Capital Medical University

Founded in 1960, Capital Medical University is a key university in Beijing and a joint institution of Beijing Municipal Government, National Health Commission and Ministry of Education. The late famous urology expert, academician of the two academies, and vice chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress, Professor Wu Jieping, was the first president. The current party secretary is researcher Hu Wenliang, and the president is Professor Rao Yi, a famous molecular neurobiologist in my country.

The school has 11 colleges and 1 research center, including the School of Basic Medicine, School of Pharmacy, School of Public Health, School of Nursing, School of Biomedical Engineering, School of Traditional Chinese Medicine, School of Medical Humanities, School of General Medicine and Continuing Education, School of Marxism, School of International Studies, Yenching Medical College, and Center for Major Brain Diseases. The university currently has 21 clinical medical schools (19 of which are affiliated hospitals), including Xuanwu Hospital of Capital Medical University (First Clinical Medical School), Affiliated Beijing Friendship Hospital (Second Clinical Medical School), Affiliated Beijing Chaoyang Hospital (Third Clinical Medical School), Affiliated Beijing Tongren Hospital (Fourth Clinical Medical School), Affiliated Beijing Tiantan Hospital (Fifth Clinical Medical School), Affiliated Beijing Anzhen Hospital (Sixth Clinical Medical School), Affiliated Fuxing Hospital (Eighth Clinical Medical School), Affiliated Beijing You'an Hospital (Ninth Clinical Medical School), Affiliated Beijing Chest Hospital (Tenth Clinical Medical School), Sanbo Brain Hospital of Capital Medical University (Eleventh Clinical Medical School), Affiliated Beijing Ditan Hospital (Twelfth Clinical Medical School), Affiliated Beijing Children's Hospital (Medical School of Pediatrics), Affiliated Beijing Stomatological Hospital (School of Stomatology), Affiliated Beijing Anding Hospital (School of Mental Health), Affiliated Beijing Obstetrics and Gynecology Hospital (School of Obstetrics and Gynecology), Affiliated Beijing Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine (Clinical Medical School of Traditional Chinese Medicine), Affiliated Beijing Shijitan Hospital (School of Oncology), Affiliated Beijing Rehabilitation Hospital (Beijing Rehabilitation Medical School), Affiliated Beijing Luhe Hospital (Luhe Clinical Medical School), China Rehabilitation Research Center (Medical School of Rehabilitation), China-Japan Friendship Hospital (China-Japan Friendship Clinical Medical School), and a teaching base for preventive medicine (Beijing Center for Disease Control and Prevention). The school also has 39 clinical colleges and departments, and 39 clinical diagnosis and treatment and research centers.

The school currently has 14,464 full-time students, including 6,023 postgraduates, 6,599 undergraduates, 1,139 college students, 703 international students, and 2,730 adult education students. The school and affiliated hospitals currently have 39,356 faculty and medical staff (1,578 at the school headquarters and 37,778 at affiliated hospitals), including 6 academicians; 2,951 senior professional titles, 4,780 associate senior professional titles; 904 professors, 1,299 associate professors; 1,024 doctoral supervisors, and 1,252 master's supervisors.

The school currently has 8 national key disciplines, 2 national key (cultivation) disciplines; 60 national clinical key specialties (including traditional Chinese medicine); 14 key (cultivation) disciplines of the State Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine; 4 first-level key disciplines in Beijing, 6 second-level key disciplines in Beijing, 1 key interdisciplinary discipline in Beijing, and 1 discipline group of higher education institutions in Beijing. The school's 11 disciplines, including clinical medicine, neuroscience and behavior, pharmacology and toxicology, immunology, biology and biochemistry, molecular biology and genetics, general social sciences, psychiatry and psychology, microbiology, chemistry, and materials science, are ranked in the top 1% of ESI disciplines worldwide. Among them, clinical medicine is ranked in the top 1‰ of ESI disciplines, and neuroscience and behavior, pharmacology and toxicology, immunology, biology and biochemistry are ranked in the top 5‰ worldwide.

There are 8 first-level discipline doctoral degree authorization points and 13 first-level discipline master's degree authorization points; according to the statistics of the third-level disciplines, there are 59 doctoral degree authorization points and 77 master's degree authorization points; it has the right to confer master's and doctoral professional degrees in all medical and medical-related disciplines. There are 9 postdoctoral research mobile stations. The school has long-term majors in clinical medicine, pediatrics and stomatology; undergraduate majors include clinical medicine, basic medicine, stomatology, pediatrics, preventive medicine, psychiatry, pharmacy, clinical pharmacy, traditional Chinese medicine, Chinese medicine, nursing, biomedical engineering, prosthetics and orthotics, rehabilitation therapy, hearing and speech rehabilitation, public utilities management (health management), law (health law), medical laboratory technology, medical testing technology, medical imaging technology, information management and information systems (health information management), optometry, health inspection and quarantine, and midwifery; higher vocational education has 14 majors including nursing, medical testing technology, and pharmacy. The school cultivates academic and application-oriented talents in medicine and medical-related disciplines, forming an all-round, multi-level, and innovative talent training model.

