Inauguration of Centre for Traditional Chinese Medicine

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TheUniversityof Malta and the Shanghai University of Traditional ChineseMedicine (SHUTCM) have inaugurated the Centrefor Traditional Chinese Medicine at the University ofMalta’s Msidacampus

This Centre allows healthcarepractitioners, who enrolled as students, toacquire skills in clinical practice of TCM to complement their theoreticalstudies. The Centre has two resident Chinese clinical professionals from SHUTCM, whileseveral professors specifically dedicated by SHUTCM will carry out thetheoretical and practical teaching in Malta.

This is thefirst time that SHUTCM has joined forces with another university and launched acourse outside China. In fact, the new Centre,run jointly by the two universities, is the firstone of its kind for SHUTCM outside China.

The Centre was officiallyopened University of Malta Rector, Prof. Juanito Camilleri, and Prof. ZhangZhiqiang, Party Secretary and Chairman of the University Council of SHUTCM,in the presence of the ChineseAmbassador, H.E. MrCai Jinbiao and Mme Wang Jianqun, Prof.Charles Savona Ventura, Director of the Centre, and Mr Reno Calleja, CouncilMember of the University of Malta and President of the Malta China FriendshipSociety, who facilitated preparations leading to the setting upof the Centre. Also present were Dr Zhang Bing, Deputy President,Longhua Hospital and Dr Yao Zheng, Deputy President,Shuguang Hospital.

SHUTCM, set up in 1956, is one of first four colleges oftraditional Chinese medicine in China. It is an established leader in its fieldand boasts a group of celebrated experts amongst its staff. In 1991 theUniversity obtained the prestigious evaluation of ‘National Excellent Collegeof Undergraduate Education’.

Academics from the University of Malta together withtheir counterparts from SHUTCM were responsible for thedesign of the Master Programme in Traditional Chinese Medicine and Culture.

Fourteen applications were received and eventually seven students from the disciplines of Physiotherapy, Midwiferyand Nursing were accepted. They started their studies at the beginning ofOctober with lectures in Traditional Chinese Culture and in the Physiology ofPain, while Clinical Acupuncture sessions started a month later.

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17.11.2015