Anhui Medical University

Anhui Medical University is one of the oldest institutions of higher learning in Anhui Province and the first medical college in Anhui Province. The school is located in Hefei, a historical and cultural city known as "the lips and teeth of Jiangnan and the lapel and throat of Huaihe River". It undertakes the mission of cultivating talents and educating people with virtues and cultivating talents for serving the country. The school is a key university in Anhui Province, a university jointly established by the Ministry of Education, the National Health Commission and Anhui Province, and the first batch of high-level universities with local characteristics and the first batch of comprehensive reform pilot schools in Anhui Province. The predecessor of the school was Southeast Medical University, which was founded in Shanghai in 1926. In 1949, in response to the call of the East China Bureau of the CPC Central Committee to "face the countryside and go to the inland", it moved to Huaiyuan, Anhui. In 1952, it was located in Hefei and renamed Anhui Medical College. In 1985, it was renamed Anhui Medical University. As the birthplace of Anhui's medical higher education, the school has always been the initiator, incubator and leader of Anhui's higher medical education and health care.

At the beginning of the school's establishment, a large number of medical educators, including Guo Qiyuan, Zhang Xiqi, Tang Lizhou, Yu Yunxiu, Li Zuwei, Hu Ding'an, Chen Bangdian, and Wan Xin, who had the dream of treating the people with kindness and serving the country with excellent medicine, taught at the school, wrote books, cultivated good doctors, and benefited the people. Over the past 95 years, generations of Anhui Medical University people have always adhered to the school motto of "Study hard and practice hard to cultivate good doctors", carried forward the school spirit of "virtue and kindness, knowledge and benefit the world", the teaching style of "respecting education, enjoying teaching, and teaching well", and the style of study of "seeking truth, seeking precision, and seeking innovation", and have trained hundreds of thousands of medical professionals for the country and society. A large number of outstanding alumni have emerged, represented by Chairman Mao Zedong's health doctor Zhu Zhongli, Yu Zhongjia known as the "Chinese Hand", Qin Boyi, the first academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, Liu Depei, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, Jiang Benyi who served the "Two Bombs and One Satellite" project, and Xu Shuyun, the pioneer of clinical pharmacology.

The school currently has three campuses, including Meishan Road, Feicui Road, and East Campus. It has 20 directly affiliated teaching institutions, including the Graduate School, School of Basic Medical Sciences, School of Public Health, School of Stomatology, School of Health Management, School of Pharmacy, School of Nursing, School of Marxism, School of Life Sciences, School of Biomedical Engineering, First Clinical Medical School, Second Clinical Medical School, Chaohu Clinical Medical School, School of International Education, School of Humanities and Medicine, School of Continuing Education, Fifth Clinical Medical School, School of Mental Health and Psychological Sciences, School of Law, Institute of Clinical Pharmacology, and Anhui Institute of Translational Medicine, the first physical research institution in the field of translational medicine in our province. There are also 5 directly affiliated hospitals, including the First Affiliated Hospital, the Second Affiliated Hospital, the Affiliated Chaohu Hospital, the Provincial Stomatological Hospital (Affiliated Stomatological Hospital), and the Affiliated Fuyang Hospital, and 9 non-directly affiliated hospitals, which have built a health service system of Anhui Medical Department covering the whole province, radiating to the surrounding areas, and throughout the "full life cycle".

The school currently has 14,600 in-service medical and nursing staff (including directly affiliated hospitals), including 1,593 faculty members of the school headquarters and 884 full-time teachers (including counselors). Among the full-time teachers, 95.00% have doctoral and master's degrees, including 164 senior professional titles and 345 associate senior professional titles (including school-appointed). It was awarded the first batch of "National Huang Danian-style Teaching Team of Colleges and Universities" by the Ministry of Education, with more than 350 national and provincial talent project titles, and more than 10 people have won the titles of national and provincial model teachers and excellent teachers. At present, the total number of full-time students in the school is 22,500, including 15,700 ordinary undergraduates, 6,286 master's students, 525 doctoral students, and 420 international students. In addition, there are 12,900 continuing education students.

The school has a complete range of medical and related disciplines, and has formed a complete education and training system for bachelor's, master's and doctoral degrees. There are 43 undergraduate majors such as clinical medicine ("5+3" integration). It has 4 first-level disciplines authorized to confer doctoral degrees, namely clinical medicine, pharmacy, basic medicine, and public health and preventive medicine, and 44 second-level disciplines authorized to confer doctoral degrees; 14 first-level disciplines authorized to confer master's degrees, and 76 second-level disciplines authorized to confer master's degrees; it has 1 doctoral professional degree category and 8 master's professional degree categories. It has 4 postdoctoral research mobile stations, namely pharmacy, clinical medicine, public health and preventive medicine, and basic medicine. It has 1 national key discipline, 14 provincial key disciplines, 10 national clinical key specialties, and 55 Anhui provincial clinical key specialties. Five disciplines, namely clinical medicine, pharmacology and toxicology, public health and preventive medicine, pharmacy, and biology, have been awarded the first-class discipline award and subsidy project of Anhui provincial public ordinary undergraduate colleges and universities. Five disciplines, namely pharmacy, public health and preventive medicine, clinical medicine, biology, and basic medicine, have been approved as peak disciplines of Anhui higher education institutions. Seven disciplines, namely clinical medicine, pharmacology and toxicology, molecular biology and genetics, biology and biochemistry, immunology, neuroscience and behavior, and general social sciences, have entered the top 1% of the ESI global ranking.

