The university was created as Shandong province's Changwei Medical School in 1951. The university was then created as the Changwei Medical College which offered undergraduate courses.
In 1986, the university was approved by the Chinese Ministry of Education to offer master's degree courses in medicine. In 1987, the university was restructured and became Weifang Medical University.[1] In 2002, the Chinese Ministry of Education granted the Weifang Medical University permission to offer graduate medical degrees.[1]
Academics
After doing MBBS in WHO-recognized universities, overseas students can work internationally or return to their home countries to practice medicine.
Weifang Medical University (WFMU) is a state-owned medical university. It is located in Weifang, the international Kite Capital, at the centre of the Shandong Peninsula. WFMU covers an area of more than 1.2 million square meters. Over the past decades, WFMU has expanded the courses it offers to include health management, general sciences, law and literature, with the medical sciences as the leading discipline. WFMU is authorized to grant bachelor's and master's degrees and recruit overseas students.
WFMU comprises 15 schools and departments, such as the School of Humanities and Social Science, School of Public Health and Management, Nursing School, Dentistry School, Clinical Medicine Department, Anesthesiology Department, Medical Radiology Department and Preventive Medicine Department.
Teaching staff
At present, there are 1000 teaching staff. There are four supervisors for doctoral students and nearly 200 for master's students.[citation needed]
Postgraduate programs
There are 24 postgraduate programs, mainly enrolling postgraduates in Physiology, Immunology, Pharmacology, Anatomy, Embryology, Pathology and Pathophysiology, Pathogen Biology, Biochemistry and Molecule Biology, Internal Medicine, Surgery, Gynecology, Pediatrics, Ophthalmology, Otolaryngology, Dentistry, Neurology, Oncology, Traditional and Western Clinic Medicine, Emergency, Imaging and Nuclear Medicine, Nursing, Anesthesiology, Epidemiology and Health Statistics, Social Medicine and Health Cause Management and Applied Psychology. There are over 740 postgraduate students.
Undergraduate programs
Specialities
MBBS&BDS
TCM
Chinese language program
The university offers 16 undergraduate programs: Clinical medicine, Dentistry, Nursing, Anesthesiology, Medical Imaging, Medical Laboratory, Preventive Medicine, Pharmacy, Public Health and Management, Labor and Social Security, Marketing, Law, Applied Psychology, Health Statistics, Biological Technology, English Language. There are over 14,000 full-time 3- and 5-year program students.
Research centers
WFMU has always focused on teaching and constantly improved quality. There is a Medical Research Center, a Modern Educational Technology Center, a Computer Center and an Animal Supplying Center. More than 10,000 sets of scientific and research instruments such as confocal laser scanning microscope(Zeiss), flow cytometer (Beckman Coulter) and image processors, are worth over RMB 110 million.
There is one experimental demonstration centre at the provincial level. There are six comprehensive teaching laboratories at the university level — Morphology, Function, Chemicoanalysis, Clinical Skills, Computer and Human Anatomy — and 16 speciality laboratories like Gene and Histology Engineering, Dentistry, and Nursing which are equipped with advanced Imaging PACS System, Digital Network Interactive Laboratory Teaching System, BL-410 Biological Function Experiment System, and so on.
The Experimental Center of Basic Medicine is an experimental and teaching demonstration centre for universities in Shandong Province. Anatomy, Medical Ethics, Pathology, Physiology, Histology and Embryology, Pharmacology and Medical Imaging are assessed as excellent subjects at the provincial level. WFMU has undertaken 90 teaching and research projects at the provincial level or above and has been awarded 24 prizes in teaching, experiment and research since 2004.
WFMU has one discipline which offers posts for “Taishan Scholars”, seven key provincial academic disciplines and laboratories, including Anatomy and Histological Embryology, Surgery, Medical Radiology, Ophthalmology, Immunology, Applied Pharmacology, and Dental medicine. There are 24 research institutes such as Pathology, Neurophysiology, Differentiation and Cycle of Stem Cell, Molecule Cell Biology, Urology Surgery, Orthopedics, Pediatrics, Anesthesiology, Community Medicine, Health Management, Epidemiology, Health Statistics and Health Economy.
Achievements in research
In recent years, WFMU has made many achievements in research. More than 340 research projects have been approved by the state authorities, including 16 large projects sponsored by the Foundation of State Natural Science and the national key laboratory projects, 40 projects granted by the Provincial Natural Science Fund and Middle-aged and Youth Scientists Fund and 260 projects at the bureau level. More than 220 prizes for research have been awarded, including 50 prizes for specialists at the provincial level.
More than 870 academic papers and 70 books are published each year. Over 30 achievements have been popularized for continuing education at the provincial level or above. WFMU has got over 10 national patents and good social economic and social beneficial effects have been achieved.
The university library holds a collection of over 2.1 million books and 3,000 kinds of Chinese and foreign journals. There are 12 comprehensive affiliated hospitals.
