China Medical University () is a

medical university A medical school is a tertiary educational institution, or part of such an institution, that teaches medicine, and awards a professional degree for physicians. Such medical degrees include the Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery (MBBS, M ...

in the city of Shenyang, Liaoning, China under the provincial and central governments.

Rankings and Reputation

The MBBS program at China Medical University has been taught in the English language since 1978. On U.S. News & World Report Best Global University Ranking by subject Clinical Medicine, it is ranked #345 in the world, #55 in Asia and #10 in China. It ranks among the top medical universities in China, according to

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2018 and Chinese university ranking (CUAA) 2018. It is also approved by the Chinese Ministry of Education to recruit international students for its English-medium programs. On

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, the MBBS program is listed as taught in Chinese, Japanese and English.China Medical University on the World's Directory of Medical Schools
/ref> CMU has three large and modern affiliated hospitals, where students can do internship in the final year. Sheng Jing Hospital is famous for gynaecology and obstetrics.

History

The China Medical University (CMU) was the first medical school established by the

Chinese Communist Party The Chinese Communist Party (CCP), officially the Communist Party of China (CPC), is the founding and sole ruling party of the People's Republic of China (PRC). Under the leadership of Mao Zedong, the CCP emerged victorious in the Chinese Civil ...

. Its precursor was the Chinese Workers’-Peasants’ Red Army Military Medical School and Chinese Workers’-Peasants’ Red Army Health School which had been founded in Ruijin city,

Jiangxi Jiangxi (; ; formerly romanized as Kiangsi or Chianghsi) is a landlocked province in the east of the People's Republic of China. Its major cities include Nanchang and Jiujiang. Spanning from the banks of the Yangtze river in the north int ...

province, in 1931. After the

Long March The Long March (, lit. ''Long Expedition'') was a military retreat undertaken by the Red Army of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), the forerunner of the People's Liberation Army, to evade the pursuit of the National Army of the Chinese ...

with the

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, it was relocated to

Shanbei Shaanbei () or Northern Shaanxi is the portion of China's Shaanxi province north of the Huanglong Mountain and the Meridian Ridge (the so-called "Guanzhong north mountains"), and is both a geographic as well as a cultural area. It makes up the so ...

. In 1940 comrade

Mao Zedong Mao Zedong pronounced ; also romanised traditionally as Mao Tse-tung. (26 December 1893 – 9 September 1976), also known as Chairman Mao, was a Chinese communist revolutionary who was the founder of the People's Republic of China (PRC) ...

proposed, and the central committee of the Chinese Communist Party approved, the name of the school being changed to China Medical University. In July 1946 the university was ordered to enter northeast China with the army and reached Xinshan city (now Hegang city), Heilongjiang province. In November 1948 the whole northeast of China was liberated and the university was ordered to move to Shenyang. In 1948 and 1949 it absorbed the medical school formerly operated by the (Japanese)

South Manchuria Railway The South Manchuria Railway ( ja, 南満州鉄道, translit=Minamimanshū Tetsudō; ), officially , Mantetsu ( ja, 満鉄, translit=Mantetsu) or Mantie () for short, was a large of the Empire of Japan whose primary function was the operatio ...

(the South Manchuria Medical College, later called the Shenyang Medical College which had opened in 1911) and the Mukden Medical College (sometimes spelled Moukden Medical College) whose origins go back to 1892 when Dr Dugald Christie founded the Shenjing Medical School. In 1911/1912 this became a formal medical college, the Mukden Medical College.

Department structure

*College of Basic Medical Sciences *The First Clinical College and The First Affiliated Hospital *The Second Clinical College and The Second Affiliated Hospital ( Sheng Jing Hospital) *The Third Clinical College and The Third Affiliated Hospital (merged with Sheng Jing Hospital) *The Fourth Clinical College and Fourth Affiliated Hospital *School of Stomatology and Affiliated Stomatological Hospital *College of Public Health *Faculty of Forensic Medicine *College of Nursing

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* (English) {{authority control Universities in China with English-medium medical schools Universities and colleges in Liaoning Universities and colleges in Shenyang Medical schools in China Educational institutions established in 1931 1931 establishments in China

Rankings and Reputation

History

Department structure

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