Brief Introduction
Shandong University of Traditional Chinese Medicine is currently the only independent medical university in Shandong Province, and rated excellent in the national undergraduate education evaluation conducted by the Ministry of Education. It is among the first batch of “five preeminent featured universities” approved by Shandong provincial government. Among all the colleges and universities in Shandong province, it takes the lead in the number of the state key disciplines, in offering master and doctoral programs and post-doctoral research programs, and also in undertaking the state “973 Projects” as a chief organization.
1. History
Shandong University of Traditional Chinese Medicine was founded in 1958, listed as one of the key state construction TCM higher-learning institutes in 1978. In 1981, It was approved by Academic Degree Committee of the State Council, becoming the first batch of bachelor's degree and master's degree granting unit in national traditional Chinese medicine universities, It obtained the right of granting doctoral degrees in 1986 and changed its name into Shandong University of Traditional Chinese Medicine in 1996. In 1998, It established the first post doctoral research station, and In 2000, it was approved as a pilot unit for doctoral degree in clinical program.
2. Discipline Construction
Shandong University of Traditional Chinese Medicine works hard to train high-quality talents and TCM physicians by both cultivating virtues and encouraging learning. It has 21 undergraduate programs, involving the fields of medicine, sciences, humanities, engineering and management. Meanwhile, it has 3 first-rate doctoral degree authorization disciplines, including traditional Chinese medicine and combination of TCM and western medicine, entitled to confer 15 doctoral degrees. It also offers 8 first-rate master’s degree authorization disciplines, entitled to confer 44 master’s degrees, which involve all the second-rate disciplines of traditional Chinese medicine, combination of TCM and western medicine, which have already started to permeate to peripheral disciplines. Additionally, Shandong University of Traditional Chinese Medicine has been authorized to grant doctoral degrees in clinical medicine and master’s degrees in clinical medicine, pharmacy and biomedical engineering.
3. Campus Overview
Shandong University of Traditional Chinese Medicine has been striving for the goal of becoming one of preeminent featured universities. In 2007, the main campus moved from Lixia District, Jinan City, to Changqing District—— the hometown of Bianque ( a famous physician in ancient China), covering a total area of 122 hectares with a building area of 545,000 square meters. The facilities and equipment are valued at over RMB 192,765,000, and the library has a collection of 1,871,000 paper books, 509,000 electronic books and 30,000 rare ancient books. The library is a “Shandong provincial key protection unit of ancient books”. It has 14 colleges, 3 directly-affiliated hospitals, 11 indirectly-affiliated hospitals, 24 teaching hospitals, 97 clinical teaching bases, 10 Shandong graduates jointly-training bases. It has one national experimental teaching demonstration center and one national undergraduate off-campus education and practice bases.
4. Affiliated Hospital
Shandong University of Traditional Chinese Medicine has 3 direct affiliated hospitals. Affiliated hospital of Shandong University of Traditional Chinese Medicine was founded in 1955. After a half century’s development, it now has became a modern and comprehensive Grade Three Class A hospital with large scale, complete department setting, high professional skills and strong teaching strength, integrated with medical treatment, teaching, scientific research, prevention, health care and rehabilitation. It has undertook most clinical teaching, internship and management works for undergraduate and postgraduate students in Shandong University of Traditional Chinese Medicine and has made a great contribution of cultivating Chinese Medicine talents.
5. International Communication and Cooperation
Shandong University of Traditional Chinese Medicine attaches great importance to international academic exchange and cooperation. It has built long-term cooperative relationships with over 30 prestigious foreign universities and medical organizations. It now has about 290 overseas Chinese and foreign students.
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