They moved the mahjong table onto the performance stage: Tongji Hospital's First Health Science Popularization Competition Selected Top Ten Works for Myopathy | Audiences | Tongji Hospital
On the afternoon of June 29th, during the first "Tongzhou Jishi, Healthy World" Cup Health Science Popularization Competition held by Tongji Hospital affiliated with Tongji University, a group of science popularization newcomers took turns to appear amidst applause and laughter. It is reported that after multiple rounds of preliminary selection, 20 health science popularization works were nominated for the finals, and a total of 10 works, including the first, second, third, and winning prizes, stood out.
The medical staff of Tongji Hospital focused on the current public's health needs, focusing on common disease prevention and care, healthy lifestyle, self-management of chronic diseases, health management of special populations, emergency knowledge, tumor prevention and treatment, and combined with professional characteristics to plan carefully selected topics. They used immersive scenario performances, video narratives, talk show speeches, and other methods to bring a "delicious and informative" health knowledge audio-visual feast.
The first prize works come from Li Yuhang, Liu Ruiping, Wang Mingzhu, and Zeng Xiaoyun from the fields of geriatric medicine and general medicine. Wearing wigs, they played four elderly people playing mahjong and explained common diseases thoroughly in their situational performance. Sarcopenia is very common among the elderly. Therefore, in the familiar environment of playing mahjong, they bring about the dangers of sarcopenia and lead everyone to understand it. On site guided the audience to self test sarcopenia, taught the elderly how to stay away from sarcopenia through diet and exercise, and also popularized a set of extremely safe training exercises suitable for frail elderly people.
Besides the elderly, children are also a key concern for medical staff. In the talk show "How Much Do You Know About ADHD", Zhang Ying, the head nurse of the pediatric outpatient department, vividly introduced this disease. "Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) is a folk term, medically known as Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). It mainly refers to the problem of children's active attention, manifested as indiscriminate hyperactivity and impulsivity, especially in school-age children who are unable to listen quietly, do small movements, talk to other children, or engage in behaviors that disrupt classroom order. At this time, parents need to pay attention and seek medical attention as soon as possible to determine whether their children have ADHD tendencies." Through some humorous jokes, she sorted out the identification and symptoms of "ADHD". Meanwhile, Dr. Weng Yiming, the attending physician of the Department of Reproductive Medicine, brought to the audience various jokes about the patient misunderstandings encountered by male doctors in their daily work. Through laughter, the audience also gained a new understanding of the examination and treatment of male diseases. Two talk show performances won second prizes simultaneously.
As the medical center in the northwest region of Shanghai and the only public tertiary comprehensive hospital in Putuo District, Tongji Hospital has long integrated hospital culture construction with health knowledge popularization actions, continuously investing and disseminating health knowledge popularization. Party Secretary Xu Shuchang said, "We hope to build a platform for medical staff to exchange, learn, and showcase through science popularization competitions, cultivate and explore more and more professional medical science popularization talents, and create a more socially influential Tongji medical science popularization brand."
