HainanMedicalCollegehas 2 campuses of Cheng Xi and Long Hua with a total land area of 557,060.99 square meters. It now has 1300 faculty and staff members (the affiliated hospital members inclusive), comprising 320 full-time teachers among whom there are 46.3% of postgraduates. There have been nearly 50 retained specialists domestically or aboard as honorable professors, visiting professors and expert counselors. There are various institutions, faculties and departments for teaching, researching and administrative purposes in HMC, such as theInstituteofHigher Vocational? Education, the Clinical Institute, the Department of Preventive Medicine, the Department of Higher Nursing, the Pharmacy Department, the Department of Medical Testing, the Department of? Traditional Chinese Medicine, the Stomatology Department, the Faculty of Pre-clinical Studies, the Faculty of Social Sciences, the Faculty of Foreign Languages, the Faculty of Information Technology and the Faculty of Physical Education.
Our college always adheres to such a basic school-running policy: To base ourselves upon the undergraduate education, to actively develop the education for postgraduates and overseas students, and to coordinate common education and continuing education. Today we have all-together 10 undergraduate specialties of clinical medicine, medical testing, preventive medicine, pharmacy, higher nursing, traditional Chinese medicine, medical image, clinical medicine of Chinese and Western medicines and recuperative therapy, and totally 207 courses.
A campus network of a 1000MB Broad Band and 100MB terminals has been built, which is connected to the Hainan node of China Education and Research Computer Net with a 100MB Broad Band. This campus network system has contained all the relevant intranet functions, including portal website, E-mail service system, file-transmitted service system and electronic community service system. On the new campus ofHainanMedicalCollege, the wireless internet system has been equipped. Our library is the only novelty-search section of provincial level and above for the research items in medicine and? sanitation. The library has a collection totaling 511,584 volumes and it has set up a regular file-transmitted service relationship with the digital library of CADLIS. Our college also publishes 2 periodicals ofHainan Medical College Transaction? andthe Newspaper ofHainanMedicalCollege.
Our college recruits students nationwide. There are more than 7200 students in our college now. At the end of “The Eleventh 5-Year Plan”, this number will reach 12000. Since the establishment, our college has provided nearly 20,000 graduates for public health purposes.
Our college always sticks to such a research guideline “Shifting the focus from basic researches to applied ones, from minor research projects to large-scale ones, from simplex researches to collective ones”, makes full use of our own teaching and research staff and the material advantage, and lays our research focus on molecular chemistry, gene-transition research, bio-chemistry, stem cell research, marine medication.
In the recent years, our college has made great progresses in scientific research, declaring 2 research projects of national high-tech project 863, cloning 2 new human genes which has become members of international gene-base(numbered GenbankAF157027 and GenbankAF160979), bearing off 14 province-leveled awards, going along with 20 ministry-leveled research projects and 14 projects of National Natural Science Fund. Now we are also going ahead with? 2 subjects (gynecology and obstetrics) of provincial level. We have set up 2 key laboratories (the Tropical Medicinal Plant Research and Exploitation Laboratory of Hainan Province, and the Pathogenic Research Laboratory of Hainan Province ). We also have 4 key courses and 3 characteristic courses, which are all of provincial level. And some characteristic courses like molecular biology, procreant medicine, tropical medicine are under cultivation.
The Affiliated Hospital of Hainan Medical College was built in 1973. This is a comprehensive class-3, grade-A hospital, which covers diagnosis and treatment, teaching and? research, disease prevention, health care and community health service. In this hospital, there are 513 beds, integrated medical sections and modernized equipments for medical purposes as well. This hospital is also only one inHainanwhich is authorized by the Ministry of Health to research on In Vitro Fertilization and embryo-transfer.
TheHainanMedicalCollegeis actively innovating its own system, and in turn developing with this innovation. On the 2nd Congress of the Communist Party inHainanMedicalCollege, the strategic development goal of “3-Step Strategy” was put forward. With this goal, we will try to develop our college into a characteristic education center for tropical medicine and medical treatment in 10 years, and build our college into a modernized college of medicine and pharmacy with clearHainantrait.
We hold in our mind that in the coming future, a modernized college of medicine and pharmacy with integrated courses, beautified surroundings, advanced equipments and higher school-running level will be standing erectly on theHainanIslandinSouthern China.