On the morning of November 13, President Huang Fei met with Professor Margot Skinner, former Vice President of the World Physiotherapy an internationally renowned expert in the field of physiotherapy in New Zealand, in the reception room on the 10th floor of the office building. Leaders of relevent departments attended the meeting.
Huang Fei welcomed the arrival of Professor Margot Skinner and briefly introduced the development of BMU and the Two Advantages and Two Features education pattern, i.e. “Clinical Medicine and Pharmacy as Advantages and Disabled Education and Rehabilitation as Special Features”. He pointed out that China, as a country with a large population that is increasingly aging, has a huge demand for medical and health services, especially for physiotherapists. In keeping up with the pace of the Healthy China initiative, and since enrolling college students with disabilities in 1985, BMU has actively promoted the integrated development of clinical medicine and rehabilitation medicine, explored and formed an educational concept integrating learning, treatment and health care, and built a Great Rehabilitation system which integrates multiple disciplines. He hoped that Professor Margot Skinner would give comprehensive and systematic guidance to the construction of rehabilitation physical therapy of BMU, so as to cultivate application-oriented international talents in line with international educational standards.
Professor Margot Skinner gave positive comments and spoke highly of the initiative of BMU to align with international education standards of physical therapy and deepen the reform of teaching management of rehabilitation physical therapy and the construction of education quality assurance. She suggested further enhancing exchanges and cooperation at home and abroad, continuously improving the quality of education, teaching and talent training, and jointly promoting the rapid development of China's physiotherapy undertakings.
BY: Yu Jianhua
SOURCE: School of Special Education and Rehabilitation
