Guangdong Medical University

The predecessor of Guangdong Medical University was the Zhanjiang Branch of Zhongshan Medical College, which was founded in 1958. In 1964, it was upgraded to a five-year medical undergraduate school and renamed Zhanjiang Medical College. In 1992, it was renamed Guangdong Medical College and in 2016, it was renamed Guangdong Medical University. In 1960, it was rated as an advanced unit in the national cultural and educational front. In 1978, two scientific research results were awarded by the National Science Conference. In 1986, it was awarded the right to confer master's degrees and was listed as a key university in Guangdong Province. In 1991, it won the first prize in the evaluation of the school-running level of Guangdong Province. In 2005, it was awarded "excellent" in the evaluation of the undergraduate teaching level of the Ministry of Education. In 2008, a postdoctoral research workstation was established. In 2012, it was approved to establish a science and technology search workstation of the Ministry of Education. In 2013, it was approved as a doctoral degree-granting unit. In May 2015, the clinical medicine discipline entered the top 1% of the ESI global ranking. In January 2016, the school entered the top 1% of the ESI global ranking. In July 2020, pharmacology and toxicology entered the top 1% of the ESI global ranking. In 2019, it passed the Ministry of Education's clinical medicine professional certification, which is valid for 6 years. In August 2021, it entered the key discipline construction university of Guangdong Province's high-level university construction plan. The school has also been included in two famous authoritative lists, the Center for World University Rankings (CWUR), a higher education research institution, and the USNews World University Rankings, an authoritative American authoritative ranking.

The school has a total area of ​​nearly 2,300 acres and consists of two parts: Zhanjiang Campus and Dongguan Campus. The Zhanjiang Campus is located in Zhanjiang, a coastal open city with a subtropical atmosphere; the Dongguan Campus was established in 2002 and is located in the beautiful Songshan Lake Science and Technology Industrial Park in Dongguan.

The school currently has more than 25,000 full-time students, and has 15 colleges (departments) including the School of Marxism, Graduate School, Basic Medical College, First Clinical Medical College, Second Clinical Medical College, School of Medical Technology, School of Nursing, School of Pharmacy, School of Public Health, School of Humanities and Management, School of Biomedical Engineering, School of Foreign Languages, School of Women and Children's Medicine, Department of Physical Education, and School of Continuing Education.

The school has formed a relatively reasonable discipline and professional structure, with 1 first-level discipline authorized for doctoral degrees, 7 first-level disciplines authorized for master's degrees, and 6 master's professional degree authorization points. There are 4 key disciplines for Guangdong Province's high-level universities (clinical medicine, basic medicine, pharmacy, public health and preventive medicine), 7 provincial key disciplines (1 provincial key discipline for climbing the peak, 2 provincial key disciplines for advantages, and 4 provincial key disciplines for characteristics), and 5 disciplines for the Pearl River Scholars Program. There are 37 general undergraduate majors, covering 7 disciplines such as medicine, science, engineering, literature, economics, management, and law, and enrolling students from 26 provinces (autonomous regions, municipalities) and Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan.

The school has 3 national first-class undergraduate major construction sites, 4 national college characteristic major construction sites, 5 provincial first-class undergraduate major construction sites, 7 Guangdong college characteristic major construction sites, 2 Guangdong college famous majors, 4 Guangdong college key majors, and 9 Guangdong provincial curriculum ideological and political construction reform projects. There are 2 national first-class courses and 17 provincial first-class courses. In the past two sessions, it has won 6 provincial teaching achievement awards (3 first prizes; 3 second prizes). There are national-level standardized training bases for resident physicians (25 clinical specialties) and drug clinical trial institutions (9 clinical specialties), and 14 provincial-level key clinical specialties.

The school currently has 1,868 faculty and staff, including 1,329 full-time teachers, 67 doctoral supervisors, 921 master's supervisors (including affiliated hospitals), 2 dual-appointed academicians, 2 Guangdong Young Pearl River Scholars and 2 visiting professors, and 3 Guangdong Natural Science Outstanding Youth Fund winners. The school has 16 experts with special government allowances from the State Council, 8 national model teachers, national outstanding teachers, and national outstanding counselors of colleges and universities, 7 Guangdong Provincial Teaching Masters, 14 provincial-level training targets of the "Thousands, Hundreds, and Tens Talent Training Project", 2 provincial "Special Support Plan" talents, 32 "Sailing Plan", 60 outstanding teachers in South Guangdong, new talents in the South Guangdong teaching field, outstanding teachers in South Guangdong teaching and educating people, outstanding teachers in South Guangdong, and outstanding educators in South Guangdong, 5 Guangdong Provincial Outstanding Clinical Talents and Famous Chinese Medicine Practitioners, and 17 Guangdong Provincial Outstanding Young Teacher Training Targets.

