In the past 40 years, with the help of the spring breeze of reform and opening up, software and hardware go hand in hand, based on the construction of advantageous disciplines and talent training, develop into a first-class institution of higher learning of traditional Chinese medicine --

Tianjin university of traditional Chinese medicine: learning is the only way to build a strong university

Source: China journal of traditional Chinese medicine, 1st edition, author: ge weitao, liu enhao

In the west of tuanbo new town, jinghai county, tianjin city, a campus covering an area of more than 2,600 mu has beautiful scenery and loud sound of books. Tianjin university of traditional Chinese medicine, which has just entered the new campus, is taking new steps to build a high-level, export-oriented, domestically first-class and internationally renowned teaching and research university.

Forty years ago, however, it was just a small village, and the newly rebuilt tianjin college of traditional Chinese medicine in the city was as hungry as a baby.

Now, walking into tianjin university of traditional Chinese medicine and following the track of time and tracing the historical traces of the development of the university since the reform and opening up, I can feel her gorgeous transformation from small to big and from weak to strong.

The new "big roof" witnesses a big change in the teaching environment

Walking into the office of zhang boli, an academician of the Chinese academy of engineering and President of tianjin university of traditional Chinese medicine, on the neat bookcase, a black-and-white photo of the first postgraduate student and his teacher was taken in 1982. Although it has become a little yellow after the baptism of years, it is particularly eye-catching.

On April 25, 1978, the state council approved the reconstruction of tianjin college of traditional Chinese medicine. At that time, zhang boli was in his prime, determined to learn Chinese medicine well and devote his whole life to the cause of Chinese medicine.

Recalling how he felt when he entered the school, zhang boli sighed with emotion. In 1978, China blew the trumpet of reform and opening up, and the Alma mater was born again. "I am the first postgraduate student in our university. What impresses me most is that although the conditions are tough, our teachers regard students as their relatives, regardless of the conditions or rewards. I sincerely thank all the teachers, thank Alma mater, thank the reform and opening up.

"Not long after the reconstruction of the school, the learning environment was a bit bad, but the students' enthusiasm for learning was very high, and the school leaders were very concerned about everyone. School leaders put the university's infrastructure construction and talent team construction in the first place, improve the quality of teaching in the most core position, by the time I graduate, the learning environment has been greatly improved. Hu limin, a researcher at the institute of traditional Chinese medicine at tianjin university of traditional Chinese medicine, recalls.

"At that time, the library was always full, the classics of traditional Chinese medicine were read by students, and the classical sentences in it became the pass for communication between students. 'how much typhoid have you recited today' is as common as asking 'have you eaten yet? A retired librarian recalled, in front of the library, people line up, chuai books, mouth chanting formula formula prescription, really crowded into, took off the leather shoes mat under the ass, so crazy...

Since the 1990s, with the deepening of reform and opening up and the strengthening of national economic strength, higher education has developed rapidly and TCM colleges and universities have gained great opportunities for development. "Previous school construction more focused on the improvement of hardware, gradually expand the scale of its enrollment, TCM related increasing, however, higher education of Chinese medicine reference is still western medicine mode of higher education, in such aspects as curriculum, disciplinary system limits the development of traditional Chinese medicine, the situation for a long time haven't been solved effectively." "Said chamberlain.

Office in 2002, tianjin college of traditional Chinese medicine dean zhang bl, for this situation, extensive listening, decided to the coordinated development of hardware and software, and began to explore follow its own law of development of traditional Chinese medicine teaching model, focus on training students clinical thinking of TCM, to improve students' clinical ability, in the aspect of higher education of TCM standards and certification, walk in the forefront.

In 2006, tianjin college of traditional Chinese medicine was renamed tianjin university of traditional Chinese medicine. School gradually formed a "to the social demand as the guidance, to a subject construction, talent cultivation centered, follow the rules of higher education of TCM, comprehensive improve education quality of teaching and teaching efficiency, cultivating high-quality talents to satisfy the needs of the society, promote the development of Chinese medicine, for social progress and economic development services" the guiding ideology of running.

On August 1, 2016, the shuangfeng road campus of tianjin university of traditional Chinese medicine was officially handed over to the public. This unique "big roof" old building bears the memory of generations of people striving for progress.

With its curtain call, the new campus is continuing to meet the challenges with a new spirit...

The discipline of acupuncture and tuina has made a qualitative leap

Located at the center of the new campus, tianyuan local square stands a clock tower dozens of meters high, which looks like an acupuncture needle from a distance. Next to it are two clinical skills training buildings. In the training building, wang bin, an undergraduate of 2015, is conducting acupuncture training under the guidance of his teacher.

