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Southern Medical University
Tonghe
Guangzhou
China 510515
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 Southern
Medical University, the former First Military Medical
University, was founded in October 1951 and notarized as one of the
premier medical universities in 1978. The university was handed over
to the local government of Guangdong Province and meanwhile renamed
as Southern Medial University, in line with the command by the State
Department and the Central Military Committee of PLA in August 2004.
At present, the university has been authorized by the Department of
Education as a key medical university.
Southern
Medical University is located at the foot of picturesque Baiyun
Mountain in Guangzhou. The main campus, together with its south
campus in the southern suburb of Guangzhou, covers an area of nearly
one million square meters. The university has been awarded the
first-class garden-like university, for rows of green trees nourish
and bouquets of flowers blossom on the campuses all through a year.
Southern
Medical University has established a complete system for fostering
talent candidates of Bachelor's Degree of Medicine (M.B.), Master's
Degree of Medicine (M.M.) and Doctoral Degree of Medicine (M.D.),
with eight academic fields covering medicine, technology, science,
law, management, arts, pedagogy and economics. The university system
comprises 7 affiliated hospitals and 16 schools or colleges such as
school of basic medicine, school of clinical medicine, school of
biomedical engineering, school of Chinese traditional medicine (TCM)
and school of public health. Apart from offering 23 majors for
undergraduates, the university grants M.M. degree in 55 subjects, M.
D. degree in 36 subjects as well as in another 4 first-class
subjects, even with 4 academic stations for postdoctoral research.
Besides, the university houses a group of state-level key subjects,
key subjects by the State Management Administration of Traditional
Chinese Medicine, state-level base of clinical pharmacology and
state-level base of TCM pharmacology. The university has developed a
superior subjects group, with medical science as a backbone and with
combination of medicine and engineering, combination of Western and
Chinese medicines, tropical medicine and bio-high-tech as supportive
subjects.
Southern
Medical University takes pride of the faculties. At
present, working on its campus are a large group of well-know
experts and professors, among whom there is one academician of
Chinese Science Academy and one academician of Chinese Engineering
Academy (there are totally 3 academicians in medical field in
Guangdong Province), as well as 2 premier scientists of State “973
Project” (there are only 2 in the filed of life science in Guangdong
Province). Among the total number of over 700 professors or
associate professors in the university, more than 500 are
supervisors of M.D. degree candidates and M.M. degree candidates, 4
are the members of State Academic Degree Appraising Committee, 4 are
appraised as State-level Middle- or Young-aged Experts, 9 have won
Military Great Achievement Award or have been specially invited as
Professor of Changjiang Scholarships or the State Backbone Teachers
and besides, 54 faculties have been honorably given the titles of
State Outstanding Workers in Science and Technology or State
Outstanding Teachers.
Southern
Medical University owns its full infrastructure. The
total asset of the university amounts to 4.000 billion yuan. The
informationalized teaching facility has built its ground on the
abundant teaching buildings housing all kinds of teaching rooms and
medical laboratories which are equipped with air conditioners,
connected to Internet and even electronically integrated. The
student's apartments with 4 beds in a room accommodating 15,000
students are also equipped with telephone sets and even linked to
Internet. Besides, there is a football ground covered with
artificial grass, a plastic-tracked ground and a standard swimming
pool in the university. Up till now, the library of Southern Medical
University has a book collection of 1 million volumes as well as a
total number of 100,000 volumes of 2,300 Chinese and foreign
periodicals.
Southern
Medical University goes strong in teaching and
scientific research. By now the university has gained 1 first-grade
prize and 2 second-grade prizes of State Excellent Teaching
Achievement Award, plus 7 first-grade prizes of Military Excellent
Teaching Achievement Award. The university is ranked on the top
among the medical universities and colleges in China in view of the
number of research projects and the prizes. From 2001 to 2003 during
“the Tenth Five-year Project” in China, the faculties of the
university undertook 643 programs funded by the Central Government,
Guangdong Provincial and Guangzhou Municipal governments, with a
total amount of 138 million yuan, and thus was ranked at the first
place among the medical universities in Guangdong Province. From
1996-2003 (since the Ninth Five-year Project), the university won 9
second prizes of State Scientific and Technological Advances Award,
accounting for half of the total 19 second prizes which all the
universities and institutes in Guangdong Province gained during that
period (no first-grade prize was awarded). During the period of
“Tenth Five-year Project”, the university won 9 first-grade prizes
of Guangdong Scientific and Technological Advances Awards appraised
among the provincial filed of medicine and hygiene, accounting for
53% of the total 17 first-grade prizes awarded at the provincial
level. Southern
Medical University flourishes along with its handover
from the military system to the civilian one. Its 7 affiliated
hospitals are Nanfang Hospital, Zhujiang Hospital, Hua'nan Hospital,
Nanhua Hospital, Stomatology Hospital, Pingxiang Hospital and
Jiangdu Hospital, 6 of which have been appraised as “First-Class
Hospitals at Grade III”. The hospitals have gained superiority and
developed their own distinctive features in diagnosis and treatment
of digestive diseases, hematology, cardiology, neuromedicine,
nephrology, organ transplantation, microsurgery, orthopedics,
combined therapies of carcinomas and rescue of neonatal severe
diseases. The hospitals have established the large-scale medical
centers for overseas patients. Huiqiao Buildings of Hanfang
Hospital, a 400-bed facility is the largest in scale and earliest in
admitting overseas patients. Huiqiao Buildings has gained its
reputation in China and South-east Asia and was conferred the
honorary title of “Model Medical Faculty: Department of Hui Qiao
Buildings” by the Central Military Committee of PLA, for up to now
it has treated over 80,000 patients from 85 countries or regions.
Southern
Medical University has established long-term cooperation
in clinical teaching with more than 100 military or civilian
hospitals and institutes in a large or middle scope, among which
Guangdong Provincial People's Hospital, Guangdong Provincial Stomatology Hospital, Guangdong Provincial Second People's Hospital
and other 4 general hospitals of PLA in Guangzhou, Wuhan, Nanjing,
Fuzhou become the schools of clinical medicine. In academic exchanges, the university has invited and employed
more than 100 experts and scholars known in China or
internationally, as honorary professors or visiting professors and
meanwhile carried out cooperative research and academic exchanges
with the universities or institutes in more than 30 countries or
regions like the United States, Britain, Japan, France and Australia
and Hong Kong. At present, the university has admitted international
students from more than 20 countries. Besides, the university is
expanding such programs as mutual visits of faculties and exchanges
of students with foreign academic institutions.
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