In 2021, Tianyin Huang, the world's most influential ophthalmologist, the world's outstanding clinician-scientist and retinal expert, a foreign member of the National Academy of Medicine, a corresponding member of the Australian Academy of Health and Medical Sciences, and a member of the National Academy of Sciences of Singapore, joined Tsinghua University full-time.
From the "Medical Pharmacy Experimental Class" in 2009 to the "Eight-year Medical Experimental Class" in 2013, on the basis of more than ten years of exploration in the School of Medicine, in the past two years, under his leadership, the "Outstanding Physician-Scientist" program has been officially implemented, and more and more students have emerged on the international medical stage. A new "college-hospital" system is taking shape, and Tsinghua Medical School is making steady progress on the road of seeking the true knowledge of life and helping the health of all people, and has attracted attention to the world.
"This opportunity may be once in a lifetime".
A few years ago, Wong met Professor Margaret Chan, founding dean of Tsinghua University's Vanke School of Public Health and Health and honorary Director-General of the World Health Organization. She challenged him: Do you want to be an outsider in the rise of China's medical and health industry, or do you want to be involved in this cause?
In recent years, China's medical industry has developed rapidly, and as a scholar and physician, Huang Tianyin is interested in contributing to the health of all mankind. Professor Margaret Chan's proposal made him realize that the opportunity had come. "It's probably a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, and of course I'm going to take it. So, in 2021, he came to Tsinghua University.
We will make every effort to cultivate "physician-scientists".
The cultivation of medical personnel is the top priority of the country's medical and health undertakings. At Tsinghua University, Huang Tianyin recognizes and supports the concept of "physician-scientists", hoping to cultivate a group of compound medical talents who can "not only consult but also conduct scientific research". In 2022, after unremitting efforts, he led the upgrade of the eight-year medical laboratory class to the "Outstanding Physician-Scientist" program.
Cultivate multidisciplinary interdisciplinary medical talents with strong foundation, clinical emphasis, profound humanistic heritage, international vision and innovation potential, that is, "top physician-scientists with high humanistic feelings", so that students can not only have basic skills such as clinical consultation as physicians, but also be able to carry out cutting-edge research, innovative medical solutions and technologies in the laboratory, and constantly expand the breadth and depth of the medical field. The concept of "physician-scientist" contains Huang Tianyin's vision for the medical cause.
Respond to global issues and establish an international perspective
Huang Tianyin hopes that the teachers and students of Tsinghua Medical College can serve China's medical and health undertakings and fully participate in the health of all mankind. Under this vision, he proposed the "3i" talent training concept: innovation, interdisciplinary, international, that is, innovative curriculum, scientific research, medical system, discipline and team building. Relying on the advantages of traditional science and engineering at Tsinghua University, Tsinghua University integrates different disciplines and technologies, develops the intersection of multidisciplinary medical engineering and medical science, and transforms it into the ultimate goal of disease response, so that more students can have access to the world's top medical resources, and continuously improve the international influence of Tsinghua University's medical education and medical system.
He said: "Our teachers and our students will have to face global problems in the future, and when cultivating talents, we must establish an international perspective as soon as possible. ”
The cultivation of medical personnel should respond to the needs of society
Huang Tianyin visits Tsinghua Chang Gung Hospital in Beijing, affiliated to Tsinghua University, every month. Years of contact with patients have given him a deeper understanding of the needs of medical care in China.
Huang Tianyin often asks himself this question: "Can our current doctor training and hospital management model cope with new challenges?""In the past few years of China's rapid development, the diseases of the social population are very different from those before, and factors such as the extension of life expectancy and the decline in the birth rate have led to the rapid aging of the population, which has shifted from "emergency" to diabetes, cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases, and respiratory diseases as the representative of the "chronic disease" era. This is not only a new situation facing China's medical care, but also a new trend facing the world's medical care.
The country and society need a group of future-oriented medical talents, and Tsinghua Medicine should assume the responsibility of cultivating high-quality medical talents for the country and the people. Facing the major needs of the country and society, it has become an important basis and direct guidance for the formulation of Tsinghua Medical School's curriculum and medical student training program.
Lifelong learning, always on the road
In April this year, Huang Tianyin was awarded the 2023 World Association for Vision and Ophthalmology Research Achievement Award. He has a lot of "labels" on his body, and he is ...... a world-renowned ophthalmology expert, the chief professor of Tsinghua Medical College, and a doctor at Chang Gung Hospital
When asked how he treats these "identities", Huang Tianyin replied: "I want to be a lifelong learner, this is my vision, and it is also my expectation of myself." "In the communication and diagnosis and treatment with patients, new disease types are discovered and appropriate diagnosis and treatment plans are foundIn the communication and discussion with peers, the design of medical experiments is constantly improvedSummarize experience in every failed experiment and renew your thinking in every conversation with students. Coming to China and Tsinghua also forms part of Huang Tianyin's lifelong learning, he said: "Different environment, different culture, here, I am learning and growing every day. ”
On the bookcase in Huang Tianyin's office are a few **, recording many important moments in his life, graduating from medical school, living with his family, and attending top international conferences. The most conspicuous position is his ** taken at Tsinghua University School of Medicine. In the past two years since joining the company full-time, Wong has been responding to the challenges of Professor Margaret Chan with practical actions and is deeply involved in the construction of China's medical and health industry. He is leading the new Tsinghua Medical School to face China's major demand for medical services and the world's expectations for medicine and health(*Tsinghua University's official WeChat***.)