Inner Mongolia Medical University

Inner Mongolia Medical University is located in Hohhot, the capital of Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. It is a multidisciplinary higher medical college with medicine as its main discipline and integrating science, management, engineering, literature and law. The school was founded in 1956 and is one of the earliest higher medical colleges established in ethnic minority areas in New China. At that time, it was affiliated with the Ministry of Health of the People's Republic of China. In 1958, it was transferred to the management of the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. Formerly known as Inner Mongolia Medical College, it was renamed Inner Mongolia Medical University and became a university jointly established by the People's Government of Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, the National Health and Family Planning Commission, and the Ministry of Education. It was approved as a doctoral degree awarding institution.

After more than 60 years of construction and development, Inner Mongolia Medical University has trained more than 100,000 talents of all levels and types for the country, and has made important contributions to the economic development, social progress, scientific and technological innovation, cultural inheritance, national unity, and border stability of the autonomous region. It has become a local higher medical college with distinctive school-running characteristics.

The school currently has three teaching campuses: Jinshan Campus, Xinhua Campus, and Xilin Campus, with a total area of ​​1,231,808 square meters and a total construction area of ​​525,726 square meters. Among them, the teaching and administrative area is 244,219 square meters. The total value of teaching and scientific research equipment is 580.4933 million yuan, and there are 2.0563 million books and documents of various types (types).

The school has 17 teaching units including Basic Medical College, School of Pharmacy, College of Traditional Chinese Medicine, School of Mongolian Medicine, School of Public Health, School of Stomatology, School of Health Management, School of Foreign Languages, School of Computer Information, School of Nursing (Health Technology School), School of Marxism, School of Humanities and Education, Department of Physical Education, Graduate School, International Education College (Foreign Cooperation and Exchange Center), School of Continuing Education, and Medical Simulation Center, 8 affiliated hospitals, and 11 clinical medical schools. There are 114 practical teaching bases in and outside the district. Among them, there are 76 practical teaching bases for medical majors and 38 practical teaching bases for non-medical majors.

The school has enrolled undergraduates since 1956, graduate students since 1978, obtained the qualification for master's degree authorization in 1981, and obtained the authorization qualification for people with equivalent academic qualifications to apply for master's degrees in 1999. Since 2005, it has jointly trained doctoral students in seven disciplines, including Mongolian medicine, integrated Chinese and Western medicine, Chinese internal medicine, imaging medicine and nuclear medicine, surgery, cell biology, and Chinese medicine with Beijing University of Chinese Medicine, Capital Medical University, and Tianjin University of Chinese Medicine. In 2018, it was approved by the State Council Academic Degrees Committee to become a doctoral degree-granting institution and obtained the doctoral degree authorization point of Chinese medicine (Mongolian medicine). A higher education system for ethnic medicine that can train undergraduates, masters, and doctoral students at all levels has been established, forming the "three-in-one" school-running characteristics of modern medicine, Chinese medicine, and Mongolian medicine higher education. The school currently has one first-level doctoral discipline in Traditional Chinese Medicine (Mongolian Medicine); six first-level master's disciplines in Basic Medicine, Clinical Medicine, Traditional Chinese Medicine, Pharmacy, Traditional Chinese Medicine, and Nursing; six master's professional degree categories in Clinical Medicine, Stomatology, Public Health, Nursing, Pharmacy, and Traditional Chinese Medicine. Among the 33 undergraduate majors, Mongolian Medicine, Clinical Medicine, and Nursing have been approved as national first-class undergraduate majors, Mongolian Medicine, Traditional Chinese Medicine, and Mongolian Medicine have been rated as characteristic majors of higher education institutions by the Ministry of Education, and Mongolian Medicine has been approved by the Ministry of Education as a "first batch of comprehensive reform pilot projects for undergraduate majors in local universities"; Traditional Chinese Medicine, Traditional Chinese Medicine, Public Utilities Management, Mongolian Medicine, Stomatology, Anesthesiology, Pharmacy, and Forensic Medicine have been approved as first-class undergraduate majors in the autonomous region. There are 4 national first-class courses, 14 autonomous region-level online open courses, and 19 autonomous region-level first-class courses. The school currently has 16,025 full-time students. Among them, there are 11,780 undergraduates, 1,581 junior college students, 2,254 master's students, 14 doctoral students, 96 international students, 80 ethnic preparatory students, and 220 students in affiliated secondary vocational classes. The undergraduate majors are open to 29 provinces, municipalities, and autonomous regions in China.

