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Introduction to Hangzhou Medical College

Hangzhou Medical College is a full-time public undergraduate medical school for public service directly under the People’s Government of Zhejiang Province, which is managed by the Health Commission of Zhejiang Province.

History

With over 90 years of history, Hangzhou Medical College was founded in 1925 as Zhejiang Provincial Women's Obstetrics School. The school has since gone through different stages with names as follows: Hangzhou Advanced Medical Vocational School of Zhejiang Province, Hangzhou Health School of Zhejiang Province, Zhejiang Provincial Health School, and Zhejiang Medical College. In 2016, it was promoted to a public undergraduate medical university.

On the other hand, Zhejiang Academy of Medical Sciences, at its inception in 1928, was known as the Hangzhou Institute of Tropical Diseases. It has also gone through different stages with names as follows: Zhejiang Health Experiment Institute, Academy of Medical Science of Zhejiang, Zhejiang People's Health Experiment Institute, and Zhejiang Medical Research Institute. In 1987, the institution was renamed as Zhejiang Academy of Medical Sciences.

In 2019, the former Zhejiang Academy of Medical Sciences and the former Hangzhou Medical College merged to form the new Hangzhou Medical College.

Resources

With four campuses in Lin'an, Huanglong, Binjiang, and Qingshanhu, Hangzhou Medical College covers an area of about 957,175 square meters with a gross building area of 403,600 square meters. It possesses teaching and scientific research instruments valued at CNY¥‎412 million as well as more than 20 domestic and foreign authoritative databases. The school has one directly affiliated hospital (Zhejiang Provincial People's Hospital), 14 indirectly affiliated hospitals, and over 200 off-campus practical teaching and training bases.

Faculty

Hangzhou Medical College has more than 1,000 faculty and staff members, including:

·        1 Academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences;

·        1 Academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering;

·      5 national talents selected for the National Project of Hundred, Thousand, and Ten Thousand Talents, National Young and Middle-aged Experts with Outstanding Contributions, National Ten Thousand People Plan Science and Technology Innovation Leaders, National Natural Science Foundation of China Outstanding Youth Fund Recipients, and Ministry of Science and Technology Innovation Talent Promotion Program for Young and Middle-aged Science and Technology Innovation Leaders;

·        191 leading figures and candidates for national awards and programs such as experts who enjoy the State Council's special governmental subsidies, young and middle-aged experts with outstanding contributions to national health, young and middle-aged experts with outstanding contributions to the province, Provincial Higher Education Prestigious Instructor, Distinguished Professors of Provincial Higher Education Institutions Qianjiang Scholars, Provincial High-level Talents Special Support Program Shortlisted Personnel, Provincial Outstanding Youth Science Fund Recipients, Provincial 151 Talents Project of the New Century Training Personnel, Provincial Health High-Level Talents Training Personnel, Provincial Higher Education Leading Talents Training Personnel;

·        37 title-winning experts and scholars for awards such as Advanced Worker of National Health System, National May 1st Labor Medal, National Outstanding Individuals in the fight against COVID-19, Provincial Model Worker, Provincial Outstanding Instructor of Higher Education, Provincial Model of Instructor’s Morality, Provincial Most Beautiful Instructor.

Academic Disciplines

Hangzhou Medical College aims to strengthen the construction of application-oriented disciplines and specialties with medicine as the main focus, while also developing the integration of multiple disciplines such as science and engineering. The school has a total full-time enrollment of 11,764, including junior college students, undergraduates, and graduate students. The school is home to:

·        3 primary-discipline Master's programs including Basic Medicine, Public Health & Preventive Medicine, and Pharmacy;

·        3 specialized Master’s degrees including Public Health, Pharmacy, and Biomedicine;

·        3 national key clinical specialty: Oncology, General Surgery, Clinical Nursing;

·        1 provincial first-class discipline (Category A): Public Health & Preventive Medicine

·        4 provincial first-class disciplines (Category B): Clinical Medicine, Basic Medicine, Pharmacy, and Medical Technology;

·        2 provincial key academic clusters: Minimally Invasive Surgery and Biomedicine;

·        21 undergraduate programs, including:

·        3 national first-class undergraduate academic discipline construction projects;  

·        4 provincial first-class undergraduate academic discipline construction projects;

·        5 national first-class courses (Pharmacy Management, Clinical Molecular Biology Laboratory Technology, Medicinal Chemistry, Rehabilitation Functional Assessment, Nursing Fundamentals)

·        123 provincial first-class courses

Talent Cultivation

Throughout the long history of Hangzhou Medical College, numerous outstanding alumni who are recognized for their moral integrity and professional excellence have surfaced. These alumni include Academicians of Chinese Academy of Engineering, Star of Self-Improvement Among Chinese College Students, National Excellent Directors of Township Health Center, and National Wu Yi Labor Medalists, among others. These achievements can be contributed to the school’s vibrant campus culture, state-of-art teaching facilities, and extensive cooperation and exchange programs, which have all worked together to foster a favorable environment for students’ growth. The one-year-out employment rate for Hangzhou Medical College graduates has ranked among top three in Zhejiang province for six consecutive years.