"When the department of acupuncture and moxibustion was founded, there was no training base, not to mention textbooks compiled by the whole country for the major of acupuncture and moxibustion." Guo yi, President of the college of traditional Chinese medicine, recalled that the rapid development of advantageous disciplines combined with their own conditions has become an urgent task to restore discipline construction after the reconstruction of the university in 1978.

"At that time, the clinical efficacy of acupuncture and moxibustion has been widely recognized at home and abroad, more and more patients require acupuncture and moxibustion treatment, clinical need for a large number of TCM acupuncture and moxibustion talents, even many foreign students are eager to learn acupuncture and moxibustion technology, however, domestic TCM colleges and universities lack of systematic training of TCM acupuncture and moxibustion talents. Guo Yi said.

Due to the dual needs of society and clinic, as well as a group of acupuncture and moxibustion experts such as shi xuemin, the university has a strong talent base, and the acupuncture and moxibustion technology is in a leading position in the country. In 1980, the department of acupuncture and moxibustion of tianjin college of traditional Chinese medicine was first established in China.

"The subject wants to develop, the teacher wants to have a class, how can do without teaching material?" Guo said the university organized and compiled the country's first set of acupuncture and moxibustion teaching materials (blue skin teaching materials), which were adopted by most schools and colleges, and laid the foundation for the compilation of national textbooks.

Subsequently, in 1982, the university initiated the experimental acupuncture and moxibustion course in China, which enabled the development of acupuncture and moxibustion medicine from clinical practice to enter a development stage combining traditional practice and modern experiment, and opened up a new way for training TCM acupuncture and moxibustion talents in the new period.

The school was awarded the special prize of national excellent teaching achievement of colleges and universities for the establishment of the new subject of experimental acupuncture and moxibustion in 1989.

In 1999, according to the professional catalogue of the ministry of education, the major of acupuncture and moxibustion was renamed as the major of acupuncture and moxibustion massage. The school adjusted the course system accordingly, and added the course section of massage and the demand for clinical training was further improved.

However, at this time, the school's clinical skills training is mainly completed in the courses of TCM diagnostics, diagnostic basics, imaging diagnostics, massage and TCM injury science. Skill training room is also scattered in each teaching and research room, the training content from graduation internship time is longer. In addition, after 2000, the increase in the size of students has brought about problems such as insufficient practical teaching bases and reduced operational opportunities.

This change prompted the school to accelerate the pace of experimental and practical training teaching construction. The university has set up a department-level experimental teaching department and a clinical practical training department. The four practical training rooms originally scattered in the department of traditional Chinese medicine and the public course teaching department have been moved to the newly built teaching building and a skill training center has been set up.

"After the establishment of the center, on the basis of the investment and renewal of the original training room equipment, the school also allocated special funds according to the teaching characteristics of the practical training of traditional Chinese medicine skills, and launched the research and development work of the practical training equipment of traditional Chinese medicine characteristics." Guo Yi said.

In 2006 and 2009, the acupuncture and moxibustion experimental teaching center and clinical skills training center of tianjin university of traditional Chinese medicine were rated as "national experimental teaching demonstration center" by the ministry of education. Since 2004, the university has been actively exploring the comprehensive practical training courses aimed at improving students' thinking and clinical ability of traditional Chinese medicine. By 2014, the university has formulated and implemented the three-stage comprehensive practical training courses of "sequential integration and progressive segmentation".

Now, after many years of efforts, the subject of acupuncture and tuina has made great progress in medical education and research. It has become a key discipline of the ministry of education, the state administration of traditional Chinese medicine and tianjin, a key clinical research base of the whole country, and this year has achieved excellent results in the evaluation of the national clinical research center (acupuncture and moxibustion).

More talents of traditional Chinese medicine start from here

At 6:30 a.m., on the playground of tianjin university of traditional Chinese medicine, hundreds of students from the same class started the day with a uniform drill.

Every day half an hour of morning exercise and 20 minutes of morning reading is the class thunder can not move the "required course", this "insist", in the student hyperactivity lili looks like a special training.

This class is "brave struggle inspirational class". In 2009, under the advocacy of zhang boli, the "yong bo inspirational class" with the motto of "responsibility, tenacity, self-restraint and dedication" was formally established.

Speaking of the original intention of establishing a "brave fighting and inspiring class", zhang said that it is necessary to create an atmosphere where students know how to work hard, cooperate with others, repay the society and be grateful. The cultivation of these spirits is more important than professional knowledge.

