China Medical University is a public medical university in Shenyang, Liaoning, China, and the first medical school established by the Chinese Communist Party.中国医科大学是一所位于中国辽宁省沈阳市的公立医科大学，也是中国共产党创办的第一所医学院校。
Its predecessor, the Military Medical School of the Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army, was founded in Ruijin, Jiangxi, in November 1931, and the school marched with the Red Army on the Long March.其前身中国工农红军军医学校于1931年11月在江西瑞金创建，并随红军走完了长征。
The university is co-built by the Liaoning Provincial Government, the National Health Commission and the Ministry of Education, and it offers 6 first-level doctoral disciplines and 21 undergraduate specialties.学校由辽宁省人民政府、国家卫生健康委员会和教育部共建，设有6个一级学科博士点和21个本科专业。
History
In May 1931 the Communist Party leadership moved from Shanghai to the Central Soviet Area, accompanied by three medically trained members, He Cheng, Chen Zhifang and Peng Longbo.1931年5月，中共中央从上海转移到中央苏区，随行的有贺诚、陈志方和彭龙伯三位学医的共产党员。
He Cheng proposed a Red Army medical school in November 1931, and the Military Medical School of the Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army opened in Ruijin on 20 November with 19 students and 6 auditing students.1931年11月，贺诚提议创办红军医学院校，中国工农红军军医学校于11月20日在瑞金成立，首期招收学员19名、旁听生6名。
The first class opened in Yudu on 15 February 1932, with Mao Zedong setting the motto politically firm and technically excellent and Zhu De attending the ceremony.1932年2月15日，第一期在雩都开学，毛泽东为学校制定“政治坚定，技术优良”的校训，朱德出席开学典礼。
In October 1932 the Central Military Commission renamed the institution the Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army Health School and expanded its curriculum.1932年10月，中央军委将学校更名为中国工农红军卫生学校，并扩充了课程体系。
In August 1933 the health school moved near Ruijin and merged with small medical schools founded by the physician Fu Lianzhang, adopting a thirteen-month curriculum.1933年8月，卫生学校迁至瑞金附近，与傅连暲创办的几所小型医学院校合并，并确立了13个月的课程体系。
After the Long March the school resumed teaching at Wayaobao in northern Shaanxi in October 1935, with Wang Bin as its president, and later moved through several towns in the region.1935年10月长征到达陕北后，学校在瓦窑堡复学开课，王斌任校长，其后又辗转迁至陕北多地。
In 1937, after the Red Army was reorganized as the Eighth Route Army, the school became the Eighth Route Army Health School and sent medical teams to the Pingxingguan and Yangmingbao battles.1937年红军改编为八路军后，学校改称八路军卫生学校，并派医疗队参加平型关和阳明堡战役的救护。
In February 1938 the school returned to Zhangcunyi in Fu County, Yan'an, absorbed a training class of the Military Commission health department and grew to about 900 students in 3 brigades.1938年2月，学校返回延安富县张村驿，并入军委卫生部的一个训练班，学员增至约900人，编为3个大队。
Between 1938 and 1940 the school trained 498 medical workers through medical, dispensary and nursing classes, supplying personnel to front-line units of the Eighth Route Army.1938年至1940年间，学校通过军医、调剂和护士等班次培养出498名各类医务人员，为八路军前线部队输送人才。
In March 1940 the school moved to Liushudian near Yan'an and was renamed China Medical University, and in September 1940 it became the Eighth Route Army Medical University.1940年3月，学校迁至延安柳树店并改称中国医科大学，同年9月又改名为八路军医科大学。
In 1942 the pharmacology department separated to form a pharmacy school that later became Shenyang Pharmaceutical University.1942年，学校药学系分出组建药科学校，该校后来发展为沈阳药科大学。
In July 1946 the university moved to Xingshan, now Hegang in Heilongjiang, and merged with the Northeast Military Medical University already stationed there.1946年7月，学校迁至黑龙江兴山即今鹤岗，并与已在那里的东北军医大学合并。
