Hainan Medical College

A Brief Introduction to Hainan Medical College

Hainan Medical College (HMC), under the auspices of the Hainan Provincial Government, was founded in 1993 with the approval of the Chinese State Education Commission. The history of the College began with the integration of two medical schools in 1951. In that year, the privately-owned Haiqiang Medical Vocational School (founded in 1947) and the privately-owned Medical College of Hainan University (founded in 1948) combined into a new school -- Hainan Specialized Medical School. Mr. Tse-ven Soong was its first General Director of the Board, After the founding of the People’s Republic of China, this school developed into Hainan Medical Vocational School and later became the Medical Department of Hainan University. One year after the founding of the College in 1994, Hainan Medical College was accredited to grant Bachelor’s Degrees and in 1996 was accredited for undergraduate education by the State Education Commission. In 2000, the College established a new campus on Chengxi Road. In 2004, Hainan Medical College began its joint program of recruiting graduate students with Peking University and other institutions of higher learning in China. In 2006, the College was again ranked by the State Ministry of Education as “favorable” in its undergraduate education program. With over 60 years’ experience of school administration, the College has adopted the school mottoes of virtue, rigor, knowledge, and harmony and the spirit of self-improvement, unity and, labor.

Presently on staff there are 1579 doctors, faculty or research staff members, among whom are 100 professors and 263 associate professors, 71 of whom have doctoral degrees; 309 have Master’s Degrees, 32 are advisers for Master Degrees in Medicine and 3 are adviser for doctoral degrees in medicine. The college is also implementing a series of preferential polices to attract outstanding experts from both home and abroad to joint its mission.

HMC has been committing to its mission----serve local social and economic development. Most of the programs it offers to its students are targeting at the needs of health human resource in Hainan province, including clinical medicine, preventive medicine, TCM, nursery science and pharmacy etc. To date, HMC has enrolled over 10,000 Chinese students and more than 100 international students. Up to this time, more than 20,000 qualified medical workers have graduated from the college and have served the country and society. HMC has distinguished itself in the development of competent and leading medical workers and in the promotion of medical teaching reform based on modern technology.

The school now has 2 premier provincial labs (The Lab of Tropical Diseases in Hainan and the premier Research and Development Laboratory of Tropical Medicinal Plants in Hainan); 2 vital provincial medical courses (Gynecology and Obstetrics, Pharmaceutical Chemistry), and 4 vital provincial medical courses (Gynecology and Obstetrics, neural medicine, Diagnostic Radiology, cardiovascular medicine) for the public health system. The main areas of the school’s scientific research are as follows: molecular biology; transgenetic research; phytochemistry; stem-cell research and the development of southern and marine pharmacology. HMC also does ongoing research in the fields of reproductive medicine; tropical medicine; tropical pharmacology and genetic diseases of the Li ethnic minority. Since the college was founded, it has been granted 48 state-level research projects, including 2 programs from the “863 plan” of The Department of Science and Technology; 3 from the National Science & Technology Pillars Program and 43 Projects from the National Natural Science Foundation of China. The school was awarded 51 provincial-level science and technology awards, including 4 first and 10 second prizes.

The publications of the school are as follows: Hainan Medical College Journal; The Hainan Medical College Newspaper; the Asian Pacific Journal of Tropical Medicine and the Affiliated Hospital of Hainan Medical College Journal. The Hainan Medical College Journal has been recognized as the “core journal in China's science and technology”. Hainan Medical College Newspaper Journal is the first college journal among institutions of higher learning in Hainan authorized for public release by the General Administration of Press and Publication. The Asian Pacific Journal of Tropical Medicine (English Version) is the only international journal on tropical medicine published in English in China.

Hainan Medical College has two campuses, located on Chengxi Road and Longhua Avenue, with 41,066,700 hectares of land. There is one hospital directly affiliated with HMC, and three hospitals indirectly affiliated. The total number of beds in these four hospitals has been as high as 3722. HMC also has 32 other hospitals with an additional 14,076 beds and offers clinical instruction at these hospitals. Another 21 teaching facilities also offer their service to HMC. The school library uses a computerized network management system, is a member of CALIS and also a member of China’s Digital Library and the only library ranked by the Ministry of Health as “a consulting agency for sharing medical resources, public health and technology.” HMC’s library has 718,000 volumes and 3,655 different journals. This library collaborates with the library of the Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences in offering resources-sharing services. The comprehensive, new library now under construction is the largest in Hainan and boasts the most advanced equipment. The school has built up a high speed backbone campus network reaching up to 10 Gigabit based on IPV6. The Cheng Xi Road campus also has a wireless network.

Hainan Medical College is committed to continue in its structural reforms program and to seek timely development through innovation. The “Three-Step Development Strategy” was instituted to build its excellent Educational Center for the Study and Treatment of Tropical Diseases, which 10-year program began in 2004. HMC is focused on becoming a modern tropical-medicine university with all involved specialties in this field, with skilled and experienced faculty members, advanced teaching facilities and equipment, while boasting a beautiful setting, as well.

Hainan Medical College is committed to ensure that: All staff, students, applicants for employment or study, visitors and other persons in contact with the College are treated fairly and have equality of opportunity, without regard to race, nationality, ethnic origin, gender, age, marital or parental status, dependants, disability, sexual orientation, religion, political belief or social origins.