The faculty team composed of Xia Yongliang, Sun Haiyan, Ruan Shanming and Ni Zheji from the FirstSchoolof Clinical Medicine, ZCMU, won the second prize in the national final of the 2nd National Teaching Innovation Contest for College Teachers. The team’s reform and innovation of the course, Internal Medicine of Traditional Chinese Medicine earned it the prize, which marks the best achievement ZCMU has made in theevent. The national final of the Contest was held at Xi’an Jiaotong University from July 26th to 31st.

The teaching of Internal Medicine of Traditional Chinese Medicine, a course that links TCM theories and clinical disciplines, faces the problems of a loose connection between theory and practice, diagnosis and treatment detachment, and inheritance and innovation inadequacy. Dedicated to the research and practice of teaching reform, the team has established a curriculum system based on the five-element theory in TCM and conducted the 5L teaching with TCM characteristics. It cultivates a learning environment of diagnosis and treatment, cites ancient classics in case explanation, raises clinical questions and assigns group work in teaching to better qualify students for their work. The team also employs the Plan-Do-Check-Act (PDCA) cycle and formative evaluation, which have achieved remarkable effects.

The National Teaching Innovation Contest for College Teachersissupervised by the Department of Higher Education of the Ministry of Education and hosted by the ChinaAssociation of Higher Education.Targeting the fundamental task of “fostering virtue through education”, the Contest aims to support the construction of courses on ideological and political theories and new engineering, agricultural, medical and humanities education, promote the integrative and innovative development ofITand education, motivate HEI teachers to focus on talent training and navigate HEI teaching reforms. In the 2^ndContest, 406 teams, out of 5,521 teams from 1,195 HEIs, attended the state-level competition and 205 were shortlisted as national finalists. The first prize was awarded to 63 teams; the second, 142; the third, 201.

(Profile of Xia Yongliang)

Prof. Xia Yongliang, a double-degree PhD, TCM chief physician and master’s supervisor, serves as Deputy Director of the Teaching and Research Office of Internal Medicine of Traditional Chinese Medicine and Integrated Chinese and Western Medicine (co-office), Director of the Health Management Center and Deputy Director of theGeneralPractice Department, Zhejiang Provincial Hospital of Chinese Medicine.He mainly engages in theclinicalpractice, teaching and scientific research of internal medicine of TCM. He teaches courses such as Internal Medicine of Traditional Chinese Medicine,Collectionof Medical Casesof Internal Medicine of Traditional Chinese Medicine and Zhejiang School of Traditional Chinese Medicine which has been named as Zhejiang Provincial First-class Online Course. Prof. Xia has won the special prize (Senior Title Group) in the second Zhejiang Provincial Teaching Innovation Contest for College Teachers, and named as Outstanding Individual in Talent Training by Teaching, Management and Service in Zhejiang Education system.