Chen lost her mother when she was 4 years old, but fortunately her stepmother treated her like her own. My father, Chen Keda, was a scholar and calligrapher in the Qing Dynasty. He had been a tutor in the official library for a long time. Grandfather is also Chen's old principal and first teacher. Since Chen can remember, there has never been a serious illness at home. Years of medicinal incense failed to save his biological mother's life, and his sister, brother and aunt also died after a long illness. Shortly after his stepmother, who loved him deeply, supported him to transfer to a new middle school run by the church, he also became seriously ill. Although I have been looking for a prescription from Chinese medicine, my condition continues to get worse. Finally, 65,438+04-year-old Chen, accompanied by his stepmother, went to the affiliated clinic of the French Consulate in Chengdu at that time and asked for western medicine treatment. He was deeply impressed by the exquisite equipment, clean environment, careful examination by doctors and remarkable curative effect in the clinic, which made him secretly establish the desire to learn this new medical technology to save lives and help others. At this time, there was an article commenting on Chinese and Western medicine in Shanghai Shenbao. /kloc-a 0/4-year-old boy actually wrote to the author Li Zhenpian of Xiangya Medical College, asking him to be a teacher in Changsha. Li Zhenpian enthusiastically replied and suggested that Chen apply for the newly established Peking Union Medical College. Chen immediately wrote a letter to Union Medical College. Soon, he received a reply written entirely in English. He consulted the dictionary and managed to finish reading the letter. The letter said: "Most of the teachers in Union Medical College are foreign professors, and all courses are taught in English. The entrance exams are all in English, including mathematics, physics, chemistry, biology and spoken English. " After reading the letter, he made up his mind to enter Union Medical College. His determination touched his family. In order to help him conquer English, his stepmother took out private money and asked someone to buy English textbooks in Shanghai. My uncle's English is very good. He goes home to tutor him every day. He also invited an English teacher to tutor him three nights a week, and went to an English missionary's home every Sunday to improve his oral English.
After three years of hard work, 17-year-old Chen graduated from middle school. 192 1 In the summer of, he came to Beijing with his relatives and took an exam at the Union Medical College.
After the entrance examination was released, Sichuan Wazi, who took the self-taught exam, actually topped the list, and walked into the door of the highest medical institution in the Far East with his classmates in coastal cities. During the study period, he won the pre-medical scholarship for three years in a row and was successfully promoted to the undergraduate course of Peking Union Medical College with 1924. His classmates are Zhu, Lin, Rong Dushan and Shi. After entering medical school, I will continue to enjoy scholarships and be exempt from tuition fees. After school, I worked as a dormitory administrator and went to the college finance office to help with my work. The money he earned was used to supplement his meals and pocket money until 1929 graduated. Peking Union Medical College was established by Rockefeller Foundation in the United States according to the most advanced standards in the world at that time. Professors in all subjects are internationally renowned authorities. The biggest influence on Chen is the chief professor of public health, J.B. Grant. As a pioneer of community health care and social medicine and a thinker and practitioner of public health, he was born in China, and he is very familiar with the situation that the working people in China are short of medical care and medicine. It is Lan Ansheng's analysis of China's rural health care problems in her teaching and her assumption of implementing free medical care system in China that makes Chen have the desire to devote himself to China's rural health care.
1925' s May 30th Movement gave students who were immersed in their studies a great shock. Under the impetus of Yang Jishi, Jia Kui, Chen, and other students who are usually concerned about state affairs, the Student Union forced the school to agree to end the course ahead of schedule and allow students to participate in patriotic activities organized by the Beijing Student Union. /kloc-in the summer of 0/929, after eight years of hard study, Chen will graduate soon. He has made a choice for the future road. He doesn't miss the comfortable life and generous treatment in the city. With the support of Lan Ansheng and the inspiration of Mr. Tao Xingzhi (later renamed Tao Xingzhi), he resolutely went to Xiaozhuang Normal School in the suburbs of Nanjing with his new wife Wang Wenjin as the director of the rural health experimental area. He opened a "couple health clinic" in Yuergang. He became a doctor and his wife became a nurse to prevent and treat diseases for farmers. He edited lectures on farmers' health knowledge, gave health lessons to male and female farmers attending night schools, and also led and guided students in Xiaozhuang Normal School to practice. He edited and published Lectures on Health Education in Normal Schools, which had a certain influence on rural health work at that time.
1930 In April, the Nanjing National Government ordered the dissolution of Xiaozhuang Normal School. This summer, Chen was recommended by Lan Ansheng to the School of Public Health of Harvard University in the United States, and studied under the famous public health scientist M. Rosen? Professor. At the same time, he also studied health education under the guidance of Professor C.E. Turner of Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and obtained a master's degree in public health at 193 1. After that, he went to Dresden Health Education Center in Germany to study health education technology and methodology, and didn't come back to serve the motherland until after the September 18th Incident.
