China Medical University (CMU) was the first medical school established by the Chinese Communist Party. Its precursor was the Chinese Workers’-Peasants’ Red Army Military Medical School and Chinese Workers’-Peasants’ Red Army Health School founded in Ruijin city, Jiangxi province in 1931. After the Long March with the red army, it moved to Shan-bei. In 1940, proposed by comrade Mao Ze-dong and approved by the central committee of Chinese Communist Party, the name of the school was changed to China Medical University. In July, 1946 the university was ordered to enter north-east China with the army and reached Xin-shan city(now He-gang city), Hei-long-jiang province. In November, 1948 the whole north-east China was liberated and the university was ordered to move to Shenyang. It merged the former national Shenyang Medical College founded in 1911 and the former private Liaoning Medical College founded in 1892 (both in Shenyang city).
Over 50,000 senior specialized medical personnel have been educated by CMU since its establishment. Its graduates are all over China and some countries and regions of the world. It nurtured so many famous medical experts and leaders of national health administration and education.
CMU now has 18 colleges, faculties and sections, 130 departments, 34 disciplines(specialties) were authorized to grant doctor degrees and 49 were authorized to grant master degrees; 11 specialties for undergraduates and 10 specialties for higher professional techniques; one affiliated health school; a center for Japanese language training and a center for rural doctors training (both directly under the Ministry of Health); 2 national key laboratories and 3 (health) ministerial laboratories;1 national clinical study base for drug development and 1 national laboratory for research of traditional Chinese medicines; 3 post-doctoral mobile stations; 10 provincial key disciplines, 8 provincial research and treatment centers, 3 municipal research centers; 21educational and research institutes or centers, 8 central laboratories of the university or its colleges; 15 independent research laboratories; 3 companies of science and technology. There are 2856 beds in CMU’s 3 affiliated comprehensive hospitals and one specialty hospital.
The total staff of CMU now is 6138, and 80% are professionals of different specialties. Among them are: one academician of Chinese Academy of Engineering, 350 professors, 545 associate professors, 188 tutors for doctoral and 460 tutors for masters students. 2 are members of evaluation group of academic degree committee of the state council, 15 are chairman or vice-chairman of national academic societies. Among young and middle-aged teachers 16 have been granted national young talents or other funds, 86 were chosen for provincial training plan for outstanding personnel, 38 were named as provincial young leaders of discipline or distinguishing key teachers.
The total number of registered students is now 15,107, among them are 581 doctoral postgraduates, 2013 masters students, 3899 undergraduates, 1088 for professional training. 2056 are for undergraduate and professional training by tele-education, 4935 are receiving adult education for undergraduate and professional training, 461 are for secondary professional training. 74 are from foreign countries and Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan.
CMU occupies a total land area of 1,930,000 square meters with 743,000 sq.m of building area. The library with its more than 600,000 volumes of collection is the northeast regional center of National Medical Literature Resources Sharing Network of the Ministry of Health, northeast knot of China Medical Information Network, a national health science and technology referee unit for checking novelty. The laboratory animal center of CMU is also the provincial centers of laboratory animals and their quality control, breeds 23 species and strains of experimental animals for teaching and research.
So far CMU has established good exchange and co-operation relations with 45 universities, institutes and institutions in Japan, USA, UK, France, Russia, Korea and Canada etc. 195 internationally famous scientists have been conferred honorary titles of CMU, 3487 teachers have been sent abroad for research or advanced training. 48 international co-operative projects have been conducted recently.
Graduate Education and Degrees Conferred in CMU
Graduate education began in the 1950's and was resumed in 1978. China Medical University is one of the first authorized institutions to award Bachelor, Master and Doctoral degrees. At the same time, CMU has been empowered to award Master and Doctoral degrees for clinical specialties, and has executed the project to award Master degree to applicants whose academic expertise is equivalent to those certified counterparts. Furthermore, independent entrance examination is undertaken at CMU for excellent on-the-job persons. Foreign students are also enrolled for graduate education. The annual enrollees are over 200 for Master degrees and over 100 for Doctoral degrees. The enrollment for post-graduated is 802 at school, and tutors are over 480. 46 departments (26 clinical and 20 basic sciences) are granted to confer master degrees and 24 specialities (16 clinical and 8 basic sciences) to confer doctoral degrees. Three postdoctoral mobile stations are on the campus for postdoctoral researchers on basic medicine, clinical medicine and biology. Information of admission for various specialities (in order of the first class subject catalogue) are as follows:
1. Psychology: (awarding education or medical science degree)
applied psychology (Medical psychology)
2. Biology: (awarding science or medical science degree)
#physiology, microbiology, #genetics, #cell biology,
biochemistry and molecular biology, biophysics.
