The Shanghai Medical College, Fudan University, formerly the independent Shanghai Medical University (SHMU), is one of the oldest and most prestigious medical schools in China.

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of the Shanghai Medical College of Fudan University is consistently ranked among the top three medical schools in China and #45 globally by

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as of 2022. Its "Clinical Medicine" also ranked #73 globally by the '' U.S. News & World Report'' globally. Established in 1927, Shanghai Medical University was merged into

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in April 2000 to become its medical school. On July 27, 2001, Shanghai Medical College of Fudan University was established, with Professor Wang Weiping as its first dean, and the original site of Shanghai Medical University was then designated as the Fenglin Campus of Fudan University.

Location

The college is located to the east of

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, in

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. It is located adjacent to Zhaojiabang Road Station, served by Shanghai Metro Lines 7 and 9.

History

* 1927 The Medical College of Shanghai was founded, comprising part of National Fourth Zhongshan University whose main campus was in Nanjing, when Jiangsu Medical University originated in 1902 in Suzhou was merged into the university, and the degree of Doctor of Medicine was awarded to qualified graduates who completed study of 2 years in

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and 5 years in Shanghai campus as designed. It was the first medical school established by a national university in China. The founding figures include a number of distinguished Chinese medical experts. In the beginning the Shanghai medical college rented Huashan Hospital as its teaching hospital which was under deficit, and in 1929, under the director

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, the hospital turned losses into gains. In 1930 when Yan Fuqing was the college dean, Shanghai Medical Center (Zhongshan Hospital) was initiated, and Zhongshan Hospital was opened in 1937. * 1928 Fourth Zhongshan University was renamed Jiangsu University, and in May of the same year was again renamed to

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(which itself was to be renamed

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in 1949.) * 1932 National Central University Medical College became an independent institution under the name of National Shanghai Medical College. * 1937 Moved to Kunming,

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because of the

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. * 1940 Relocated to Chongqing. * 1946 Returned to Shanghai after the end of the war. * 1952 Renamed Shanghai First Medical College. * 1959 Designated by the state government as one of the sixteen national key institutions of higher education in China. * 1985 Named Shanghai Medical University. * 2000 Merged with

. * 2001 Established as Fudan University Shanghai Medical College (aka Medical Center of Fudan University).

Campus Reconstruction

In July 2014, Shanghai Medical College's campus began a 2-year large-scale construction project and was open for use in late 2017. New facilities include new student residential colleges with residential towers, food services, and activity space, two research complexes, an indoor swimming center with rooftop soccer field, and a 20-story library tower, which was built with ￥100 million CNY (US$16.1 million) of support from Powerlong Group Development Co. Ltd. and Shanghai Haosheng Investment Group. The campus now has campus-wide high-speed Wi-Fi and 24-hour study spaces for students and staff.

Education and research

Today, the college has 27 departments in the basic medical sciences and

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, 20 national key disciplines, 1 national key laboratory, 8 Project 211 key disciplines, 9 key laboratories under the supervision of the Ministry of Education or the Ministry of Health of the People's Republic of China, 2 municipal key disciplines and 8 Shanghai Clinic Medical Centers. It has 4 research stations that offer postdoctoral fellowships, 29 doctoral programs and 36 master programs. The college offers undergraduate programs in Clinical Medicine, Basic Medicine and Forensic Medicine. The Clinical Medicine programs include a standard 5-year program offering the

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degree, a six-year program offering the

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degree, and an eight-year program offering the

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degree. As a part of Fudan University, the college offers interdisciplinary programs while featuring its focus in medicine and clinical study. The college faculty includes a number of well-known experts and professors who are highly respected for their academic achievements and medical skills. Among them are 2 members of the

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, 4 members of the

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, 10 Cheung Kong Distinguished Professor of the Ministry of Education of China, and 10 faculties funded by the National Outstanding Youth Foundation. At present, the college has 249 PhD advisors and 249 master advisors. The college has established cooperative relations and exchange programs with numerous medical schools throughout the world, including those of

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, Osaka University,

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, and

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. The Ministry of Education of China has approved Fudan University as one of the thirty qualified universities in China to enroll international students in both its English-taught and Chinese-taught programs of medicine.

Academic departments

Basic medicine

*Department of Anatomy and Histo-embryology *Department of Cellular and Genetic Medicine *Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology *Department of Microbiology and Parasitology *Department of Immunology *Department of Physiology and Pathophysiology *Department of Pathology *Department of Pharmacology *Department of Forensic Medicine

Clinical specialties

*Department of Internal Medicine *Department of Surgery *Department of Pediatrics *Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology *Department of Neurology *Department of Dermatology and Venereal Disease *Department of Ophthalmology *Department of Otolaryngology *Department of Oncology *Department of Mental Medicine *Department of Medical Imaging *Department of Rehabilitative and Sports Medicine *Department of Anesthesiology *Department of Integrated Traditional Chinese Medicine and Western Medicine *Department of Clinical Diagnostics *Department of Stomatology *Department of Plastic Surgery *Department of Family Medicine

Laboratories

Basic sciences

*State Key Laboratory of Medical Neurobiology *Key Laboratory of Medical Molecular Virology, Ministry of Education and Health *Key Laboratory of Molecular Medicine, Ministry of Education and Health *Laboratory of Molecular Genetics *Gene Research Center *Electron Microscopy Laboratory *Clinical Skills Learning Center

Clinical research

*Key Laboratory of Clinical Pharmacology of Antibiotics, Ministry of Health *Key Laboratory of Hearing Medicine, Ministry of Health *Key Laboratory of Viral Heart Diseases, Ministry of Health *Key Laboratory of Neonatal Diseases, Ministry of Health *Key Laboratory of Hand Function Reconstruction, Ministry of Health *Key Laboratory of Complex Carbohydrates, Ministry of Health *Key Laboratory of Myopia, Ministry of Health

Fudan University Journal of Medical Sciences

The Fudan University Journal of Medical Sciences () is a comprehensive national key medical journal managed by Fudan University under the supervision of the Ministry of Education of China, and is distributed domestically and internationally. Formerly known as the Journal of Shanghai Medical University, it was founded in June 1956. It mainly publishes original articles in the area of basic medicine, clinical medicine, pharmacology and preventive medicine, but it also covers a wide variety of columns including reviews, case reports, methodologies and brief communications. The journal is indexed in internationally renowned abstracts services, e.g. American-based

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(CA) and Biological Abstracts (BA), Amsterdam-based EMBASE or Excerpta Medica (EM), Russia-based Abstracts Journal, and various domestic medical abstracts and academic journal full-text databases.

Teaching hospitals

The college has 11 affiliated

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s which serve as the school's teaching and internship bases. * Zhongshan Hospital * Huashan Hospital *

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(Obstetrics and Gynecology Hospital) * Eye and ENT Hospital of Fudan University * Shanghai Cancer Center * Huadong Hospital *

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* Shanghai Fifth People's HospitalShanghai No. 5 Hospital
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Notable alumni

Notes

References

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