Xuzhou Medical University

The history of Xuzhou Medical University can be traced back to the Jiangsu Provincial Medical College founded in 1934. In 1958, Nanjing Medical College moved to Xuzhou to establish the Xuzhou Branch of Nanjing Medical College. In 1960, it was named Xuzhou Medical College. In 2016, it was renamed Xuzhou Medical University. In 2021, it was selected as a university under the Jiangsu High-level University Construction Peak Plan. Over the past sixty years, the school has continuously carried forward the fine tradition of "hard work, continuous innovation, and courage to create excellence", vigorously implemented the development strategy of "strengthening the school with talents, establishing the school with quality, developing the school with science and technology, and establishing the school with characteristics and culture", and adhered to the development ideas of "innovative development", "selective excellence" and "correlation-driven". It has embarked on a very distinctive development path. It is a higher medical school with a long history and distinctive characteristics in the entire Huaihai Economic Zone, and it is also the center of medical education, medical research and medical services in the region.

The school has 17 colleges (departments), 36 affiliated hospitals (clinical colleges), more than 17,000 full-time students and more than 1,400 faculty and staff. It has 28 undergraduate majors, covering four disciplines: medicine, science, engineering, and management. There are two first-level disciplines authorized to confer doctoral degrees in clinical medicine and biology, eight first-level disciplines authorized to confer master's degrees in clinical medicine, basic medicine, biology, biomedical engineering, pharmacy, public health and preventive medicine, medical technology, and nursing, and eight professional degree authorization points in clinical medicine, stomatology, pharmacy, public health, nursing, electronic information, biology and medicine, and public management. It has the right to recommend postgraduate students, and has two postdoctoral research mobile stations in biology and clinical medicine and a postdoctoral research workstation in clinical medicine. A full-scale and multi-level education system has been formed from undergraduates, postgraduates to postdoctoral students, from full-time to adult education, and international student education.

The school insists on taking teaching as the center, deepening teaching reform, standardizing teaching management, and continuously improving teaching quality, and has passed the review and evaluation of undergraduate teaching work by the Ministry of Education. It has national first-class professional construction sites, national characteristic professional construction sites, national planning textbooks, national talent training model innovation experimental areas, national experimental teaching demonstration centers and national teaching teams. It is one of the first batch of national clinical medicine master professional degree graduate training model reform pilot universities; it has passed the Ministry of Education's clinical medicine professional certification, which is valid for 7 years; it has won 1 first prize and 1 second prize for national teaching achievements, as well as a number of provincial and ministerial awards such as the provincial teaching achievement special prize; it has won a number of national "Excellent Doctor Education and Training Program" projects and central government financial support for the development of local universities. The project construction project, as well as a number of provincial brand majors, key majors (categories), quality courses and textbooks, experimental teaching demonstration centers and practical education centers.

The school attaches great importance to discipline construction and scientific research, and has built a number of provincial key disciplines and provincial advantageous disciplines. Among them, clinical medicine, pharmacology and toxicology, neuroscience and behavior, molecular biology and genetics ESI ranked in the top 1% in the world; it has obtained a number of scientific research platforms such as the National and Local Joint Engineering Laboratory, the State Drug Administration Key Laboratory, the Provincial and Ministerial Co-construction Collaborative Innovation Center, the Provincial Key Laboratory, and the Provincial Engineering Technology Research Center. In the past five years, the school has undertaken more than 200 national scientific research projects, including 3 national key R&D projects; published more than 2,000 papers included in SCI, EI, etc., including many papers published in high-level journals such as the Journal of the American Academy of Sciences; and won more than 20 scientific research awards at the provincial and ministerial levels and above, such as the National Science and Technology Progress Award and the National Natural Science Award.

The school continues to strengthen the construction of the teaching staff, accelerate the training and introduction of high-level talents, and the number of teaching staff has steadily increased and the structure has continued to optimize. There are Yangtze River Scholars Distinguished Professors, National Hundred Thousand Talents Project, National Excellent Teachers, the Ministry of Education's "New Century Excellent Talents Support Program", National Health System Advanced Workers, Experts Enjoying Special Government Allowances, and Jiangsu Distinguished Professors, Jiangsu Province Teaching Masters, Jiangsu Province Excellent Educators, Jiangsu Province "Double Innovation Plan", Jiangsu Province Science and Technology Innovation Team, Jiangsu Province "333 Project", "Six Talent Peaks", "Qinglan Project" and other outstanding teachers and teams.

In recent years, the school has continuously strengthened foreign exchanges and cooperation, and has established inter-school cooperation with more than 30 well-known overseas universities and research institutes such as Harvard University in the United States, Imperial College London in the United Kingdom, National University of Singapore, University of Wollongong in Australia, and Yonsei University in South Korea, and established teacher training bases in universities such as the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in the United States and Cardiff University in the United Kingdom. In addition, the school has hosted (undertaken) international academic conferences many times, and the school's international influence has been further expanded.

Anesthesiology education is the school's characteristics and advantages. The school took the lead in establishing an undergraduate major in anesthesiology in the country, and built it into a national "featured major in higher education institutions". The anesthesiology teaching team is a "national excellent teaching team", and the anesthesiology teaching results have won the first and second prizes of national teaching achievements. The anesthesiology discipline has been rated as a national key discipline cultivation and construction point, a key laboratory of the State Food and Drug Administration, a key laboratory of Jiangsu Province, a key clinical specialty of Jiangsu Province, a key medical discipline of Jiangsu Province, and a key discipline of Jiangsu Province's "135 Project". It is the base for the anesthesiology specialty of the National Health Professional Technical Title Examination. The school is the first in the country to open the "5+3 connection" direction of anesthesiology. The National Higher Education Society Anesthesiology Education Research Association and the Jiangsu Anesthesia Research Institute are both affiliated to our school. The "International Journal of Anesthesiology and Resuscitation" sponsored by the school has a great influence at home and abroad. Therefore, the school is known as the "cradle of Chinese anesthesiology talent training".

The school insists on cultivating people with morality and taking quality as the lifeline, and has trained a large number of senior medical and health talents for the society. The school has been successively rated as an advanced university for teacher team construction in Jiangsu Province, an advanced university for science and technology work in Jiangsu Province, an excellent unit for school spirit construction in Jiangsu Province, an advanced university for party building and ideological and political work, a harmonious campus of higher education institutions in Jiangsu Province, and a civilized unit in Jiangsu Province, and has won wide recognition from the society.

At present, all teachers, students and staff of the school are adhering to the school motto of "carrying medicine with virtue, being knowledgeable and innovative", and in accordance with the school-running positioning of "based in Jiangsu, radiating the whole country, and facing the world", they are united and motivated to work hard towards the goal of "building a high-level medical university with distinctive characteristics"!