Health science popularization speech contest held

Writer: Zhang Yu  | Editor: Holly Wang  | From: Shenzhen Daily | Updated: 2019-10-23

Twenty young doctors from South China faced a final showdown at the regional finals of the 2019 National Youth Doctors' Health Science Speech Contest at Shenzhen People’s Hospital yesterday.

The competition, which was launched this August, attracted more than 200 medical workers in southern China to sign up during the audition stage. After rounds of selection, 20 contestants successfully advanced to the finals.

The top three places in the speech contest were snatched by Fan Jingjie from Shenzhen Maternity & Child Healthcare Hospital, Huang Jianjiang from Guangdong Provincial People’s Hospital and Tu Yinuo from Cancer Center of Guangzhou Medical University.

The three winners will compete at the national finals presented at the annual meeting of Chinese Medical Doctor Association in January 2020.

Li Songlin, secretary general of the association, delivered a speech before the finals officially started yesterday.

In his speech, Li expressed high hopes for young doctors to carry out health science popularization. “Health science popularization is a part of a doctor’s duties. I hope the contestants can take the speech contest as an opportunity to further improve medical ethics.”

Li emphasized that popularizing general knowledge of diseases and guiding a healthy lifestyle can not only improve citizens’ ability to manage health on their own but is also a kind of support for the medical practice.

According to the organizers, while continuing to adopt the traditional competition mode of “tryouts in seven regions + national finals,” this year's speech contest has added an exhibition showcasing excellent health science popularization campaigns.

The South China regional finals of the speech contest was organized by Chinese Medical Doctor Association, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Shenzhen Medical Doctor Association, Shenzhen People’s Hospital and the health knowledge-sharing platform youlai.cn.