In 1947 it absorbed the medical college of Northeast University and part of Harbin Medical University, and it organized a 200-member team that fought a plague outbreak in the region.1947年，学校合并东北大学医学院和部分哈尔滨医科大学，并组织200余人的防疫队奔赴疫区扑灭鼠疫。
In November 1948 the university moved to Shenyang and merged the National Shenyang Medical College, descended from the Japanese-run South Manchuria Medical College of 1911, and the private Liaoning Medical College.1948年11月，学校进驻沈阳，先后合并国立沈阳医学院和私立辽宁医学院，前者源自1911年日本创办的满洲医科大学。
The private Liaoning Medical College traced its origins to 1892, when Dr Dugald Christie founded the Shenjing Medical School, which became the Mukden Medical College in 1911.私立辽宁医学院的前身可追溯到1892年杜格尔德·克里斯蒂创办的盛京医学堂，该校于1911年发展为盛京医科大学。
In 1949 the university came under the Northeast Administrative Committee and was organized into 8 colleges, including basic medicine, internal medicine, surgery, dentistry and public health.1949年，学校划归东北行政委员会领导，下设基础、内科、外科、牙科、公共卫生等8个学院。
From its founding to the establishment of the People's Republic in 1949, the school enrolled 41 classes and trained 3,350 medical workers for the army, including 13 graduating classes from the health school period.从创办到新中国成立，学校共招生41期，为部队培养各类医务人员3350名，其中卫生学校时期毕业学员13期。
When the Korean War began in October 1950, teachers and students formed surgical and stretcher teams and established a hospital in Bei'an, Heilongjiang, to treat wounded soldiers.1950年10月抗美援朝战争爆发后，部分师生组成手术队和担架队，并在黑龙江北安设立医院救治伤员。
In October 1952 the pharmacy college became the independent Northeast Pharmaceutical College, the predecessor of Shenyang Pharmaceutical University.1952年10月，药学院改建为独立的东北药学院，即沈阳药科大学的前身。
In July 1949 the Northeast Pharmaceutical College had been merged into the university as its college of pharmacy, before the pharmacy unit became independent again in 1952.1949年7月，东北药学院并入学校成立药学院，1952年药学部分又独立建院。
In August 1954 the university was placed under the Ministry of Health, and in July 1955 the pediatrics department of Harbin Medical University was merged into it.1954年8月，学校划归卫生部领导，1955年7月哈尔滨医科大学儿科学系并入。
In September 1956 the university was renamed Shenyang Medical College, and in March 1978 it regained the name China Medical University.1956年9月，学校改名为沈阳医学院，1978年3月恢复中国医科大学校名。
In 2000 the university was transferred from the Ministry of Health to Liaoning Province and became a province-ministry co-built institution.2000年，学校由卫生部划归辽宁省管理，成为省部共建高校。
In September 2013 the Shenbei New Campus opened, and in December 2015 the university became jointly built by Liaoning Province, the National Health and Family Planning Commission and the Ministry of Education.2013年9月沈北新校区启用，2015年12月学校改由辽宁省、国家卫生和计划生育委员会和教育部共建。
In July 2020 the Ministry of Education approved the closure of the university's independent Clinical Medicine College, ending its separate enrollment.2020年7月，教育部批准中国医科大学临床医药学院撤销建制并停止办学。
Academics
The university is accredited to grant doctoral degrees in 6 primary disciplines, namely basic medicine, clinical medicine, biology, stomatology, public health and preventive medicine, and nursing.学校具有6个一级学科博士学位授予权，分别是基础医学、临床医学、生物学、口腔医学、公共卫生与预防医学和护理学。
It holds 5 national key disciplines, covering respiratory internal medicine, endocrine and metabolic internal medicine, dermatology and venereology, general surgery and occupational and environmental health.学校有5个国家重点学科，涵盖内科学呼吸系统、内科学内分泌与代谢病、皮肤病与性病学、外科学普通外科以及劳动卫生与环境卫生学。
