The University of Macau (UM) Centre for Continuing Education (CCE) organised training course on Medicine and Life Science for 40 students from Guilin Medical University during Jan 17 to 21. We received positive feedback from students.

The five-day training course is rich and compact in content, and the course includes Precision Medicine and Big Data-Revolution and Business Opportunities, Wonders in Life Science and Health: Biomedical Science Technology, Nuclear factor activates leukocytes and regulates message transmission, Chinese Medicine in the Healthcare Industry: Application and Development. During the off-campus visits, the students visited Kiang Wu Nursing College of Macau and Kiang Wu Hospital. The students have a good understanding of the medical environment and nursing development in Macau.

Guilin Medical University is a general institution of higher learning directly under the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region. It is one of the first batch of pilot universities for the “Excellent Doctor Education and Training Program” project of the Ministry of Education and an excellent university for the evaluation of undergraduate teaching work by the Ministry of Education. This is the second student exchanging program for Guilin Medical University. CCE continues to carry out high-quality training courses to strengthen educational cooperation between UM and universities in mainland.