Fujian Medical University
Fujian Medical University is a university located in Fuzhou, Fujian, China. Fujian Medical University was founded in 1937, named Fujian Provincial Medical Vocational School at that time. The name of the school was changed to Fujian Provincial Medical College in 1939 and was called Fujian Medical College in 1949. In 1969, after merging with Fujian Chinese Traditional Medical College and the medical department of Huaqiao University, Fujian Medical University was founded and moved to Quanzhou, Fujian. It was moved back to Fuzhou in 1978. The name of the school was changed back to Fujian Medical College in 1982 and then changed back to the present name in April 1996.
Campus
Fujian Medical University consist of two main campuses, covering over 876,710 square meters. Currently, the university consists of 17 colleges and departments, 22 undergraduate majors, 22 doctor-degree locations and 59 master-degree locations. It was conferred the right to recruit Taiwanese students by itself and the students from foreign countries, Hong Kong and Macau. There are more than 1600 postgraduates, 9300 undergraduates and 8700 vocational students. The school was affirmed as the key constructive university by the Fujian provincial government and passed through the teaching evaluation of undergraduate education with good achievements in 2003.Departments/schools shown as below:
- School of Basic Medicine
- Department of Clinical Medicine *
- School of Public Health
- School of Dentistry
- School of Medical Technology and Engineering
- School of Pharmaceutics
- School of Medical Caring
- School of Literature
- School of Continue Education
- School of International Education
- Department of Physical Health
- School of Foreign Language
- Department of Political Theory and Educating
Faculty
There are over 5304 staff members on post, among which there are over 736 teachers on campus. Among the professional teachers, 56% possess a postgraduate degree and 55.2% are on the senior professional posts. There are 60PhD tutors, 469 tutors for master students, four national outstanding specialists,100 sharing the special subsidy of the state council, three outstanding specialists of Health Ministry and 16 provincial outstanding specialists.The university has 8 affiliated hospitals, 24 teaching hospitals and more than 20 professional teaching bases. A flawless net of clinical teaching and practical teaching base has been formed.
The university library has collection of 1,430,000 volumes, and with the space of 25,600 square meters.