Professor Zhou Yue's motto:
Career motto: tenacity, dedication, humility, gratitude
Life motto: Confucianism is the skin, Tao is the bone, and kindness is the heart
Professor Zhou Yue, former director of the Department of Orthopedics of Xinqiao Hospital of the Army Medical University, can be called a pioneer and leader in the field of minimally invasive spine surgery in China, which has not only made great contributions to the development of minimally invasive spine surgery in China, but also injected new vitality and impetus into the development of minimally invasive spine surgery technology in the world.
He has also been awarded 3 times of personal third-class merit, enjoyed special allowances from the national government, and won 1 second prize of the National Science and Technology Progress Award, 1 first prize of the Ministry of Education's Science and Technology Achievement Award, 1 first prize of the Military Medical Achievement Award, and 1 first prize of Chongqing Science and Technology Achievement Award;
He has been teaching for more than 40 years, and has delivered batches of outstanding minimally invasive spine surgery talents to the society, and his careful guidance and dedication have made these talents shine in their respective positions and benefit more patients.
We were amazed by Professor Zhou Yue's great achievements in the field of minimally invasive spine surgery, and also impressed by his educational spirit of preaching and selflessness.
As an old friend of Orthopedics Online, we have interviewed him many times in the past, when Professor Zhou Yue was still working in the hospital, and he was doing his best for the development of minimally invasive spine surgery and technological innovation in China, and now what makes us curious is what he is doing and what are his plans for the future?
So with this question and with concern for Professor Zhou Yue, we made a special trip to Chongqing on March 12, 2024 and visited him in a tea room in his community, and Professor Zhou Yue was very happy to tell us about his feelings, life and some thoughts on the future after retirement.
Professor Zhou Yue was interviewed by the Department of Orthopedics Online
Lao Ji is in the pan, aiming at "peach and plum"
Retirement is not the end of life, but a new beginning in life. Although he is over 60 years old, he still has many ambitions and ideals that have not yet been realized, and they still need to be realized and can be realized. He believes that the essence of life should not be stagnant due to retirement, but should start a new chapter from here.
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Professor Zhou Yue talks about his life after retirement
How to live a more exciting and meaningful life in the next two or three decades is a question that Professor Zhou Yue has been thinking about. In his opinion, youth is like the rising sun, rising and full of vitality. Middle-aged and elderly people are like sunset, and they are also gorgeous and colorful.
The old man is in the bush, and the residual heat is shining. The question is, where does this residual heat go?
Professor Zhou Yue thought of a sentence said by the English writer George Bernard Shaw: "Life is real after the age of 60!", and he has a deep understanding and experience of this. He has devoted himself to the cause of minimally invasive spine surgery for more than 20 years, and in these 20 years, he has worked hard for life, for his career, and for his ideals.
Professor Zhou Yue likes to live freely
Now, after 20 years of hard work, Professor Zhou Yue has achieved success in his career. In the following days, he wanted to pursue the dreams of his youth and live a more expansive and free life. However, it is unlikely that Professor Zhou Yue will completely abandon his original work and life. One is that he is not adaptable, and the other is that he wants to continue to realize the value and meaning of life while chasing freedom, happiness, leisurely romance.
How? Of course, I still devote myself to continuing education. As Professor Zhou Yue said, "Serving a patient well benefits only one patient, but cultivating a good generation of doctors like us will benefit a large number of patients in the future." He passed on his 20 years of clinical feelings, struggles and technological innovation to the younger generation of doctors. It is not only to impart experience and skills, but more importantly, to teach how to be a doctor with high medical ethics.
Lao Ji is in the middle of nowhere, aiming at "peach and plum". Promoting continuing education has become the main theme of Professor Zhou Yue's retirement life.
Make breakthroughs at multiple points to promote the high-quality development of medical education
Education is a long way to go. In order to achieve academic promotion, technological innovation and dissemination in a real sense, Professor Zhou Yue has carried out a number of educational work.
