Dalian medical university is located in Dalian, the most modernized and International city in the north of China, neighbouring to Xinghai Square, the biggest on in Asia, and picturesque Xinghai park, facing the sea and backed by mountains with an elegant environment. Dalian City is an integrating Port and centre for Industries, Commerce, Trade and Finance. It is honored as ‘Bright Pearl in North of China’, ‘Fashion City’ and ‘soccer city’, and is a famous coastal summer resort tourism city for recreation.

Introduction

Dalian medical university was founded in 1947.Dalian Medical University is one of the key Universities in Liaoning Province. Plastic and Reconstructive surgery is the backbone discipline of this college, the teaching network established throughout China with the core in Dalian. The University occupies an area of 3.44 lakh sq.m., encompasses 15 colleges, 5 teaching Depts., 4 Affiliated Hospitals, nearly 100 bases for Clinical Education & Practice.

Educational Base

Total number of teaching staff, Doctors and Nurses are beyond 4000 , among them 230 are professors, 500 are Associated professors. UK & US trained faculty takes the classes for undergraduate program. There are 20 Undergraduate Specialities and Speciality approaches. The total number of enrolled students is up to nearly 12000 out of which 1500 in Ph.D and MS Programs & around 10,000 in the Undergraduate program. There is more than 5,096 Sq.m. Library resourcing 4,00,000 books. It is equipped with a Multi-media learning area, an advanced electronic reading room, and LAN of Bibliography and Medical Library.

International Co-operation

DMU actively develops scientific cooperation with Research Institutes and Organizations in Europe, the United States, Australia, Japan etc., and extensively enrolls international students to study in this Campus. Up to now, it has established co-operative relationship and friendship with corresponding Organizations between 17 Countries and Regions, built friendships associated with 50 Universities & Institutes in various regions. There are foreign students from US, Germany, Italy and such other 13 countries. More than 100 Indian Students are already studying at the campus.

Amenities

Foreign students are provided with exquisite Hostel facilities such as Air-conditioners, Room warmers, T.V, Telephones, Internet, Attached Bathrooms, Washing machines etc. Indians are comfortable with food (veg. &Non.veg) in the university mess. Facilities such as Sports complexes, stadiums, Computer centers, Recreation facilities, Gymnasiums, provisional stores, Post Office, Banks etc. are available within the campus.

PG Specialities

There are 29 disciplines that can grant M.D including physiology, biochemistry & molecular biology, human anatomy & histology and embryology, immunology, pathogenic biology, pathology & pathophysiology, internal medicine, pediatrics, neurology, psychiatry and mental health, dermatology and venereology , imaging and nuclear medicine, clinical laboratory diagnositics, surgery, gynecology & obstetrics, ophthalmology , otolaryngology, oncology, anesthesiology, emergency medicine, basic medicine of stomatology, clinical science of stomatology, epidemiology and health statistics, occupational and environmental health, basic discipline of Chinese and western integrative medicine , clinical discipline of Chinese and western integrative medicine , Pharmacology, social medicine and health administration and western integrative medicine, social medicine and health administration and ethics.

Clinical Base

There are four affiliated hospitals which are strong supports to Dalian Medical University in Teaching, Research and Medical Treatments. Three of them are approved as the “Triple A level Hospitals in China” by the state Ministry of Health, housing 5,000 patient beds, and figure as one of “National Top 100 Hospitals”.

Clinical College

1st Founded in 1930. Located in the center of Dalian. The 1st Affiliated Hospital is the largest comprehensive education hospital and emergency center in southern Liaoning Province and awarded one of “National top 100 Hospitals”. This hospital takes on clinical teaching of 11 levels and 7 specialties. Over 1.25 million out patients are diagnosed, 25 thousand in patients are treated every year, 14 thousand patients receive their operations here. Some subjects like combination of Chinese traditional and Western medicine (surgery), General Surgery, Orthopaedic surgery, medical imaging, cardiovascular medicine and Respiratory medicine are key disciplines. Priority disciplines include Surgical reduction and internal fixation of spondylolisthesis; surgical treatment for cervical spinal canal stenosis ; treatment of osteoarthritis of knee joint using Holmium Laser under arthroscope; research and treatment of cholecystolithiasis of combining TCM and Western medicine; early stage diagnosis for carcinoma of lung and liver. The research on the mechanism of multiple stomach carcinomas has ranked top all over China.

