General Information
Jinzhou Medical University (JZMU) is an application-oriented medical university with medicine as its primary focus, encompassing six major disciplines: science, engineering, agriculture, law, and philosophy. Founded in 1946 as the Liaoji Military Region Health School in Taonan, Jilin Province, the university moved to Jinzhou, Liaoning Province, in 1949 and became Jinzhou Medical College in 1958. It was renamed Liaoning Medical College in 2006 and Jinzhou Medical University in 2016.
The university has a campus area of 1,846,900 square meters and a building floor area of 317,500 square meters. It comprises 19 colleges and has 12,124 full-time students, including 8,540 undergraduates, 3,372 master's degree candidates, and 162 international students.
JZMU has 918 full-time faculty members, including 189 professors and 297 associate professors, 428 of whom hold doctoral degrees. Among its ranks are 4 recipients of national leading talent titles, 12 scholars awarded the Special Government Allowance of the State Council, and 136 individuals honored with various provincial-level talent designations. Currently, 46 faculty members serve as doctoral supervisors, along with 3,229 master's supervisors.
The university was authorized to confer master‘s degrees in 1984, and in 2003, with the approval of the Ministry of Education, it initiated joint doctoral training programs in cooperation with other institutions of higher learning.Currently, JZMU offers 27 undergraduate programs, 8 first-level master’s degree authorization points, 61 second-level master’s degree authorization points, and 7 professional master’s degree authorization points.Its disciplines of Clinical Medicine and Pharmacology & Toxicology rank among the top 1% in the ESI global rankings, with Clinical Medicine designated as a "Provincial Advantageous and Characteristic Discipline.”
JZMU has 2 national first-class undergraduate program construction sites and 10 provincial ones; 1 national characteristic program and 2 provincial ones; 1 national comprehensive reform pilot program and 3 provincial ones; 2 national first-class courses and 97 provincial ones; 2 national teaching achievement awards and 80 provincial ones; 8 provincial experimental teaching demonstration centers; 1 provincial innovation and entrepreneurship education practice base; and 12 provincial practice education bases for students.
The university has been approved to construct 2 major provincial science and technology platforms, 13 provincial key laboratories, 1 provincial engineering laboratory, 1 provincial engineering research center, 2 provincial professional technology innovation centers, 2 provincial clinical medical research centers, and 1 provincial collaborative innovation center. Over the past five years, JZMU hasundertaken33 national-level research projects, including 1 majorprojectand 1 key projectfunded bythe National Natural Science Foundation of Chinaandhas received 11 provincial and ministerial-level research awards. The university hasalsosuccessfully incubated Aohong Pharmaceutical, a leading biomedical enterprise in Liaoning Province, and its science and technology park has been approved as a provincial-level university science park.
JZMU has 3 directly affiliated hospitals with a total of 4,250 approved beds. The university currently has 2 national key clinical specialty construction projects, 32 provincial key clinical specialties, and 15 provincial key specialty construction projects. The First Affiliated Hospital is one of the three major regional medical centers in Liaoning Province, the Third Affiliated Hospital is the first“Internet Hospital”in western Liaoning, and the Affiliated Stomatological Hospital serves as the regional center for oral disease prevention and treatment in western Liaoning.
Following its Second Party Congress, the University Party Committee has clarified the "123510" development goals: fully advancing the construction of a distinctive high-level medical university; Focusing on two major tasks--completing the phased construction of the Binhai Campus and striving to become a doctoral degree-granting institution; Deepening the construction of three major collaborative innovation centers; Striving over five years to build the university into a 'Five-Function' base, and continuouslyadvancing progress on ten fronts. These goals are intended to lay a solid foundation for essentially building JZMU into a distinctive high-level medical university by 2035.
