Preparedness of medical education in China: Lessons from the COVID-19 outbreak.

Abstract:

:The COVID-19 outbreak can be seen as a 'big test' for China; a summative assessment of its preparedness on multiple fronts, including medical education. Being intimately involved in the coordinated response, the First Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University has been a first-hand witness to the strengths and weaknesses of the current medical education system in China. On the one hand, we believe that the distinguished contributions in disease containment efforts by healthcare professionals indicated that our medical education system has achieved its intended outcomes and is socially accountable. On the other hand, we have also identified three major issues that need to be addressed from an educational standpoint: insufficient emphasis on public health emergency preparedness; unsophisticated mechanisms for interdisciplinary cooperation; and inadequate guidance in medical ethics. Whilst these reflections might be seen in its summative form, we would suggest changing it to that of a formative process, where we learn from our assessment through observation and feedback of the gaps, upon which improvement of our present situation can be made. We hope that these lessons may be helpful to our colleagues in the rest of China and around the world, who are engaged in medical educational reform.

journal_name

Med Teach

journal_title

Medical teacher

authors

Yang DY,Cheng SY,Wang SZ,Wang JS,Kuang M,Wang TH,Xiao HP

doi

10.1080/0142159X.2020.1770713

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2020-07-01 00:00:00

pages

787-790

issue

7

eissn

0142-159X

issn

1466-187X

journal_volume

42

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