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 and in 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 16,757 full-time students, including over 14,369 undergraduates and 2,388 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 202 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 Education and 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 of Health Management, School of International Studies, School of Medical Imaging, School of Innovation and Entrepreneurship and School of Continuing Education.
School Development Structure
In recent years, the development structure and the comprehensive competitiveness of BMU have been enhanced, forming a school development structure of “Two Advantages and Two Features”. Two advantage refer to the outstanding advantage of clinical medicine and the advantage of Pharmacy. Clinical Medicine, which focusing on the development of “New Medicine”, is selected to be a national first-class undergraduate program at national level and it is a national featured program. Clinical Medicine is also listed in the Program Matching Industry Project of Education Serving Transformation of Old and New Growth Drivers in Shandong province. Clinical Medicine discipline is selected to be a first-class discipline and a high-level discipline of Shandong province and has entered 3‰ in ESI ranking. Pharmacy, which adhering to the road of production-education-research-application integration, was selected to be a first-class program of Shandong province and a key supporting program by provincial finance. The Rongchang Industry Institute co-constructed by BMU and Rongchang Pharmaceuticals was included in the list of the first batch of Shandong modern industry institute, undertaking national and provincial special project on significant new drugs development and provincial special project on self-independent innovation and achievements commercialization. BMU also co-constructed a provincial key laboratory of “Meteria Medica Modernization and New Dosage Form Development” with Xianglong Group. The discipline of Pharmacy was selected to be a high-level discipline in Shandong province and the Pharmacology and Toxicology discipline has entered 6‰ in ESI ranking. The discipline of Chemistry has entered 9‰ in ESI ranking. “Two Features” refers to higher education for the disabled and rehabilitation medicine. In 1985, Binzhou Medical University started the first undergraduate program in China that was especially designed for the disabled, which marked the beginning of medical education for the disabled in China. In 2012, the university took the initiative to recruit students with visual impairment to take part in a five-year program of Acupuncture and Massotherapy and in 2018, the university started to recruit students with hearing impairment, which filled in the gaps of undergraduate programs of students with visual or hearing impairment among medical universities. In nearly 40 years' development, BMU has created its own model of teaching the disabled and healthy students together, combining teaching and rehabilitation in the education for the disabled students and putting knowledge into practice for talent cultivation of the disabled and has cultivated 1,289 disabled medical graduates, making positive contributions for our country’s development. BMU has been working hard on the innovative development of higher education on rehabilitation medicine, forming a domestically advanced and provincially comprehensive “Great Rehabilitation” system with the collaborative development of medicine, teaching and rehabilitation. Now, BMU serves as the National Higher Education Basis for the Disabled, the Standardized Training Basis for Blind Medical Massage and Standardized Training Basis for Rehabilitation Physician with the honorable titles of “National Advanced unit for Helping Persons with Disabilities” and “National Advanced Unit for Special Education”.
Talent Cultivation
BMU insists on taking high moral value establishment in talent cultivation as the fundamental task and setting talent cultivation as the working center. BMU puts into practices its university dictum of “benevolent and skillful”, promotes its school spirit of “factualism, solidarity, preciseness and innovation,” and practices its teaching spirit of “imparting knowledge and cultivating people, serving as role models, adopting rigorous scholarship and dedicating to teaching” and its learning spirit of “advocating science, seeking the truth, studying diligently and keeping faith”. Over the past 50 years, BMU has made positive contributions to society and our country by cultivating more than 197,000 talents in medicine and medicine-related fields, who have become great academics, leading figures and elites in the fields and primary medical staffs and are known for their “pragmatic style, solid foundation and diligent work ethic”, such as Prof. Meng Xiangjin, who is a member of the United States National Academy of Sciences.
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, 25 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 34 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 disciplines of BMU ranked top 1‰ 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.
Scientific Research
BMU is one of the scientific and technological achievements commercialization and technology transfer bases for Shandong universities and is approved to be a comprehensive unit of technological achievements commercialization in Shandong province. Over the past 5 years, BMU has been responsible for over 1,600 research projects, including 113 NSFC (National Natural Science Foundation of China) projects, 4 SSFC (National Social Science Fund of China) projects and 300 projects at ministerial and provincial-level. It has been awarded 41 prizes of scientific and technological achievements at ministerial and provincial-level. There are one key laboratory of State Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine, one provincial technology innovation center, nine provincial engineering research centers, one provincial-municipal Shandong key laboratory nurturing base, one provincial university humanities research base and 43 bureau level research platforms. More than 4900 papers that were published on SCI, CSSCI and Chinese core journals and so on, among which 14 papers are published on Nature, The New England Journal of Medicine, The Lancet and Cell. The university has 360 patents, including 190 patents for invention. BMU participated the R&D process of China’s first domestically developed Disitamab Vedotin, an original ADC anticancer drugs, which is approved for the market.Binzhou Medical University currently edits and publishes two academic journals: Chinese Journal of Hospital StatisticsandJournal of Binzhou Medical University, both journals are published home and abroad.
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 1616 mu (1 mu equates 1/15 hectare) and a total building area of 779,500 square meters. Its national owned assets reach RMB 1.947 billion yuan, and the value of teaching and research facilities reaches RMB 504 million yuan. The university library has over 1.8 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 2016. Yantai Stomatological Hospital of BMU is a AAA Grade specialized hospital with 430 comprehensive dental treatment chairs and 60 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.