Imaging medicine and nuclear medicine is a national key discipline in cultivation, bringing the total to 5 key disciplines plus 1 cultivation discipline.影像医学与核医学为国家重点培育学科，使学校形成5个国家重点学科加1个培育学科的格局。
Forty clinical specialties are national key clinical specialty construction projects supervised by the National Health Commission.学校有40个临床专科入选国家卫生健康委员会的国家临床重点专科建设项目。
The 40 national key clinical specialty projects are distributed across the affiliated hospitals and support specialist training in surgery, internal medicine, obstetrics and gynecology, and emergency care.这40个国家临床重点专科项目分布在各附属医院，支撑外科、内科、妇产科和急诊等专科培训。
Six disciplines are recognized as first-class distinctive disciplines of universities and colleges in Liaoning Province.学校有6个学科被认定为辽宁省高等学校一流特色学科。
The university maintains 7 mobile postdoctoral research stations and offers 21 undergraduate specialties across medicine, nursing, public health and related fields.学校设有7个博士后科研流动站，开设21个本科专业，覆盖医学、护理学、公共卫生及相关领域。
Its teaching structure includes the College of Basic Medical Sciences, the First Clinical College and the First Affiliated Hospital, and the Second Clinical College with Sheng Jing Hospital.教学机构包括基础医学院、第一临床学院及第一附属医院、第二临床学院及盛京医院。
The Third Clinical College and Third Affiliated Hospital were merged with Sheng Jing Hospital, while the Fourth Clinical College runs the Fourth Affiliated Hospital.第三临床学院及第三附属医院并入盛京医院，第四临床学院则承办第四附属医院。
The School of Stomatology operates its own affiliated stomatological hospital, and the College of Public Health, Faculty of Forensic Medicine and College of Nursing complete the clinical and public health teaching units.口腔医学院设有附属口腔医院，公共卫生学院、法医学院和护理学院共同构成临床与公共卫生教学单位。
The Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of Medical Cell Biology is one of the university's flagship research platforms.教育部医学细胞生物学重点实验室是学校的重点科研平台之一。
Four Ministry of Health key laboratories focus on medical cell biology, immuno-dermatology, pediatric congenital malformation and AIDS immunology.学校有4个卫生部重点实验室，分别研究医学细胞生物学、免疫皮肤病学、小儿先天畸形和艾滋病免疫学。
The MBBS program has been taught in English since 1978, making it one of the earliest English-medium medical programs in China.学校自1978年起开设英语授课的MBBS项目，是中国最早的英语医学项目之一。
The Ministry of Education has approved the university to recruit international students for its English-medium programs, and the World Directory of Medical Schools lists instruction in Chinese, Japanese and English.教育部批准学校招收英语授课项目的国际学生，世界医学院校名录将其教学语言列为中文、日文和英文。
The university operates a joint college with Queen's University Belfast, offering cooperative degree programs to Chinese and international students.学校与贝尔法斯特女王大学合作举办联合学院，为中国及国际学生提供合作学位项目。
Students complete clinical internships in the affiliated hospitals during their final year, with Sheng Jing Hospital providing training in gynecology and obstetrics.学生在最后一年到附属医院完成临床实习，盛京医院承担妇产科学方面的培训。
The First Affiliated Hospital is a large tertiary general hospital that integrates treatment, teaching and research for the clinical colleges.第一附属医院是一所大型三级甲等综合医院，为各临床学院提供医疗、教学与科研支持。
Sheng Jing Hospital, the Second Affiliated Hospital, is known for gynecology and obstetrics and serves as a major clinical teaching site.第二附属医院盛京医院以妇产科见长，是学校重要的临床教学基地。
The Fourth Affiliated Hospital and the Stomatological Hospital extend the clinical network to general and oral care in Shenyang.第四附属医院和口腔医院把临床网络延伸到沈阳的综合医疗与口腔医疗领域。
