'The one who is out of the ordinary shall win': research supervision toward publication in a Chinese hospital

Conference Theme: Publishing and Presenting Research Internationally: Issues for Speakers of English as an Additional LanguageIn many non-Anglophone countries, with the drive toward “world-class universities” in the higher education sector leading to a heavy emphasis upon publication metrics (Hazelkorn, 2015), research students are increasingly expected to publish in ISI-ranked international journals. We are beginning to gain insights into supervisory communication in university-based milieux (e.g., Huang, 2010; Li, 2015); but what is going on in a professional environment such as a medical hospital, where much of the learning of medical students ...postprin