Newsletter School of International Education Nanjing Medical University First of all we would like to wish cordial Happy New Year and Happy Chinese Spring Festival to all of our International Student’s Parents and Guardians. This newsletter is meant to keep you updated with our university and school’s news and activities and this is our first issue so, here onwards we will email this newsletter once every year to give you the information about the activities we and our students did for one year. Introduction to NMU- Nanjing Medical University founded in 1934 is one of the top institutions for higher education in China. As the name suggests, NMU is located in Nanjing which used be the capital of 6 ancient Chinese dynasties and is currently the capital of Jiangsu province. NMU consists of 17 secondary schools and 1 independent school and School of International Education is one of them. NMU has 20 affiliated hospitals and over 40 teaching hospitals in Nanjing and in different cities in China. NMU has a strong faculty team of over 1500 registered faculty members including more than 150 full time professors and over 350 associate professors. University has bilateral and academic relationship with USA, Canada, Britain, Germany, Japan, France, Australia, etc. Introduction to SIE - The School of International Education (SIE) at NMU was founded in June 2005 and currently SIE has more than 500 International students from India, Nepal, Pakistan, Mauritius, USA, Japan, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Ghana, Nigeria, Indonesia, Sudan and Chinese Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan. School of International Education has a team of professors and administration staff members who are always focused to give quality education and guidelines for foreign students. In the march of 2010 our first batch of 74 students who completed internship from our 4 affiliated hospitals have been graduated (most of them are from India and Nepal) and in the same year July 10 students from Nepal who did their internship in their home country successfully graduated with the MBBS degree. Most of our 2004 batch students have passed the MCI (Medical Council of India) and NMC (Nepal Medical Council) exams and already started their career as Doctor. On February 18th, 2011, the 2nd batch of 48 students from India have also been crowned with the Bachelor’s degree. Presently 47 Indian students from 2006 batch are doing their one year compulsory Internship in our 4 affiliated hospitals and 42 students from 2005 batch and 33 from 2006 batch are back to their home countries for the Internship. SIE Activities- On the evening of May 14th, 2010, School of International Education (SIE) celebrated its fifth anniversary with “Your Story, Our History” Evening Party at students center of Jiangning Campus. President Chen Qi, Deputy Secretary Zhou Yafu, Vice-president Zhang Zhufan, Vice-president Wang Changqing made their personal appearance at the evening party. Some leaders and teachers from affiliated hospitals, leaders from every functional department and second-rank schools, all teachers and students from SIE as well as student representatives from other schools of our university also attended the evening party. Dr Feng Zhenqing, former Dean of SIE, delivered a passionate speech of heart-felt gratitude on the history of SIE and proclaimed the opening of the evening party. On July 4, 2009, 7 SIE students were conferred their degrees at the Graduation Ceremony for NMU Graduate Students in 2009. These 7 students include a Japanese Student HARUO HIGO who got Doctor Degree in Nutrition and Food Hygiene, an Indian student MANSOOR ALI AHAMMED. T.K, an Nepalese student AJAY KUMAR SHAH and other four students from Chinese Macao and Taiwan who got their Master Degree in Dental Medicine. On the evening of May 6, 2009, &1000One World One Home&1000 Sino-foreign cultural exchange evening party concluded with a complete success at the Students Activity Center at Jiangning Campus. The party was organized by School of International Education, International Cooperation & Exchange Office, Office of Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan Affairs. University CPC Secretary Dr. Guojun Chen, President Dr. Qi Chen, Vice-Presidents Dr. Yaochu Xu, Dr. Xinru Wang, Dr. Changqing Wang, and Minister of university CPC Standing Committee Dr. Mingxiang Leng attended the evening party. Attendees also include leadership from other schools and departments, and doctors from our affiliated hospitals. April 20th 2009 was absolutely an important day to be recorded into the history of School of International Education (SIE) when SIE team won the first prize after competed with 9 other dancing teams at NMU Dance Contest. The SIE students exhibited their best efforts and it turned out to be the best reward. Students who had been asked to comment on the SIE team responded: Nigam Patel: It was certainly a huge and difficult task for all 26 participants to dance at the same beat, but our determination, dedication and devotion to it made the whole thing possible and it was a lifetime experience for sure. Abdul Kadir Hamdani: It was a good experience to have danced along with 26 of our schoolmates on the same stage and winning the 1st prize made our efforts worth… Lapia Hussain: It was an experience that would rarely been forgotten. SIE Students of international education did give our best