Dalian Medical University, an academic institution with a long history and a palace of medical knowledge, is located in the beautiful coastal city of Dalian. It was the first regular medical college founded by the Communist Party of China in 1947 in the liberated areas, which turns over a new leaf of the medical talents training in new China. After more than 70 years of development, Dalian Medical University has more than 10,000 students at school, and has become a university with Medicine as its main discipline and multi-disciplinary development in Science, Engineering, Management, Art, Law and Philosophy and other disciplines. With the joint efforts of all generations of DMUers, Dalian Medical University strives to practice the educational philosophy of “people-oriented, pursuing excellence, highlighting characteristics and cultivating elites”, and builds a broad platform for the cultivation of outstanding talents.
Talent Cultivation -- The Fundamental Task of DMU
At the founding of Dalian Medical University, the pioneers represented by Dean SHEN Qizhen, endured hardships and attracted talents widely. Chinese Pharmacology master ZHANG Yi, Chinese Physiology pioneer WU Xiang, Chinese Microbiology founder WEI Xi, Chinese Paleoanthropology pioneer WU Rukang, Chinese Optical founder WANG Daheng and other famous teachers gathered together and became the spiritual torch of Dalian Medical University from generation to generation. Standing on a new historical starting point, the university vigorously implements the strategy of developing university by talents. The teaching staff are made up of national famous teachers, national excellent teachers, provincial famous teachers and so on. They teach by words and deeds, and become scholarly mentors and beneficial friends of students with their personality and wisdom. The university implements the fundamental task of strengthening morality education, which aims at cultivating high-level application-oriented and innovative talents with strong practical ability by combining scientific spirit with humanistic spirit. Our university attaches great importance to the cultivation of the clinical practice ability of students. Moreover, we have won four special prizes in previous National Clinical Skills Competition for College Students in Medical Colleges and Universities and the first place in the Northeast division for seven consecutive times. Our university puts a high value on the cultivation of humanistic spirit, and we are committed to improving the quality education system and students’ humanistic quality.
Scientific and Technological Innovation -- The Core Competitiveness of the University
The university focuses on forging characteristic specialties. Clinical Medicine, Medical Examination and Pharmacy have become national characteristic specialties. Our university implements quality discipline strategy, and currently has one national key discipline, three of which rank in the top 1% of ESI global institutions. Besides, we have 4 post-doctorate R&D bases now, 4 Ph.D programs in the first level disciplines, and 9 master’s programs in the first level disciplines. At present,DMU has a Program for the Innovation Research Team of the Ministry of Education of China, as well as a number of national and provincial science and technology platforms such as the national and local joint engineering laboratory, the national international joint research center, and the national international science and technology cooperation base. Since the 13th Five-Year Plan, our university has been approved by nearly 300 national projects, including National Science and Technology Major Projects, National Key Research and Development Projects, National Natural Science Foundation of China Projects, National Social Science Foundation Projects. In recent years, our students have made great achievements in the “Challenge Cup” National College Students Extracurricular Academic Science and Technology Works Competition and The National Medical Students Forum of Experimental innovation and Experimental Design Contest, which show the steady improvement in the practical ability of scientific and technological innovation of our students.
Social Service - An Important Responsibility of the University
Focusing on promoting the national medical system reform and the supply-side structural reform in education, our university takes the initiative to assume social responsibilities and serves for the health of the people. We have 3 affiliated hospitals with reasonable layouts. The First Affiliated Hospital and the Second Affiliated Hospital have been listed in the “Top 100 Hospitals in China”. The two affiliated hospitals have reached the leading level in the treatment of cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases, kidney diseases, integrated traditional Chinese and western medicine, tumor treatment, organ transplantation and other areas. The Third Affiliated Hospital is concentrating its efforts on building an intelligent teaching hospital. The Clinical College integrates top-grade experts and introduces advanced technology to escort the construction of a healthy Liaoning Province. In addition, DMU has carried out intensive aids for foreign countries, for Xinjiang and Tibet, and actively participated in earthquake relief and major epidemic response work for the purpose of safeguarding the lives and health of the people. The hematopoietic stem cell voluntary donation work of our university is in the forefront of the country. We have become the university with the largest number of successful donors of hematopoietic stem cell in northeast China.
International Exchange and Cooperation -- A Symbol Towards International
The university vigorously promotes education internationalization, and the educational level of international students ranks among the top 100 universities in China and rises to the top of medical colleges and universities in China. We have been awarded as one of the first batch of “National Demonstration Base for Overseas Study in China”. The University has established cooperative relations with more than 100 universities and research institutes in more than 30 countries and regions, including the United States, The United Kingdom, Germany, France, Australia, Russia and Japan. At the same time, our university has cooperated with Benedict University in the United States to hold the Sino-American Master of Public Health Program---one of the Sino-Foreign Cooperative Educational Projects.
Cultural Inheritance and Innovation -- The Lofty Mission of the University
The university attaches importance to cultural inheritance and innovation. DMU combines the promotion of excellent traditional Chinese culture with the building of university culture with the characteristics of medical universities and colleges. Our university promotes the construction of socialist core values and leads the new trend of the times by carrying out rich and varied campus cultural activities and implementing high-quality cultural projects.
More than 70 years of trials and hardships, more than 70 years of vision and fruition. Dalian Medical University is standing on a higher historical dimension, aiming at building “a domestically advanced and internationally renowned medical university”, and making great strides forward for the prosperity and development of national medical and health undertakings.
