Jinzhou Medical University

Founded in 1946 during the Liberation War, Jinzhou Medical University went by Liaoji Military Region Health School in Taonan, Jilin Province. It moved to Jinzhou, Liaoning Province in 1949, and developed into Jinzhou Medical College in 1958. It was renamed as Liaoning Medical College in 2006, and passed the Undergraduate Teaching Level Evaluation held by the Ministry of Education with excellent results in 2007. With the approval of the Education Ministry, it was officially renamed Jinzhou Medical University (JZMU) in March 2016. JZMU covers an area of 994,987.60 square meters. With 76 years’ development, JZMU has become a provincial institution of higher education focusing on medicine with various forms and multi-categories: General Higher Education, Continuing Education and International Education. Under these categories, 27 undergraduate programs in 6 primary disciplines, namely medicine, engineering, agriculture, science, management and education were set up. JZMU was officially approved as a master’s degree granting unit in 1984, and obtained the qualification of applying for a master degree from an equivalent education level in 1999. Presently, JZMU has 8 A-level disciplines and 59 B-level disciplines to grant academic master degree as well as 5 disciplines to grant professional master degree. The Ministry of Education approved JZMU’s joint doctoral program with China Medical University in 2003. Currently, 21 Ph.D. supervisors in Clinical Medicine are engaged in the joint doctoral programs which co-implemented with other high-profile universities, such as Jinan University, Suzhou University and Dalian Medical University, among others. JZMU has always been adhering to the central position of teaching work, taking fostering virtue through education as the foundation, continuously deepening teaching reform, strengthening teaching management, improving the quality of talent training and achieving fruitful teaching results. We adhere to the principle of “Establishing the university based on quality, developing the university with talents, regulating the university through principles, and running the university by law”, and we believed that under the leadership of CPC committee, JZMU will strive to construct a distinctive high-level medical university with full enthusiasm, effective