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Medical school in Chengdu, China From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The West China Medical Center, Sichuan University (四川大学华西医学中心), formerly the West China University of Medical Sciences (华西医科大学), is a prestigious world-class public research institution of medical sciences located in Chengdu, Sichuan, China.
四川大学华西医学中心 | |
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Former name | West China Union University (1910–1951) West China University (1951–1953) Sichuan Medical College (1953–1985) West China University of Medical Sciences (1985–2000) |
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| Motto | 仁智、忠勇、清慎、勤和 (Chinese) |
| Type | Public |
| Established | March 11, 1910 (114 years ago) |
Parent institution | Sichuan University |
| President | Yanrong Li 李言荣 |
| Location | , , China 31.555161°N 105.995727°E |
| Campus | Urban |
| Website | wcums.scu.edu.cn |
The institution was founded as the private West China Union University (華西協合大學) by Western missionaries in 1914, being the earliest modern comprehensive university with medical sciences education in China. It once conducted dual-degree MD, DMD, BA, and BS programs with the State University of New York since 1920s and 1930s. In 1938, the university was accredited by the United States' National Board of Medical Examiners. As of 1949, the university held four colleges specializing in arts, science, medical sciences, and dentistry, with 26 academic departments, 2 professional studies departments, and 7 affiliated teaching hospitals.[1]
In 1951, after the Chinese Civil War, the Sichuan Provincial People's Government took over the university, renaming it as the public West China University (華西大學). Under a higher education institution reformation plan directed by the Central People's Government of China, the university was deprived of other academic departments and turned into Sichuan Medical College (四川医学院) with sole focus on medical studies in 1953. The college was upgraded as West China University of Medical Sciences (华西医科大学) in 1985. Under another reformation ordered by the State Council, the university was incorporated into Sichuan University in 2000 and named the West China Medical Center, Sichuan University.[2]
The institution nowadays holds five schools and four affiliated teaching hospitals. Five schools include School of Basic and Forensic Medicine, School of Clinical Medicine (School of Nursing), School of Dentistry, School of Public Health, and School of Pharmacy. Four affiliated teaching hospitals respectively concentrate on comprehensive medical sciences, women and children's health, dentistry, and occupational disease treatment. Every school and teaching hospital is prefixed with the name "West China."[3]
The institution is now sponsored by the Ministry of Education of China. The West China Hospital, Sichuan University (the institution's principal affiliated teaching hospital) is consistently ranked in the top 3 hospitals in China and the largest comprehensive hospital in the world.[4][5][6][7]
The West China Union College was co-founded by American Baptist Foreign Mission Society, American Methodist Episcopal Mission, Friends' Foreign Mission Association and Canadian Methodist Mission in 1910.[8][9] Dr. O. L. Kilborn, Dr. R.G. Kilborn, and Dr. William Reginald Morse played key roles in its formation. The university's medical school was founded in 1914 and taught basic medicine and clinical medicine, biomedicine and stomatology. Three years later the school became the first to teach dentistry in China. In 1924 women were admitted to the college as a whole. Helen Yoh was the first woman to graduate medical school.
On September 23, 1933, West China Union University was registered with the Provincial Board of Education. In 1941 the East-West Cultural Agency, a foreign exchange student program for distinguished scholars and staff members, was created with the University of Cambridge and Oxford University.
In 1951 the school was renamed to West China University and then to Sichuan Medical College in 1953. In 1985 the school changed its name to West China University of Medical Sciences. It merged with Sichuan University in 2000 and became the West China Medical Center of Sichuan University.
West China Medical Center of Sichuan University is situated in Chengdu, in the downtown area on the banks of Jin River. As one of the top five medical schools in China, the Center consists of five colleges:[10]
The center offers bachelor, masters and doctorate degrees. Of more than 3,000 students, about one half of the students are in the bachelor's program and the rest are in the advanced programs.[9]
According to China's University and College Admission System, in 2012 the center was an A level rated school and the only Cochrane Center or "evidence based medical center" in Asia. It is one of only 15 of such centers in the world. The Implementation of the project has won a national prize from the Ministry of Education.
West China Medical Center of Sichuan University is a member of the Institute for International Medical Education (IIME), INCLEN (International Clinical Epidemiology Network) and International Network of universities.[11]
West China Medical Center of Sichuan University has cooperative agreements with 150 universities from 43 countries and regions such as the US, the UK, Canada, the Netherlands, Japan, Germany, Finland, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Australia.[11] This includes University of Washington, UCLA, University of Michigan and 10 other universities from the US, Glasgow University and 2 others from the UK, and Waseda University, Hiroshima University and University of Yamanashi from Japan.
West China Medical Center of Sichuan University is listed in the World Directory of Medical schools published by WHO, The International Medical Education Directory (IMED), Educational Commission for Foreign Medical Graduates (ECFMG) and the Foundation of International Medical Education and Research (FAIMER).
West China Medical Center of Sichuan University has four affiliated hospitals.
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