2nd clinical College

Founded in 1958. Located on the north of Xinhai Park near the beach. The second affiliated hospital is one of the hospitals first to be enrolled within the International Rescue & Emergency Net by the International Culture Exchanging Center. There are 984 designated beds, over 0.4 million out patients and 13 thousand in patients are treated every year. It owns over 2000 series of modern medical detecting equipments, including United States Varian linear accelerator, Holland Philips and Germany Siemens DSA, United States Welkang detecting system of sleep respiratory disorder, United States color ultrasonic multi-functional diagnosis device, Germany Siemens multi-level helix CT, Japan Toshiba whole length CT scanner, artificial Kidney dialyzer, automatic biochemical analyzer and like. It offers key disciplines such as Respiratory medicine, treatment of acute abdominal diseases with TCM combined with Western medicine, internal hematology, Otolaryngology, clinical nephrology and renal medicine. Priority disciplines includes Research and treatment of cholecystolithiasis by combining TCM and Western medicine and traditional Chinese medicine “Jinshi Powder” ; treatment of ( skull bleeding ) and treatment of lung cancer with small dose of chemical therapy.

3rd Clinical College

Founded in 1991. Located in the Economic & technological Developing Zone of Dalian. The 3rd Affiliated Hospital specialized in Plastic Surgery and face –lifting. There are 200 designated beds; over 100 large scale medical equipment worth over 10 thousand RMB, the fixed assets is about 30 million RMB. In addition, there are 13 clinical sections, 4 medical technology sections, and 3 teaching and research departments. Key disciplines are Osteo & chest surgery (sternum surgeon), cardiovascular medicine. Priority disciplines include Diagnosis and treatment of general diseases.

4th clinical college

Founded in 1907. Located in the center of Dalian. The 4th Affiliated Hospital, originally named as Dalian Railway Hospital, it ranks top in Dalian by its facilities and managements. Orthopaedic micro surgery has been chosen as the first class 1 medical key and distinctive specialized discipline. Other key disciplines are Osteology; Stomatology, Oncology, Ophthalmology, Neurosurgery & neuromedicine, Mammary gland surgery, Digestive medicine. Priority disciplines include Direct perceived operation inside the heart with external circulation; direct perceived operation under microscope on arterial tumor within skull; brain sterotexic surgery; the transverse branch of lacteal femoral circumflex artery in the transfer of greater trochanter bore flap for ischemic necrosis of femoral head; correcting of spine bending to a side; kidney transplanting.

PG course info

Department of Human Anatomy

Department of Human Anatomy was established in July 1950. The founders of the department were the academicians Jian Rennan and Wu Rukang. The present staff is composed of 14 teachers and 4 technicians. It is equipped with 8 labs involved about 140 jar-preserved specimens and non-container specimens, there are 3 sets involved 400 pieces (this kind of scope is rare in domestic medical colleges). Since 1993, this faculty sponsored 6 terms of Japan NCA Anatomy Training class. Its program includes systemic Anatomy, Regional Anatomy, Regional Anatomy of Cosmetology and Anatomy of Central Nervous system. The research projects are anatomy of central nervous system, cardiovascular anatomy, anatomy of skeletal muscle and humanics.

Department of Histology-embryology

Department of Histology-embryology was established in 1947. It also has been under taking the research work on multi-drug resistance, which is one of projects of Liaoning Province Science and Technology Committee. The department has the teaching courses of Histology-embryology, Histochemistry, Cytochemistry and Electron Microscopy.

Department of Physiology

Department of Physiology was established in 1949. It is qualified to offer PhD degree and MS degree. The research concerns pathogenesis & prevention of epilepsy, prevention of physiological excitability brain damage and physiology of the alimentary system and the Kidneys, supported by the state, province and municipality. The department undertakes teaching courses of physiology, neurophysiology, neurobiology, renal physiology and physiology of alimentary system.

Department of Biochemistry

Department of Biochemistry was established in 1949. The department is qualified to offer PhD Degree and MS Degree. Now there are 18 teachers and 5 technicians. It is one of the departments with the highest level of teaching and scientific research capability in DMU. Recently, it has been equipped with several advanced equipments such as DNA synthesizer, florescence diagnostic PCR and capillary electrophoresis. Its teaching courses are biochemistry, advanced biochemistry, technology of advanced biochemistry & molecular biology, biochemistry literature index, new progress of biochemistry & molecular biology and signal transduction etc. The research projects include glycobiology, lipids and signal transduction, genetic engineering, tumor molecular biology and protein engineering. It has ever sponsored almost 10 projects of National Natural Science Foundation.

Department of Biology

Department of Biology was established by Professors Wu Lv who was a famous biologist in China. Today there are 9 teachers and 3 technicians. Recently, the university invested around 2 million RMB to rebuild a large-scale lab and equip new facilities. Now it owns 1 molecular Pathology lab, 1 cell culture lab, 1 DNA lab, 1 RNA lab, 1 bioinformatics lab and 1 large tissue/cell freezer equipment. 3 courses including medical cellular biology, medical genetics and medical biology are available. Its main research orientation is to study cellular and molecular biology characters on brain tumors and alimentary tumors.

Department of Pharmacology

Department of Pharmacology was established in 1949.. There are 12 teachers and 2 technicians. The courses include Basic Pharmacology, Clinical Pharmacology and Pharmacokinetics. The main target of scientific research is focused on cardiovascular pharmacology and biochemical pharmacology.

