General Practice Residency Training Program of Sir Run Run Shaw Hospital Receives RCGP Educational Accreditation

On Nov 7th, the General Practice Residency Training Program of Sir Run Run Shaw Hospital (SRRSH) received “RCGP Educational Accreditation” awarded by the Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP) in London. It is the first postgraduate training program in China to receive this accolade.

     (programme = UK.    program = USA)

The RCGP is the professional membership body for family doctors in the UK and its members overseas. It is committed to improving patient care, clinical standards and GP training. In the aspect of GP training, RCGP is responsible for a standardized setting, curriculum design, quality evaluation and supervision. RCGP also develops standards for international accreditation for the purpose of improving the quality of GP training all over the world.

The Chair of RCGP Council, Professor Maureen Baker wrote a letter to congratulate our team on being the first institution in China to receive the RCGP education accreditation. “SRRSH is entirely worthy of RCGP Educational Accreditation and the use the quality mark itself when promoting your activities,” the letter stated. “Our hope is that this educational accreditation signals the beginning of a long term relationship, one which works collaboratively to further develop family medicine in China using the excellent resources available at SRRSH as the catalyst to transformational change”.

SRRSH’s commitment to excellence always guides us to provide the best care to all people who enter our doors, and we have been a medical pioneer at the forefront of innovation and change in China for many years.  We are looking forward to taking the next step for further collaboration between RCGP and SRRSH.

Brief introduction of General Practice Department:

The general practice department of SRRSH was established in 1999, and was earliest independent GP department set in a Class 3A third tier comprehensive hospital.  After 17 years of development, our outpatient visits now number 70,000, inpatient care reached 2000 visits and an additional 50,000 visits for health management every year.

The GP department became a GP residency training base for Zhejiang Province as early as in 2000. It continued to develop to become the GP residency training base for the National Health Ministry in 2006. In 2011, it became a Zhejiang University GP Masters’ & Doctoral Degree Granting Facility. And in 2013, it became the "General Practice Technical Guidance Center of Zhejiang Province". In 2015, GP department was approved as a key discipline of Zhejiang province.

The GP department established close collaboration with training and clinical services in US, UK, Australia, HK and Taiwan. The GP trainers received high-quality instruction in developed countries. The team made innovations in curriculum and methods of residency training, and improved the quality of GP training at SRRSH. Now the GP residency training program in SRRSH has a good reputation for high quality in China, and the training base has received a great many  peer visits and learning observations from other institutions.