efforts to prepare a dance in very less time that was given to us and in the end the 1st prize justified the hard work put into it…z On the 10th of December, 2008 oversea students class from India, Pakistan, Indonesia, Nigeria, and US in Jiangning Campus started an every semester Chinese Language Competition. The competition activities include writing/guessing Chinese characters, listening/speaking show and some other interesting items. The multicultural students actually performed brilliantly as a result of their three months’ Chinese study experience. Many of the students while expressing their opinions said studying Chinese offers them a good opportunity to understand China and its culture therefore making their studying and living in china more easier and exciting. They express hope for more of this activity happening in future. On November 25, 2008, the international students of Batch 2008 carried out an interesting extracurricular activity � the competition of locating places on a Chinese map. The students, with the help of their teachers of Chinese and a Chinese dictionary, practiced the Chinese they had already learned, trying to find places on the Chinese map. The result revealed that their 2 months’ Chinese studies are successful; They could quickly find the positions of the designated places, choose the latest way, and use Chinese to explain the whole tour plan to their fellow students. This activity facilitates the teaching of Chinese, arouses students’ interest in Chinese, and helps them develop a good habit of self study. Seven professors and 2 international students comprised the judge group. Finally, the first prize was awarded to Ge Zheng and Wang Xiuying. Second-prize went to Wang Ningning, Qi Jing and Wu Tuojiang. Third-prize winners were Su Chuan, Qiao Huifen, Wang Lei, Zhang Faming, Lu Yan and Ren Yongya. Professor Wang Xinru, vice president of Nanjing Medical University and other leaders and experts also attended the contest or the prize awarding ceremony. Medical Licensing Exam Results- Our foreign students have shown excellent results in the Medical Council of India and Nepal Medical Council Licensing Examination. In March 2010, 10 students of 2004 batch and 10 students of 2005 batch passed MCI Licensing Examination in first attempt and in April 2010, 11 students of 2004 batch passed the NMC Licensing Examination in the first attempt. In Sept.2010, 24 students of 2004 batch passed the MCI Licensing Examination and 20 students of 2005 batch passed MCI Licensing Examination. 2005 NMU international students Feifei Xue and Abhigyan banka took part in the United States Medical Licensing Examination (USMLE) Step 1 and Step 2 in Shanghai. For Step 1 they received their numerical score on both two-digit and three-digit scales on April 22nd, 2009, Feifei Xue’s results are 95 and 229 and Abhigyan banka’s results are 80 and 196. For Step 2 they received their score on May 10th 2010, Feifei Xue’s results are 98 and 239 and Abhigyan banka’s results are 93 and 226. Their scores show that Feifei Xue ranks the top 5 percent of total exam-takers while Abhigyan banka ranks the top 20 percent. Students’ Achievements- Mohammad Hussain Mohammed Salim Lapia，student of 2007 has been awarded with the Nanjing Medical University’s “Moving Star-2010” award, which is one of the prestigious awards students will get in their education career in NMU. Teaching Achievements- In the recent years SIE has put lot of efforts to give quality education to the foreign students. To enhance the teaching skill every year SIE sent professors and lecturers for short and long term visit to the foreign countries. To encourage active participation in lecturing the foreign students SIE conducts “English Lecture Contest” every year and will honor the best Lecturer and Professors for their outstanding performance. On November 12, 2010, the 4th English-medium teaching contest was held in the Xianzhi Building on Wutai Campus. This competition was sponsored by the School of International Education in collaboration with the School of Basic Medical Sciences, the First School of Clinical Medicine, the Second School of Clinical Medicine, the Fourth School of Clinical Medicine, the School of Public Health and the School of Stomatology. Eleven young teachers participated in the contest. The participants’ clear pronunciation, appropriate dress, natural and confident way of delivery, supplemented by the well-prepared materials, made the teaching competition impressive, interesting and successful. Besides, SIE holds meeting with teachers and students to know their problems and suggestions. Students’ Admission 2010- In the year 2010 SIE recruited students from 11 different countries in a total of 63 pursuing their MBBS in English medium. They are Sri Lanka-3, Vietnam-1, Indonesia-5, Sierra Leone -1, Pakistan-4, India-2, Bangladesh-1, Ghana-5, Nigeria-8, Mauritius-32 and Sudan-1. NMU has also recruited 3 post graduate students from Nepal, India and Mauritius. We offer as much information as possible for our distinguished parents and if you have any suggestion or information please feel free to share with us. We will try our best to give quality education to your kids and help them make best doctors and overall help them make noble human beings. Best Regards, Dr. Shan Xu, Dean School of International Education Nanjing Medical University 140-Hanzhong Road, Nanjing Nanjing 210029 P.R.China
