Overview:
Tianjin Medical University was founded on June 16, 1951. It was the first medical institute approved by the State Council after the founding of the new China. The first president of the university was Professor Xianyi Zhu, the renowned endocrinologist, and medical educationist. The current party secretary of the university is Professor Zhi Yao, and Professor Yongfeng Shang, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, is holding the post of the president of the university. The former President Xishan Hao, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, serves as the Honorary President. The university is one of the national “211 Project” key universities in China.
The development position of the university centers on research and education, and takes medicine as its core and life science as its main support to develop the university into a multi-disciplinary medical university. Tianjin Medical University currently has 9,040 full-time students, consisting of 5,138 undergraduates, 401 Ph.D. students, 2,381 Master's students, and 1,430 international students from 60 countries.
TMU is one of the first eight pilot medical universities approved by the government for 8 years medical education and is among the first 15 pilot institutions to offer the seven-year medical program. Currently, the university has 3 post-PhD research stations, 37 PhD authorizing units and 68 Master’s degree authorizing units, with 180 Ph.D. supervisors, 612 Master’s student supervisors. In 2002, the university successfully passed the assessment by the Ministry of Education for undergraduate and seven-year programs of higher medical education with an excellent appraisal. In 2008, the university once again passed such an assessment with excellent results.
Currently the university has 5 national key subjects: clinical discipline of integration of traditional Chinese medicine and Western medicine, oncology, urological surgery, neurosurgery and endocrinic and metabolic diseases. There are 10 key construction subjects of the “211 project”: clinical discipline of integration of Chinese medicine and Western medicine, oncology, urological surgery, neurosurgery & neurology, endocrinic & metabolic diseases, imaging & nuclear medicine, pathogeny biology & immunology, pathology& pathophysiology, public health & preventive medicine and pharmacy. The university also has 9 key laboratories of provincial and ministerial levels.
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