China Medical University (PRC)

China Medical University (Chinese: 中国医科大学; pinyin: Zhōngguó Yīkē Dàxué) is a medical university in the city of Shenyang, Liaoning, China under the provincial and central governments.

This article is about the university in the People's Republic of China. For the university in the Republic of China (Taiwan), see China Medical University (Taiwan).
China Medical University
中国医科大学
TypePublic
Established1931
Academic staff
8864 [1]
Undergraduates8220 [1]
PostgraduatesPost-doctoral 933, Masters 2842[1]
Location
Shenyang, Liaoning
,
People's Republic of China
Campusurban 1,930,000 m²
WebsiteChina Medical University

Rankings and Reputation

The MBBS program at China Medical University has been taught in the English language since 1978. On U.S. News & World Report Best Global University Ranking by subject Clinical Medicine, it is ranked #345 in the world, #55 in Asia and #10 in China.[2][3][4] It ranks among the top medical universities in China, according to CWTS Leiden Ranking 2018[5] and Chinese university ranking (CUAA) 2018.[6] It is also approved by the Chinese Ministry of Education to recruit international students for its English-medium programs.[7] On World Health Organization's World Directory of Medical Schools, the MBBS program is listed as taught in Chinese, Japanese and English.[8] CMU has three large and modern affiliated hospitals, where students can do internship in the final year. Sheng Jing Hospital is famous for gynaecology and obstetrics.

History

The China Medical University (CMU) was the first medical school established by the Chinese Communist Party. Its precursor was the Chinese Workers’-Peasants’ Red Army Military Medical School and Chinese Workers’-Peasants’ Red Army Health School which had been founded in Ruijin city, Jiangxi province, in 1931. After the Long March with the Red Army, it was relocated to Shanbei.

In 1940 comrade Mao Zedong proposed, and the central committee of the Chinese Communist Party approved, the name of the school being changed to China Medical University. In July 1946 the university was ordered to enter northeast China with the army and reached Xinshan city (now Hegang city), Heilongjiang province. In November 1948 the whole northeast of China was liberated and the university was ordered to move to Shenyang. In 1948 and 1949 it absorbed the medical school formerly operated by the (Japanese) South Manchuria Railway (the South Manchuria Medical College, later called the Shenyang Medical College which had opened in 1911) and the Mukden Medical College (sometimes spelled Moukden Medical College) whose origins go back to 1892 when Dr Dugald Christie founded the Shenjing Medical School. In 1911/1912 this became a formal medical college, the Mukden Medical College.

Department structure
  • College of Basic Medical Sciences
  • The First Clinical College and The First Affiliated Hospital
  • The Second Clinical College and The Second Affiliated Hospital (Sheng Jing Hospital)
  • The Third Clinical College and The Third Affiliated Hospital (merged with Sheng Jing Hospital)
  • The Fourth Clinical College and Fourth Affiliated Hospital
  • School of Stomatology and Affiliated Stomatological Hospital
  • College of Public Health
  • Faculty of Forensic Medicine
  • College of Nursing

See also

References
  1. http://www.cmu.edu.cn/new/showpage.asp?pageid=314
  2. Best Global Universities for Clinical Medicine
  3. Best Global Universities for Clinical Medicine in Asia
  4. Best Global Universities for Clinical Medicine in China
  5. CWTS Leiden Ranking 2018 by Biomedical and Health Sciences
  6. CUAA Ranking 2018: Well-known Globally, First-Class in China
  7. List of Institutions and Scale of Enrollment for Undergraduate Clinical Medicine Programs Taught in English for International Students, 2017/2018
  8. China Medical University on the World's Directory of Medical Schools

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