Chongqing Medical University

Chongqing Medical University was founded in 1956. It was established by the relocation of Shanghai First Medical College (now Shanghai Medical College of Fudan University) to Chongqing. It was originally named Chongqing Medical College and was renamed Chongqing Medical University in 1985. The school is one of the first units approved by the State Council Academic Degrees Committee to confer doctoral and master's degrees, and one of the first demonstration bases for studying abroad in China approved by the Ministry of Education. In 2015, the school became a university jointly established by the Chongqing Municipal People's Government, the National Health and Family Planning Commission (formerly the National Health and Family Planning Commission) and the Ministry of Education. In 2016, it became one of the first local universities approved for the "Higher Education Discipline Innovation and Intelligence Introduction Plan" ("111 Plan").

The school was founded in 1956. It was established by the relocation of Shanghai First Medical College (now Shanghai Medical College of Fudan University) to Chongqing. It was originally named Chongqing Medical College and was renamed Chongqing Medical University in 1985. The school is one of the first units approved by the State Council Academic Degrees Committee to confer doctoral and master's degrees, and is one of the first demonstration bases for studying in China approved by the Ministry of Education. In 2015, the school became a university jointly built by the Chongqing Municipal People's Government, the National Health and Family Planning Commission (formerly the National Health and Family Planning Commission) and the Ministry of Education. In 2016, it became one of the first local universities to be approved for the "Higher Education Discipline Innovation and Intelligence Introduction Plan" ("111 Plan") .

The school consists of the Yuanjiagang Campus in Yuzhong District and the Jinyun Campus in Chongqing University Town. The total campus area is 2,650 acres, of which the Jinyun Campus covers an area of ​​2,100 acres. The campus environment is beautiful and picturesque.

The school currently has 26,810 full-time students, including 7,124 doctoral and master's students, 18,824 undergraduates, 258 junior college students (counterpart support for ethnic minorities projects), and 604 international students. The school is qualified to recruit postdoctoral researchers, students from Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan, and foreign students. The school currently has 8 first-level discipline doctoral degree authorization points, 13 first-level discipline master's degree authorization points, 3 doctoral professional degree authorization points, and 11 master's professional degree authorization points; 4 national key disciplines, 8 disciplines are in the top 1% of ESI globally (Clarivate Analytics data in January 2022), 4 first-class disciplines in Chongqing, and 16 Chongqing "14th Five-Year Plan" municipal key disciplines.

The school has 21 colleges (departments), a graduate school, and 36 undergraduate majors. There are 13 national first-class undergraduate major construction points and 27 first-class undergraduate major construction points in Chongqing. Clinical medicine, stomatology, nursing, and traditional Chinese medicine have passed the professional certification of the Ministry of Education. It currently has 1 national clinical teaching and training demonstration center, 4 national experimental teaching demonstration centers, 7 national first-class courses, 4 national boutique resource sharing courses, and 3 national boutique video open courses.

The school vigorously implements the strategy of strengthening the school with talents, recruits high-level talents from overseas, introduces multiple talent teams with international standards, strengthens the guidance and cultivation of local talents, and gradually builds a good talent ecology of "near and far" to form a strong driving force for promoting connotation-oriented development.

There are more than 3,200 full-time teachers, including more than 2,000 professional and technical personnel with senior professional titles, more than 400 doctoral supervisors, and more than 2,100 master's supervisors. There are 58 national-level talents such as academicians of the Chinese Academy of Engineering (external), overseas high-level talents, Yangtze River, and outstanding young talents, and 586 provincial and ministerial talents. There are 7 national postdoctoral research mobile stations, with a scale of 382 postdoctoral fellows in the station. The role of talent tower and faculty reservoir is becoming increasingly obvious, and the vitality of the talent team is constantly increasing.

The school's scientific and technological innovation capabilities are constantly improving. During the 13th Five-Year Plan period, the school has added more than 3,700 projects from various departments and horizontal projects such as the Ministry of Science and Technology and the National Natural Science Foundation of China, with a funding of nearly 1 billion yuan; it has taken the lead in undertaking major national science and technology projects such as major infectious disease prevention and control and national key research and development plans, with a funding of 200 million yuan. 6,198 SCI papers have been published, with an average annual growth rate of 10.24%. Many achievements have been published in top international journals such as The Lancet, Nature Medicine, and the New England Journal of Medicine. Nearly 50 awards have been won, including national science and technology awards and Chongqing science and technology awards. In 2017, two achievements of our school won the second prize of the National Science and Technology Progress Award, and in 2020, they won two national innovation awards. The high-intensity focused ultrasound tumor treatment system (HIFU) independently developed by the school is a world first and the first large-scale medical equipment in my country with completely independent intellectual property rights. The school has successfully developed my country's first approved chemiluminescence coronavirus antibody detection product, which has now obtained multiple certifications such as the EU CE. The transformation of scientific and technological achievements has achieved remarkable results. The transformation of scientific and technological achievements such as the chemiluminescent COVID-19 antibody detection kit and tumor immunotherapy has been completed with high quality, with a transformation amount of more than 30 million yuan.

The school currently has 62 national and provincial research platforms. Among them, there are 5 national platforms such as the National Key Laboratory, the National Engineering Research Center, the National Clinical Medicine Research Center, the National Bio-industry Base Experimental Animal Center, and the National International Science and Technology Cooperation Base; 6 national ministerial platforms such as the Ministry of Education Key Laboratory, the International Cooperation Joint Laboratory, the Provincial and Ministerial Co-construction Collaborative Innovation Center, and the National Health Commission Key Laboratory; 57 provincial platforms such as provincial key laboratories, engineering (technology) research centers, international science and technology cooperation bases, clinical medicine research centers, think tanks, and popular science bases. In addition, there are provincial "Overseas High-level Talent Innovation and Entrepreneurship Base" and "Academician Expert Workstation".

The school actively carries out exchanges and cooperation at home and abroad. It has established cooperative relations with 52 educational or medical institutions in 23 countries and regions in Europe, Asia, North America, and Oceania, including internationally renowned universities such as Dartmouth College in the United States, the University of British Columbia in Canada, and University College London in the United Kingdom; the Sino-foreign cooperative education project with the University of Leicester in the United Kingdom has been officially launched, which is the only approved Sino-foreign cooperative education project in clinical medicine in western my country; at the same time, it has carried out joint training of long-term medical students with "double first-class" construction universities such as Fudan University and Southwest University.

The school currently has 11 directly affiliated hospitals (7 general hospitals, 1 children's hospital, 1 dental hospital, 1 rehabilitation hospital, and 1 traditional Chinese medicine hospital). The First Affiliated Hospital and the Affiliated Children's Hospital have been selected in the top 100 of the "National Comprehensive Hospital Ranking" for 10 consecutive years (published by the Hospital Management Institute of Fudan University), ranking 56th and 59th respectively in 2020. The directly affiliated hospitals have built a national clinical research center and a national regional medical center, and have been approved for 28 national key clinical specialties. They have more than 17,000 beds, an annual outpatient volume of nearly 15 million, and nearly 600,000 inpatients per year.