Nanjing Medical University

Founded in 1934, Nanjing Medical University is a key development university administered by Jiangsu Province. It is among the first medical universities jointly supported by the Ministry of Education, National Health and Family Planning Commission and provincial government. Its two campuses cover 1400 mu. It has passed the Ministry of Education’s Clinical Medicine program accreditation with the maximum accreditation period of 8 years. It has ranked among the world’s top 500 in the Academic Ranking of World Universities for four consecutive years, and 7 disciplines rank in the ESI global top 1%. In the Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2018, it ranked 601-800, placing 36th among the 63 mainland Chinese universities listed. It has 24 affiliated hospitals and over 50 teaching hospitals in China and 1 teaching hospital overseas in Indonesia.

It has 853 full-time teachers, including 188 professors and 252 associate professors. Its outstanding research and teaching teams are led by members of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, international members of the US National Academy of Medicine and nationally distinguished teachers. Doctoral and master’s authorization covers 7 categories: medicine, science, engineering, management, law, education and literature. It has 587 doctoral supervisors and 2014 master’s supervisors, including affiliated hospitals. It offers 24 undergraduate programs and 3 integrated 5+3 bachelor’s-master’s programs. It has more than 14000 students and a comprehensive, multilevel system spanning undergraduate, postgraduate and postdoctoral training, full-time and adult education, and international student education. Its two campuses are Jiangning and Wutai. Jiangning is its teaching and research center, while Wutai is its clinical teaching and research center.

It began international student education in 1975 and organized large-scale international degree admissions and training in 2004. It has developed 1 national quality course, 5 provincial quality courses and 7 university quality courses. Drawing on medical training experience in developed European and North American countries, it was the first in China to use fully English-speaking standardized patients in international student teaching. This innovation has produced good educational outcomes and brought international student teaching closer to international practice. As of September 2017, it had admitted more than 1200 international degree students at doctoral, master’s and undergraduate levels. International students came from over 40 countries, including India, Thailand, Mauritius and Sri Lanka, with 653 international degree students currently enrolled. In 2007, the Ministry of Education approved it among the first universities qualified to admit international students to English-taught undergraduate Clinical Medicine. As of March 2017, its international student education had received accreditation from educational authorities or medical associations in several countries.

It achieved four awards in the first Clinical Thinking and Skills Competition for International Students in China: Outstanding Team, the highest award; Best Teamwork; Outstanding Individual Award in Basic Surgical Skills; and Outstanding Individual Award in Obstetrics and Gynecology Skills. Its international graduates have high pass rates in medical licensing examinations in their countries. Nepalese students’ first-attempt pass rate reached 83%, while Indian students’ first-attempt pass rates were all at least 50%. In incomplete statistics, among MBBS graduates from 2010-2017, 13 had passed US medical licensing STEP 1 or STEP 2 examinations, 3 had passed Australian medical licensing examinations, and 1 had passed a UK medical licensing examination.

Throughout thirteen years of international student teaching practice, it has consistently focused on educational quality, developing courses in a planned, step-by-step and practical way and building a distinctive international student teaching identity. It won first prize in the first National Clinical Skills Competition for Medical University Students. It was named a Jiangsu Advanced Collective in International Student Education in 2012, 2014 and 2016. It has always upheld and will continue to uphold the motto “Broad Learning to Utmost Expertise, Illuminating Virtue to the Highest Good,” developing high-level international medical professionals and working to advance world medicine and cultural exchange among countries and regions.