CHINESE JOURNAL OF PARASITOLOGY AND PARASITIC DISEASES ›› 2018, Vol. 36 ›› Issue (5): 432-435.

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Emerging challenges: inheritance and innovations of human parasitology education

Lin CHEN1, Jun CAO2, Dong-hui ZHANG3, Kun YANG2, Jing-fan QIU1, Zhi-peng XU1, Min-jun JI1,*(), Guan-ling WU1   

  1. 1 Department of Pathogen Biology, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing 210029, China
    2 Jiangsu Institute of Parasitic Diseases, Wuxi 214064, China
    3 School of International Education, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing 211166, China
  • Received:2018-07-17 Online:2018-10-30 Published:2018-11-13
  • Contact: Min-jun JI E-mail:jiminjun@njmu.edu.cn
  • Supported by:
    Supported by the First Batch of Educational Research Topics of the 13th Five-Year Plan of Nanjing Medical University(No. YB2017023)

Abstract:

The most important parasitic diseases have been virtually controlled in China, but are still a major threat to public health in the world, especially in developing countries. With the increased international communications, there have been increases in cases of imported parasitic infections in China. The interest of the global community as raised by the “the Belt and Road Initiatives" also poses a new task for medical education. Human parasitology is a basic course in clinical and preventive medicines, and more importantly, it is imperative to re-think about the development of parasitology discipline. This review summarizes the opportunities and challenges for current parasitology, and proposes that teachings in human parasitology to be strengthened rather than weakened, inherited yet with innovations. Suggestions are also made on reforms to and innovations of parasitology teaching from perspectives of teaching content and form.

Key words: Human parasitology, Global health, Inheritance, Innovation

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