China Medical University (CMU; ) is a public medical university in Shenyang, Liaoning, China. The university was the first medical school established by the Chinese Communist Party. The predecessor of the university was the Military Medical School of the Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army founded in Ruijin, Jiangxi Province in November 1931.
At present, China Medical University is accredited to grant doctoral degrees in 6 primary disciplines, which are Basic Medicine, Clinical Medicine, Biology, Stomatology, Public Health and Preventive Medicine, and Nursing. It also has five national key academic disciplines and one national key academic discipline in cultivation, 40 national key clinical specialty construction projects of National Health Commission, 6 first class distinctive disciplines of universities and colleges in Liaoning, 7 mobile post-doctoral stations and 21 undergraduate specialties. It ranks among the top medical universities in China, according to CWTS Leiden Ranking 2018 and Chinese university ranking (CUAA) 2018. It is also approved by the Chinese Ministry of Education to recruit international students for its English-medium programs. On World Directory of Medical Schools (a product of World Federation for Medical Education and the Foundation for Advancement of International Medical Education and Research), the MBBS program is listed as taught in Chinese, Japanese and English. CMU has three large and modern affiliated hospitals, where students can do internship in the final year. Sheng Jing Hospital is famous for gynecology and obstetrics.
See also
- Education in the People's Republic of China
- List of universities in China