Global Health-China Medical Program
The Global Health-China Medical Program at Nationwide Children’s Hospital seeks to provide a short-term opportunity, 1-3 months for residents and fellows or 1 week for physicians, for them to travel to the People’s Republic of China to enhance their knowledge and skills in pediatric care.
The Global Health-China Medical Program will send residents/fellows to top children’s hospitals in China. Wuhan Medical & Healthcare Center for Women and Children (Center) in central China is the first host site. The Center is a pediatric academic medical center of Tongji Medical College, which consists of 3 outpatient departments and 2,000 hospital beds. The Center has more than 1,900 employees, and 86% are professional medical staff. With an annual number of more than 1.9 million outpatient visits, approximately 74,000 inpatients, and close to 30,000 surgical cases, Wuhan Medical & Healthcare Center for Women and Children is among the top three large academic pediatric medical centers in China. The center is the training site for medical students, residents, and fellows of Tongji Medical College, Wuhan University, Hubei University of Chinese Medicine, and Henan Xinxiang Medical College.
The Global Health-China Medical Program residents/fellows will be matched with pediatric physicians at the Wuhan Medical & Healthcare Center for Women and Children to provide clinical service to pediatric patients. The hosting clinical departments include Pediatric General Surgery, Pediatric Internal Medicine, Respiratory Disease, Nephrology, Endocrinology& Hereditary Metabolism, Hematology and Oncology, ENT, Medical Imaging, and the Clinical Research Center.
Residents/fellows who are interested in public health and community health Service in China will have opportunities to learn from professionals at the Wuhan Medical & Healthcare Center for Women and Children about ongoing community health programs as well as to visit the Wuhan city and provincial Center for Disease Control, Tongji Medical College, and School of Public Health (ranked as the #1 school of public health in China).
International air travel to Wuhan, China is convenient via several major cities in the USA. Scholars can travel to Beijing or Shanghai first, then transfer to Wuhan, or take an express train to Wuhan.
The official language used in clinical and community services at the Wuhan Medical & Healthcare Center for Women and Children is Mandarin Chinese. However, mentoring faculty members are competent in spoken and written English. Many of faculty members received training in the USA or other western countries. If needed, an English translator will be provided.
Lodging and local transportation will be provided to scholars free of charge by the Wuhan Medical & Healthcare Center for Women and Children. Personal travel to other cities for sightseeing can be arranged through the Wuhan Medical & Healthcare Center for Women and Children, but scholars are responsible for the cost.