1932, Chen Jinglan Ansheng introduced and accepted Yan's invitation to be the director of the Ministry of Health and Education in Dingxian Rural Construction Experimental Zone, Hebei Province. At the same time, he became one of the only two directors of China of Peking Union Medical College, and served as a public health lecturer of Peking Union Medical College, responsible for counseling undergraduate medical students and nursing students in rural health practice. 1937 After the July 7th Incident, the Japanese invaders invaded China on a large scale, and the Dingxian Health Experimental Zone was forced to stop completely. At that time, Chen was an associate professor of public health at Union Medical College and the director of the urban and rural health education area of the First Health Center in Beiping, so he temporarily returned to Beiping. The following year, he went to Changsha and Guiyang to participate in wartime rescue work via Shanghai and Hong Kong.
1939 May served as the director of Sichuan Provincial Institute of Health Inspection (1942 was renamed Sichuan Provincial Health Department). /kloc-when he returned to his hometown in 0/8, he saw that there were still only a few church-run hospitals and clinics in Chengdu, and the Kuomintang government had not done any health construction for the people for many years. At that time, the Japanese invaders were bombing peaceful residential areas in Chengdu and Chongqing. The first thing he did after he arrived in Chengdu was to organize rescue and resettlement for hundreds of wounded people. He received strong support and cooperation from the occupied missionary hospitals, West China United University Medical College, cheeloo university Medical College and Central University Medical College, and saved the lives of many wounded people. Before the Japanese army surrendered, Chen made great contributions to the health construction in Sichuan. He took advantage of his position and opportunity as the director of Sichuan Health Experimental Department, a professor of public health at the School of Medicine of West China United University and the person in charge of wartime disaster relief, and established a general hospital, an infectious disease hospital, a maternal and child health care institution, a training center for nurses, midwives and public health personnel, and a Wenjiang rural health experimental area for medical students and nursing school students to practice. He also won the support of the leaders of the provincial government at that time, and established more than 80 public health institutions for most cities and counties in Sichuan Province, which was unique in all provinces in China at that time.
1945, after the Japanese government announced its unconditional surrender, Peking Union Medical College decided to reopen the school gate, hired Chen as the dean of the medical college, and sent him to the United States to inspect post-war public health education. 1947 At the beginning of this year, Chen returned to Sichuan, and the Sichuan provincial government decided to ask Chen to set up a medical school run by China people. He immediately threw himself into the preparatory work of Chongqing University Medical College. At that time, prices soared, the situation was turbulent, and classrooms and dormitories needed to be rented, which didn't bother him. As the dean, he led everyone to class while preparing for the construction, gained a firm foothold in overcoming many difficulties and ushered in the liberation of Chongqing. In the second year after the founding of the People's Republic of China, Chen was invited to attend the first national health conference and participated in the formulation of three major policies for China's health work. The meeting adopted a decision to carry out rural health construction throughout the country. He was very excited to see that the rural medical care he had imagined for many years was about to be gradually realized. In order to prevent and treat diseases in rural areas, he climbed mountains and waded fields to prevent and treat diseases on the spot and did a lot of work. He once led the first batch of students majoring in public health in the Medical College of Chongqing University, which he founded, to go deep into the mangshi area in western Yunnan to prevent and treat falciparum malaria and bubonic plague. Go to Guangyuan, Sichuan to prevent leprosy and syphilis, give a class to local Chinese medicine practitioners, and use the example of leprosy patients to teach this. Mokpo Diagnosis broke people's superstition; To investigate the pesticide poisoning of cotton farmers in Anyue County, Sichuan Province.
1952 Chongqing university medical college was abolished in the adjustment of departments and merged into Sichuan medical college, and Chen was appointed as professor of health science. 1955 Acting Director of Health Department of Sichuan Medical College.
1957, Chen was wrongly classified as a rightist in the "anti-rightist struggle" and no longer served as the acting director of the health department, only retaining the title of professor of the health department. 1958, in the activity of "going to the countryside to kill pests and diseases", he and his students went to work in the countryside of Jiange County in the mountainous area of northern Sichuan.
From 1970, he began to investigate pneumoconiosis, and from 1974, he was appointed as the director of pneumoconiosis research room.
From 65438 to 0979, he was invited to participate in the national seminar on medical and public health education, and then went to Canada and the United States to inspect medical and public health education. 198 1 was appointed as a member of the Medical Science Committee of the Ministry of Health. From April 6, 438 to April 9, 986, 82-year-old Chen went to Shifang County, a health demonstration county in Sichuan Province, to conduct a rural health survey. He investigated the establishment, management, medical conditions, health care, epidemic prevention and health promotion of rural health organizations at all levels, and put forward positive suggestions on the development direction of rural health organizations at all levels, technical training of medical personnel, family planning and drug management. In July of the same year, he made a report at the inaugural meeting of China Rural Health Association held in Yantai, which was well received by the delegates and was elected as honorary director of the association. In the same year, he was appointed honorary director of Sichuan Rural Health Association.