Recognizing the strange: experience of the ESTS-AME clinical fellowship in Beijing and Guangzhou

摘要

During the ESTS postgraduate master course 2016 in Naples, the 2nd ESTS-AME prize was awarded for the best overall performance by a trainee member. I was lucky enough to win this prize and was faced with this one month experience of thoracic surgery in China. During three weeks, I was involved in the daily routine of the Thoracic Surgery Department at the Cancer Hospital Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences in Beijing ( Figure 1 ). One week was spent at the Thoracic Surgery Department of the 1st Affiliated Hospital Guangzhou Medical University ( Figure 2 ).