Nanjing Medical University

Nanjing Medical University is a national "double first-class" construction university, the first batch of medical schools jointly built by the Ministry of Education, the National Health Commission and the People's Government of Jiangsu Province, and a Class A construction university in the Jiangsu High-level University Construction Peak Plan. The school was founded in 1934 and was named Jiangsu Provincial Medical Administration College. During the Anti-Japanese War, it was renamed National Jiangsu Medical College. In 1957, it moved from Zhenjiang to Nanjing and was renamed Nanjing Medical College. In 1962, it was listed as one of the first six-year medical colleges in the country. In 1981, it was approved as one of the first doctoral and master's degree awarding institutions in the country. In 1993, it was renamed Nanjing Medical University.

The school has Jiangning Campus, Wutai Campus and Kangda College Lianyungang Campus, and the school headquarters has more than 1,900 faculty and staff. The school currently has 7 academicians of the Chinese Academy of Engineering and the Chinese Academy of Sciences (including dual-appointed academicians), 1 foreign academician of the National Academy of Medicine of the United States, and 78 national high-level talents. The school has 6 national teaching teams, of which 2 are selected as "National Huang Danian-style Teacher Teams of Colleges and Universities"; there is 1 national curriculum ideological and political demonstration team, 1 "Innovation Team" of the Ministry of Education, and 2 national innovation research groups.

The school currently has 8 first-level discipline doctoral degree authorization points, 54 second-level discipline doctoral degree authorization points, 5 interdisciplinary doctoral degree authorization points, and 2 professional doctoral degree authorization points; 11 first-level discipline master's degree authorization points, 65 second-level discipline master's degree authorization points; 6 postdoctoral research mobile stations, and degree authorization points cover 7 disciplines including medicine, science, engineering, management, law, education and literature; it has 3 national key disciplines, 1 national key (cultivation) discipline, 29 national clinical key specialties, and 6 Jiangsu University Advantage Disciplines (Phase III). In the fourth round of national subject evaluation, public health and preventive medicine were rated A+, clinical medicine, basic medicine, stomatology, and nursing were rated B+, and pharmacy was rated B; 9 subjects ranked in the top 1% of the ESI global ranking, among which clinical medicine, pharmacology and toxicology ranked in the top 1‰ of the ESI global ranking.

The school has 19 colleges, with rich clinical and public health teaching resources such as affiliated hospitals, regional medical centers, teaching hospitals, and affiliated disease control centers. There are 25 undergraduate majors, 2 undergraduate-master-doctoral integrated professional directions, and 3 "5+3" undergraduate-master integrated professional directions, with a total number of nearly 20,000 students. The school was selected as the 2.0 base for the Ministry of Education's Basic Discipline Outstanding Student Training Program. National first-class undergraduate professional construction points account for more than 70% of the total number of majors in the school. 5 textbooks won the first National Excellent Textbook Award, and a large number of national teaching platforms and course resources have been built. The school's enrollment, training and employment work are widely praised by all sectors of society. The passing rate of the practicing physician qualification examination for graduates ranks among the top domestic institutions of similar institutions, and the employment rate of graduates has always remained above 96%.

The school has a national key laboratory for reproductive medicine, and has built national scientific research platforms such as the International Joint Research Center for Environment and Human Health, the Provincial and Ministerial Collaborative Innovation Center for Individualized Tumor Medicine, and more than 30 provincial and ministerial key laboratories (engineering research centers, innovation centers). It has a first-class medical simulation education center and Jiangsu Provincial Medical Animal Experimental Base, and has built the only provincial health policy think tank in the province-Health Jiangsu Research Institute. Since the "Thirteenth Five-Year Plan", it has undertaken nearly 100 major national scientific research projects such as national key R&D plan projects (topics), key and major projects of the National Natural Science Foundation, and innovative research group projects, and has produced a number of national and provincial awards represented by the Second Prize of the National Natural Science Award.

In recent years, the school has carried out extensive foreign exchange activities and established various forms of contact and cooperation with governments at all levels, domestic and foreign universities, scientific research institutions, and social groups. The school has established good bilateral cooperation and academic exchange relations with medical schools or research institutions in countries and regions such as the United States, Canada, Australia, Sweden, Japan, Taiwan, and Hong Kong.

During the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, the school adheres to the guidance of Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, focuses on first-class medical education, first-class discipline system and first-class school conditions, and strives to build a first-class domestic and internationally renowned high-level research-oriented medical university with concerted efforts, coordinated policies, pioneering innovations, and reforms.

(Updated in February 2022)