Hangzhou Medical College

Hangzhou Medical College is located in Hangzhou, which enjoys the reputation of "paradise on earth". It is a full-time public undergraduate medical college organized by the People's Government of Zhejiang Province. It is also the only medical undergraduate college directly under the Zhejiang Provincial Health Commission.

Historical evolution: Hangzhou Medical College was formerly the Zhejiang Provincial Women's Obstetrics School founded in 1925. It has gone through Zhejiang Provincial Hangzhou Advanced Medical Vocational School, Zhejiang Hangzhou Health School, Zhejiang Health School, Zhejiang Medical College, etc. In 2016, it was upgraded to a medical undergraduate college. It has a history of more than 90 years. It is one of the medical schools in the province with the most primary medical and health services and health industry-related majors. The predecessor of Zhejiang Academy of Medical Sciences was the Hangzhou Institute of Tropical Diseases, which was founded in 1928. It has gone through Zhejiang Health Experimental Institute, Zhejiang Academy of Medical Sciences, Zhejiang People's Health Experimental Institute, Zhejiang Medical Research Institute, etc. It was renamed Zhejiang Academy of Medical Sciences in 1987. It is the largest public welfare comprehensive medical and health research institution in our province. In 2019, the former Zhejiang Academy of Medical Sciences and the former Hangzhou Medical College merged as a whole to form the new Hangzhou Medical College.

School conditions: There are three campuses in Lin'an, Binjiang and Huanglong and Qingshan Lake Science and Technology Innovation Center. The school covers an area of ​​754 acres and the school building area is 390,000 square meters. The total value of the current teaching and scientific research equipment is 401 million yuan. There are more than 20 authoritative professional databases at home and abroad, such as the full-text resources of the National Science and Technology Library and Documentation Center; there is one directly affiliated hospital (Zhejiang Provincial People's Hospital), 13 non-directly affiliated hospitals, and nearly 200 off-campus practical teaching bases.

Faculty: The school has more than 1,000 faculty and staff. There are 1 academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, 1 academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, 5 national candidates of the "Million Talents Project", young and middle-aged experts with outstanding contributions to the country, and leading talents of scientific and technological innovation in the national "Ten Thousand Talents Plan", young and middle-aged experts with outstanding contributions to national health and health, young and middle-aged scientific and technological innovation leaders enjoying special subsidies from the State Council and the Ministry of Science and Technology's Innovation Talent Promotion Plan, winners of the National Natural Science Foundation Excellent Youth Fund, young and middle-aged experts with outstanding contributions in the province, Qianjiang Scholars Distinguished Professors of Provincial Higher Education Institutions, Outstanding Talents of the Provincial "Ten Thousand Talents Plan" (Leading Talents in Scientific and Technological Innovation, Young Top Talents), the first level of the provincial "New Century 151 Talent Project", and 36 famous teachers in provincial higher education institutions. There is 1 national advanced worker, 13 national "May 1st" Labor Medal winners, national advanced workers in the health system, provincial labor models, etc., 4 advanced individuals in the fight against the new crown pneumonia epidemic in the country, the national science and technology system, and the national health and health system, and 18 advanced individuals in the fight against the new crown pneumonia epidemic in Zhejiang Province.

Disciplines and majors: There are 9,928 full-time junior college students, undergraduates, and graduate students. There are three first-level master's degree programs in basic medicine, public health and preventive medicine, and pharmacy, three professional master's degree programs in public health, pharmacy, and biology and medicine. There is one national clinical key specialty in clinical nursing; four provincial first-class disciplines (category B) in clinical medicine, basic medicine, pharmacy, and public health and preventive medicine; two Zhejiang Provincial Key Medical Discipline Groups, including minimally invasive surgery and biomedicine; 17 department-level key disciplines (supporting disciplines and innovative disciplines) such as pathogen molecular biology, labor hygiene, and pharmacy. 21 undergraduate majors are offered, including clinical medicine, preventive medicine, medical imaging, medical laboratory technology, pharmacy, and nursing. There are 2 national first-class professional construction sites, 3 provincial first-class professional construction sites, and 2 provincial 13th Five-Year Plan specialty majors.

Talent training: In the long history of running schools, a large number of outstanding alumni with both moral integrity and art, willingness to contribute, and wide acclaim have emerged, including academicians of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, Chinese University Student Self-improvement Stars, National Outstanding Township Health Center Directors, and National May 1st Labor Medal Winners. Rich campus culture, advanced teaching facilities and increasingly extensive cooperation and exchanges have created good conditions for students to grow and develop. In the past three years, the employment rate of graduates has reached more than 95%, and the employment rate of graduates one year after graduation has ranked among the top three in the provincial undergraduate colleges for three consecutive years.

Scientific research and social services: There are 8 provincial key laboratories (experimental animals and safety evaluation, medical bioengineering vaccine research and development, drug safety evaluation technology research, gastroenterology, tumor molecular diagnosis and individualized treatment, neuropsychiatric drug research, endocrine gland disease diagnosis and treatment research, biomarkers and in vitro diagnostic transformation), 2 provincial engineering research centers (digestive tract tumor diagnosis and treatment and drug development, new vaccines), and 1 postdoctoral research workstation. There are 18 scientific and technological service platforms such as the National Food and Drug Administration Drug GLP Center, the National Hepatitis A Attenuated Live Vaccine Virus Preservation Center, the Zhejiang Schistosomiasis Control Center, and the Zhejiang Experimental Animal Management Office. In the past five years (2017-2021), the hospital has obtained 575 scientific research projects at the provincial and ministerial level or above, including 138 national scientific research projects, 23 provincial and ministerial level and above achievement awards, 510 national authorized patents, and published more than 500 papers annually in high-level academic journals at home and abroad. It has published and distributed academic journals such as "International Journal of Epidemiology and Infectious Diseases", "Zhejiang Practical Medicine", and "Zhejiang Medical Education".

International Exchange and Cooperation: The school adheres to open education, cooperates with California Baptist University in the United States, and offers a major in health information management; conducts joint training of students with universities such as the University of the West of England, the University of South Wales, the Belarusian State University, the University of Coimbra in Portugal, the University of Western Vasili Godis in Romania, and the Macau University of Science and Technology, promotes international exchanges among students, and expands international horizons; builds a platform for teachers to study abroad, introduces foreign experts and professors from Portugal, Romania and other countries, and promotes the international development of the school's faculty; continues to deepen academic exchanges and cooperation with international organizations and world-renowned universities such as the World Health Organization, the Harvard School of Public Health, the University of Maryland, and the University of Southern California; explores exchanges and cooperation with countries and regions along the "Belt and Road", signs a memorandum of cooperation on schistosomiasis control research, and continuously improves the level of international education.

Development goals: The new era gives a new mission, and the new journey calls for new responsibilities. Hangzhou Medical College is closely focusing on the "two high-level" construction goals of Zhejiang Province, fully implementing the fundamental task of cultivating morality and cultivating talents, taking the cultivation of high-quality applied medical talents with humanistic care concepts, truth-seeking and fraternity spirit and international vision as the fundamental task, and taking the construction of a high-level applied medical university with distinctive characteristics and unique advantages as the goal, constantly enhancing the school-running strength, and striving to run higher medical education that satisfies the people, and contributing to the faithful implementation of the "88 Strategy", striving to build an "important window", and high-quality development to build a demonstration zone for common prosperity.

(Data updated in April 2022)