Student: He Lin, English Major

Chen Gang：A Teaching God

Source: The Publicity Department, Guangxi Medical University

Release Date: November 13, 2017

Having studied in Europe for seven years with double Ph. Degrees and having worked in hospital for 17years as a molecular pathologist, Chen Gang was selected to a member of Guangxi Medical University Outstanding Young Talents Training Program.

Hailed as a male god by students, he has got outstanding achievements in the past 17 years. In 2013, he set up an undergraduate scientific research team and guided the team members to do research on tumor molecular pathology. He helped undergraduates to participate in 56 scientific research projects, such as “Innovation and Entrepreneurship Project for College Students” and “Future Academic Star Extracurricular Scientific Research Project”. Under his guidance, about 20 students won the honor of “Man of the Year of Guangxi Medical University”, “Ten Best Scientific Research Models” and “Future Academic Star”. And with his assistance, the students have published 50 articles in SCI journals.

Chen won the first prize in National MBSS Young Teachers English Teaching Contest in 2016, the Ye Fusun Teacher’s Award (Guangxi Medical University’s honor teacher) in 2017.

【医大人】陈罡：三尺讲台江山，十年一日人生

来源：宣传部   发布时间：2017-11-13   作者：   点击量：529

       他，从医17年，分子病理医生，留学欧洲七年，获双博士学位，入选“伟德国际1946官网杰出青年人才培养计划”。

他，执教17载，2016年获全国MBBS青年教师英文授课一等奖，2017年伟德国际1946官网“叶馥荪教师奖”获得者。

   他，2013年创立“肿瘤分子病理学本科科研团队”，指导团队本科员工开展“老员工创新创业科研项目”、“未来学术之星课外科研项目”高达56项，培养“伟德国际1946官网年度人物”、“十佳科研标兵”、“未来学术之星”近20名，指导同学发表SCI文章50余篇。

       以上这些成绩都归于一个人——陈罡，一个被员工誉称为“男神”的年轻教授。

Profound Accumulation & Personalized Teaching

As a medical teacher, what qualities should we have?

Mr. Chen said, "Academic accumulation is the key for a teacher to reach his profound profession level. To give the students a drop of water, I must prepare a full bucket of water, even a well of water." As a teacher, we must know well specialized knowledge and follow the latest research information in the field and teach the students in class by throwing a sprat to catch a whale. Only in this way can we lead the students to study further."

Mr. Chen believed that the art of teaching is critical for improving the teaching quality. He insisted teaching should be in accordance to the students with various teaching methods. The goal of teaching is to teach a man to fish rather than giving him a fish.

Mr. Chen's teaching model was extremely special. Firstly, he highlighted interdisciplinary learning methods to help students understand pathological knowledge. Mr. Chen said, "Interdisciplinary study can deepen students’ understanding of pathological knowledge. When teaching, I usually connect pathology with other disciplines. For example, teaching histopathological morphology, I will connect it with another subject, like anatomy and histoembryology, to help students understand the morphological difference between normal state and different diseases by comparing pathological change of different diseases. I also encourage students to use this learning method to study other disciplines and develop a good learning habit.

Frankly speaking, Mr. Chen was an excellent painter. He emphasized image teaching in class and always drew morphological diagrams, arrow diagram etc. to help students understand the complex concepts more logically and vividly.

Mr. Chen encouraged students learning by “teaching”, including self-teaching and peer-teaching. This teaching method was student-centered and teachers-assisted, which could help the students to develop the active learning ability and cultivate the capability of discovering and solving problems by themselves. Consequently, it might extremely promote the students' initiative and improve the teaching quality. Mr. Chen held that both students and teachers could benefit from it. He also suggested that teachers could design a more suitable teaching plan with better understanding their students' thoughts.

厚积薄发，个性教学

       作为一名医学专业教师，需要具备哪些素质？

       陈罡老师说，厚积薄发，首先专业知识的储备是关键，“假设员工要汲取一滴水，那么我必须有一桶水，甚至是一井水才够用。”为人师表，必须熟知专业，紧跟前沿，抛砖引玉，这样才能引导员工深度学习。  　　

       陈罡老师认为，授课的艺术是提高教学质量的关键。他主张因材施教，有教无类，授人以渔。

       陈罡老师的教学模式是极具特色的。首先强调使用交叉学习方法来帮助员工理解病理知识。“学科交叉会加深员工对知识的理解”，陈老师说，“我在授课方面上会把其他学科的知识联系起来，比如在病理组织形态教学中，我会花时间和同学们一起把解剖学、组织胚胎学等一系列知识联系起来，引导同学们理解正常以及不同病变之间的形态差异，同时引导同学们对比不同疾病之间的病理变化，鼓励他们采用这样的学习模式学习其他学科，养成良好的学习习惯。”

