First OXCEP (Oxford Chinese Economy Programme) Academic Medicine Course held at St Edmund Hall
23 March 2016
OXCEP @ St Edmund Hall is currently hosting its first Academic Medicine course for 40 academic clinicians from the West China Center of Medical Sciences at Sichuan University in China.
Over the last three years, St Edmund Hall has entered into an academic cooperation agreement to promote international links with Sichuan University in Chengdu, China. This four-pronged
agreement incorporates Visiting Fellows, Visiting Students, lecture series and academic courses. The courses are organised by OXCEP (the Oxford Chinese Economy Programme), which is a
collaboration between St Edmund Hall and Dr Frank Hwang, designed to foster links with Chinese institutions. OXCEP is a task force specifically established for St Edmund Hall and solely
based at the College, in order to spearhead and implement projects including the related forums and workshops, distinguished speaker lectures, economics courses, and the Visiting Fellow
and Visiting Student programmes. So far, previous academic courses have focussed on economics, and this is the first in medicine.
Guests arrived on Sunday 13 March to stay at St Edmund Hall, and have been enjoying a daily programme of academic presentations, highlighting horizons in medical sciences research and
education at Oxford. Sessions are conducted in English, with serial translation also provided. The delegates received a warm welcome from St Edmund Hall Principal Professor Keith Gull
and Senior Tutor Professor Robert Wilkins at a dinner in College on Monday evening.