Dalian Medical University

Dalian Medical University was founded in 1947 as Guandong Medical College. It was renamed Dalian Medical University in 1994. The university has now developed into a medical university with medicine as its main focus and multiple disciplines including science, engineering, management, art, law and philosophy.

The university is located at No. 9, West section of Lushun South Road, Dalian City, Liaoning Province. It covers an area of 1.51 million square meters and has a building area of 532,000 square meters. The total value of fixed assets of the school is 8.98 billion yuan, and the total value of equipment is 4.138 billion yuan. Physical collections of 1.2022 million volumes, electronic collections of 2.1696 million volumes, and 60 kinds of database resources. There are 24 teaching and research institutions, 8 teaching support institutions and 1 other institution. There are 15 affiliated hospitals, including 4 directly affiliated hospitals and 11 non-directly affiliated hospitals.

The university has one national key discipline and four first-class disciplines in Liaoning Province. Six disciplines are in the top 1% of ESI global institutions. There are four postdoctoral research stations. Five first-level disciplines with doctoral degree authorization and two categories of doctoral professional degree authorization; 10 first-level disciplines for master's degree authorization and 7 master's professional degree categories. There are currently 25 undergraduate programs.

The school has more than 10,560 faculty members and medical staff. Among them, there are more than 1,200 with senior professional titles, more than 1,420 with associate senior professional titles, more than 380 doctoral supervisors and more than 2,000 master's supervisors.

The school has more than 16,500 full-time students, including more than 6,600 postgraduates, more than 9,300 undergraduates and more than 1,200 international students. The university is among the first batch of pilot institutions for the national Program for the Education and Training of outstanding Doctors and among the second batch of pilot institutions for transformation and development in Liaoning Province. It has 6 national-level teaching platforms and 30 provincial-level teaching platforms; 1 provincial-level teaching research demonstration center for ideological and political education in courses; 10 national-level courses, 164 provincial-level courses, 2 second prizes of national teaching achievements, 1 special prize, 3 first prizes and 3 second prizes of the First National Textbook Construction Award.

The university currently has one national and local joint engineering laboratory, one national and local joint engineering research center, one national international joint research center, and two national international science and technology cooperation bases.

The university has four affiliated hospitals with a total floor area of 800,000 square meters, providing 5.47 million medical treatments and 269,100 inpatients annually. There are three national regional medical centers, ten sub-centers of national clinical medical research centers, 25 national key clinical specialties, and 92 provincial key clinical specialties. Two disciplines, oncology and cardiovascular, have been awarded the National Project to Enhance the capacity for Diagnosis and Treatment of Difficult and Complicated Diseases, and the First Affiliated Hospital has been approved as a pilot project for the construction of the National flagship Hospital of Integrated Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine. Both the First Affiliated Hospital and the Second Affiliated Hospital are among the top 100 hospitals in China, have been awarded the title of National Model Hospital for Improving Medical Services, and have produced many exemplary figures such as Nightingale Award winners, China Good Doctors, China Good People, the first batch of National Education families, Most Beautiful doctors, and outstanding nursing workers.

The university has been vigorously promoting the internationalization of education, ranking among the top medical universities in China in terms of the level of international student education. It is one of the first national demonstration bases for international students and a demonstration university for international student education in Liaoning Province. It has been granted the qualification for independent recruitment under the Chinese Government Scholarship and the China-Africa Friendship Scholarship Program for postgraduate students of Silk Road Universities by the Ministry of Education, and passed the national quality certification for education in China in 2018. Students come from 119 countries across five continents; The school actively engages in international exchanges and cooperation. It has collaborated with Benedict University in the United States on the Sino-US Master of Public Health (MPH) program, and has long-term research cooperation and student exchanges with top universities such as the University of California, San Diego, Tufts University in the United States, Tohoku University, Juntendo University, Okayama University in Japan, and Curtin University in Australia. In response to the national strategy of actively addressing population aging, the university has taken the lead in establishing the China-Japan-South Korea University Alliance for Health and Wellness.