Tianjin Medical University

Tianjin Medical University's predecessor was Tianjin Medical College, which was established in 1951. The first president of the university was Professor Zhu Xianyi a renowned endocrinologist and medical educationist. In June 1994, Tianjin Medical College and Tianjin Second Medical College merged to form Tianjin Medical University (TMU), and in December 1996, Tianjin Medical University formally became one of the national "211 Project" key universities in China, the only one in Tianjin. In October 2015, it became a university jointly developed by the People's Government of Tianjin, the National Health and Family Planning Commission and the Ministry of Education. In September 2017, Tianjin Medical University was selected as a university included in the national development plan of first-class disciplines.

The university actively devoted itself to national higher medical education, and was one of the two earliest nationally-authorized medical institutions to pilot eight-year-long medical education; it was also one of the first 15 institutions to pilot seven-year-long medical education. Currently, the university has two campuses and six university hospitals. It now consists of 18 schools and 2 branches and has 21 disciplines authorized to confer Bachelor's degrees. There are 9,687 full-time students studying at the university, 5,162 of whom are undergraduates, 3,089 are Master's students, 465 are PhD students and 984 are international students. The university (including the university hospitals) currently has 8,189 professional and technical faculty members. Among these, 633 are professors, 1,072 are associate professors, and 669 are full-time teachers located on the campus.

Currently the university has 7 first-level and 42 second-level disciplines authorized to confer doctoral degrees; 11 first-level and 74 second-level disciplines authorized to confer Master's degrees. It has 6 post-doctoral research stations and 1034 Master's supervisors and 324 doctoral supervisors.

Currently, TMU has 5 national characteristic subjects, 1 "experimental unit" of national-level specialty comprehensive reform, 2 national teaching teams, 13 Tianjin teaching teams, 1 national outstanding teacher and 22 Tianjin municipal-level outstanding teachers. The university also has 7 national signature courses, 5 national signature resource-sharing courses, 3 national signature video open courses, 3 national bilingual demonstration courses, 8 brand courses of teaching international students in English approved by the Ministry of Education, 3 national innovative experimental zones of talent cultivation mode, 3 national demonstration centers of experimental teaching, 2 national-level university student extracurricular innovation practice bases and 74 projects of national-level university student innovation and entrepreneurship training plan. TMU received excellent appraisals in undergraduate and seven-year education assessments by the Ministry of Education in 2002 and 2008. Our Nursing and Dentistry departments passed professional accreditations by the Ministry of Education in 2012 and 2013 respectively, and our Clinical Medicine successfully passed international accreditation in 2014. Since 2009, TMU has won 1 first prize and 1 second prize for national teaching achievements and 6 first prizes for municipal teaching achievements.

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No.22 Qixiangtai Road,Heping district, Tianjin

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