Why study in Weifang Medical University

For a decade,development pace in china has been enormous. China has improved peoples average standard of living. It has become a home town of many multinational companies in the past few years. China herself has been inviting millions of investors and has been investing in many underdeveloped countries including Pakistan, India, Nepal and Vietnam. Recently, Chinese universities and colleges have been inviting and recieving applications from students in many neighbouring countries. MBBS in China is also a part of that programme.Students who fail to gain admisssion to a Medical University in their own countries can try for MBBS in China to pursue a career in medicine.

China is one of the leaders in the medical field in the modern world.After doing MBBS in WHO recognized universities , overseas students can make their way to other countries of the world or can go back to their own countries for house job and practise as a doctor .

Weifang Medical University (WFMU) a university with a hunderd years of history is a state-owned medical university. It is located in Weifang - the international Kite Capital C at the center of Shandong Peninsula. WFMU covers an area of more than 1.2 million square meterswith 570000 square meters construction area. Over the past decades a comprehensive and multi-disciplinary pattern has been formed at WFMUwhich has offered a number of disciplinesincluding medical scienceshealth managementgeneral sciences law and literature, with the medical sciences as the leading discipline. WFMU is authorized to grant bachelor and master degrees and recruit overseas students. WFMU is also authorized to recruit PhD candidates in collaboration with Shandong University Southern Medical University and Huazhong University of Science and Technologyand also Shandong Medical Technology Educational Centre and the Basic-level Health Management Cadres Training Centre.

Schools & Departments
WFMU comprises 15 schools and departments such as School of Humanities and Social Science School of Public Health & Management Nursing School Dentistry School Clinical Medicine Department Anesthesiology DepartmentMedical Radiology Department and Preventive Medicine Department.

Teaching Staff
At present, there are 1000 teaching staff of which more than 400 have got advanced professional titles and 480 have got doctor and master degrees. There are 4 supervisors for doctoral students and nearly 200 for master students. There are 23 topnotch professionals at provincial and municipal levels18 middle-aged and youth academic backbone at provincial level or above 9 members with national allowance. And there are another 10 members who have been awarded  the national labor modelthe national advanced work the Labor Day labor medal the national advanced teacher and the advanced worker in medicine.

Postgraduate Programs
There are 24 postgraduate programs mainly enrolling postgraduates in Physiology Immunology Pharmacology Anatomy, Embryology Pathology and PathophysiologyPathogen BiologyBiochemistry and Molecule BiologyInternal MedicineSurgeryGynecologyPediatrics Ophthalmology Otolaryngology Dentistry Neurology Oncology Traditional and Western Clinic MedicineEmergencyImaging and Nuclear Medicine Nursing Anesthesiology Epidemiology and Health StatisticsSocial Medicine and Health Cause Management and Applied Psychology. There are over 740 postgraduates students.

Undergraduate Programs
SPECIALTIES 1/MBBS&BDS   2/TCM   3/Chinese language program

The university offers 16 undergraduate programs: Clinical medicine DentistryNursingAnesthesiologyMedical ImagingMedical Laboratory Preventive MedicinePharmacyPublic Health and Managementlabor and Social Security Marketing LawApplied Psychology Health Statistics Biological TechnologyEnglish Language.There are over 14000 full-time 3 and 5-year- program students.

Research Centers
WFMU has always focused on teaching and constantly improved quality. There is a Medical Research Center a Modern Educational Technology Center a Computer Center and an Animal Supplying Center. More than 10000 sets of scientific and research instruments such as confocal laser scanning microscope(Zeiss) flow cytometer(Beckman Coulter) and image processor, which  are worthy of over RMB 110 million.

There is 1 experimental demonstration center at the provincial level. There are 6 comprehensive teaching laboratories at university level: Morphology Function Chemicoanalysis Clinical Skills Computer and Human Anatomy and 16 specialty laboratories like Gene and Histology Engineering Dentistry and Nursing which are equipped with advanced Imaging PACS System Digital Network Interactive Laboratory Teaching System and BL-410 Biological Function Experiment System and so on.

The Experimental Center of Basic Medicine is an experimental and teaching demonstration center for universities in Shandong Province. Anatomy Medical Ethics Pathology Physiology Histology and embryology Pharmacology and Medical Imaging are assessed as the excellent subjects at provincial level. WFMU has undertaken 90 teaching and research projects at provincial level or above and has been awarded 24 prizes in teachingexperiment and research since 2004.

WFMU has one discipline which offers post for Taishan Scholars 7 key provincial academic disciplines and laboratories including Anatomy and Histological Embryology Surgery Medical Radiology Ophthalmology, Immunology Applied Pharmacology Dental medicine. There are 24 research institutes such as Pathology Neurophysiology Differentiation and Cycle of Stem Cell Molecule Cell Biology Urology Surgery Orthopedics Pediatrics Anesthesiology Community Medicine Health Management EpidemiologyHealth Statistics and Health Economy.

Achievements in Research
In recent yearsWFMU has made many achievements in research.More than 340 research projects have been approved by the state authoritiesincluding 16 large projects sponsored by the Foundation of State Natural Science and the national key laboratory projects 40 projects granted by Provincial Natural Science Fund and Middle-aged and Youth Scientists Fund and 260 projects at bureau level. More than 220 prizes for researches have been awarded including 50 prizes for specialists at provincial level. More than 870 academic papers and 70 books are published each year. Over 30 achievements have been popularized for continuing education at provincial level or above. WFMU has got over 10 national patents and good social economic and social beneficial effects have been achieved.. The university library holds a collection of over 2.1 million books and 3000 kinds of Chinese and foreign journals. There are 12 comprehensive affiliated hospitals.

International Exchange
The university has established extensive inter-relationships with many overseas universities such as Western State College in California of U.S.A, Ukraine Haerkefu State Academy Ukraine Haerkefu State Medical Academy, Ukraine Dnipropetrovsk State Medical Academy; RMIT and La Trobe University of Australia College of Saskatchewan of Canada, and University of Occupational and Environmental Health of Japan. More than 160 foreign experts have been invited to visit or teach at our university over 170 teachers have studied abroad and many staff have been sent abroad as the medical succor. More than 60 famous professors all over the world have been invited to be guest professors at the university. WFMU recruits overseas students every year and there are nearly 600 overseas students from Nepal India and Pakistan at present. It is also one of the universities which are authorized to hold HSK.