20 Hong Kong Chinese medicine practitioners go to Guangdong for further study! Greater Bay Area Advanced Clinical Training Program of Traditional Chinese Medicine started in Guangzhou.

　　On the afternoon of April 12th, the training course "Greater Bay Area Advanced Chinese Medicine Clinical Training Program" jointly launched by Guangdong Provincial Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine and Hong Kong Hospital Authority was held in Dade Road General Hospital of Guangdong Provincial Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine.

The Opening Ceremony of the Training Course of Greater Bay Area Advanced Clinical Training Program of Traditional Chinese Medicine was held.

　　According to this plan, the Hong Kong Hospital Authority plans to send 20 medical personnel from Chinese medicine practitioners with 8 years or above clinical experience or those who have participated in the Greater Bay Area Visiting Scholar Program of Chinese Medicine as trainees to Guangdong Provincial Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine, and they will attend the 8-month clinical refresher training in Guangdong Provincial Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine in stages within 2 years, including clinical diagnosis and treatment such as being on duty together, reading prescriptions and managing patients. At present, the first batch of five Chinese medicine practitioners have obtained short-term agreement qualifications in the Mainland, and have invested in the acupuncture department and neurology department of Guangdong Provincial Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine to carry out clinical work.

　　"In Hong Kong, Chinese medicine practitioners are more involved in outpatient services, providing internal medicine and acupuncture services, and less involved in hospitalization services. I have learned a lot of traditional Chinese medicine therapies here, and I have also increased my understanding of Western medicine. " Huang Jiqi, a Chinese medicine practitioner from Donghua Group of Hospitals-Chinese Medicine Clinic and Teaching and Research Center of the University of Hong Kong (Central and Western District), is one of the first members who came to participate in the training. He is currently working in the acupuncture department of Guangdong Provincial Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine. He hopes to know more about how to take care of critically ill inpatients in the future, apply more characteristic therapies of integrated Chinese and Western medicine to the treatment, and protect the health of the citizens together with other medical workers in Hong Kong.

Zhang Zhongde, vice president of Guangzhou University of Traditional Chinese Medicine and president of Guangdong Provincial Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine, delivered a speech at the opening ceremony.

　　At the opening ceremony, Zhang Zhongde, vice president of Guangzhou University of Traditional Chinese Medicine and president of Guangdong Provincial Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine, said in his speech that the hospital will give full play to the advantages of traditional Chinese medicine efficacy, modern medical technology and funding team, and make every effort to cultivate a group of backbone talents for Hong Kong who inherit the academic ideas of traditional Chinese medicine and condense technical expertise, so that Hong Kong Chinese medicine practitioners can deeply feel the operation mode of mainland Chinese medicine hospitals, pay attention to the inheritance and development of traditional Chinese medicine in Hong Kong, and explore new paths and schemes for the coordinated development of traditional Chinese medicine and western medicine.

　　According to reports, in August, 2022, Guangdong Provincial Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine and Hong Kong Hospital Authority launched the "Greater Bay Area Chinese Medicine Visiting Scholar Program", a medical cooperation project between Guangdong and Hong Kong. So far, four groups of Chinese medicine practitioners with rich clinical experience have been sent to Hong Kong for clinical training and scientific research exchange. "Greater Bay Area Advanced Clinical Training Program of Traditional Chinese Medicine" is a follow-up project of "Greater Bay Area Visiting Scholars Program of Traditional Chinese Medicine", which continues the cooperation and strengthens the depth of training, aiming at implementing the "Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area Traditional Chinese Medicine Highland Construction Plan (2020— 2025) and other policy programs and strategic deployment, further promote the cultural exchange of traditional Chinese medicine between Guangdong and Hong Kong, and explore a new model of high-level cooperation between Chinese and Western medicine.

　　Text, map | Reporter Zhu Jiale