Hainan Medical University is Located in the Hainan Province-the only tropical beach resort in China.

Sunshine, beach, ocean waves, coconut palms, and blue sky.

【 Principle 】

HMU is committed to cultivating students in their post capability and leadership skills, enhancing their distinctive talents.

【 Development 】

1947, the first President: Mr. Lin Xiaohai;

1948, the first Chairman of the Board: Mr. Song Ziwen;

Over the past 65 years since its founding, Hainan Medical University (HMU) has trained more than 40,000 students, with one academician, and 2 inthe provincial level leadership. Graduates from HMU are now working in over 10 different countries and regions includingHong Kong,MacaoandTaiwan.

Statistics from 22 county-level comprehensive hospitals show that over 70 % of the hospital directors(presidents) are the graduates from HMU, and 60% of the professionals and technical personnel in the medical departments and academic leading positions in the primary health units of Hainan province are the graduates from HMU.

【 Scale 】

Hainan Medical University (HMU) covers an area of 420,000 square meters.

The total enrollment at present is over 14,000 students, including 8,925 full-time students, and 116 overseas students.

The bachelor degree education program provides 26 majors (specialty) in the disciplines of medical science, science, and management. The three-year program provides 21 majors(specialty).

HMU has 4 affiliated hospitals and 84 teaching (practicing) bases including the General Hospital of Chinese People’s Liberation Army, the First and Second Affiliated Hospitals ofSunYat-senUniversity, Xiangya Hospital of Central-south University and West China Hospital of Sichuan University.

【 Specialty Provision 】

There are 26 undergraduate majors (specialty) in 2012.

【 Teaching Staff 】

The present staff number of HMU is 2,472, with 510 professors and specialists. 73% of of the 514 full-time teachers hold master’s or doctor’s degrees, and 57 of them are professors, 126 are associate professors. 1 is listed among the Recruitment Program of Global Experts, 14 have been entitled for the special subsidy from the State Council, 5 have entered the “Program for New Century Excellent Talents” under the Ministry of Education, 6 are vice chairmen of the secondary national academic committees under the Chinese Medical Association and other academic associations, 11 are members of the standing committee or the council, and 18 are chairmen or directors of the provincial academic committees.

【 Distinctive Features of Majors and Disciplines 】

National level specialty: Clinical Medicine;

National level specialty: Pharmacology;

National DemonstrationCenterfor Laboratory Teaching: Clinical Skills Training Center of Hainan province, and Hainan provincialDemonstrationCenterfor Laboratory Teaching;

National Base of Education and Training:TrainingCenterfor General Medicine of Hainan province, andHainanProvincial GeneralMedicalPractitionerTrainingCenter;

The key discipline in Traditional Chinese Medicine under the State Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine: Hepatobiliary Diseases with TCM;

National Base for Science Popularization:HainanProvincial Science and Technology Hall of Human Life;

National Base for Clinical Pharmaceutical Testing for respiratory, cardiovascular, neurological, gynecological and obstetric, urological, endocrine, and digestive diseases;

National Laboratory for Preclinical Drug Safety Evaluation: the Research Center for Drug Safety Evaluation of Hainan Province, GLP (Good Laboratory Practice) Certification by the State Food and Drug Administration, one of the 42 National Laboratories for Preclinical Safety Evaluation of Drugs;

The technology access institution of Human Assisted Reproductive Technology under the Ministry of Health: Obstetrics and Gynecology Reproductive Medicine Center; one of the first batch of institutions to develop human assisted reproductive technology in China and one of the first institutions to be accredited by the Ministry of Health;

The Joint Laboratory of Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences: Hainan Provincial Key Laboratory of Human Reproduction and Genetics (in preparation) --- Key and Joint Laboratory of Regenerative Biology of Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences;

Provincial level key disciplines: Medicinal Chemistry, Internal Medicine, Pathology, Obstetrics, Neurology, Medical Imaging, among which Pathology and Obstetrics are also the provincial level key medical discipline.

Provincial level key laboratories:

Key Laboratory of Tropical Diseases inHainanProvince;

Key Laboratory of Research and Development of Tropical Medicinal Plants inHainanProvince;

Key Laboratory of Preclinical Pharmacological and Toxicological Research of Drugs inHainanProvince;

Key Laboratory of Human Reproduction and Genetics inHainanProvince(in preparation);

Key Laboratory of Tumor Intervention and Occurrence inHainanProvince(in preparation).

Over the past 5 years, the university has won 30 provincial Sci-tech achievement awards.

224 papers have been cited by SCI、EI、ISTP, 47 academic books have been published and 58 textbooks have been compiled. Up to now, the university has conducted 37 natural sciences research projects.

Asia-Pacific Journal of Tropical Medicine, the only English-version international journal of tropical medicine inChinahas been cited by all the international medical retrieval systems (including SCI, Medline).

Hainan Medical University Journal has been selected into Chinese Sci-tech Periodicals Citation Report (Core Edition). It has been included in 11 major international databases and 12 international retrieval systems, with its citation rate ranking fourth among more than 230 medical colleges journals.

【 International Cooperation 】

The university has offered overseas education with majors including Clinical Medicine, Stomatology, Traditional Chinese Medicine, and Nursing.

It has also established international cooperation with universities including the University of Utah (USA), Newcastle University (UK), Queensland University of Technology (Australia) in the fields of undergraduates exchanging postgraduate and doctorate students collective cultivating. 

【 Employment 】

Over the past years, the passing rate of the Nurse License Qualification Test has reached 100%, “zero distance” employment rate has reached 90%, the rate of first-time employment of its graduates is over 95%, annual employment rate is 100%, and over 95% of the employers have been satisfied with its graduates.

The passing rate of the Doctor License Qualification Test has been high, with 100% of students of 2002 having passed the test, the passing rate of students of 2003-2005 reaching over 80%, and the second-time passing rate up to 100%.

The university has been awarded such honorary titles as “Unit for Advancement in Employment Rate of Graduates from National Institutions of Higher Learning”, and “Unit for Excellency in Employment Rate of Graduates from Institutions of Higher Learning inHainanprovince”, etc.

The employers include many well-known medical and health units and primary hospitals both in and outside of Hainan province, such as the General Hospital of Chinese People’s Liberation Army,Beijing First Aid Center,GuangdongProvincial People’s Hospital, theAffiliatedHospitalsofSunYat-senUniversity, Zhujiang Hospital of Southern Medical University, the West China Hospital of Sichuan University, etc. In particular, the General Hospital of Chinese People’s Liberation Army has recruited 135 students from HMU in recent two years.

Over the past three years, the employment rate of graduates from HMU has ranked among the top inHainanprovince.