Wenzhou Medical University ★

Wenzhou Medical University is a provincial public institution of higher learning in Zhejiang Province. The school can be traced back to Zhejiang Medical College, which was founded in 1912. In August 1958, it was established by the relocation of Zhejiang Medical College from Hangzhou to Wenzhou under the name "Zhejiang Second Medical College". Later, it was renamed "Wenzhou Medical College" after its location. In 2013, it was renamed "Wenzhou Medical University". In 2015, it became a university jointly built by the Zhejiang provincial government, the National Health and Family Planning Commission and the Ministry of Education. In 2017, it became a key construction university in Zhejiang Province.

The university began enrolling five-year undergraduate students in 1958 and master's students in 1978. It was among the first institutions in the country to confer master's degrees and has the authority to confer doctoral degrees. It has a first-level discipline doctoral program in clinical medicine and eight first-level discipline master's programs in clinical medicine, nursing, Chinese materia medica, biology, biomedical engineering, basic medicine, integrated traditional Chinese and Western medicine, and pharmacy, as well as six professional master's degree authorization points. It has a postdoctoral research station in the first-level discipline of clinical medicine. The university is in the top 0.24% of ESI global rankings (80th in China), and three disciplines, namely clinical medicine, chemistry, and pharmacology & toxicology, are in the top 1% of ESI global rankings. Among them, the clinical medicine discipline is in the top 0.22% of ESI global rankings. It has 1 national engineering technology research center, 1 national key laboratory, 13 provincial and ministerial key laboratories (research centers), and 1 Zhejiang Province "2011 Collaborative Innovation Center"; Two key first-level disciplines of Zhejiang Province, three first-class disciplines of Class A of Zhejiang Province, seven first-class disciplines of Class B of Zhejiang Province, ten key disciplines of Zhejiang Province universities, and two key construction disciplines of Zhejiang Province.

The school is committed to being demand-oriented and people-satisfying, focusing on cultivating outstanding medical talents who are confident, passionate, capable of doing things and innovative. The school currently offers 26 undergraduate programs covering four major disciplines: medicine, science, engineering, and management. The quality of talent cultivation has steadily improved. In 2017, all 18 undergraduate programs were admitted above the first-tier admission line, and 15 of them had the highest admission line among provincial undergraduate programs of the same kind. According to a survey report by the Zhejiang Provincial Institute of Education Evaluation, our university ranked first among all undergraduate institutions in the province in terms of career development and talent cultivation quality for its 2016 and 2014 graduating class (one year after graduation). The passing rate of clinical medicine graduates in the national Medical Licensing examination has consistently ranked among the top 10 in the country. There are currently 16,507 full-time students (excluding the independent college - Renji College of Wenzhou Medical University), including 135 doctoral students, 2,967 master's students, and 749 international students in academic education. The university has developed a comprehensive and multi-level talent cultivation system from undergraduate to master's, doctoral and postdoctoral students, from full-time to adult education, international students and students from Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan.

The school has more than 10,000 faculty and medical staff (including affiliated hospitals), among whom more than 1,600 hold senior professional and technical positions. There are 1,422 full-time teachers at the main campus, including 349 with senior professional titles, 462 with associate senior professional titles, and 813 with doctoral degrees. A number of outstanding teachers have been selected for the National "Thousand Talents Program", the National "Ten Thousand Talents Program", the "Chang Jiang Scholars Program", the National "Thousand Talents Project", the National Outstanding Young and Middle-aged Experts, the Ministry of Education's "New Century Excellent Talents Support Program", the National Health and Family Planning Commission's Outstanding Young and Middle-aged Experts, provincial Distinguished Experts, Provincial "Thousand Talents Program", and provincial University Distinguished Professors High-level talents; Teachers have been honored with titles such as "National Model Teacher", "National Model Teacher of Professional Ethics", "National March 8th Red Flag Bearer", "Advanced Individual of the National Health and Family Planning System", and the "Teacher Team of the School of Optometry" has been selected as one of the first batch of Huang Danyan-style teacher teams in national colleges and universities. The school was recognized as an advanced unit in valuing and cherishing talents in the province.

Wenzhou Medical University was granted the qualification to admit international students in 1993 and established the College of International Education in April 2006 to admit international students with medical degrees taught in English as a whole. In 2007, it was approved by the Ministry of Education as one of the first institutions of higher learning to admit international students for undergraduate clinical medicine (taught in English). In 2008 and 2013, it was twice awarded the title of "Outstanding Unit for Foreign Student Education in Zhejiang Province". In 2009, it was awarded the title of "Advanced Collective in Education of International Students in China", and in 2014, it was honored again. In 2011, it was approved to accept Chinese government scholarships for international students. In 2015, I was awarded the Merit Prize in the website evaluation of foreign student recruitment in Zhejiang Province.

Wenzhou Medical University has now become one of the largest foreign medical teaching institutions in Zhejiang Province. It offers five international undergraduate programs (awarding bachelor's degrees) in clinical medicine (MBBS), stomatology (BDS), Pharmacy (the first in the country and first in 2015), imaging, and nursing, and recruits students globally. There are 755 degree students from 56 countries across five continents, including Asia, Africa, Europe, America and Australia, and over 100 short-term exchange students from more than ten partner institutions around the world. Among them, the three undergraduate programs of Clinical Medicine (MBBS), Stomatology (BDS) and Pharmacy are taught entirely in English. In 2016, with the approval of the Department of International Affairs of the Ministry of Education, the university and the Medical University of Lublin in Poland jointly established the Huatuo Program, which was temporarily affiliated with the International Education College and included the International Clinical Medicine Program (MBBS), adopting the "1+3+2" Sino-foreign joint training model, initiating a new era of overseas cooperative education of the university. Since September 2013, the university has been recruiting postgraduate students globally. Currently, there are 32 master's students, 15 master's and doctoral students, and 7 doctoral students. Since 2014, the university has established a scholarship program to support students from all over the world to study at the university and pursue master's and doctoral degrees. In addition, the university admits dozens of Confucius Institute Scholarship students each year to study Chinese language and culture. The school is also committed to strengthening educational and cultural exchanges and cooperation with countries around the world. It has established Confucius Institutes in collaboration with Eastern University of Thailand and the School of Optometry at the State University of New York. Carry out Chinese language teaching overseas and exchanges and cooperation in education, culture and other aspects between China and foreign countries.