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Professor Zhou Yue talked about the mode of continuing education he is engaged in
He has been invited to be a visiting professor and honorary professor in major hospitals and medical centers. Professor Zhou Yue has only one requirement, young doctors must be by his side for every activity, from the consultation and physical examination of patients, to the diagnosis of diseases and the formulation of treatment plans, to the operation room to perform surgery...... Involve young doctors in the whole process, observe and learn from them up close. This kind of "theory + demonstration + practice" hand-in-hand teaching method, although it will consume a lot of time and energy, can quickly help young doctors grow.
Professor Zhou Yue set up a training course on total spine endoscopy
He conducts training courses in total spine endoscopy. Professor Zhou Yue was personally responsible for the whole process, from the compilation of teaching materials to the design of teaching plans to the implementation of teaching. He traveled to a city every month to preach and teach young local doctors. As a highly respected doctor and teacher in the industry, Professor Zhou Yue's training course is very popular and praised, and the course has now reached its fourth session.
He is committed to public welfare education activities. In fact, since 2013, Professor Zhou Yue has organized experts and professors from the Chinese Medical Doctor Association to use his vacation time to do public welfare education. It includes educational support for poor children and college students, free clinics for local people, and education and training for local doctors. Their footprints have spread all over Gansu, Ningxia, Xinjiang, Tibet, Yunnan, Guizhou, etc., and almost half of China.
Professor Zhou Yue is doing public welfare education while driving
After retirement, Professor Zhou Yue will continue his dream of driving to Sichuan-Tibet, Yunnan-Tibet and Qinghai-Tibet, while experiencing the beautiful scenery of the motherland and appreciating the humanistic customs, to do public welfare education and give public lectures in cities along the route. This way of life while watching the scenery along the way and doing public welfare at the same time has made Professor Zhou Yue's retirement life happier and more meaningful.
In addition, Professor Zhou Yue will also organize and build various educational platforms to promote and participate in various educational activities. For example, "Chiropractic Surgery", which is an academic platform for the standardization of spinal biscopic surgery, mainly promotes various spinal endoscopic techniques. Dozens of experts in related fields across the country participated in the event, which was carried out in the form of online live broadcast, offline surgical observation and lecturer teaching. It is expected that 30 sessions will be held this year, which will greatly enhance the skills of young doctors in spinal double-mirror surgery.
Professor Zhou Yue gave a speech on the "Ridge Flow Mirror" specification project
The hemostasis technique in the project is a special content, and targeted guidance is given to young doctors in the prevention of bleeding hemostasis and standardized hemostasis in the whole process of surgery. Through the application and promotion of this high-level technology, intraoperative bleeding and postoperative complications can be reduced, the treatment effect of minimally invasive spine surgery can be greatly improved, and the rehabilitation and quality of life of patients can be improved.
Through such multi-platform and multi-point breakthroughs, Professor Zhou Yue has effectively promoted the high-quality development of medical education, directly or indirectly trained many experts in minimally invasive spine surgery, and become a pioneer and leader in minimally invasive spine surgery.
Do a good job in continuing education and serve lifelong learning
Centennial plan, education-oriented, talent is king. In Professor Zhou Yue's view, medicine is even more so, in the face of various technical challenges, in order to achieve breakthroughs and innovations, continuous development and application, it is inseparable from the support of continuing education. Continuing education focuses on mastering new knowledge and skills, helping physicians update their knowledge structure, improve their professional ability and competitiveness, enhance their personal value, and also benefit society.
Professor Zhou Yue has never stopped his minimally invasive spine career
As for how to do education, Professor Zhou Yue believes that different specialties have different characteristics, and internal medicine and surgery are obviously different. For internal medicine, the focus of education is more reflected in the subdivision of concepts and methods. For surgery, in addition to the analysis of conceptual thinking, it is particularly important to update, master and apply new technologies.
Professor Zhou Yue believes that continuing education will become more and more important with the increasing development of the country and the continuous progress of technology, and the requirements for physicians will become higher and higher.
How to make continuing education more interesting, attractive, valuable and meaningful is a question worthy of in-depth consideration for doctors like Professor Zhou Yue who are committed to continuing education.
Professor Zhou Yue practiced to let students understand the power of inheritance. From theoretical knowledge to practical operation, he has personally explained and deduced so that young doctors can intuitively feel and try practically, so as to achieve an all-round improvement of their self-ability.