The school currently has 6 pilot projects of the "Excellent Doctor Education and Training Program" of the Ministry of Education and the National Health Commission; 7 national and 10 municipal specialty majors; 4 first-class majors in Beijing, 9 national and 6 municipal first-class undergraduate majors; 7 national and 18 municipal quality courses, 5 national quality resource sharing courses, 1 national quality video open course, 8 national first-class undergraduate courses and 12 Beijing university quality undergraduate courses; 1 national ideological and political demonstration course, 5 Beijing university ideological and political demonstration courses. 3 national and 6 municipal experimental teaching demonstration centers, 3 national talent training model innovation experimental areas and 1 municipal talent training model innovation experimental area, 1 national college student off-campus practice education base, 5 Beijing municipal off-campus talent training bases and 1 quality education base. 7 national excellent teaching teams, 2 Huang Danian-style teacher teams, 2 teaching teams of ideological and political demonstration courses of the Ministry of Education, 11 municipal excellent teaching teams, 2 excellent undergraduate education teams of Beijing universities, and 6 ideological and political demonstration courses of Beijing universities. 1 national teaching master, 29 municipal teaching masters, 3 young teaching masters, 3 "High Entrepreneurship Program" teaching masters, and 6 Beijing colleges and universities ideological and political demonstration course teaching masters. The school has won 1 national special prize, 8 second prizes, and 1 excellent prize in the Education and Teaching Achievement Award, 2 municipal special prizes, 22 first prizes, 34 second prizes, and 1 excellent prize. The school passed the Ministry of Education's clinical medicine professional certification at a high level in 2014, and was fully recognized by the expert group in the Ministry of Education's undergraduate teaching review and evaluation in 2018.

The university has 3 national medical centers, 6 national clinical medical research centers; 2 provincial and ministerial collaborative innovation centers, 2 Beijing high-tech innovation centers; 1 provincial and ministerial national key laboratory cultivation base, 5 key laboratories of the Ministry of Education, 1 laboratory of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, 1 laboratory of the State Drug Administration, 3 Beijing laboratories, 54 Beijing key laboratories; 1 national engineering research center, 1 national engineering technology research center, 3 engineering research centers of the Ministry of Education, 10 Beijing engineering technology research centers; 3 innovation teams of the Ministry of Education, 3 outstanding innovation teams in key areas of the Ministry of Science and Technology. While having a number of national and municipal key disciplines and key laboratories, the university has established high-level national and municipal research and training institutions, such as the National Life Science and Technology Talent Training Base, the former Ministry of Health General Medicine Training Center, Beijing General Medicine Training Center, Capital Medical University National Medical Security Research Institute, Capital Medical University Health and Medical Big Data National Research Institute, Capital Health Management and Policy Research Base, etc. In the past five years, the school has undertaken 2,998 scientific research projects (including 1,812 national scientific research projects) from national key R&D plans, major national science and technology projects, the National Natural Science Foundation, the National Social Science Foundation, the Beijing Municipal Science and Technology Commission, and the Beijing Natural Science Foundation, with a total research funding of 3.058 billion yuan (including 2.507 billion yuan for national projects). It has won 134 awards of various types and levels, including 14 National Science and Technology Progress Awards (including joint reports), 32 Beijing Science and Technology Awards, 9 Ministry of Education Higher Education Scientific Research Outstanding Achievement Awards, 25 Chinese Medical Science and Technology Awards, 6 Wu Jieping Series Medical and Pharmacy Awards, 1 Mao Yisheng Beijing Youth Science and Technology Award, 5 Wu Jieping-Paul Janssen Awards, 2 Ho Leung Ho Lee Science and Technology Awards, 3 Zhongyuan Union Life Science Awards, 35 Huaxia Medical Science and Technology Awards; 1 Beijing Excellent Investigation and Research Achievement Award, and 1 Philosophy and Social Science Outstanding Achievement Award. 3,358 patents have been authorized.

The school has built public service platforms such as libraries, archives, school history museums, central laboratories, information centers, experimental animal departments, journal editorial departments, and school hospitals.

The school has signed friendly exchange and cooperation agreements with more than 50 universities and related units in 20 countries and regions including the United States, Canada, Australia, the United Kingdom, Sweden, Norway, Hong Kong, and Taiwan. Hundreds of experts, scholars, and students from more than 50 countries and regions have visited the school for academic exchanges. The school was approved as the first batch of Beijing's "Belt and Road" national talent training bases and is a school for innovative international talent training projects of the China Scholarship Council. International students include undergraduates, masters, doctoral students, and advanced students. In addition to exchange visits, the school also selects teachers and students to participate in relevant learning projects and academic conferences through various online and offline channels.

The school always adheres to the socialist direction of running schools, fully implements the party's education policy, adheres to the fundamental principle of cultivating morality and educating people, adheres to the school motto of "helping the wounded and saving the world, respecting morality and cultivating knowledge", follows the laws of medical education, bears in mind social responsibilities, and takes it as its own responsibility to contribute to the construction of a healthy China and a healthy Beijing, the implementation of the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei coordinated development strategy, and the construction of an international first-class harmonious and livable city. It strives to run a university that satisfies the people, cultivate doctors that satisfy the people, and produce scientific research results that can serve the people's needs for health and beauty. Standing at a new historical starting point, all the people of the Capital Medical University will implement the new development concept, further seek truth and be pragmatic, unite their hearts and minds, be proactive and enterprising, pursue excellence, comprehensively enhance the core competitiveness of the school, and strive to build the school into an international first-class research-oriented medical university.