Innovation and Practice of a Dual-Award Talent Cultivation Model in Biomedical Informatics Through Sino-Foreign Cooperative Education

Abstract

The foundation of “new quality productive forces” lies in BTIT integration, but China faces challenges of talent shortage and technology dependence. Zhejiang University pioneered biomedical informatics education in China and, in 2018, launched a dual-award undergraduate program in biomedical informatics (BMI) with the University of Edinburgh,The BMI program, integrating “medicine + biology + informatics”, aims to cultivate global-minded, interdisciplinary talents proficient in cutting-edge technologies. This paper, taking the award-winning institute Zhejiang University-University of Edinburgh Institute (ZJE) as an example, explores the four-dimensional talent cultivation system in biomedical informatics dual award program at ZJE, addressing challenges in traditional biomedical informatics education to foster leading talents with computational biology skills, global competence, and industry-innovative thinking.