Lead a Team to Train and Evaluate Work Team and Specify the Training and Assessment System

On the afternoon of September 19, 2019, Professor Kang Yan, director of the Critical Care Department, West China Hospital Sichuan University, and director of Critical Care Committee of Sichuan International Medical Exchange & Promotion Association (SCIMEA), led the a team of West China Hospital to attend the CCCC 2019 Chinese Medical Doctor Association Specialist Doctor Standardized Training Critical Care Specialist Base Directors and Secretaries Work Conference. At the conference, directors and secretaries of major clinical training bases from all over the country discussed and explored the related issues such as standardized training system for critical care medical specialists and clinical medical personnel training system in China.

Director of Critical Care Department, West China Hospital, Sichuan University

Director of Critical Care Committee, SCIMEA

Professor Kang Yan

During the meeting, the five working group structures of the standardized training organization for critical care specialists were formally defined. Professor Kang Yan, director of Critical Care Department, West China Hospital of Sichuan University, and director of Critical Care Committee of SCIMEA, Professor Zhou Jianxin, vice president of Beijing Tiantan Hospital, Professor Qin Tiehe, director of Critical Care Department, Guangdong Provincial People's Hospital, Professor Jiang Kewei, director of Surgery Department, Peking University People's Hospital, formed a training and assessment work group. Professor Yin Wanhong from Critical Care Department, West China Hospital of Sichuan University and Professor Li Hongliang, deputy director of the Critical Care Department, Beijing Tiantan Hospital, served as the secretaries responsible for the relatively complex and trivial training standards compilation and regulation. The training and assessment team not only needed to set the admission criteria for the assessment of critical medical specialists, but also its assessment criteria for diploma. The Critical Care Department, West China Hospital of Sichuan University has maintained its consistent training and evaluation pioneer position by organizing various courses, training, competitions, summer camps and workshops in its specialists training with an integration of theory and practice.

Professor Kang Yan mentioned in the work report that the work of the Training and Assessment Standards Group also includes the following important aspects:

A workload registration manual was developed to record the amount of training. This is one of the important contents that objectively reflect the effectiveness of the training;

Formulated the model, standard and process of assessment;

Established a theory examination question bank.

Assessment is an important part of special training, and also an important means to measure special training in a timely manner. The assessment target can be used to effectively improve the quality of training. Regarding the assessment method, it should be scientific and easy to operate, and it needs to meet the characteristics of critical care. The working group repeatedly improved the draft to form a series of criteria for assessment.

Joint Compilation of Pocket ICU to Bring Useful Tools to Domestic Critical Care

In order to promote the standardization construction of China's critical care disciplines and create an academic platform with an international connotation, led by Professor Kang Yan, the group invited Professor Guan Xiangdong, Professor Chen Dechang and other Chinese critical care experts to compile the standards, get it published through the joint work of Medical Window and Volters Kluwer Publishing Group. And thus the Chinese version of Pocket ICU was launched.

At the Critical Care Pocket Book Review Conference held on September 20, Professor Kang Yan made an opening speech. In his speech, Professor Kang Yan thanked the associations, peers, and enterprises for their support. Professor Kang Yan said that this reference book is very useful in application guidance, but before the publishing, domestic experts in need of this book had no choice but to purchase the original English version. Through everyone's efforts in two months of hard work, the first edition of the Pocket ICU Chinese version covers 50 chapters with nearly 300,000 words. The Chinese version of Pocket ICU was born like a baby in such a short time, which is inseparable from your support and efforts. You helped make such an easy-to-carry and clinically useful tool available for domestic practitioners, which  is of great value and significance.

Professor Kang Yan then represented the compilation team and gave a compilation report. According to the report, during the compilation, the team not only overcame the translation challenge of localized abbreviation, but also maintained high-efficiency communication, ensuring the smooth progress and accuracy of the translation.

Share Ideas, Exchange Reform Experience, and Work Together to Lead the Development of Disciplines

“The specialist ICU is ICU for critical care patients, not ICU for specialist, nor ICU for specialist doctors.”

Professor Kang Yan's speech entitled "Discipline Construction for Critical Care - Is Specialist ICU Really Necessary?"  was introduced through the four elements of critical care discipline. Taking the patient classification of West China Hospital during the May 12 Wenchuan Earthquake as an example, he presented his opinions on the team building and discipline construction of critical care. Professor Kang pointed out that the American critical care model is not the best. China's critical care model is actually not inferior to the US. Instead, it is even more applicable than the US model.

Professor Kang Yan mentioned in his speech that critical medicine is not only about discipline or clinical departments, but also it involves many social responsibilities. Busy ICU doctors can always be seen in various public health events or natural disasters, and this shows the importance of ICU physician. Minister Chen Yu once said: "The multidisciplinary and in-depth collaboration focused on the critical care platform is the key to reducing the mortality and disability rate of moderate and severe casualties." In the future, the scale of hospitals will become smaller and smaller, while ICU will become bigger and bigger.

The Team Won Several Awards, with Emphasis Both on Talent Cultivation and Development

At the Chinese Critical Care Conference, the Critical Care Team of West China Hospital of Sichuan University not only made a number of achievements in various topics and discussions, but also won several awards in various competitions.

In the topic and discussion of team participation, under the leading of Professor Yin Wanhong, Zhu Ran, Zhang Lina and Professor Du Bin participated in the debate entitled “Is Critical Care Ultrasound Omnipotent?”  Professor Tian Yongming participated in the discussion entitled “Should ICU Open?”  He also conducted a class sharing entitled “Reduction of Delirium Starts with Treatment and Nursing Mode”. Professor Li Xiaojin gave a lecture on “A Brief Analysis on Monitoring and Treatment of Severe Neurological Diseases”. Professor Liao Xuelian conducted a case sharing of “Ward Tour by Big and Small Groups of Professors”. 

Regarding team awards, Xu Yujun won the "Best Popularity Award" of  ICU Voice, Zou Tongjuan won the National Third Prize of “I Am a Lecturer” (ICU Humanities), Dong Meiling won the Excellent Award of Poster Award, and Wang Chunyan won the third place in the Critical Care Practice Competition.

Professor Wang Bo participated in the Critical Care Simulated Case Challenge, which allowed players to fully utilize their accumulated operational experience in the competition via clinical simulations. It not only gave them a chance to exercise their critical care ability as doctors to deal with emergencies and regulate their clinical operation, but also enhanced communication and reference among hospitals and doctors.