International exchange
The university has established extensive inter-relationships with many overseas universities such as Western State College in California, U.S.A., Ukraine Haerkefu State Academy, Ukraine Haerkefu State Medical Academy, Ukraine Dnipropetrovsk State Medical Academy; RMIT and La Trobe University of Australia, College of Saskatchewan of Canada, and University of Occupational and Environmental Health of Japan. More than 160 foreign experts have been invited to visit or teach at WFMU, over 170 teachers have studied abroad, and many staff have been sent abroad as medical succor. More than 60 famous professors all over the world have been invited to be guest professors at the university. WFMU recruits overseas students every year, and there are nearly 600 overseas students from Zambia, Ghana, India, Nepal, South Africa, Zimbabwe and Pakistan at present.
It is one of the universities which are authorized to hold HSK.
Related Research Articles
Chengde Medical College is a university in Hebei, China under the provincial government.
Chifeng University (赤峰学院) is a public university formed by the combination of Chifeng Normal College of Nationalities and other four academies. It was approved by the Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China in 2003. It is in the city of Chifeng, the birthplace of the Hong Shan cultures. The university has 24 colleges or departments
Qingdao University is a key provincial research university located in Qingdao, Shandong, China.
The University of Birmingham Medical School is one of Britain's largest and oldest medical schools with over 400 medical, 70 pharmacy, 140 biomedical science and 130 nursing students graduating each year. It is based at the University of Birmingham in Edgbaston, Birmingham, United Kingdom. Since 2008, the medical school is a constituent of The College of Medical and Dental Sciences.
Carol Davila University of Medicine and Pharmacy or University of Medicine and Pharmacy Bucharest, commonly known by the abbreviation UMFCD, is a public health sciences university in Bucharest, Romania. It is one of the largest and oldest institutions of its kind in Romania. The university uses the facilities of over 20 clinical hospitals all over Bucharest.
Tabriz University of Medical Sciences (TUOMS) is public medical sciences university located in Tabriz, East Azarbaijan Province, Iran. It is ranked as one of Iran's top medical school, with more than 5000 students.
Aberdeen University School of Medicine, Medical Sciences & Nutrition contains the Medical School and Dental School at the University of Aberdeen in Scotland. It also provides training and carries out research in medical sciences, nutrition, public health, dentistry, health sciences, physician associate studies at BSc, MSc, and PhD levels. The current school was formed from the merger of the former School of Medicine & Dentistry, School of Medical Sciences, and the Rowett Institute of Nutrition.
Rafsanjan University of Medical Sciences (RUMS), is located in the city of Rafsanjan in Kerman Province, south central of Iran.
Hawler Medical University is a public university located in the heart of Erbil, the capital city of the Kurdistan Region of Iraq. It was established in 2005 by the Kurdistan Regional Government's Council of Ministers. The university was founded to house the medical group colleges that were previously part of the Salahaddin University-Erbil. The overall goal of Hawler Medical University's formation was to strengthen medical education in the Kurdistan region, as well as to have better and more effective college management.
Kunming Medical University, previously known as Kunming Medical College, is a medical school located in Kunming City, Yunnan Province, China.
Harbin Medical University (HMU) (Chinese: 哈尔滨医科大学) is a public university located in Harbin, Heilongjiang, China.
Anhui Medical University is a provincial public medical university in Hefei, Anhui, China. It is affiliated with the Anhui Provincial Government, and co-sponsored by the Anhui Provincial Government, the Ministry of Education, and the National Health Commission.
Wannan Medical College is provincial public medical college in Wuhu, Anhui, China. It is affiliated with the Anhui Provincial Government.
Hangzhou Normal University Medical College is a university in Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, People's Republic of China.
Riga Stradiņš University (RSU) is a public university located in the city of Riga, Latvia. The name Stradiņš in the university's title refers to the Stradiņš family who have had a significant influence on the course of community and academic life in Latvia for over a century.
Kampala International University School of Health Sciences is the school of health sciences of Kampala International University, a private Ugandan university. The school provides health sciences education at the diploma, undergraduate and postgraduate levels.
The Health Sciences University Foundation is a private educational and health care university founded in 1976. It has two locations: the main hospital and one in the University Children's Hospital, San José, Bogotá, Colombia. It offers seven undergraduate programs: Business Administration, Nursing, Surgical technologist, Medicine, Psychology with clinical emphasis, Emergency medical technician (EMT) and Cytology.
Chengdu Medical College is a government-run medical school in Chengdu, China. It occupies two campuses, Tianhui and Xindu, covering a total area of 1500 acres, with more than 13,500 full-time students and 914 full-time teachers(480 professors). It offers full-time education from undergraduate to master's degree level.
National Pirogov Memorial Medical University, Vinnytsya is a medical university located in Vinnytsia, Ukraine. It was founded in 1921. Its predecessors were the Vinnytsia Pharmaceutical Institute (1921), the Vinnytsia Branch of the All-Ukrainian Institute of Correspondence Medical Education (1930), the Vinnytsia Evening Industrial Medical Institute (1932), the Vinnytsia Medical Institute (1934).
This page is based on this Wikipedia article Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license; additional terms may apply. Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.