       不得不说陈罡老师还是个很好的画家，他注重图象教学，只要是能转换成图像的知识，他都会用形态、示意图、箭头图等方式协助员工进行解读，让书本知识逻辑更加清晰，更加生动形象。

       陈罡老师鼓励员工参与”Teaching式”学习，自己teach自己，自己teach小伙伴。“这是以员工为主体的教学模式，教师作为指导者参与其中，通过这样的教学模式，不仅可以教会员工主动学习知识本身，更重要的是让员工在自己Teaching的过程中学会如何发现问题，解决问题，这样的方法极大促进了员工的主动性，提高了教学质量。”当然，教学相长，陈罡老师认为，这样的教学模式，员工不是唯一的受益者，老师本身也可以从中更加深刻地了解员工的思维模式，即时了解他们对知识的掌握程度和不足，从而设计出符合不同员工群体的教学模式。

Teach by Precept and Example & Plough without Stopping　

During the award ceremony of Guangxi Medical University Ten Best Scientific Research Models in 2016, the students of Mr. Chen's team occupied most places. This new shiny team caught all attentions.  Most students were curious about this team led by Mr. Chen and eager to join in with them.  What on earth are the magic of this team?

Mr. Chen recalled," The original reason to set up the tumor molecular pathology undergraduate research team is to meet their needs of scientific research. When returning back from abroad in 2013, I found that many excellent students couldn’t get appropriate guidance from the teachers. So I squeezed time once a week to help them after work to satisfy their curiosity on scientific research.”

After founding the team, by taking good use of the spare time, weekends and holidays, Mr. Chen led the students with the same interest to do research in the field of molecular tumor pathology, supervising them from collecting cases, staining tissue sections, evaluating the outcome, analyzing data statistics and polishing papers, etc. The students of the team recalled," it is exceedingly lucky to be a member of the team. Mr. Chen usually revised the papers over nights, and gave technic assistants to students with their scientific problems day and night.

No pains, no gains. Mr. Chen proceeded with confidence in finding the training system for cultivating the students’ ability in scientific research, when the first SCI article was published and more research products followed. With the development of the team, it even attracted students of various academic levels from undergraduates, masters to doctors to join in.

“I am filled with a huge sense of accomplishment to see what the students have achieved.”Mr. Chen remembered the outstanding students of every grade, for example ,Yang Xia, Chen Wenjie, Pan Denghua, Liu Yongru of grade 2011, Zhang Xin, Ye Zhihua, Luo Yihuan, Wang Hanlin of grade 2012, Lan Aihua, Chan Peng, Wu Peirong of grade 2013, Gao Li, Xie Zucheng, Ying Shuya, Shi Ke, Huang Jiacheng, Chen Weiluan of grade 2014, Gao xiang, Li tiantian of grade 2015 etc.

Today the team has achieved more in all aspects. In 2017, a total of 17 scientific research projects were approved for them. About 10 more papers were submitted to SCI journals. Mr. Chen attached importance to the association of scientific research with the students' career development, and its impact on learning environment.  

言传身教，勤耕不辍

   2016年伟德国际1946官网年度“十佳科研标兵”颁奖典礼上，陈罡老师团队员工占据了大半的名额，这个闪耀的新兴团队进入了大家的视线，这让不少同学对陈罡老师的课题组充满好奇，心生向往。这样的团队究竟有何神秘之处？

　　陈老师回忆说，成立“肿瘤分子病理学本科科研团队”是由于2013年回国后，发现很多优秀的科研兴趣浓厚的同学没有得到及时指导，便单独利用下班时间，组织了每周一次的答疑解惑，满足大家的求知欲和好奇心，这是课题组早期成立的初衷。

　　课题组成立后，陈罡老师言传身教，亲自带着兴趣爱好相同的同学，利用下班时间、周末和节假日一起探讨分子肿瘤病理相关的科研问题。从病例收集、组织切片染色、结果评估、数据统计、文章撰写修改，到文章退修处理，陈罡老师都是全程指导，与同学们奋战在一线。课题组的同学回忆，能进去陈老师的课题组学习是莫大的幸运，陈罡老师经常通宵达旦帮自己修改论文，解答技术疑问，不论半夜几点几乎都能得到陈罡老师的及时回复。