The university's 6 doctoral disciplines and 7 postdoctoral stations support research training from master's level through postdoctoral work.学校的6个博士学科和7个博士后流动站支撑从硕士到博士后的科研训练。
Its academic programs combine basic medical sciences with clinical training in the affiliated hospitals, following the system-based model introduced in the 1950s and revised in later decades.学校课程把基础医学与附属医院临床训练相结合，沿袭20世纪50年代建立并在后续年代修订的系统课程模式。
Campus
China Medical University is based in Shenyang, the capital of Liaoning Province, the largest city in northeast China and a long-established industrial and railway centre.中国医科大学位于辽宁省省会沈阳，这是中国东北地区最大的城市，也是历史悠久的工业与铁路中心。
The Shenbei New Campus opened in September 2013 and added a modern teaching and research site to the university's existing Heping District campus.沈北新校区于2013年9月启用，在学校原有的和平区校区之外增加了现代化的教学科研园区。
The university occupied 1.535 million square meters of land as of September 2022, according to its institutional profile.据学校概况，截至2022年9月，校园总占地面积153.5万平方米。
Three large modern affiliated hospitals form the clinical campus network, and students rotate through them during their final year of study.三所大型现代化附属医院构成临床院区网络，学生在最后一年到这些医院轮转实习。
The First Affiliated Hospital is a tertiary general hospital in Shenyang that combines medical treatment, teaching, research and emergency care.第一附属医院是沈阳的三级甲等综合医院，集医疗、教学、科研和急救于一体。
Sheng Jing Hospital, the Second Affiliated Hospital, is particularly known for gynecology and obstetrics and draws patients from across Liaoning.第二附属医院盛京医院尤以妇产科见长，吸引辽宁各地患者前来就诊。
The Third Affiliated Hospital was merged with Sheng Jing Hospital, concentrating clinical teaching resources in a smaller number of larger sites.第三附属医院并入盛京医院，使临床教学资源集中于规模更大的院区。
The Fourth Affiliated Hospital and the affiliated Stomatological Hospital complete the clinical network, which supports internship training for medical and dental students.第四附属医院和附属口腔医院完善了临床网络，为医学与口腔专业学生提供实习培训。
Reputation
China Medical University was placed in the 501-600 band of the 2026 Academic Ranking of World Universities, the Shanghai ranking published by ShanghaiRanking Consultancy.中国医科大学在2026年软科世界大学学术排名中位列第501-600名区间，该榜单由上海软科教育信息咨询公司发布。
It was not included in the 2027 QS World University Rankings, the annual ranking compiled by Quacquarelli Symonds.学校未进入2027年QS世界大学排名，该排名由夸夸雷利·西蒙兹公司编制。
It was not included in the 2027 Times Higher Education World University Rankings, the London-based global university ranking.学校未进入2027年泰晤士高等教育世界大学排名，该榜单由伦敦的泰晤士高等教育机构发布。
It was not included in the 2026-2027 U.S. News global universities ranking.学校未进入2026-2027年度U.S. News全球大学榜单。
The university's founding in 1931 makes it the first medical school established by the Chinese Communist Party, a status emphasized in its official history.学校1931年的建校历史使其成为中国共产党创办的第一所医学院校，这一地位在其官方校史中反复强调。
Its 5 national key disciplines and 40 national key clinical specialty projects place it among China's leading medical universities.学校拥有5个国家重点学科和40个国家临床重点专科建设项目，跻身中国主要医科大学之列。
The English-medium MBBS program, taught since 1978 and approved by the Ministry of Education for international students, is one of the university's best-known offerings.自1978年开设并经教育部批准招收国际学生的英语授课MBBS项目，是学校最知名的办学项目之一。
The university was ranked among China's top medical universities in the 2018 CWTS Leiden Ranking and the 2018 CUAA Chinese university ranking.学校在2018年CWTS莱顿排名和2018年中国校友会大学排名中均位居中国主要医科大学前列。