The school has 41 provincial and ministerial scientific research platforms, including 4 key laboratories of the Ministry of Education/National Health Commission and 1 Anhui Provincial Laboratory. The annual number of National Natural Science Foundation projects has exceeded 100 among provincial universities. The research results were selected as the top ten scientific advances in China in 2010 and 2014 and the top ten scientific advances in Chinese universities in 2012. It won 1 second prize in the National Science and Technology Progress Award, 1 first prize in the Excellent Scientific Research Achievement Award of Higher Education Institutions of the Ministry of Education, 2 China Youth Science and Technology Awards, 4 first prizes in the Chinese Medical Science and Technology Award, 6 first prizes and 11 second prizes in the Anhui Natural Science Award, and 7 first prizes in the Anhui Science and Technology Progress Award. It has published many high-level papers in internationally renowned SCI journals such as "Cell", "New England Journal of Medicine", and "Nature Genetics".

The school currently has 4 national-level characteristic specialty construction sites, 11 national-level first-class undergraduate specialty construction sites, 2 national-level comprehensive professional reform pilots, 3 national-level excellent doctor education and training program projects, 1 national-level teaching team, 8 national-level first-class courses, 2 national-level boutique resource sharing courses, 2 national-level experimental teaching demonstration centers, 1 national-level virtual simulation experimental teaching center, 1 national-level clinical teaching training demonstration center, 68 national-level standardized training bases for resident physicians, 9 national-level standardized training bases for specialist physicians, 3 national-level industry-university-research teaching and research projects, and 2 national-level demonstrative virtual simulation experimental teaching projects. 1 course was selected as the English-taught brand course for international students in China by the Ministry of Education. Won 1 second prize for national teaching achievements. The school has successively passed the undergraduate education level assessment and audit assessment of the Ministry of Education, and 3 majors including stomatology, clinical medicine, and clinical pharmacy have passed the professional certification of the Ministry of Education.

The school edits and publishes 12 medical academic journals with CN serial numbers, including "Journal of Anhui Medical University", "Chinese Bulletin of Pharmacology", "Journal of Clinical and Experimental Pathology", "Chinese Journal of Disease Control", etc., including 3 CSCD core journals and 4 Peking University core journals. The school library has a collection of 1.42 million books. It is the Anhui Provincial Center of the National Biomedical Literature Resource Sharing Network, the Medical Branch of the Digital Library of Anhui Province, and the Science and Technology Novelty Search Workstation of the Ministry of Education.

The school insists on open-door education, high-quality development, and in-depth promotion of extensive cooperation between schools and local governments, schools and colleges, and schools and enterprises, and actively serves local economic and social development. Actively connect with the strategic layout of the Yangtze River Delta integration and become the founding vice chairman unit of the Yangtze River Delta Medical Education Alliance. Accelerate the integration into the Hefei Comprehensive National Science Center, and focus on building major innovation platforms such as the Health Big Data and Population Medicine Research Institute of the Big Health Research Institute and the Anhui Provincial Translational Medicine Research Institute. Adopt the "college + center" integrated construction model of production, education, research and application, and actively promote the construction of the new medical center project, which will contribute important forces to promote medical education innovation in our province and support the development of the big health industry. The school has a high-quality practical teaching system, with more than 50 clinical colleges and more than 90 practical teaching bases, which are distributed in various cities in Anhui Province and provinces (cities, autonomous regions) such as Beijing, Shanghai, Jiangsu, Shandong, Zhejiang, Guangdong, Fujian, and Xinjiang. It has carried out extensive cooperation, exchanges and joint education with colleges and universities in 16 countries and regions including the United States, Germany, the United Kingdom, Russia, Australia, Canada, Italy, Japan, Spain, Sweden, Malaysia, Ghana, Ethiopia, South Korea, Taiwan, and Hong Kong. The two sides send experts and scholars to each other, send students to each other, exchange information and materials, and jointly carry out talent training and scientific research cooperation.

Facing the future, the school will hold high the great banner of Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, fully implement the Party's education policy, implement the fundamental task of cultivating morality and cultivating people, persist in educating people for the Party and cultivating talents for the country, unswervingly implement the "two persistences" to achieve the "two greater" goals and requirements, carry forward the spirit of Anhui Medical University, be loyal and dedicated, strive to be the first, seize the day and work hard, and promote the high-quality development of all undertakings of the school with the political consciousness of wholeheartedly supporting the "two establishments" and loyally practicing the "two safeguards", strive to cultivate "great doctors" who undertake the great task of national rejuvenation and protect the health of the people, and strive to create a new situation in the construction of a first-class high-level medical university in China.

(The above data is as of March 2022)