Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine

Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine was established in 1956. It is one of the first Chinese medicine colleges and universities established after the founding of New China. It is a Chinese medicine college jointly built by the Ministry of Education and local governments, and a high-level university that Shanghai focuses on building.

The school is located in the scientific research and education area of ​​Zhangjiang High-tech Park in Pudong New Area, covering an area of ​​more than 500 acres, with complete teaching facilities and beautiful environment. As a university located in the core area of ​​Zhangjiang Science City, it takes the initiative to connect with national strategies and serve the construction of a science and technology innovation center with global influence as its mission, and takes advantage of its existing disciplines and comprehensive advantages to bravely undertake the important task of deepening the reform of higher education in traditional Chinese medicine, promoting independent innovation in traditional Chinese medicine, and leading the development of traditional Chinese medicine.

The school has more than 1,300 faculty and staff, including 4 academicians of the two academies, 2 national medical masters, 2 national famous Chinese medicine doctors, 69 Shanghai famous Chinese medicine doctors, and more than 700 senior experts and professors. It has trained and delivered Chinese medicine professionals of all levels and types for the country. There are nearly 8,000 full-time students and alumni in more than 60 countries and regions. The school is a university under the construction of "Talent Training Model Innovation Experimental Zone" and "Characteristic Professional Point" of the Ministry of Education of China. It has three first-level disciplines of Chinese medicine, Chinese medicine, and integrated Chinese and Western medicine, and one professional degree category (field) doctoral degree authorization point in Chinese medicine, six first-level disciplines of Chinese medicine, Chinese medicine, integrated Chinese and Western medicine, history of science and technology, medical technology, and Marxist theory, and five professional degree categories (fields) master's degree authorization points in Chinese medicine, Chinese medicine, nursing, translation, and public health, 3 postdoctoral mobile stations, and doctoral degree-granting majors covering all Chinese medicine disciplines; there is 1 There are 5 undergraduate and junior college majors. In addition to undergraduate majors in Chinese medicine, Chinese pharmacy, and clinical Chinese and Western medicine, there are also majors in nursing, food hygiene and nutrition, rehabilitation therapy, pharmacy, biomedical engineering, and preventive medicine; there are 8 undergraduate and junior college majors for continuing education; it has established scientific research, teaching, and medical cooperation with nearly 50 overseas colleges, medical research institutions, and international organizations in 20 countries and regions, and established the first Confucius Institute of Chinese Medicine in the United States. There are two Sino-foreign cooperative education projects, namely Sino-British cooperative pharmacy and Sino-British cooperative nursing projects.

The school has 4 national key disciplines: Chinese medicine surgery, Chinese pharmacy, Chinese medicine internal medicine, and Chinese medicine orthopedics; 2 national key disciplines (cultivation): Chinese medicine history and literature, acupuncture and massage; 38 key disciplines of the State Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine; 4 Shanghai peak and plateau disciplines. There is 1 Ministry of Education Modern Preparation Technology Engineering Research Center for Traditional Chinese Medicine, 3 Ministry of Education Key Laboratories, 3 Shanghai Key Laboratories, 8 State Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine Key Research Offices, and 2 National TCM Clinical Research Bases; the two disciplines of Traditional Chinese Medicine and Traditional Chinese Medicine were successfully selected into the list of national "Double First-Class" construction disciplines. In the fourth round of discipline evaluation results announced by the Ministry of Education, our school's three disciplines of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Traditional Chinese Medicine, and Integrated Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine all entered the highest level of A+, and it is the only university in the country with 3 A+ disciplines among TCM schools.

The school's medical scale and medical service capabilities are constantly improving. There are 8 affiliated hospitals, which basically cover all tertiary TCM and integrated traditional Chinese and Western medicine hospitals in Shanghai. The total construction area of ​​the affiliated hospitals is about 670,000 square meters, the total number of beds is about 6,300, and it serves about 17 million patients from all over the world each year. The school actively responds to the national "Belt and Road" initiative and has established overseas TCM centers in the Czech Republic, Malta, Morocco, the United States and other countries to continuously promote the internationalization of TCM.

The school aims to build a world-class university of Chinese medicine, and adheres to the school-running philosophy of "not focusing on completeness but on excellence, not focusing on size but on uniqueness, not focusing on name but on substance". After more than 60 years of construction and development, it has become a Chinese medicine university with leading teaching and scientific research strength and national rankings in major disciplines.