Binzhou Medical University is a common medical university at provincial level in Shandong Province，and  its predecessor was the Public Medical School of Shandong University  originally established in 1946. The university follows its  school-running tradition that “teaching comes first, and quality is  prior to any others” and that “the education of man is a fundamental,  and moral education has the priority”, and puts into practices its  university dictum of “benevolent mind and wonderful skills”. Sticking to  the centeredness on the cultivation of talents and that on the  improvement of quality, it has trained more than 61,000 talented people  in medicine and medicine-related trades for the society.

Now  the university has two campuses,has become the only famous medical  university stretching across two school sites, with distinctive  school-running characteristics and strength and high quality of  education. Binzhou Medical University was qualified of granting master’s  degree in 2003. In 2006, it passed the undergraduate teaching  evaluation of Ministry of Education with outstanding achievements. In  2013, the university was among the first pilot universities of the  comprehensive reform of undergraduate programs. It was approved as the  demonstration site of special education at the national level, yielding  outstanding results in succession in the National Clinical Skills  Competition for University Students. It was included in the Shandong  Province’s construction projects of elite universities centered on the  cultivation of applied talents in 2013.

The  university covers lands of 2,000 mu (1 mu equates 1/15 hectare) in  total, with its floorage accounting for 630,000 square meters. Its fixed  assets total 1.25 billion RMB. In particular, its teaching and  scientific apparatuses and facility count for 209 million RMB in total;  its library has a collection of 2.4 million volumes. At present, the  university has two directly affiliated hospitals, 13 indirectly  affiliated hospitals, more than 140 teaching hospitals and practical  teaching hospitals, and more than 40 teaching bases for medicine-related  disciplines.

The  university has more than 15,800 full-time students, has a staff of 976,  including 685 full-time teachers. It boasts 91 professors, 227  associate professors. There are three academicians in working in the  university, nine experts (professors) with “Taishan Scholar”  entitlement.The university has 11 schools (faculties), 25 undergraduate  majors, four characteristic subject construction units of higher  education at the level of Ministry of Education, and seven  characteristic subjects at provincial level. It boasts the authorization  of master’s degree conferment in three first-class disciplines and two  majors, 35 second-class disciplines, one key discipline authorized by  the State Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine, and six  “Taishan Scholar” disciplines. Its key provincial-level disciplines  reach eight, with its key diciplines and bases of humanities and social  sciences topping 13. There are altogether 27 provincial-level excellent  courses and bilingual demonstration courses, three demonstration  teaching center, five teaching teams, and one experimental site for  talents training.

In  the recent five years, the university has been responsible for more  than 1,340 research projects, including 56 NSFC projects, 185 provincial  projects, published more than 550 monographs and textbooks, over 3,500  papers.

The  university has insisted on an open way to run the school, establishing  in succession friendly inter-university relationships and scholarly  exchange and co-operation relationships with more than 30 universities  in the USA, UK, Japan, South Korea, New Zealand and other countries and  regions. It has thus made great achievements in personnel exchanges,  united cultivation of postgraduates, and projects of united  construction.

In  future, the university will insist on following the important  instruction of the The18th National Congress of the CPC, sticking to the  right school-running direction and fully implementing the party’s  educational policies, the national and provincial plans for long-term  educational reforms. In accordance with the general layout and thought  of development of “One strategic goal, five strategic points”, the  university strives to strengthen its development by promoting  school-running characteristics, improving the quality of education and  teaching standards. Binzhou Medical University will endeavor to build a  satisfactory medical university and make greater economic and social  contributions to the national and regional development.