The school has good teaching and research conditions, with 17 provincial experimental teaching demonstration centers and a clinical skills training center with an area of ​​more than 10,000 square meters and complete equipment. There are 4 directly affiliated hospitals, 14 non-directly affiliated clinical medical schools, and 7 non-directly affiliated hospitals. The cooperative teaching institutions are spread all over the province, forming a good school-hospital and school-enterprise collaborative education mechanism. There are scientific research platform service management centers, 8 provincial key laboratories, engineering technology research centers and new R&D institutions, 22 municipal key laboratories, and 1 postdoctoral research workstation. It is the leading unit or chairman unit of research institutions and academic groups such as the "Guangdong Medical Molecular Diagnosis Collaborative Innovation Development Center", "Zhanjiang Pharmaceutical Industry Alliance", and "Guangdong Life Culture Society". During the 13th Five-Year Plan period, the university received 168 national scientific research projects, including 3 National Social Science Foundation projects and 143 National Natural Science Foundation projects; 1,309 SCI/EI papers were published as the first author or corresponding author, 61 academic works were published, 128 national patents were authorized, 1 second prize of the National Science and Technology Progress Award, and 5 provincial and ministerial science and technology achievement awards. The school network is the Zhanjiang area connection center of the Guangdong Education and Research Network, covering the Zhanjiang and Dongguan campuses and directly affiliated hospitals. There are more than 30,000 digital information points on campus, and network teaching platforms and various business management information systems have been built. The school also has a modern library with a total collection of more than 1.98 million paper books, more than 1.51 million electronic books, more than 9,000 hours of audio and video materials, more than 800 paper journals, more than 40,000 electronic journals, and more than 30 Chinese and foreign databases purchased and available. Journal of Guangdong Medical University is a journal included in the Chinese Core Journals (Selection) Database, a statistical source journal of the China Academic Journal Comprehensive Evaluation Database (CAJCED), a full-text journal included in the China Journal Full-text Database (CJFD), and an excellent scientific and technological journal in Guangdong Province.

The school has carried out various exchanges and cooperation with more than 50 universities and research institutes in the United States, the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, Portugal, Finland, Poland, Japan, Malaysia and other countries and Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan. It has successively joined the China-Russia Medical University Alliance, the "Belt and Road" Tropical Medicine Alliance, and the China-Finland Association of Applied Sciences Universities. The activeness of teachers and students in participating in foreign academic exchanges and cooperation has increased year by year, and has successively obtained the EU "Eramus +" university capacity building and teacher exchange project. The school has enrolled students from Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan since 2010, and has enrolled undergraduate, master and doctoral students in China since 2019.

The school has always adhered to the moral education and the responsibility of "strengthening the medical field at the grassroots level, cultivating talents and protecting health", and has formed a distinctive feature of cultivating high-quality medical professionals at the grassroots level. It has been highly recognized by the experts of the undergraduate teaching level evaluation of the Ministry of Education in 2005, and has been highly praised by leaders such as Zhang Dejiang and Hu Chunhua. The media such as Guangming Daily, People's Daily and China Education Daily have fully affirmed and praised the school as the "cradle of grassroots doctors".

Since its establishment 64 years ago, the school has trained and delivered more than 230,000 medical talents for the country and the local area. The school has sufficient student resources and is one of the popular provincial undergraduate colleges for candidates in Guangdong Province. Through the construction of quality engineering, graduates have a solid foundation of knowledge, and their innovation awareness and practical ability have been significantly enhanced, which is widely welcomed by the society. In the past five years, the average employment rate of graduates has reached 97.04%, ranking among the top in the province. Since 2016, it has won the honor of "Best Practice University" in the country for six consecutive years. In the past five years, the school has won 170 national and 409 provincial projects in the innovation and entrepreneurship training program for college students. The school's Youth League Committee was rated as the "National May Fourth Red Flag Youth League Committee".

The school adheres to the school motto of "Aspirations, morality, truth and excellence", upholds the Guangdong Medical Spirit of "hard work and self-improvement", promotes the school spirit of "rigorous, simple, benevolent and dedicated", implements the core strategy of characteristic development, and adheres to the school-running philosophy of "taking the leadership of the Party as the foundation, student development as the center, discipline construction as the core, talent strengthening as the priority, and social service as its own responsibility". Based in Guangdong, integrated into the Bay Area, facing the whole country, and going to the world, it is committed to building a high-level medical university with distinctive characteristics, advanced in the same category, and well-known at home and abroad, cultivating high-quality application-oriented talents with firm ideals and beliefs, lofty professional ethics, strong social responsibility, deep people's feelings, good scientific spirit, innovative quality, international vision, solid theoretical foundation, solid practical ability, and thick humanistic literacy to serve the health and health cause and economic and social development, and provide talent guarantee, intellectual support and scientific and technological support for the health and health cause and economic and social development of the country and Guangdong Province. (As of April 18, 2022)