A traditional Chinese medical centre is to be set up at the University of Malta’s Msida campus, and a collaborative joint master programme in traditional Chinese medicine and Culture is expected to be launched in October at the university.
An agreement to this effect was signed between Xu Jianguang, president of Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine and University rector Juanito Camilleri at the Shanghai university in China.
The centre will enable healthcare and medical practitioners to acquire skills in clinical practice of traditional Chinese medicine to complement their theoretical studies.
Besides lecturing at the centre, professors from the Shanghai university will also provide clinical services to the public.
This is the first time that the Shanghai university has launched a course and opened such a centre outside China in collaboration with another university.