◆ Introduction
Shandong University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, the former Shandong College of Traditional Chinese Medicine, founded in 1958, moved from old campus in Lixia district，jinan, to the University Scientific and Technological Area, Changqing district, Jinan, is a famous university of traditional Chinese medicine in China. It is the only medical university on its' own setup in Shandong Province and became one of the key universities of Shandong Province in 1981. It changed its' name from Shandong College of Traditional Chinese Medicine to Shandong University of Traditional Chinese Medicine in 1996. It has been evaluated to be an excellent university in undergraduate-level education by Educational Ministry.
The new campus of the university, with complete functions, digitization, forestation, modernization and unique features, has superior conditions. It has the total area of 1892 Chinese Mu ( 122Hectars), the building area of 504 thousand square meters, a great deal of apparatus which is valued totally 141110 thousand Renminbi, a large number of books in the library including 102 thousand paper books and 470 thousand electric books, and a fully equipped computer net and modern educational technological facilities. The university has 13 colleges, two directly-led affiliated hospitals and 8 indirectly-led affiliated hospitals, 23 teaching hospitals and 50 clinical teaching bases.
The university has all kinds of classes and courses of different educational levels. Set up are 21 undergraduate specialties involving medicine, science, literature, industry, management and so on. There are three doctor-degree-authorized and first-grade specialties of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Traditional Chinese Matera medic and combination of Traditional Chinese Medicine with Western Medicine, under which there are 15 doctor-degree centers set up in different subjects. There are five master-degree-authorized and first-grade specialties covering all the second-grade specialties of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Traditional Chinese Matera Medic and combination of Traditional Chinese Medicine with Western Medicine, and starting to infiltrate into periphery subjects, under which there are 26 master-degree centers set up in different subjects. In addition, the university has the granting doctor-degree and master-degree rights in clinical medicine. At present, the university has 16300 full time students including 13588 undergraduates and 2527 postgraduates. The university attaches great importance to international academic exchange and cooperation. One after anther, the university has established and keep the friendly cooperative relationships with more than 60 universities, medical units and medical academic organizations in Asia, Europe, Africa, Latin America, Australia, and Hang Kang , Macao and Taiwan, cooperating with them in education, treatment and scientific research of Traditional Chinese Medicine. Every year, the university enrolls oversea students. Now there are more than 240 of them in the campus.
The university attaches importance to strengthening academic subject construction so that a batch of dominant and characteristic subjects has been formed. There are now two state intensive subjects in Traditional Chinese Medical literature and history, an Education-Ministry intensive subject in Traditional Chinese internal medicine, an Education-Ministry intensive laboratory, a Health-Ministry technology-approved special-disease department, 12 SATCM ( State Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine) intensive subjects, three SATCM intensive special-disease departments, five SATCM intensive special-disease departments under construction and six SATCM intensive third-grade scientific research labs of Traditional Chinese Medicine and Matera Medic. There are six Shandong-Provincial Taishan-scholarship-station subjects, a Shandong-provincial research base of humanities and society, and 14 Shandong-provincial intensive subjects, special-disease departments and laboratories.
The university has relatively a great ability of scientific and technological innovation. There are three post doctorate roving stations of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Traditional Chinese Matera Medic and Combination of Traditional Chinese Medicine with Western Medicine, 4 institutes, 6 labs, 2 SATCM intensive labs, 3 Shandong provincial research centers of engineering technology. In the past three years, won were two second-grade prizes of national scientific and technological advance and two first-grade prizes of Shandong Provincial scientific and technological advance. In 2007, among Shandong provincial universities and colleges, the university was the first to preside over a National 973 Research Project and has undertaken three branch items of it, and, in addition, took the lead of three national "Eleventh-five-year" projects of scientific-and-technological-supporting program. The university is a supporting unit, recognized by Ministry of Science and Technology, of intensely spreading project technology of national scientific and technological achievements, and an undertaking unit of standard planting program of national modernization and industrialization of Traditional Chinese Matera Medic.
The university has a big teaching team of great ability. In the university now, there are totally 3325 staff members of medical education and treatment and 1006 of them in the main campus, of which, 78 doctorate tutors, 311 master tutors. There is a person who has won, first and last, the honorable titles of "the great master of national medicine" and "the model of national medicine". There is a person who is chief scientist of 973 National Scientific Research Program. There is a person who is national outstanding professional technician. There are 8 national excellent teachers. There are 10 young and middle-age experts of provincial or ministerial level, who has made great contributions to the country. There are 6 Shandong Provincial "Taishan Academician" specially-engaged professors. There are 41 persons who enjoy special subsidy from state council. There are 5 famous aged Shandong provincial experts of Traditional Chinese Medicine, who has made great contributions. There is one team which has been selected as one of Ten Shandong provincial excellent innovation teams.
Under the guidance of the spirit of Seventeenth National Conference, The university lets the scientific development view point lead the overall situation, continues to emancipate the mind, deepen the reform, pursues the scientific, harmonious and taking-the-lead-in development, speeds up carrying out the two-steps development strategy, carries out seriously the basic and general plan of "building up the university by education, flourishing the university by scientific research and strengthening the university by competent people", lays the stress on the features to earn it's living, makes the superiority to seek the development, makes great efforts to build up the university, serves society, economy and the masses, makes great contributions to richening people, strengthening the province and building a harmonious society.
◆ Contact Information
Add：no. 53，Shandong jinan jingshi road
Postcode ：250014
Tel ：0531-82613221
Fax ：0531-82613221
Web ：http://www.sdutcm.edu.cn/english.html
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