Its affiliated hospitals, particularly Sheng Jing Hospital, are cited in the university's profile for their clinical reputation in gynecology and obstetrics.学校简介特别提到其附属医院尤其是盛京医院在妇产科领域的临床声誉。
Student life
The motto set by Mao Zedong in 1932, politically firm and technically excellent, remains part of the university's identity and is taught to new students.毛泽东1932年制定的“政治坚定，技术优良”校训延续至今，仍是学校精神的一部分并向新生讲授。
International students in the English-medium MBBS track study alongside Chinese classmates and complete the same clinical rotations in the affiliated hospitals.英语授课MBBS项目的国际学生与中国同学共同学习，并在附属医院完成相同的临床轮转。
Final-year students spend most of their time in the affiliated hospitals, where they take part in ward rounds, case discussions and supervised procedures.毕业班学生大部分时间在附属医院度过，参加查房、病例讨论和带教操作。
Sheng Jing Hospital offers additional training in gynecology and obstetrics, a specialty for which it is widely known in Liaoning.盛京医院提供妇产科方面的额外培训，该学科在辽宁广为人知。
The joint college with Queen's University Belfast gives students access to cooperative degree programs and international faculty.与贝尔法斯特女王大学合办的联合学院为学生提供合作学位项目和国际师资。
The university's 21 undergraduate specialties and 7 postdoctoral stations create a student community that spans undergraduate, master's, doctoral and postdoctoral stages.学校21个本科专业和7个博士后流动站形成了涵盖本科、硕士、博士和博士后的学生群体。
Notable people
He Cheng, one of the three doctors who accompanied the Party leadership to the Central Soviet Area, served as a vice minister of health and led the school in its early years.贺诚是随中央领导转移至中央苏区的三位医生之一，曾任卫生部副部长，并在建校初期领导学校。
Fu Lianzhang, a physician who founded small medical schools that merged into the health school, later served as a vice minister of health and president of the Chinese Medical Association.傅连暲曾创办多所小型医学院校并并入卫生学校，后来担任卫生部副部长和中华医学会会长。
Wang Bin served as president during the school's relocation to northern Shaanxi and later became a vice minister of health.王斌在学校迁往陕北期间担任校长，后来出任卫生部副部长。
Jiang Yizhen, a graduate of the university, served as minister of health of the People's Republic of China.学校校友江一真曾任中华人民共和国卫生部部长。
Ma Xiaowei, another graduate, served as head of the National Health Commission of China.另一位校友马晓伟曾任中国国家卫生健康委员会主任。
Wu Yingkai, a graduate and Chinese Academy of Sciences academician, founded the Beijing Anzhen Hospital and led its cardiovascular surgery program.校友、中国科学院院士吴英恺创办了北京安贞医院并领导其心血管外科项目。
Han Demin, a Chinese Academy of Engineering academician, served as president of Beijing Tongren Hospital.中国工程院院士韩德民曾任北京同仁医院院长。
Shang Hong, a Chinese Academy of Engineering academician, is a clinical laboratory specialist and national political adviser.中国工程院院士尚红是临床检验专家，并曾任全国政协委员。
Chen Hongduo, a Chinese Academy of Engineering academician, is a dermatologist trained at the university.中国工程院院士陈洪铎是学校培养的皮肤病学专家。
Wu Tianyi, a Chinese Academy of Engineering academician, is known for high-altitude medicine research.中国工程院院士吴天一是著名的高原医学研究者。
Teng Weiping, a graduate, served as vice governor of Liaoning Province.校友滕卫平曾任辽宁省副省长。
Ding Jian, a Chinese Academy of Engineering academician and university graduate, directed the Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica.中国工程院院士、学校校友丁健曾任中国科学院上海药物研究所所长。
Yao Xinsheng, a Chinese Academy of Engineering academician, is a pharmacognosy researcher and a graduate of the university.中国工程院院士姚新生是生药学研究者，也是学校校友。