Shenzhen Children’s Hospital has officially become the teaching hospital of Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech), according to a cooperation agreement signed Thursday.
In accordance with the requirements and standards of a high-level teaching hospital at home and abroad, the two sides will reformulate and improve the development plan of the children’s hospital in order to help it achieve its goal of becoming a first-class children’s hospital in China.
SUSTech will provide platforms and resources for teaching, scientific research and the transformation of Shenzhen Children’s Hospital, according to the agreement.
The university will assist the hospital in clinician training, assessment and the promotion of professional ranks and titles, and also support the hospital in applying for all kinds of teaching and scientific research projects at all levels.
SUSTech will accept qualified personnel from the hospital to apply for positions as tutors of master’s degree candidates at the university and allocate an enrollment quota according to the regulations of the university. It will also gradually open its scientific research and experiment platform to the hospital.
To reciprocate, Shenzhen Children’s Hospital will undertake the health-related clinical teaching and scientific research tasks of SUSTech.
The hospital will build teaching and supporting facilities for medical students from SUSTech and complete the tasks of clinical theory teaching, clinical internship and clinical practice in accordance with SUSTech’s teaching plan.
It will accept the teaching supervision and teaching quality monitoring of SUSTech and support the university in building industrialization bases.
SUSTech established its School of Medicine in March 2018 and began recruiting students that same year. In March 2019, it was approved to recruit students to major in clinical medicine. The university is currently planning to establish a school of public health and environmental health.