The school currently has three national clinical key construction specialties: orthopedics, neurosurgery, and general surgery, one Mongolian medicine spleen and gastroenterology specialty of the State Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine, and three National Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine key construction disciplines: Mongolian medicine, Mongolian pharmacy, and typhoid fever. There is one autonomous region-advantaged and characteristic discipline of Traditional Chinese Medicine (Mongolian Medicine), five autonomous region-key disciplines of Pathology and Pathophysiology, Ophthalmology, Medical Imaging and Nuclear Medicine, Surgery (General Surgery, Orthopedics) and Ethnic Medicine (Mongolian Medicine), and two autonomous region-key cultivation disciplines of Human Anatomy and Histoembryology, and Internal Medicine (Hematology); there are 11 autonomous region-leading clinical medicine disciplines, 23 autonomous region-key clinical medicine disciplines, one autonomous region-level collaborative innovation center and one autonomous region-level collaborative innovation cultivation center; there are six autonomous region-key laboratories, including the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region Key Laboratory of Chinese and Mongolian Medicine, the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region Key Laboratory of Medical Cell Biology, the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region Key Laboratory of Molecular Pathology, the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region Key Laboratory of Molecular Biology, the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region Key Laboratory of Molecular Imaging, and the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region Key Laboratory of Clinical Pathogenic Microorganisms; there is the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region Mongolian Medicine Equipment R&D Engineering Technology Research Center, the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region Molecular and Functional Imaging Engineering Technology Research Center, and the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region Digital There are four autonomous region engineering technology research centers, namely the Translational Medicine Engineering Technology Research Center and the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region Mongolian Medicine Effectiveness Substance and Quality Control Engineering Technology Research Center; there are five autonomous region engineering research centers (laboratories), namely the New Drug Screening Engineering Research Center, the Animal Organ High-Value Utilization Bioactive Peptide Engineering Laboratory, the Tumor Cell Gene Detection Application and Research Engineering Laboratory, the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region Engineering Research Center for Traditional Mongolian Medicine Operation Technology and Equipment R&D, and the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region Engineering Research Center for Optometry and Visual Science; there is one autonomous region humanities and social science key (cultivation) research base; there is one national clinical teaching and training demonstration center, the Affiliated Hospital Medical Simulation Center, and one national virtual simulation experimental teaching center, the Mongolian Medicine Virtual Simulation Experimental Teaching Center; there are six autonomous region-level experimental teaching demonstration centers, namely the Biomedical Comprehensive Experimental Teaching Center, the Morphology Experimental Teaching Center, the Human Anatomy Experimental Teaching Center, the Basic Pharmacy Experimental Teaching Center, the Chinese Mongolian Medicine Clinical Simulation Experimental Teaching Center, and the Nursing Experimental Teaching Center. Among them, the Chinese Mongolian Medicine Clinical Simulation Experimental Teaching Center was rated as a national experimental teaching demonstration center. The Inner Mongolia Mongolian Medicine Museum and the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region Health Policy Research Institute, Cardiovascular Research Institute, and Orthopedic Research Institute are located in our school. The school closely relies on the teaching resource support of the School of Mongolian Medicine and the School of Pharmacy, the medical resource support of the Inner Mongolia International Mongolian Medicine Hospital, the collection document resource support of the Inner Mongolia Mongolian Medicine Museum, and the scientific and technological innovation platform support of the Mongolian Medicine Research Institute and the GLP Laboratory, and strives to build the discipline and professional characteristics of Mongolian medicine, making this discipline a dominant and distinctive discipline of the school, and it has been rated as a key discipline by the autonomous region and the State Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine. The Key Laboratory of Mongolian Medicine and the Mongolian Medicine Museum (Mongolian Medicine Literature Discipline) were approved as key laboratories in the medical and health field of the autonomous region, further consolidating the school's leading position in this discipline worldwide.

