Zhejiang University School of Medicine

Zhejiang University School of Medicine
浙江大学医学院
Type Public (National)
Established 1912
Dean Duan Shumin (段树民)
Academic staff
 ~9,000
Location Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China
Campus Suburban
Website cmm.zju.edu.cn (in Chinese)
cmm.zju.edu.cn/english (in English)

Zhejiang University School of Medicine (ZJU Med, Traditional Chinese: 浙江大學醫學院; Simplified Chinese: 浙江大学医学院), is the medical school of Zhejiang University in Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, People's Republic of China. It is constantly ranked, as its parent Zhejiang University, among the elite schools in China and Asia. In 2011, it ranked 4th overall in China.[1]

History

Zhejiang University Medical School is one of the first modern medical school in China, and the first medical school combined with teaching hospital.

ZJU Med has mainly two preexistences. The first one was Zhejiang Medical School (Traditional Chinese: 浙江醫學專門學校; Simplified Chinese: 浙江医学专门学校), which was founded in June 1911 (some resources mention as on 1 June 1912), by Han Qing-quan; this school was one of the first medical school in China, and later it was renamed for several times, such as the mostly-common-known Zhejiang Provincial College of Medicine (Traditional Chinese: 浙江省立醫學院; Simplified Chinese: 浙江省立医学院). The second root of ZJU Med was the National Chekiang University School of Medicine (Traditional Chinese: 國立浙江大學醫學院; Simplified Chinese: 国立浙江大学医学院; Chekiang is the old spelling/romanization for Zhejiang) which was founded in August 1945.

In February 1952, the Zhejiang Provincial College of Medicine and the National Chekiang University School of Medicine were merged to form Zhejiang Medical College (Traditional Chinese: 浙江醫學院; Simplified Chinese: 浙江医学院). In April 1964, Zhejiang Medical College was promoted to Zhejiang Medical University (Traditional Chinese: 浙江醫科大學; Simplified Chinese: 浙江医科大学).[2]

In 1998, the four separated universities (which shared the same root: National Chekiang University), namely Hangzhou University, Zhejiang University, Zhejiang Agricultural University, and Zhejiang Medical University were reunified to establish the new Zhejiang University, and the faculty of Zhejiang Medical University became the medical faculty of the new Zhejiang University after this reunification.

The old campus of ZJU Med was just next to the famous West Lake, called Hubin Campus of Zhejiang University. The new or present medical campus is located in ZijinGang.

Present

The medical faculty currently has about 9,000 members, including about 570 full professors and senior specialists, and about 1000 associate professors and junior specialists. The current Dean of ZJU Med is Duan Shumin.

Now (since 2006) the medical faculty is fully located in the Zijin'gang Campus of Zhejiang University, which is about 15 kilometers from Hangzhou Downtown. However, it has several teaching hospitals in different districts of Hangzhou, and even in the other cities of Zhejiang Province.

In his lifetime, philanthropist and movie director Run Run Shaw donated HK$341 million to help fund the University and its two medical institutes. In September 2013, the Shaw Foundation announced its latest donation - HK$200 million for Zhejiang University's two medical institutes over the next two years to "push forward medical education reform and cultivate medical talent".[3]

Affiliated/Teaching hospitals

There are several hospitals under construction:

See also

In history:

References

  1. ↑ China University Rankings 2011 - China.org.cn
  2. ↑ General introduction to the Zhejiang University School of Medicine Archived July 14, 2009, at the Wayback Machine.
  3. ↑ Run Run Shaw, the philanthropist who couldn't stop giving Laura Zhou , South China Morning Post, 8 January 2014
  4. ↑ The construction of Zhejiang University Binjiang Hospital starts
  5. ↑ Cooperation between zhejiang University and Yiwu government: the Zhejiang University Yiwu Hospital
  6. ↑ The construction of Beilun People's Hospital (the Beilun Branch of the First Affiliated Hospital of Zhejaing University School of Medicine) starts

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