Chengdu University of Traditional Chinese Medicine

Chengdu University of Traditional Chinese Medicine
成都中医药大学

Type	Public
Established	1956
Academic staff	871
Students	10,000
Location	Chengdu, Sichuan, China
Campus	Urban,130 hectares
Website	www.cdutcm.edu.cn

Chengdu University of Traditional Chinese Medicine (CDUTCM; Chinese: 成都中医药大学; pinyin: Chéngdū zhōng yīyào Dàxué) is located in Chengdu, the capital city of Sichuan province, China. It can be known as Chengdu TCM school.

History

In the southwest of China, Chengdu University of Traditional Chinese Medicine (CDUTCM) is located downtown of the city at Shi-er-qiao Rd, Chengdu 610075, Sichuan, China. It had been one of earliest established TCM universities in China, since there are three TCM universities in China. It was founded in 1956. It had been one of the best TCM university in 1985. In 1995, it was approved by the Committee of the National Education Department of China to change the name short form of refer name into CDUTCM for Traditional Chinese Medicine and CDUT for University of Technology and so on.

Courses

The university has a graduate to higher education levels that from undergraduate to graduate, up to master and doctorate and teaching many sort of TCM courses. It also has Chinese medicine and the engineering, management, literature and agricultural courses, etc.. It has short-term as well as long-term course including for foreigners and local students and some students have also go to further study after and some in Shanghai after graduation of University. The campus region has area of 130 hectares and over 50 majors and it is quite large enough. It major focus is to have the high quality of TCM skilled students including local and global wide, the specialties covering the clinical practice of Chinese medicine ( herbs and traditional medicines), Chinese pharmacy for pharmacist students, pharmaceutical engineering, nursing, management, marketing, Tibetan medicine and so on. It is a state TCM base for education-research-medicine. Even though graduated from TCM school it has their specific specialist like example Pharmacist.

Degrees

The University is one of the first universities which can confer master’s/doctor’s degrees and have postdoctoral workshops. It can confer 16 doctoral degrees, 27 master's degrees and 2 postdoctoral workshops (Chinese pharmacy, Chinese medicine). CDUTCM has three national key courses (Chinese pharmacy, TCM Ear-Nose-Throat, Acupuncture & Moxibustion and Tuina) and 14 provincial key courses. It has 3 key laboratory of the state Education Ministry, 7 grade three laboratories of the state TCM Administration, 5 provincial key laboratories and 16 provincial key courses.

Teachers and students

The courses are mainly given by Chinese language for local students,Even though CDUTCM is a University and large campus but Inside the main University there are separated with characterized by TCM traditional teaching with 12 sub-colleges and student with related specialized major study in specific colleges rather than altogether in one place. For faculty for students volume there are over 500 professors and associate professors, 88 tutors for doctors and 283 tutors for masters. CDUTCM holds around 10,000 students (over 1300 students for doctoral and master's degrees), including more than 100 students from Hong Kong, Macao, Taiwan and foreign countries. But abroad foreigners are usually required the appropriate Visas to study and stay in China that for more information about to get supporting documents may required to obtain visas can ask from the foreign related office of the school And every year over 200 students come for the short-term training programs.

Research

CDUTCM can be able to cope for doing researches related with TCM and has made contributions to the society. With 6 Research Institutes and 37 Research Institutional offices, it also has the states’ GCP center, Chinese Pharmaceutical Screening and Evaluation Center and ADR Monitoring Center. In recent years, the university has taken the state key project of the Tenth Five-Year Plan, “973 program” and “863 program”, key programs of the National Fund of Nature and Science. Various prizes have been awarded. Cultural Museum of TCM and Museum of Chinese Drug Specimens are with abundant collection.

Hospital

It has CDUTCM teaching Hospital and has been one of the first-class hospitals of China, it has been used traditional way and medicines it is also located in Chengdu City. Students got the opportunities for can go to study in real field as in TCM Hospital.

International

Since there are TCM clinics and herb pharmacies are using in countries there are also operating with Chinese medicine in world, some country inviting skilled workers of TCM since Chinese TCM has been good benefits for society, some people have like to use since there less side effect that using natural herbs, such as plants, roots or so on. Some countries like Australia also has TCM school for proper study and to do for some The international education exchange, cooperation are top in the western China. Since 1993, CDUTCM began to enroll the students from Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan, and foreign masters and doctors. The information-exchange relationship has been established between CDUTCM and 176 institutions in 31 countries and areas such as WTO, American National Library and American Royal Association. It has made exchange and cooperated with universities, R&D centers, and medical institutes in America, Germany, Sweden, Israel, Japan, Korea and Singapore etc.

Administrative school list

List of schools and Department under University of TCM:

School of Acupuncture & Moxibustion
School of Administration
School of Basic Medicine
School of Clinical Medicine
School of Continuous Education
School of International Education
School of Nursing
School of Chinese Pharmacy
School of Vocational & Technical Education
School of Cultural and Social Sciences
School of E' mei
Department of Physical Education

Student life

There are hostels that students can stay in. The hostel is off-campus and student hostels are separated apart. There are female-only hostels that permitted entry for male. Hostel accommodation and the campus are in downtown Chengdu; transportation is convenient. Some of the student hostels have facilities as two telephone lines inside the rooms, 4 room mates shared with level stories building; it had been separated from senior to junior students depend on the grades.

The school has been teaching Chinese traditional medicine. It has short-term courses, undergraduate, graduate, postgraduate and doctorate level as well. Normally for local students graduate level courses are conducted for four years. For local students there are many specialized of courses such as Pharmacist.

They have facilities for teaching foreign students with international courses. The courses are included with theory of Acupuncture, Chinese Herbs and Formula and so on.

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Universities and colleges in Sichuan
National	Sichuan University Ω University of Electronic Science and Technology of China Ω Southwest Jiaotong University Ω Southwestern University of Finance and Economics Ω Civil Aviation Flight University of China
Provincial	Sichuan Agricultural University Southwest University for Nationalities Chengdu University of Technology Southwest Petroleum University Chengdu University of Traditional Chinese Medicine Sichuan Normal University Chengdu Sport University Chengdu University of Information Technology Xihua University Chengdu University Sichuan Conservatory Of Music Chengdu Medical College Southwest University of Science and Technology China West Normal University Sichuan University of Science and Engineering Sichuan University of Arts and Science Sichuan University for Nationalities Southwest Medical University Yibin University Panzhihua University Mianyang Normal University Leshan Normal University Neijiang Normal University Xichang College Luzhou Medical College North Sichuan Medical University Sichuan Police College Chengdu Technological University Chengdu Normal University Sichuan Tourism University
Private	Chengdu Neusoft University Sichuan University of Media and Communications Chengdu College of Arts and Sciences Sichuan College of Culture and Arts Sichuan Institute of Industrial Science and Technology Sichuan Film and Television College Chengdu Institute, Sichuan International Studies University
Independent institution	Jincheng College of Sichuan University Sichuan University Jinjiang College Chengdu College of University of Electronic Science And Technology of China Tianfu College of Southwestern University of Finance and Economics The Engineering&Technical College of Chengdu University of Technology Chengdu Institute Sichuan International Studies University YinXing Hospitality Management College of CUIT City College,Southwest University of Science and Technology Southwest Jiaotong University Hope College
See also: List of universities in China

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