Department Brief Introduction

The Department of Continuing Medical Education of the West China Hospital, Sichuan University was established in 2003. It has a Standardized Training Section and an Advanced Training Section. The department is mainly responsible for standardized training programs for residents/specialists, technicians/ pharmacists, nurses and affairs related to advanced trainees.

Advanced Training Section

West China Hospital/West China School of Medicine of Sichuan University is the center for diagnosis and treatment of difficult and critical diseases in western China, and its medical care quality is among the top in China. Currently, it consists of the Main Campus in Guoxue Alley, Wuhou District, Wenjiang Campus and Shangjin Campus. WCH’s 32 specialties have been selected into the “National Key Clinical Specialty Construction Project”, and there are 13 provincial medical quality control centers, too. In terms of teaching, West China School of Medicine (WCSM) is a famous medical institution for higher education in China. It has a complete education system with on-campus education, post-graduate education and continuing medical education system. There are 926 in-service experts with senior titles, including 286 doctoral supervisors and 351 master supervisors, including 2 national-level famous teachers and 2 national-level teaching teams. In terms of scientific research, West China Hospital (WCH) is an important national base for medical science research and technological innovation. According to the Science and Technology Evaluation Matrics (STEM) Ranking for Chinese Hospitals released by the Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, West China Hospital has ranked first for five years in a row.

WCH/WCSM of Sichuan University, as a national base of continuing medical education, is obliged to train medical practitioners at all levels by enrolling annually more than 3,000 trainees (including long-term study, short-term specialized technical training and short-term visit) from 31 provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities. In such way, WCH turns trainees into backbones of elementary hospitals, especially for second-class provincial, municipal and county-level hospitals, demonstrating its crucial role in fostering medical talents in elementary medical institutions and improving their medical abilities. At present, 44 clinical departments and 9 medical technology departments of WCH are open to trainees. We warmly welcome medical professionals from other hospitals to WCH/WCSM for further study.

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Standardized Training Section

Since the Ministry of Health implemented the standardized residency training program in 1993, West China Hospital of Sichuan University is among the first batch of university hospitals to carry out the program. In 2000, the Department of Anesthesiology, following the North American residency model and combining with the characteristics of WCH/WCSM, started to carry out the first standardized training program. After that, this program was rolled out in various departments, and in 2006, the hospital was approved by the Ministry of Health as a specialist training base. In October 2014, according to the latest standards of the National Health and Family Planning Commission, 23 departments of the hospital were successfully re-declared and identified as standardized training bases. In 2015, led by Peking Union Medical College Hospital, “China Consortium of Elite Teaching Hospitals for Residency Education” was set up to jointly promote the resident training affairs, Other founding members include Peking University First Hospital, Zhongshan Hospital of Fudan University, The First Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University, The First Affiliated Hospital of Zhejiang University, Xiangya Hospital of Central South University and West China Hospital of Sichuan University. At the same year, West China Hospital, together with other 23 hospitals in China, became the first demonstration base for standardized training. In 2015, 37 provincial specialist training bases of West China Hospital were approved. In 2017, our Departments of Cardiology, Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine and Neurosurgery became the first batch of national pilot departments. In 2018, our experts from General Surgery, Geriatrics, Pediatric Anesthesia and Critical Care Medicine participated in the drafting of training regulations, contents and standards for the second batch of national specialist training bases, and these departments were also approved to be the second batch of national specialist training bases.

In addition to standardized training for doctors, WCH/WCSM was the first in China to carry out two-year standardized training for resident technicians, pharmacists and nurses in 2006.

Through years of continuous exploration, WCH/WCSM has formed an integrated standardized training system for residents. In the future, it will take more active steps to enhance the construction of resident training bases, trainee management, quality control, refined management, information construction, and training for teachers.