About Guangdong Medical University
Guangdong Medical University (GDMU) was founded in 1958 as the Zhanjiang Branch of Sun Yat-Sen Medical College and now consists of two campuses, one of which is located in Zhanjiang, an important provincial sub center cities in Guangdong and the other of which is situated in the beautiful Songshan Lake Science and Technology Industrial Park of Dongguan, a core city in Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area.
GDMU is the largest base for medical professionals and one of the 16 universities authorized to award the doctorate in Guangdong. Both the university itself and the discipline of Clinical Medicine have been listed among the global top 1% in ESI (Essence of Scientific Indicators) ranking from 2015. Since 2019, the university has been listed in CWUR and USNews World University Rankings. In 2020, the pharmacology and toxicology has become another discipline listed among the global top 1% in ESI ranking.
GDMU currently has an enrollment of 20,000 full-time students, 14 schools (departments), 33 undergraduate programs ,7 affiliated hospitals, 12 non-affiliated clinical medical schools and 26 non-affiliated teaching hospitals. GDMU has gradually evolved to be a comprehensive university with seven discipline categories, which includes medicine, science, management,engineering, literature, law and economics. At present, there are 1 primary discipline authorized for doctoral degree, namely clinical medicine, 6 primary disciplines authorized for master's degree, namely clinical medicine, basic medical sciences, public health and preventive medicine, medical technology, pharmacy and biology. Besides, there are 7 provincial key discipline, which include 1 cutting-edge discipline, 2 preponderant disciplines and 4 characteristic disciplines.
GDMU currently has 1284 full-time teachers,including 67 doctoral supervisors, 921 master supervisors and 2 dual-employed academician. Also, it provides excellent teaching and scientific research environment, which includes 2 scientific research centers, 6 provincial level key laboratories and engineering technology research centers, 22 municipal level key laboratories, and 1 postdoctoral research station. Over the past 62 years, GDMU has educated more than 200,000 medical professionals working at various medical institutions in Guangdong and other provinces. The university adheres to the opening-up strategy and has maintained cooperative ties with universities and scientific research institutes in the United States, Great Britain, Germany, Australia, Japan, Finland, Poland, Malaysia etc., together with those in Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan. The university also adheres to the motto of "Ambition, Virtue, Truth, Excellence", and is committed to constructing a high-level medical university with distinctive characteristics, well-known and top-ranking one among the domestic counterparts at home and abroad, so as to provide intellectual, scientific and technical support for the medical and health-care undertakings as well as the overall economic and social development.
