The Second National
Postgraduate Education and Faculty Training Conference for Family Medicine and
the 10th Shanghai Sino-US Family Medicine Forum held on October 18-20, 2019 in
Shanghai ended successfully. This article continues to introduce the
Family Medicine Education
Sub-Forum,
Family Medicine Teaching
Method Sub-Forum
and McGill University Sub-Forum.
The
Family Medicine
Education Sub-Forum was presided over by Zhang Yanxiang, head
of the Teaching and Research Office of General Medicine at the 10th
People’s Hospital affiliated to Tongji University School of Medicine. Experts
from the department of Family Medicine, Medical Center of Nebraska University, including
Head of Family Medicine Michael Sitorius; Assistant Professor Jennifer Liu;
Director of Health Education Jessica Koran-Scholl, Director of Resident
Training Kimberly Jarzynka, and Visiting Professor Marilyn Sitorius, introduced
basic practices and principles for effective teaching feedback and how to give
immediate and positive feedback effectively and correctly to help students
understand themselves quicker and develop improvement plans better. Finally,
the experts of the teaching team also shared subtle ways to guide patients
correct unhealthy behaviors and intervention steps on patients’ life through
actual cases. Jenny Ni, director of Pharmacy Department at United Family New
Town Hospital, gave a keynote speech on "Drug Interactions",
reminding to pay attention to drug interactions in clinical work by understand
the patient's medication history and living habits so that harm could be
avoided.
Liang
Xinglun, director of Geriatrics Department of Yangpu Hospital affiliated to
Tongji University, chaired the Teaching Methods Sub-Forum. The teaching team
consist of Nebraska University’s experts continues to bring wonderful
presentations. They proposed a problem-based learning model and elaborated
application skills and basic principles of PBL teaching method. The guests used
the PBL method to analyze actual cases on the spot. The teaching team also introduced
challenges encountered in clinical teaching and solutions. During the
conference, guests learned more about how to become a qualified teacher through
role-playing and audience interaction. Finally, the teaching team of Family
Medicine at Nebraska University Medical Center invited the guests to conduct
on-the-spot exercises to master how to set SMART goals correctly.
The
McGill University Sub-Forum was hosted by Wang Yuwei, former assistant dean of
International Affairs at the University of Ottawa Medical School. Howard
Bergman, head of Family Medicine of McGill University, began with Dr. Bethune's
experience, discussed global health challenges of the 21st century and health
care transformation in Canada, and introduced the discipline and teaching
condition of Department of Family Medicine at McGill University. Marion Dove,
director of Resident Training Program of McGill University, talked about the
resident training of the Family Medicine Department, covering the role of
family physicians, curriculum principles, clinical rotation design, licensing
exams, academic training, and teachers’ responsibilities. Tibor Schuster, Ph.D.
Program director, emphasized the importance of building a health system and
introduced the McGill University Family Medicine Graduate Education Program.
Gemma Cheng, a teacher in Family Medicine Department at McGill University,
showed the resident teachers’ supervision and teaching obligation by video
demonstrations, emphasizing that the clinical instructors should directly observe
the process of students’ receiving new patients. Howard Bergman, head of Family
Medicine, explained the McGill University general practice development program
to help teachers improve their teaching skills.
The
conference set up a good communication platform for improving the quality of
postgraduate training, strengthening the construction of postgraduate tutors
for family medicine, promoting the ability of teachers and the competence of practitioners. After meeting, almost all participants
expressed their benefits from this conference. The Forum will become a powerful driving
force for the development of family medicine.
