BINZHOU MEDICAL UNIVERSITY | Chinese Universities

Binzhou Medical University (BMU) is a public provincial university of applied sciences, co-constructed by Shandong Provincial Education Department and local municipal governments. It has been granted the approval to be a doctoral degree-conferring institute by Shandong Province.Its predecessor is the Medical School of National Shandong University originally established in 1946. In March 1956, the Medical School became independent as Qingdao Medical College and moved to Beizhen, Huimin area in October 1970. In November 1974, Beizhen Branch of Qingdao Medical College was established andin September 1981 it was renamed as Beizhen Medical College. In March 1983, it took on its current name Binzhou Medical University after the name of city it was in. In 2002, Yantai campus was put into use and became the main campus. BMU hascombined multiple disciplines of medicine, science, engineering, management and education, with medical disciplines being its advantage and higher education for the disabledand rehabilitation medicine being its features.

Enrollment

BMU has over 17,451 full-time students, including over 15,045 undergraduates and 2,165 postgraduates. The university has enrollment plans in 30 provinces (cities and autonomous regions)and Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan regions of China.So far, it has 241 overseas students. Now the university has 16 schools, namely, School of Marxism, the First School of Clinical Medicine, the Second School of Clinical Medicine, School of Basic Medical Sciences, School of Special Educationand Rehabilitation, School of Stomatology, School of Nursing(School of Gerontology), Teaching Departmentof Humanities and Social Sciences, School of Pharmacy, School of Traditional Chinese Medicine, School of Public Health,School ofHealth Management, School of International Studies, School of Medical Imaging,School of Innovation and Entrepreneurshipand School of Continuing Education.

Education and Teaching

We have 13 national first-class courses, 48 provincial first-class undergraduate courses, four provincial teaching demonstration centers, three provincial demonstration practice training bases and one provincial talents cultivation innovation experimental zone. BMU has undertaken one New Liberal Arts Research and Reform Practice Program by Ministry of Education, 225 Industry-university Cooperative Education Projects, 81 provincial teaching reform programs and education sciences planning programs, won two national teaching achievements award, 23 provincial teaching achievements awards, including one special prize and eight first prizes. It owns one second prize of First National Textbooks Construction Award, one 14th five-year national planned textbook on vocational education among the first batch, six First-Class Textbooks of Higher Education of Shandong Province and two 14th five-year provincial planned textbooks on vocational education among the first batch. BMU gained excellent results in the national undergraduate teaching level assessment in 2006 and passed the national undergraduate teaching evaluation in 2016. It is among the first batch of pilot institutions carrying out the comprehensive reform on undergraduate programs in the Teaching Projects for Undergraduates of the Ministry of Education and is approved to be the institution of reform on the Plan of Educating and Training for Outstanding Doctors (Traditional Chinese Medicine). Now, BMU serves as the standardized training basis for residents (including dental residents and TCM residents) at national level, the training basis for nursing talents and clinical pharmacists and the cultivation basis for general practitioners.

Discipline and Specialty

BMU has 32 undergraduate programs, including Clinical Medicine, Stomatology, Pediatrics, Nursing, Pharmacy, Rehabilitation Therapy, Special Education, Bio-pharmaceuticals and Intelligent Medical Engineering. Among them, 28 are first-class programs at provincial or above level. Clinical Medicine, Stomatology and Nursing were selected to be national first-class undergraduate program, Clinical Medicine, Stomatology, Nursing and Biotechnology are national characteristic programs and the program groups of Clinical Medicine, Medical Imaging, Pharmacy and TCM were selected to be high-level application-oriented program groups. BMU firstly gained national accreditation of Medical Education among Shandong universities with six years validity in 2013 and was approved to extend certification period to ten years. In 2022, the Prosthetics and Orthotics Engineering Programme was accredited by ISPO, with three years of validity. BMU has six first-level disciplines conferring master’s degree and ten professional master’s degree programs. Three disciplinesof BMU ranked top1‰ in ESI ranking. Clinical Medicine, Basic Medical Sciences, Pharmacy, Nursing ranked top 50% of the GDI College First-Class Discipline Ranking List.Besides, BMU has been listed as category A universities by Shanghai Ranking.There are three national key clinical specialties, 46 provincial key clinical specialties and seven key disciplines belonging to directly affiliated hospitals.

Teaching Faculty

There are altogether 11,350 faculty members working in Binzhou Medical University and its five affiliated hospitals. Among the faculty members, 2,370 have senior professional titles. BMU now has 22 national level talents, such as Academician of Chinese Academy of Sciences, six “National Renowned Teachers”, nine young and middle aged experts with great contributions in Shandong, one chief experts of key disciplines,ten provincial renowned teachers and one experts enjoy the use of Provincial Special Allowance. What’s more, there are one national Huang Danian style teaching team, three provincial Huang Danian style teaching teams, five provincial teaching teams and 30 provincial scientific research team.

School Facilities

BMU has two campuses, Yantai Campus and Binzhou Campus, covering a total area of 1600 mu (1 mu equates 1/15 hectare) and a total building area of 790,000 square meters. Its national owned assets reach RMB 1.895 billion yuan, and the value of teaching and research facilities reaches RMB 504 million yuan. The university library has over 1.7 million volume of paper collection and 4.20 million volume of electronic collection. BMU enjoys 180 teaching and practicing bases, including five directly affiliated hospitals and 9 indirectly affiliated hospitals. Binzhou Medical University Hospital is a regional medical center at provincial level with a scheduled hospital beds of 2,852. Yantai affiliated hospital of BMU is the first large-scale AAA Grade general hospital in Yantai-Weihai region with a scheduled hospital beds of 1,500. Yantaishan Hospital of BMU is one of the earliest western medicine hospitals in China, which has a scheduled hospital beds of 2106. Yantai Stomatological Hospital of BMU is a AAA Grade specialized hospital with 260 comprehensive dental treatment chairs and 50 hospital beds. Binzhou Traditional Chinese Medicine Hospital of BMU is a regional medical center in Shandong, with 821 scheduled beds.

Exchanges and Cooperation

BMU has established friendly ties and cooperation with international and domestic higher education and medical institutions, namely, The University of Tennessee, Canterbury Christ Church University, German University of Health and Sport, Uppsala University, Science for Life Laboratory, Peking University, Fudan University, Zhejiang University and Shanghai Jiao Tong University and major pharmaceutical companies, namely, MEBO Company, Ottobock (China), Rongchang Pharmaceuticals and Shandong International Biotechnology Park. Considerable achievements have been made in terms of educational resources sharing, visiting scholars exchanges, research programs, joint education program and collaborative innovation.