Teaching Department of the First Affiliated Hospital of Xi’an Jiaotong University (XJTU) successfully held 2022 National Summer Camp for Outstanding College Students from June 15 to July 26, 2022.
After releasing the announcement of summer camp, nearly 1,000 medical students nationwide signed up in the registration system. A total of 252 college students were selected to participate in this summer camp. Our hospital coordinated more than 10 disciplines and departments to organize interviews and assessments, and deliver instant response to the inquiries from students.
On July 19, our hospital held an online introductory meeting. Professor Liu Chang, Vice President of our hospital in charge of teaching work, gave a speech, welcoming outstanding college students from all over the country to join the graduate team of our hospital. Representatives of the disciplines of Internal Medicine, Surgery, Obstetrics and Gynecology, Pediatrics, Infectious Diseases and Critical Care Medicine introduced the development history, construction status, and supervisor team of each discipline. The introductory meeting adhered to the ideological and political construction, highlighting the spirits of westward relocation of our hospital, moving to Shaanxi province during the Anti-Japanese Aggression War and the "anti-COVID-19 pandemic". The meeting also closely followed the cutting-edge science and technology, focused on the translation of high-level medical research, catered to the major health needs and constantly condensed the “bottleneck” and “final shooting” research projects. The meeting also stressed humanistic care, enabled students to comprehensively understand the basic situation of respective disciplines and specialties, and form preliminary impression of research direction of their intended supervisors.
Taking Med-X Research Institute in Western China Science and Technology Innovation Harbour (i-Harbour) as an example, the scientific research platforms were illustrated during the introductory meeting, which gathered the advantageous resources of our hospital, actively carried out the research of the combination of medicine, engineering and science, and strived to generate world-class research results and advanced diagnosis and treatment technologies driving the development of clinical medicine. Professor Wu Kaijie, as a representative of outstanding graduate students and young doctoral supervisors, gave a speech entitled "Stones from other mountains can be used to polish the jade" and shared his scientific research experience. Outstanding college students Yang Runyu, Cui Dongqi and Qiu Yulan, who participated in previous summer camps, shared their experience in the successful recommendation for attending the summer camp. Tian Zhaolin, a graduate student enrolled in 2019, initially introduced daily clinical work, and utilized new media to present the tight schedule during the graduate study in an all-round pattern. Liu Huasheng, Deputy Director of Teaching Department, delivered a concluding speech and announced the arrangement for subsequent interview and interaction of each discipline and department. The introductory meeting was intriguing, with nearly 1,500 online viewers
From July 19 to 26, over 10 sessions of online interviews were conducted for 260 college students to comprehensively assess their performance in spoken English level, disciplinary and comprehensive capability. The English proficiency test was conducted by the assessment experts raising random questions. In the disciplinary assessment session, the experts raised questions regarding basic disciplinary knowledge. During the comprehensive ability assessment, the experts asked questions to evaluate their scientific research ability and comprehensive quality.
National Summer Camp for Outstanding College Students is the basic event to achieve the goal of cultivating top-notched medical talents who will lead the future of medicine. Subsequently, prestigious professors and academic leaders will be invited to the summer camp and attend the frontier academic presentations and lectures, aiming to strengthen college students' interests in scientific research and clinical work.
