School Profile 

Founded in 1958, Guangzhou Medical University is a high-level university in Guangdong Province that has its advantages and characteristics in medicine, and cultivates multi-level talents with doctoral, master and undergraduate degrees. 

The school has two campuses, Panyu and Yuexiu, covering an area of 372,300 square meters and a building area of 486,500 square meters. There are 22 colleges, 18 affiliated hospitals, and 28 research institutions. It has 1 national medical center, 1 national clinical medicine research center, 1 national key laboratory, 11 provincial and ministerial key laboratories, 3 provincial and ministerial engineering technology research centers/engineering laboratories, and 3 provincial and ministerial level Collaborative innovation center, 1 national university science park cultivation base, 32 city (department) level key laboratories. It has 1 national key discipline, 7 provincial and ministerial key disciplines, and 32 municipal (departmental) key disciplines; clinical medicine, pharmacology and toxicology, molecular biology and genetics, biology and biochemistry, immunology, Neuroscience and behavioral science ranks among the top 1% of ESI in the world, and the comprehensive ESI ranking of all disciplines ranks among the top 100 universities in the country. 

The school has 19 national clinical key specialties, 74 provincial (ministerial) key specialties, among which respiratory medicine ranks first in the country, pediatric surgery ranks second in the country, allergies ranks third in the country, thoracic surgery ranks sixth in the country, and psychology The medical specialty ranks seventh in the country, and pediatric internal medicine ranks eighth in the country. 

The school adheres to the strategy of “prospering the school with talents”. There are 7789 faculty members (including 908 in the school headquarters), including academicians of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, Changjiang Scholars, winners of the National Natural Science Outstanding Youth Fund, and national candidates for the New Century Talent Project , National-level teaching teachers, experts with outstanding national contributions, experts with special government allowances from the State Council, etc.; 683 doctoral tutors and 1,279 master tutors. 

The school is the first batch of pilot universities in the country for the “Excellent Doctor Education and Training Program”. It adheres to and implements the fundamental task of Life to cultivate people, and is committed to cultivating high-quality talents with humanistic feelings, international vision, innovative spirit and practical ability. There are 21 undergraduate enrollment majors, covering 5 disciplines: medicine, science, management, engineering, and law. There are 16 superior majors at the provincial level and above, including 11 national-level first-class undergraduate majors, 2 national-level characteristic construction majors, and 3 provincial-level first-class undergraduate majors. 

There are 1 national clinical teaching and training demonstration center, 1 national virtual simulation experiment teaching center, 2 national virtual simulation experiment projects, 1 national off-campus practice teaching base for college students, and 1 provincial virtual simulation experiment teaching demonstration center , 12 provincial-level experimental teaching demonstration centers; 1 national-level teaching team, 17 provincial-level teaching teams; 100 national and provincial quality courses, including 5 national-level first-class undergraduate courses, provincial-level first-class courses 28 undergraduate courses. 

There are 3 provincial pilot colleges and 1 provincial demonstrative industrial college. It has a postdoctoral mobile station for clinical medicine, a doctoral authorization point for first-level disciplines in clinical medicine and basic medicine, as well as 8 authorization points for master's degree in first-level disciplines, 5 authorization points for master's professional degrees, and 1 independent master's authorization point for second-level disciplines. There are 12,602 full-time undergraduates and postgraduates. In the past five years, the overall employment rate of graduates has exceeded 96%, ranking among the top universities in the province. 

In the past five years (2016-2020), the school has undertaken more than 2500 various vertical scientific research projects above the city (department) level, among which the number of projects approved by the National Natural Science Foundation has been ranked among the top 100 in the country for many years; it has won 3 national science and technology awards, About 20 provincial and ministerial science and technology awards; published more than 10,000 SCI papers in world-renowned magazines including "New England Journal of Medicine", "Cell", "Lancet", and "Nature Medicine"; Major scientific and technological progress, one scientific and technological achievement was selected as one of the top ten domestic scientific and technological news. 

The school has extensively carried out foreign academic and educational exchanges and cooperation. It is a pilot unit for the internationalization of undergraduate education in Guangdong Province. It has successively cooperated with the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, France, the Netherlands, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, South Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Macau and other countries. It has established stable cooperative and exchange relations with many universities and research institutions in the region. The school has in-depth cooperation with the French Nobel Laureate Professor Jules Hoffman to establish the Sino-French Hoffman Institute of Immunology. The school started education for international students in China in 2010. 

There are currently 285 international students from 25 countries in Asia, Europe, America and Africa. Passing down more than half a century, the school has gradually formed the spirit of "hard work, down-to-earth, pioneering and enterprising", and established the school-running philosophy of "concurrent practice of morality and skill, blending of medical and cultural, and teacher-student-oriented". It closely interacts with regional economic and social development in personnel training, scientific research and medical care, and has played an important role in major public events such as the fight against SARS, Asian Games medical services, Ebola epidemic prevention and control, and new crown pneumonia epidemic prevention and control. 

In the new historical period, the school will be based in Guangzhou, serving Guangdong, facing the whole country, and looking at the world. It will actively promote the development strategy of "Strengthening the school by disciplines, rejuvenating the school with talents, leading with characteristics, and innovative development". , Strive to build the school into a high-level medical university that ranks in the forefront of independent medical institutions in the country, and strive to make greater contributions in talent training, scientific research, medical and health services, cultural inheritance and innovation!