Overview 

Chongqing Medical University (CQMU), originally known as Chongqing Medical College, was founded in 1956, growing out of Shanghai First Medical College (the present Shanghai Medical College of Fudan University). With nearly 60 years of development, CQMU has become a major public medical university that is jointly administered and supported by the Ministry of Education of China and the Ministry of Health of China as well as Chongqing Municipal Government. The university has a comprehensive system of academic training, from Bachelor to Master, Doctor and Postdoctoral in medicine as well as other related fields. In2013, CQMU ranks the 6th among all medical universities in China. 

Regarding graduate education and discipline competitiveness, our university ranks the 12th among all Chinese universities offering medical disciplines. Campus The university has two campuses, Yuanjiagang Campus and Jinyun Campus, covering an area of 2.02 km sq. The total assets of the university amount to 6.78 billion yuan, among which the equipments and facilities for teaching, research and medical services are worth 983 million yuan. The library has a collection of 1.32 million books. With 19 colleges and departments, a Graduate School and an Institute of Life Sciences, CQMU offers 7 postdoctoral programs, 38 Ph.D. programs, 86 Master’s programs and 27 specialties for undergraduates. There are 218 Ph.D. supervisors. At present, a total of over 27,000 students are studying in the university, including over 500 Ph.D. students, about 4,200 postgraduates, over 20,000 undergraduate students and over 600 foreign students from 20 countries. There are 6 affiliated hospitals directly under its administration, which are all rated as “Upper First-class Hospital (3A)” in China. 

There are more than 10,000 beds in the hospitals. The annual outpatient visits reach 7.9 million and the annual inpatient visits reach 390,000. Besides, the university has more than 30 teaching hospitals and other 9 affiliated hospitals indirectly under its administration. The other 3 affiliated hospitals are now under construction. It has over 2229 faculty members, of whom 1482 are professors and associate professors. Many of them enjoy the State Council Special Allowances or have been selected into some national programs, such as Project for Millions of Talented People of New Century, Cheung Kong Scholar & Innovative Team Program, Project for New Century Excellent Talents in Universities and Project for Trans-century Talents. 

The University has 4 state key disciplines and 76 municipal key disciplines. It has 43 research institutes, 17 of which are at national and municipal level, including 3 key laboratories of Ministry of Education, 1 state key laboratory of Chongqing and Ministry of Education, 1 national and 5 municipal engineering research centers. CQMU has accomplished many research projects of various levels, including some state-level projects supported by National Basic Research Program (known as 973 Program), National Hi-Tech Research and Development Program (known as 863 Program), Key Program of National Natural Science Foundation. CQMU ranks the 47th in all the universities regarding the publication in core journals in China. Since 2011, CQMU has won national and municipal awards over 60 times in science and technology. The High-intensity Focused Ultrasonic Therapy System (HIFU), which was initiated by CQMU, is the first large-scale medical equipment with completely independent intellectual property rights in China. 

It has been put into use in over 1000 major hospitals in China and exported to over 10 countries and regions, such as UK, Japan, South Korea and Singapore, etc.. Being active in national and international exchange and cooperation, CQMU has established collaboration-relationship with universities in many countries and regions, including USA, UK, Canada, Japan, France, Germany, Australia, Belgium and Netherland. Recently, the university has built up cooperation with Universite Libre de Bruxelle in Belgium and Medical Colleges in Bordeaux University, University of Strasbourg, University of Paul Sabatier and University of Bretagne Brest in France in clinical education, medical research and co-cultivation; CQMU has been cooperating with Michigan State University in USA, Centennial College and Humber College in Canada in all-level nursing training, has been working with University of Cincinnati in USA to build up an International College of Medical Sciences, and has been academically exchanging with UCL Medical School specially in lipid research. 

Chongqing Medical University International School of Medicine The International Medical College of Chongqing Medical University (International Medical College of Chongqing Medical University) was established in 2020 to strengthen our school’s “double first-class” construction, implement the open school philosophy, promote international education and exchanges, and rely on the school’s professional advantages and Specially established secondary colleges. Adhering to the development concept of "inheriting and carrying forward, open cooperation, seeking change and innovation, and forging ahead", the college mainly serves the education and teaching work of our school's Sino-foreign cooperation in running schools. 

The college aims to effectively learn from and use domestic and foreign high-quality educational concepts and successful experiences, systematically introduce advanced curriculum systems and teaching management models from world-renowned medical schools, deploy high-quality educational resources throughout the school, and carry out various forms of exchanges and cooperation with foreign universities , Cultivate medical elites with international thinking and vision. Chongqing Medical University and the University of Leicester jointly established a joint management committee and a joint executive committee to jointly manage our hospital. Professor Huang Ailong, the president, will personally serve as the chairman of the joint management committee, and the president of the University of Leicester Nishan Canagarajah will serve as the vice-chair; Professor Deng Shixiong, deputy secretary of the school’s party committee and vice president, will serve as the first dean and chairman of the joint executive committee of the College’s International School of Medicine, University of Leicester The Vice President Philip Baker serves as the Vice Chairman. 

The senior leaders of the two schools have devoted all their efforts to do a good job in the top-level design to escort the management and operation of the college. The college fully implements the school's development idea of "building a first-class university, creating first-class teachers, and cultivating first-class talents", and openly selected 19 introduced courses in the school's teacher team, and selected the first batch of 76 key teachers. The course group teachers come from 8 colleges, and the introduced course team has 58 teachers with senior professional titles, accounting for 76.3%. Among them, 33 have senior professional titles (professor/chief physician) and 25 associate professors/associate chief physicians. There are 49 teachers with doctoral degrees, accounting for 64.4%. There are 48 postgraduate tutors, accounting for 63.1%; among them, 17 are doctoral tutors and 31 are master tutors . 

There are 56 teachers with experience of studying abroad, accounting for 73.7%. A young, international, and high-quality teacher team provides a strong guarantee for the teaching of Sino-foreign cooperation in running schools. 

The college enrolled 115 students in the first batch, covering 11 provinces across the country. Students of the college are registered as students of Chongqing Medical University and Wrights University in the United Kingdom, and enjoy the rights of students of both schools. Since the establishment of the college, various teaching resources have been upgraded and optimized to meet the needs of small-class, discussion-oriented, and immersive teaching; and each student is equipped with a tablet computer to achieve paperless, immediate, and open learning ; Opened foreign advanced medical education databases—Acland Anatomy, Oxford Medicine Online Oxford Medical Online Platform and LWW Health Library Online Medical Education Learning Platform, to ensure that students can use the teaching resources currently being used by clinical medicine students of the University of Las Vegas.