Research and Social Service

Hangzhou Medical College has established:

·        8 province key laboratories focusing on the follow topics: Lab Animal and Safety Evaluation, R&D for Biomedical Engineering-Based Vaccine, Drug Safety Evaluation Technology Research, Gastroenterology, Tumor Molecular Diagnostics and Individualized Treatment, Neuropsychiatric Drug Research, Endocrine Disease Diagnosis and Treatment Research, and Biomarker and In-Vitro Diagnostics and Conversion;  

·        4 provincial engineering research laboratories: Gastrointestinal tumor diagnosis, treatment, and drug development; research and development of new vaccines; key techniques of inspection and diagnosis; digital intelligent rehabilitation equipment

·        1 postdoctoral research station;

·        18 science and technology service bases and platforms including: National Medical Products Administration GLP Drug Center certified institution, National Preservation Center for Live Attenuated Hepatitis A Virus Vaccine Strains, Zhejiang Schistosomiasis Control Center, and Zhejiang Laboratory Animal Management Office, among others.

Since 2018, Hangzhou Medical College has obtained 567 research projects at provincial, ministerial, and national levels, including 178 national research projects. Other achievements include:

·        15 awards for projects at provincial, ministerial, and national levels;

·        1,061 patents authorized by the national administration;

·        Over 500 research papers published in renowned domestic and international journals each year;

·        Journals published and distributed such as International Journal of Epidemiology and Infectious Diseases, Zhejiang Practical Medicine, and Zhejiang Medical Education.

International Cooperation and Exchange

Adhering to an open and cooperative education policy, Hangzhou Medical College has facilitated international cooperation with 17 world-renowned universities such as Georgia State University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in the United States as well as the University of the West of England, University of South Wales, and Ulster University in the United Kingdom to promote international exchange and to broaden students’ international horizons. The university has also established cooperative relationships with Georgia State University and other institutions of higher education to promote the construction of overseas training platforms for the teaching staff, while also building links with international experts and professors from countries like Portugal, Romania, and Japan to facilitate the the internationalization of the university’s faculty. Academic exchange and collaboration have also been strengthened with international organizations and prestigious universities such as the World Health Organization, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, University of Maryland, and University of Southern California. To explore the ways through which exchange and cooperation can be realized with countries and regions along the Belt and Road to continuously improve the internationalization of education, Hangzhou Medical College has signed a Memorandum of Cooperation for Schistosomiasis Prevention and Control. At present, the university has become a member of international platforms such as "Belt and Road" International Medical Education Alliance (BRIMEA), China Education Association for International Exchange, China-CEEC Higher Education Institutions Consortium, and China Association of Higher Education Branch of the Importation of Intelligence from Abroad, and the level of internationalization of the university has been significantly improved.

Objectives of Development

This new era is endowed with new missions, and the new journey calls for new responsibilities. Hangzhou Medical College will always adhere to the original aspiration of education and devotes itself to the training of students’ character and virtue. Based in Zhejiang and facing the whole country, the school serves the grassroots and the frontline of health. With the goal of cultivating high-caliber applied medical talents with solid foundation, outstanding practical ability, strong innovative ability, national consciousness, open vision, humanistic care concepts, and truth-seeking spirit, the university aims to build a high-level applied medical university that meets the needs of local economic and social development, synergizes medical education and research, integrates industry, academia, and research, and is distinctive and domestically renowned. The school endeavors to run a good higher medical education to the satisfaction of the people as well as to contribute to the implementation of Zhejiang province’s “Double Eight Strategy” (a strategy that identifies eight strengths that Zhejiang possesses as well as eight measures that could be used to further the advantages of these strengths) and the establishment of the “Key Window” (President Xi’s goal for Zhejiang to become the window for demonstrating the superiority of the system of socialism with Chinese characteristics). Hangzhou Medical College strives to devote itself to the full advancement of the common prosperity of socialism with Chinese characteristics and to the modernization of the province.

(Updated: October 30, 2023)