The University of Macau (UM) Centre for Continuing Education (CCE) organised a 3-month Designated Training Course on Medicine and Health Sciences for students from University of South China, the training course is combined with offline and online training. The offline training is conducted from 29th July to 2nd August.
During the five-day offline training, the students attended various professional lectures, topics include Genetic and Biometrics: Introduction of Foundation and Frontier, Autophagy Lysosome Pathway in Cancers and Neurodegenerative Diseases, Precision Medicine and Big Data: Revolution and Opportunity, and Comparison of Chinese medicine and Western. The students also visited different units of UM, including the UM Wu Yee Sun Library, UM Gallery, and a residential college. Outside UM, the students visited the Kiang Wu Hospital. Many of the students say they are impressed with the international teaching quality at UM and are willing to come back to UM for further studies.
CCE continues to develop training programmes with quality mainland universities to promote collaboration between UM and higher education institutions in Mainland China.