3. Biomedical engineering: (awarding engineering, science or medical science degree)
4. Basic Medicine: (awarding science or medical science degree)
#human anatomy and histology-embryology, immunology, pathogenic biology, #pathology and pathophysiology, #forensic medicine.
5. Clinical Medicine: (awarding medical specialty or medical science degree)
Internal Medicine (#Cardiovascular disease, #Hematology, #Gastroenterology, #endocrine and metabolic disease, #Nephrology, Rheumatic disease and #Infections disease) Surgery (#General surgery, Orthopedics, Urology, #Thoracic and Cardiovascular surgery, Neurosurgery) #Pediatrics (including pediatric surgery), Gerontology, Neurology, #Dermatology and Venereology, #Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, Clinical Laboratory Diagonostics, Obstetrics and Gynecology, #Ophthalmology,#Otorhinolaryngology,#Oncology, rehabilitation and physical medicine, #Anesthesiology, emergency medicine.
6. Stomatology: (awarding medical science degree)
basic stomatology, clinial stomatology.
7. Public Health and Preventive Medicine: (awarding medical science or science degree)
epidemiology and health statistics, ¡îindustrial hygiene and environment hygiene, child and adolescent health maternal and child care and, health toxicology.
8. Pharmacy: (awarding medical science or ecience degree)
#Pharmacology CMU is accredited to confer master degree in all subjects above, and to confer both master and doctoral degree as well as accept postdoctoral researchers in subjects with #. Applicant information for next year may be freely requested by mail prior to the end of July every year for domestic students. Students from HongKong, Macao or Taiwan may contact the office for HongKong, Macao and Taiwan Affairs. Foreign students are advised first to consult the International Office. Postdoctoral researchers should contact the Postdoctoral Administrative Office before April 1st every year.
A Brief Introduction to China Medical University (CMU) Library
This Library was founded in 1914, and is the result of the merger of the Moukden Medical College Library (1892) and the Manchurian Medical University Library(1911). At the beginning of 1990s, the Ministry of Public Health accredited the Library as the Northeastern Regional Library of the National Network for Medical Literature resource - sharing and the Medical Information Center of Literature Retrieval and Consultation for the Designing and Evaluating of Health Sciences Projects. The collection today totals about 590,000 columns of books and journals and has 5800 journals titles, 1600 of them currently received; about 1000 of these are published in foreign languages, Springer Link and other electronic database. The Library also has 3000 volumes of microfilms.
Housed within the Library is one of the most important biomedical collection in China, with rare Chinese traditional medical publications dated from 1300 AD and German, English and Japanese medical journals of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The Library's retrospective journal collection is particularly strong and is one of the best in China.
The library and the Faculty of Medical Library and information Studies are integrated in both Leadership and operation. It is the Medical Information Center on the CMU campus, and is connected to the China Education and Research Network (CERNET), China Medical Information Network (CMINET), and the Internet. Through these domestic and international connections various electronic services can be offered to our campus community and clinicians and researchers in the region.
SERVICES
A Machine-readable Catalogue coexists with the older card catalogue. Card catalogue records are being added to the machine-readable catalogue at a rapid pace.
* Reading rooms for students contain current Chinese journals in the humanities and social sciences, newspapers, and Chinese medical reference books.
* Literature Searching. Computerized, CD-ROM, or online literature searches may be requested at the Information Services may be requested at the Information Service Division, most searches are conducted for users by library staff. Databases accessible on CD-ROM include MEDLINE, SCIENCE CITATION INDEX, CHINESE BIOMEDCAL DISC (CBMdisc), and Chinese Medical Current Contents (CMCC).
* Reference Guides. Guides to reference works are available for consultation at the Reference Desk.
* INTERNET access, E-mail, and WWW access are available in the Electronic Reading Room. Library staff is trained to help users find detailed medical information in a wide range of biomedical fields.
* Interlibrary Loans (ILL) The ILL office provides access to materials unavailable at CMU but required by CMU students and faculty. ILL requests received from other libraries are filled within three days of receipt. Thank to formal cooperation arrangement with McGill University in Canada, which dates from 1986, the Library has access to biomedical material not easily available in China, Shortly material will exchanged with McGill using the ARIEL/INTERNET protocols.
* Photocopying. The Library's Copy Service maintains photocopiers at the entrance of the Library.
* Library Instruction. The Library offers Workshops designed to familiarize users with the library, the functions of the internet, the style and format of English language medical papers, and to teach effective use of library materials. These workshops and seminars are offered on request and regularly at peak times during the academic session.