Professor Zhou Yue led the students to perform surgery on patients
For example, in the whole spine endoscopy training class, he used surgical performances to attract tens of thousands of people to visit and learn online. During the full-day teaching, he combined his own personal experience and insights to explain the historical evolution of endoscopy, technological innovation and origin, development characteristics and the selection of indications like telling a story. Attract young physicians to understand, like, learn and apply, and overcome various difficulties and challenges.
After mastering the theoretical knowledge, he will also take young doctors to specific operations, so that education from empty to interactive and interesting and practical. In order to add some artistic beauty and visual impact to rigorous, scientific and standardized medical education, Professor Zhou Yue uses a combination of pictures and texts supplemented by videos in the textbooks he compiled, so that everyone can understand and learn various technologies in an immersive way. We believe that there will be more young physicians who will be deeply influenced by Professor Zhou Yue, and gain the ability to move forward and be useful for life in the process of learning full of fun and challenges.
Half the blue sky, half the earth
Many people retire and their lives become boring all of a sudden. With Professor Zhou Yue, loneliness and boredom do not exist at all, and even life after retirement becomes more fulfilling, happy and meaningful.
Before his retirement, Professor Zhou Yue's life was self-disciplined and single-minded. I was woken up by the alarm clock at 6:00 every day, washed and eaten, drove from home at 6:30, arrived at the hospital at 7:00, took a short rest, and began to participate in the morning shift of the department, and then made rounds, and in the afternoon, I held a meeting and took graduate students to do projects...... It may be evening when you get home.
The day is filled with work, and there is little energy for other things.
Professor Zhou Yue fitness
After his retirement, Professor Zhou Yue has added a lot of valuable and interesting things on the basis of maintaining self-discipline in his work and rest. For example, get up at 6:00 and go downstairs for fitness and exercise at 7:00. After returning home, I read books and study, or conduct work reviews, or prepare new materials for academic activities.
Professor Zhou Yue practices boxing in his free time
Professor Zhou Yue firmly believes that the body is always the capital of the revolution, especially after retirement, how the physical condition directly affects the quality of life. That's why he insists on exercising at least 2-3 days a week, such as Muay Thai.
In addition to exercising and working, Professor Zhou Yue also spends part of his time on his favorite arts: painting and singing. He wanted to continue his dream of painting when he was young and published calligraphy and painting illustrations for himself. He also had a musical dream of opening a bar to sing in residence, and now although the bar can't be opened, he can at least play and sing by himself and entertain himself.
Professor Zhou Yue plays the guitar
Since he was young, Professor Zhou Yue has been known as a "medical scientist" with the temperament of an artist with his gentle, humble and personable literary and artistic image. Now, after years of precipitation, his artistic atmosphere has become stronger, and the free and easy temperament in his bones has become more and more obvious.
To put it simply, Professor Zhou Yue's retirement life is half blue sky and half earth. The blue sky represents freedom, dreams and hope, while the earth represents wisdom, stability and strength. It's a rewarding and happy thing for him.
epilogue
The first half of Professor Zhou Yue's life was devoted to his career, he did not have extra time and energy to do what he loved, and now he can travel by car in his spare time, enjoy life, and engage in education.
To his patients, he is a savior of his skills and gentle attitude.
As far as the students are concerned, he is a good teacher who is willing to give and dedicate.
For himself, he is a winner in life who has both work and life.
While making your retirement life happy, it also makes life more meaningful. He not only adhered to his original intention, but also found a new meaning of life.
It can be said that Professor Zhou Yue's future life is that retirement will not fade, and the residual heat will shine brighter.
When asked what his motto is, Professor Zhou Yue said with a smile: "The motto of my career is tenacity, dedication, humility and gratitude, and the motto of life is Confucianism as skin, Tao as the bone, and kindness as the heart." ”
We hope that Professor Zhou Yue's character and ethics will deeply influence the younger generation of doctors and become a beacon for their careers and a guide for their lives. Truly make its own contribution to the development of China's orthopedics.
