Dalian Medical University

Dalian Medical University was founded in 1947 as Guandong Medical College and adopted its current name in 1994. It has developed into a medical university centered on medicine, with multidisciplinary development in science, engineering, management, arts, law and philosophy.

Located at 9 West Section, Lüshun South Road, Dalian, Liaoning Province, it covers 1.51 million square meters, with 532000 square meters of buildings. Fixed assets total RMB 8.98 billion and equipment RMB 4.138 billion. Its physical collections hold 1.2022 million volumes and electronic collections 2.1696 million volumes, with 60 database resources. It has 24 teaching and research institutions, 8 teaching support units and 1 other institution. Its 15 affiliated hospitals comprise 4 directly affiliated and 11 other affiliated hospitals.

It has 1 national key discipline and 4 Liaoning first-class disciplines. Six disciplines rank in the global ESI top 1% among institutions. It has 4 postdoctoral research stations, 5 first-level doctoral authorizations, 2 professional doctoral categories, 10 first-level master’s authorizations and 7 professional master’s categories. It admits students to 25 undergraduate programs.

It has over 10560 faculty, staff and medical personnel, including over 1200 with full senior titles, over 1420 with associate senior titles, over 380 doctoral supervisors and over 2000 master’s supervisors.

It has over 16500 full-time students, including over 6600 postgraduate students, over 9300 undergraduates and over 1200 international students. It was among the first national pilots for the Excellent Doctor Education and Training Program and Liaoning’s second group of transformation and development pilot universities. It has 6 national and 30 provincial teaching platforms, 1 provincial model research center for ideological and political education in courses, 10 national and 164 provincial courses, 2 second prizes in the National Teaching Achievement Awards, and 1 special prize, 3 first prizes and 3 second prizes in the first National Textbook Development Awards.

It has 1 joint national-local engineering laboratory, 1 joint national-local engineering research center, 1 national international joint research center and 2 national international science and technology cooperation bases.

Its 4 directly affiliated hospitals have 800000 square meters of buildings and provide 5.47 million medical visits and 269100 inpatient admissions annually. They have 3 national regional medical centers, 10 branches of national clinical medicine research centers, 25 national and 92 provincial key clinical specialties. Oncology and cardiovascular medicine received projects under the National Program to Improve Diagnosis and Treatment Capacity for Difficult Diseases. The First Affiliated Hospital was approved as a pilot national flagship hospital for coordinated Chinese and Western medicine. Both the First and Second Affiliated Hospitals were selected among China’s Top 100 Hospitals and recognized as National Demonstration Hospitals for Improving Medical Services. Exemplary personnel include Florence Nightingale Medal recipients, Chinese Good Doctors, Chinese Good People, members of the first national distinguished educator families, Most Beautiful Doctors and Outstanding Nursing Workers.

The university actively advances educational internationalization. Its international student education ranks among China’s leading medical institutions. It was among the first national Demonstration Bases for Studying in China and is a Liaoning demonstration university for international student education. It is authorized to independently admit Chinese Government Scholarship students and has been approved for the Ministry of Education’s Silk Road postgraduate and China-Africa Friendship Scholarship programs. It passed national quality accreditation for international student education in 2018. Its students have come from 119 countries across five continents. It jointly offers a Sino-U.S. Master of Public Health (MPH) cooperative education program with Benedictine University in the United States. It maintains long-term research cooperation and student exchanges with leading universities including the University of California, San Diego and Tufts University in the United States, Tohoku University, Juntendo University and Okayama University in Japan, and Curtin University in Australia. Responding to the national strategy for population aging, it led the establishment of the China-Japan-Korea Health and Elderly Care University Alliance.