Hebei Medical University

Hebei Medical University
河北医科大学
Established 1894
Type Public
Academic staff 1,333
Students 25,600
Location Shijiazhuang, Hebei,  People's Republic of China
Campus Urban
Website http://www.hebmu.edu.cn

Hebei Medical University (Chinese: 河北医科大学 Héběi yīkē dàxué) is a university in Shijiazhuang, Hebei, People's Republic of China,under the provincial government.... a capital city of Hebei Province which is 4 hours away from Beijing by car and 1 and a half hours by train, Hebei Medical University Established in 1894, it is one of the oldest and AAA graded medical schools in China.

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Staff

The staff numbers are over 7,100. Of these, 366 are professors, senior researchers and chief physicians. 967 are associate professors and also have Indian,Nepalese and Bangladeshi teacher's staff for the students from India,Nepal and Bangladesh.

Students

There are 25,600 students.

Hebei Medical University has long history of enrolling international students from countries including the USA, Japan, Korea, Philippines, Taiwan, the UK, India, Pakistan, Nepal andBangladesh. Currently there are over 400 international students. In collaboration with International Education College of Jiangxi University of Traditional Chinese Medicine total of more than 300 international students have already completed their Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery (MBBS) from the University in 2010 - 2011.They are well posted in various hospitals in their home countries and some are even pursuing post graduate degrees in renowned international Universities.

Colleges

After eighty years development and evolution, Hebei Medical University has become a comprehensive medical university composed of western medicine, traditional medicine, pharmacy and other subjects. Now there are 14 colleges, and 15 specialities.

Affiliated hospitals

The university has six affiliated hospitals, in which there are 4,566 in-patient beds. Four hospitals have been granted the status of "first-class hospitals in the third category". In addition, it also has 60 teaching hospitals and practice bases providing students with sites of clinical teaching, specialist teaching and practice.

Achievements

It carried out the first finger replantation surgery in China, and made the first diagnosis in the world of acute motor axonal neuropathy.

It has 9 subjects and 4 laboratories assessed at provincial advanced level, and 6 research institutes at provincial level. The Chinese Academy of Preventive Medical Science has set up its Hebei Academic Branch in this university. Each year nearly 200 research projects are undertaken. In addition three national and eight provincial academic periodicals have been compiled and published here.

Hebei medical university has started MBBS programme in 2004 and enrolled 200 students successfully from India and Nepal, and in 2005 enrolled 200 students from India. Both the batches has graduated from HMU in 2010 and 2011.

MBBS is taught in English as well as many other courses, something that others universities cannot do, such as Traditional Chinese Medicine, Acupuncture and Massage, Clinic Medicine, Clinic Medicine of Integration of Traditional Chinese Medicine and Western Medicine, Stomatology, Anesthesiology, Preventive Medicine, Medical Imaging, Advanced Nursing Science, Chinese Pharmacology, Pharmacology, Pharmaceutics.

In the past few years, Hebei Medical University has become an important window of cultural and economic exchanges with the world. It has established closer cooperation with about ten medical colleges and research institutes of Japan, South Korea, America and France successively. 24 foreign experts have been invited to take the honorary positions of this university. Over 400 experts and professors have been sent abroad to give lectures or attend international academic conferences. Nearly 100 young teachers are assiduously studying abroad for Ph.D. degree. Its cooperation with the domestic colleges and universities has grown increasingly.

Hebei Medical University is turning on a new look and making great efforts to establish a superior comprehensive medical university with local characteristics to meet the needs of socialist construction.

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