　　付出必定是会有收获的。从课题组培养的本科同学第一篇一作SCI paper见刊，到随后本科生参与的科研工作成果陆续发表，让陈老师在摸索员工科研能力培养模式上坚定了信心。随后“肿瘤分子病理学本科科研团队”不断壮大，甚至吸引了从本科生到硕士到博士各个层次的员工参与和学习。 

　　“让希望得到锻炼的同学学有所成，这是件很有成就感的事情”，陈老师自然也记得每一届优秀的员工，“2011级杨霞、陈文杰、潘登华、刘泳汝，2012级张鑫、叶志华、罗义欢、王翰林，2013级蓝爱花、陈鹏、吴佩蓉，2014级高莉、谢祖成、尹姝雅、史珂、黄佳程、岑维鸾，2015级高翔、李恬恬等等，都是我们课题组里已经出成绩的优秀组员。”

       如今，课题组的光环逐渐变大，2017年组织申报老员工创新课题项目共获批17项，其中已投稿相关SCI论文10余篇；现在陈老师更注重科研对同学们职业生涯的帮助以及对学校的整个科研学习环境的影响。

Mr. Chen’s Unselfish Love for the Students

Having taught for 17 years, Mr. Chen was a patient artist on teaching platform who makes the students with thirst for knowledge more mature. He was also a mentor who escorted batches of students on their journey to success.

“If you only do what you can do, you will never be more than you are now.’’ This was the classical QQ signature of Mr. Chen to encourage his students to work hard. Most students amusingly said, "When meeting with trouble in study, research or life, we always think of Chen’s words and conquer the difficulties.

Ready to give students timely assistance, Mr. Chen showed great concern for students' study and needs. Mr. Chen said, "The students in our team are those who are not afraid of hardship for most of the training time are on weekends and holidays. Many poor students who cannot afford computers or network keep staying in school keep up with the research and study during the weekends and holidays, which really make me touched.  They are doom to succeed one day.”

Students said that Mr. Chen took great pains to help students with financial trouble. For example, he often bought computers to poor students in the team, installed the network for the students from the poverty-stricken areas. Mr. Chen not only helped students in study but also in life, which can undoubtedly ensure students’ academic success. His meticulous care encouraged students to go ahead.

  "New bamboo branch must be higher than the old one; it's all up to the old branch to support it. If there are successors next year, excellent candidates will be in line. "Holding on to his own teaching idea, Mr. Chen worked hard in teaching position in pursuit of fostering scientific talents in clinic and research who meet the needs of the new era.

 Mr. Chen was writing a new chapter in his own career. From his perspective, he valued more on his students' achievement than his own. It was firmly convinced that he and his students will always on the way of chasing their dreams, and in the coming future become a teaching god who continuously exceeds himself.

大音希声，润物无声

       陈罡老师，执教17载，是三尺讲台上循循善诱的“艺术家”，将一个个求知若渴的学子雕刻得越发成熟；更是生活中知心益友，为一批批学子的成才之旅保驾护航。

　　“If you only do what you can do , you will never be more than you are now . ”这是陈老师经典的QQ签名，他经常用来鼓励员工。很多同学风趣地说，平时学习、科研和生活当中遇到困难的时候都会想到陈老师说的这句话，从而迎难而上。

　　陈老师心系员工，关注员工的学习情况和需求，及时给予员工贴切的帮助。“来团队学习的同学都是能吃苦的孩子”，陈老师说，“我们利用很多节假日进行课外训练，很多条件不好的孩子们为了能跟上进度，因为没有电脑，没有网络，节假日主动留校不回家，这样的求学热情让我非常感动，这样的员工必定会有所作为。”

　　同学们说，陈老师会主动了解同学的难处，帮助解决问题。经常自己掏钱，为团队员工配备电脑，为边远山区的员工拉宽带。陈罡老师不仅在专业上指导员工，还在生活中给予员工极大的便利。这样的良师益友是让团队员工硕果累累的坚实保障，每一句细微的关心，每一个小小的举动，无不激励着员工发奋图强。

　　“新竹高于旧竹枝，全凭老干来扶持。明年再有新生者，十支龙孙绕凤池”。陈老师秉持着自己的教学理念，在教学岗位上孜孜不倦地耕耘，以育人为己任，为医学教育事业源源不断地输出符合新时代要求的临床科研人才。

　　陈老师正在书写自己的事业篇章，在他看来，员工的成就远比自己的成就更为重要。相信在未来，他将和同学们一起，追逐每一个遥不可及的梦想，成为那个不断超越自我的教学“男神”。