Cui qiang, head of the publicity department of the party committee, said that the opening of the "brave and inspiring class" is an innovative practice of moral education in schools. The class implements the community management mode of students' self-organization, self-restraint, self-motivation and self-evaluation. Members from the admission of new students every year, where there is a desire to hone talent can be registered, voluntary entry, voluntary withdrawal, strict elimination. Students here have developed good habits, developed dedication, and improved their ability to innovate.

"The 'brave fighting and inspiring class' must not simply bring together some outstanding students, but make more and more outstanding students through this unique way." Student cheng yanfei talks about in learning experience.

According to statistics, in the past 10 years, 90% of the students in the class of "brave fighting and inspiring" have submitted the application for party membership to the party organization, and the students in the class have participated in more than 50,000 social welfare service activities, with "zero record" of disciplinary violations.

"This education is the self-education of students, which plays a good driving role and makes the school have a very good style of study. It is a representative of the implementation of people-oriented education in our school." "Said chamberlain.

While the school trains talents internally, the pace of TCM's going out has never stopped.

"The international exchange of schools began in the 1980s. School attaches great importance to the important role of foreign exchange activities in the school overall development, explore the resources of traditional Chinese medicine, breach, with unique curative effect of acupuncture and moxibustion in disease diagnosis and open the door to the world, have sent teachers to Denmark, Yugoslavia, hospitals, clinics, Canada, Germany and other countries engaged in medical treatment activity, left for the world's most distinctive 'symbol of traditional Chinese medicine." "International education college President chu lirong recalled.

With the advance of TCM clinical practice, overseas TCM clinics of different scales and levels have emerged, but the concept and method of TCM diagnosis and treatment different from western medicine are blocked by local laws and regulations. In view of this situation, the university attaches great importance to strengthening international education and academic exchanges of TCM.

In 1985 and 1987, two sessions of china-japan academic exchange meetings on neijing were held in succession, with 44 Japanese scholars participating in the talks on huangdi neijing. Acupuncture and moxibustion classes have been taught in English for one year since 1988, and have lasted for 30 years.

Subsequently, more than 100 people from more than 30 countries including the United States, Canada and France came to visit, visit, study or study in the school.

In 1992, the university officially became the only Chinese medicine institution of higher learning approved by the former state education commission to add the school card of international college of traditional Chinese medicine in China, and began to establish a class system to recruit undergraduate students, opening education mode for overseas students with Chinese medicine degrees.

Zhang boli said that up to now, education has been carried out for overseas students. Adhering to the concept of "medical treatment first, education promotion and cultural inheritance", the university has made great efforts to expand the level and type of education education for overseas students. On the one hand, education training of traditional Chinese medicine in Chinese, English, Japanese, Korean, Russian and French languages has been actively carried out. On the other hand, we should actively "go out" to develop overseas TCM education.

School as one of the world federation of Chinese medicine education steering committee, director of the committee member units, led by TCM education experts around the world, analyses the problems existing in the education of Chinese medicine in the world and the future development trend, puts forward the Suggestions and countermeasures of development, formulated the "world Chinese medicine undergraduate (CMD) before education standards, in May 2009 by the world federation of Chinese medicine societies, to become the world's first international standard education of Chinese medicine.

From 2011 to 2012, we successively formulated the "world core curriculum of traditional Chinese medicine" and "world core curriculum of traditional Chinese medicine", started to write the "world core curriculum teaching material of traditional Chinese medicine", further standardized the global teaching material of traditional Chinese medicine, and better built the "One Belt And One Road" international education training base of traditional Chinese medicine.

2006 the school of Japanese medicine, tianjin university of traditional Chinese medicine, was founded in kobe, Japan. In 2015, the Confucius institute of Thailand of tianjin university of traditional Chinese medicine was founded. Tianjin university of traditional Chinese medicine has been rated as tianjin demonstration base for overseas study in China, China association of advanced education advanced education collective for overseas students in China, and selected as one of the 500 advanced education groups in the national education system.

"Overseas education of traditional Chinese medicine has opened up the market for overseas students of traditional Chinese medicine, realized the new development of international education of traditional Chinese medicine, and explored an innovative way to export China's high-quality higher education resources overseas." Zhang said that with the continuous expansion of education scale of TCM international, TCM culture has also spread to all parts of the world, exerting a positive impact on people of all countries in terms of thought, behavior, mode of thinking and health concept.