The school currently has 956 full-time teachers. Among them, 288 are senior professors, 309 are associate professors, 430 have doctoral degrees, and 459 have master's degrees. The proportion of full-time teachers with master's degrees and above is 92.99%. There are 863 master's supervisors, and 48 teachers have been selected into the school's doctoral supervisor pool. There are 68 experts enjoying special government allowances from the State Council, 42 young and middle-aged experts with outstanding contributions from the country and the autonomous region, 2 candidates for the national "New Century Hundred Thousand Talents Project", 1 national teaching master, 2 national outstanding teachers, 2 "national medical masters", 1 "national famous Chinese medicine practitioner", 8 outstanding talents in the autonomous region, 1 leading talent of the grassland talents in the autonomous region, 63 grassland talents innovation teams in the autonomous region, 108 grassland talents in the autonomous region, 193 first and second level candidates of the "New Century 321 Talent Project" in the autonomous region, 15 teaching masters in the autonomous region, 11 outstanding teachers in the autonomous region, 12 new teachers in the autonomous region, 1 national teaching team and 12 autonomous region teaching teams, 4 autonomous region science and technology innovation teams and 2 autonomous region higher education innovation teams.

Since the 13th Five-Year Plan, the school has undertaken 2,073 scientific research projects of various levels and types. Among them, there are 116 National Natural Science Foundation projects and 2 National Social Science Foundation projects. Won 137 autonomous region science and technology awards (8 first prizes, 6 middle-aged and young science and technology innovation awards, 51 second prizes, 72 third prizes); 10 autonomous region philosophy and social science outstanding achievements government awards (1 first prize, 3 second prizes, 6 third prizes). Won 18 autonomous region teaching achievement awards (6 first prizes, 8 second prizes, 4 third prizes). Obtained 234 national patent authorizations. Among them, there are 34 invention patents, 172 utility model patents, 7 design patents, and 21 software copyrights. The "Journal of Inner Mongolia Medical University" sponsored by the school was rated as a "Chinese university characteristic science and technology journal" by the Science and Technology Department of the Ministry of Education, and was identified as a "Chinese science and technology paper statistical source journal" by the Chinese Institute of Scientific and Technological Information; the "Disease Monitoring and Control" published is a series of journals of the Chinese Preventive Medicine Association.

The school has always adhered to the policy of open education and attaches importance to exchanges and cooperation with domestic and foreign universities. It has established long-term cooperative relations with universities such as Peking University School of Medicine, Beijing University of Chinese Medicine, Capital Medical University, and Tianjin University of Traditional Chinese Medicine; and has carried out multi-level and multi-field exchanges and cooperation with many medical schools or scientific research institutions in countries and regions such as Japan, Mongolia, the United States, Russia, Thailand, Australia and Austria.

As a local higher medical school, Inner Mongolia Medical University has always adhered to the socialist direction of running schools, fully implemented the party's education policy, followed the development laws of medical higher education, and served the medical and health cause of ethnic autonomous regions and provided medical higher education that satisfies the people. It actively adapts to the needs of economic and social development in Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, takes the cultivation of high-quality medical and health talents as its fundamental task, takes the construction of first-class disciplines as its starting point, and adheres to the school motto of "erudition, practice, sincerity, and perfection" to continuously achieve the scientific development of school education.

(Updated in March 2021)