern, who has published 27 SCI articles with a cumulative impact factor of 69.592 and participated in a major national 863 science and technology project. Kenneth Iden Zheng, a 2012 clinical medicine intern, has published 20 SCI papers. In 2013, four clinical medicine interns, Yasin I.P. Sohawon, Darshana Bhana, Ali A. Omran and Zainab A. AlQaidoom, interpreted and translated the English version of the Clinical Skills Manual under the support of the hospital and the guidance of the clinical teachers, and made it available for study and use by international students throughout the hospital. At the same time, the college receives from time to time short-term interns from international institutions such as Ohio State University, Graz University and Oriental University in Thailand in the fields of human medicine, Chinese medicine and acupuncture, and information technology.

The college takes “optimize structure, standardize management, improve quality and highlight characteristics” as the working idea of international student education, adheres to the spirit of "virtue, erudition, rigor and innovation", explores the international talent cultivation mode with distinctive characteristics, and comprehensively promotes international student education. It will also improve the internationalization capability and level of the hospital.
(Data as of December 31, 2021)