Ottawa-Shanghai Collaboration Promotes New Health Care and Research Modes
On January 20th 2016, Dr. Jacques Bradwejn, Dean of Faculty of Medicine University of Ottawa (FoM, uOttawa), Dean of Ottawa-Shanghai Joint School of Medicine (OSJSM) from the Canadian side, Dr. WANG Yuwei, Assistant Dean of FoM uOttawa and Dr. Mark Walker, Director of the Obstetrics and Gynecology Department of The Ottawa Hospital visited Renji Hospital. Dr. LI Weiping, President of Renji Hospital, Dr. WEN Daxiang and Dr. DAI Huili, Vice-Presidents of Renji Hospital, Dr. SHAO Li, Executive Dean of OSJSM and several other administrative leaders extended warm welcome to Dr. Jacques Bradwejn and Dr. WANG Yuwei.

The main topics of Dr. Bradwejn’s visit are Renji International Family Medicine Clinic and clinical research collaboration. Dr. Bradwejn and President LI Weiping analyzed the feasibility and necessity of developing Family Medicine in Shanghai. They pointed out that it’s the right time to start the pilot family medicine health care mode at Renji Hospital. Both the Chinese Embassy and Canadian Embassy attach great importance to the cultivation of family doctors. And both SJTUSM and FoM uOttawa are working hard for the development of family medicine in Shanghai, especially SJTUSM who is preparing to establish a Family Medicine Department which will play an important role in developing family medicine in Shanghai. On the one hand, by establishing a Family Medicine Department a group of competent family doctors will be cultivated; on the other hand, with Renji International Family Medicine Clinic we can pilot the bi-directional referral system. According to President LI Weiping, Renji Hospital plans to cooperate with several community health care centers in Pudong New District to pilot the new bi-directional referral system which will meet the demands for family medicine. Step by step, we will make a list of the specialists in chronic disease and common disease, and establish a bi-directional referral channel with the professionally trained family doctors at the community centers.

The second agenda item is presented by Dr. Mark Walker, Director of the Obstetrics and Gynecology Department of The Ottawa Hospital (TOH), who introduced the Clinical Research Unit of the Faculty of Medicine University of Ottawa. Their Clinical Research Unit takes on the design, implementation and result analysis of most of FoM and its affiliated hospitals’ clinical research projects. President LI Weiping thinks highly of that clinical research mode. And he said Renji Hospital as a large tertiary general hospital has vast clinical research resources but lacks the management platform to utilize the resources efficiently. Based on the sister hospitals relationship between Renji Hospital and TOH, Renji hopes to push forward research collaboration in high-risk pregnancy, autoimmune diseases, colorectal cancer, etc. With Renji’s research resource and TOH’s clinical research management mode, closer relations between the two hospitals and the two sides’ departments will be established and win-win results achieved for both sides.
(Reporter: LI Yi, Translator: ZHANG Yuanyuan)