Yiwu in the eyes of an Australian doctor

Tim, 1.9 meters tall with deep eyes and a tall nose, has recently become a popular guy in the inpatient department of the Fourth Affiliated Hospital Zhejiang University School of Medicine (the Fourth Affiliated Hospital). 

Tim Clancy from Australia is now studying Clinical Mmedicine in the School of Medicine, Zhejiang University. Tim is one of the 70-plus interns assigned by Zhejiang University to the Fourth Affiliated Hospital and the first foreign intern as well.

He is now 33 years old and has been living in Hangzhou for nine years. He has a bachelor’s degree of Electrical Engineering and a master’s degree of Engineering Administration from the University of Technology Sydney and a bachelor’s degree of Chinese from Zhejiang University. In 2014, he was awarded a full scholarship from the Ministry of Education of China and began to study for a bachelor’s degree of Clinical Medicine in Zhejiang University. He will soon obtain another academic degree.

Tim is the founder of InJoy International Volunteer Club and has also established TIM studio to promote Chinese culture. This year, Tim became the only foreign youth to be selected as one of “Ten Young Elites of Hangzhou in the New Era”.

In this February, Tim was very excited that he would come to the Fourth Affiliated Hospital for a three-month internship program. He said that Yiwu is an international trade city and a paradise for gourmets. The moment he walked into the Fourth Affiliated Hospital, he was “surprised”. “I have never expected that a hospital in a county-level city can have such awesome environment and planning.”

He said that he was deeply impressed by the humanistic care of the hospital. “Every doctor has a private diagnosis room. Patients’ privacy is highly concerned. When I was sitting with my teacher in the diagnosis room, I felt the orderliness. And its medical conditions and management level are not inferior to any big hospital in Hangzhou. There I have learned a lot.”

As a volunteer, Tim has cared about the internationalization of the hospital very much. He paid attention to the English signboards of the hospital and would record   mistakes he found and suggested the hospital to correct.

“I think the medical conditions in China are very good. It is very convenient to see a doctor. I also wish to open a clinic myself after I go back to Australia and provide attentive medical services to Australians.”

(Executive Editor: Lubin WANG)