The two-hour interview ended quickly, but we were still immersed in the charm of Professor Zhou Yue and could not get enough of it. With his unique insights and profound thinking, he has demonstrated his love for life and dedication to education. We are inspired. In the future, we will continue to pay attention to Professor Zhou Yue's life dynamics and educational career, and disseminate, infect and inspire more people with his life and educational ideas.
Expert Profile
Zhou Yue
Former director of the Department of Orthopedics, Chief Physician and Doctoral Supervisor of Xinqiao Hospital, Army Medical University.
He has served as:
Member of the Standing Committee of the Orthopaedic Branch of the Chinese Medical Association, leader of the second minimally invasive group;
Vice Chairman of the Third Committee of the Endoscopist Branch of the Chinese Medical Doctor Association, Chairman of the Spine Endoscopy Committee, Vice Chairman of the Quality Management and Control Committee;
Vice Chairman of the Fourth Committee of the Orthopedic Surgeon Branch of the Chinese Medical Doctor Association, Chairman of the Minimally Invasive Spine Committee;
Vice Chairman of the Orthopedic Professional Committee of Post-graduation Medical Education of the Chinese Medical Doctor Association;
Vice Chairman of the Spine and Spinal Cord Professional Committee of the Chinese Association of Rehabilitation Medicine, and the third leader of the Minimally Invasive Spine Surgery Group;
Vice Chairman of the Orthopedic Innovation and Transformation Professional Committee of the Chinese Research Hospital Association, Chairman of the Minimally Invasive Group;
Member of the first standing committee of the Spine Disease Prevention and Control Professional Committee of the Chinese Preventive Medicine Association;
Vice Chairman of the Spine Surgery Branch of the Orthopedic Professional Committee of the Army, Chairman of the Minimally Invasive Spine Group;
Vice President of the World Chinese Orthopaedic Society;
Vice President of the World Association of Chinese Endoscopists;
Vice-President and President-designate of ISMISS Society;
Vice Chairman of SICOT China Division, President of Minimally Invasive Spine Surgery Branch;
Vice Chairman of the International Spinal Cord Society and Chinese Society of Spinal Cord Injury;
Chairman of the First Committee of the Orthopedic Surgeon Branch of Chongqing Medical Doctor Association;
Vice Chairman of the Orthopedic Branch of the Cross-Strait Medical and Health Exchange Association, Chairman of the Minimally Invasive Professional Committee;
He has published 216 SCI papers as the first author and corresponding author, with the highest impact factor of 19.68. He has published 67 journal papers from statistical sources. He has edited 9 monographs, 6 deputy editor-in-chief monographs, 5 translated monographs, participated in the editing of 14 monographs, and edited 6 monographs.
He has won 1 second prize of National Science and Technology Progress Award, 1 first prize of Science and Technology Achievement Award of the Ministry of Education, and 1 first prize of Chongqing Science and Technology Achievement Award. 1 first prize and 3 second prizes for military medical achievements, 1 second prize and 4 third prizes for military scientific and technological progress;
He has been awarded 3 times of personal third-class merit, enjoys the special allowance of the national government, the first-class allowance for outstanding professional and technical personnel of the army, and the consultation expert of the Central Health Commission and the Health Care Committee of the Central Military Commission;
He was awarded the title of "The First Chief Medical Expert of Chongqing" by the Chongqing Municipal Health and Family Planning Commission (2016), the "Silver Award of the Military Academy Education Award", the "Outstanding Young and Middle-aged Technical Expert of Three-star Talents" (2012), the title of "Chongqing Academic and Technical Leader" jointly awarded by the Organization Department of the Chongqing Municipal Committee of the Communist Party of China and the Chongqing Municipal Personnel Bureau, and the title of "Bethune-style Good Doctor" by the Chinese Medical Doctor Association (2019).
He won the 2nd National Famous Doctor Award (2018), and won the 2018 Parviz Kambin Award Diamond Contribution Award of the World Association of Minimally Invasive Spine Surgery (SMISS) at the 6th World Minimally Invasive Spine Congress in 2018.
He is committed to the innovation and promotion of minimally invasive spine surgery technology in China, and performs more than 400 surgeries every year, and is known as a pioneer and leader in the field of minimally invasive spine surgery in China.