Department of Pathology

Department of Pathology was established in 1947. Today, there are 11 pathologist and 3 technicians. It is qualified to offer PhD degree and MS degree. In 1993, this department cooperated with Japan CRC to establish Sino-Japan Clinical Pathologic Center, which now it has already been added two names of Liaoning Clinical Pathologic center and Dalian Pathologic Quality Control Center. It possesses 4 teaching labs, 1 cell incubation lab, 1 academic hall and 1 body dissection lab. The courses including pathology, forensic medicine, molecular pathology and tumor tissue culture are available. Its main target approaches to molecular pathology of clinical tumor, metastasis model of animal tumor and cardiovascular pathology. There are about 12,000 cases of extramural pathologic tests, about 40 cases of body dissection, almost 100 cases of forensic pathology per year.

Department of Immunology

Department of immunology has 4 teachers and 1 technician. The courses including basic immunology , clinical immunology and molecular immunology are available. Its main scientific research target approaches anti-tumor effect of lymphocyte chemotacticfactor, tumor drug-resistance and tumor metastasis, treatment effect of DNA vaccine on brain diseases.

Department of Pathophysiology

Department of pathophysiology was established in 1956, which is one of the earliest Pathophysiologic teaching & research departments in the northeast of China. In 1990’s, it was also only one site which was qualified to offer PhD degree of Pathophysiology in the province. Lead by academicians of old generations, this department has made great achievements. It has obtained the title of municipality advanced collectivity and provincial key disciplines. For years, this department has trained over 50 students for MS degree and over 20 students for PhD degree. Since 1978, it has gained over 40 awards of scientific and technologic progress with over 500 academic papers published and won pretty good reputation in domestic.

Department of Parasitology

Department of Parasitology was established in 1947. It is well known around China. In 1983, this department was authorized to offer MS Degree.

Department of Microbiology

Department of Microbiology was established by professor Wei Xi, a famous microbiologist in China, after he returned back to China in 1951. Today, its staff members are young and promising. There are 9 teachers and 4 technicians. It is one of sites to offer MS degree and also treatments, which is described as follows: 1. Anti-tumor effect of biologic factors; 2. Treatment effect of Chinese herbal medicine on tumor and research & development of these medicines; 3. the relationship of virus and tumor.

College of Cosmetologic Medicine

Plastic and reconstructive surgery is the backbone discipline in this college. Depending on tremendous teaching resources and advanced facilities of basic medicine & clinical medicine in Dalian Medical University, its teaching network has been established throughout China with the core in Dalian. This college has perfect special teaching team and advanced facilities. There are 600 students in this specialty have been graduated. Today, they play very important roles in the field of cosmetologic medicine around China. Now there are 40 professional teachers in this college. The main courses not only include the courses concerning basic medicine and clinical medicine, but also include Cosmetologic Anatomy, Cosmetic Chemistry, Cosmetic Psychology, Hair-Beauty and Making – up, Fashion Aesthetics, Fine Arts, Surgical Cosmetology, and Pharmaceutical cosmetology, Meridian Cosmetology, Fitness Cosmetology etc..

College of Stomatology

Founded in 1985 with a staff of 80 members, including 19 full and associate professors. Sixty four freshmen are recruited each year. Five departments are included in this school, viz, basic stomatology. It is equipped with many sophisticated surgical instruments. In recent years, 18 research projects have been funded from state, provincial and municipal sources. Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology Set up in 1993 with a teaching staff of 54 members, of whom 12 are full professors and associate professors. It is divided into 2 teaching sections and a reproduction research group and a genetic laboratory. The main courses opened are obstetrics, gynecology, reproduction endocrinology, perinatal medicine, eugenetics, female health care, family planning. It enrolls 32 students yearly.

Institute of Cardiovascular disease

Engaged in studies on the intervention treatment of coronary disease and prevention of restenosis after PTCA, on the radiofrequency catheter ablation treatment of arrhythmia, on the cardiac electrophysiological study of atrial fibrillation, on the studies of epidemiology, prevention and treatment of hypertension in Dalian region, and on the echocardiographic study of left atrial and left ventricular function in patients with congestive heart failure.

Institute of Behavioral Medicine

Engaged in the studies of the psychology of patients committing suicide and patients with cancer.

Institute of Medical Imaging

Engaged in studies on early diagnosis of small hepatic cellular carcinoma and small lung cancer by dynamic CT and MRI, based on the comparison with pathological studies, and on the study of intervention treatment of acute lung embolism. Course & Period of Study : MBBS – 6 Years(5 + 1) years & Post Graduation : MD/MS/MDS – 3 years Medium of Study : English Eligibility (As per MCI Norms): 10+2 or inter passed with 60% marks in Bio science group Recognition : Approved by medical council of India ( MCI), General medical council of U.K, US, Education Dept. and WHO