College of Acumox and Tuina, Shanghai University of TCM is time honoured and has profound accumulation. In 1960, Shanghai University of TCM set up the specialty of Acumox for the first time among all national colleges and universities of TCM; In 1974, the specialty of Acumox-Tuina-Traumatology was established; in 1978, the specialty of Acumox-Tuina was established; in 1982, specialties of Acumox and Tuina were established respectively for independent student recruitment of Acumox and Tuina, and this was the first nationwide; In 1998, the Acumox and Tuina College was founded formally.
As the earliest established base of undergraduate and graduate education for Acumox and Tuina specialties in China, and a college with key subjects of the State Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine as well as the Shanghai Municipal Educational Committee, the college has brought up batches of senior talents of Acumox-Tuina with the persistence in the university’s high level, research and foreign-oriented school-running pattern in recent years. After continuous construction and endeavor, the college has formed a system that accords with the laws of self development and internationalized development trend for the cultivation of Acumox-Tuina talents, and made considerable development in discipline construction, scientific research and construction of talent resource, which has made the specialties top the list of the same kind in the whole nation. In 2007, the work of the college was approved by the experts in the Undergraduate Teaching Level Evaluation of the Ministry of Education. At present, the college offers the following specialties: Acumox and Tuina (five-year course), Traditional Chinese Medicine (five-year course, Traumatology oriented),Traditional Chinese Medicine (seven-year English course in Acumox and Tuina, in collaboration with College of Foreign Language, Jiaotong University) and Acumox and Tuina (five-year course, rehabilitation oriented).
The college owns an excellent teaching and researching group mainly consisting of Master and PhD tutors; this group is responsible for the teaching of undergraduates and graduates as well as various scientific research items. Many teachers were awarded laurels such as “Shanghai Famous Teacher”, “Education Prize of Bao Steel”, “Advanced Worker in Education” and “Excellent Young Teacher” of Shanghai Municipal Education Committee. Science of Acumox became one of the first Excellent Courses of the Ministry of Education in 2004, and realization of networking of its teaching resources has facilitated the network teaching. In addition, the creative teaching model of Trinity of Acumox Classics, Acumox Treatment and Experimental Acumox has been explored continuously.
Insisting on the developing concepts of high level and interdisciplinary integration, the college cooperates with comprehensive universities and scientific research institutes at home and abroad such as Fudan University, Shanghai Jiaotong University, Shanghai Institute of Technical Physics of CAS, Institute of Hand Surgery of Huashan Hospital, University of Maryland of the U.S. and Chinese University of Hong Kong etc. to carry forward scientific research and reasonable talent exchange, so as to improve scientific research level and discipline construction. In the areas of objectification and standardization research for Acumox and meridians basics, clinical research and diagnosis & treatment techniques of Acumox-Tuina, the college has obtained distinguished achievements which were successively honoured with awards from Ministry of Education, Ministry of Health, State Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine， and Science & Technology Achievement Prizes of Shanghai; in addition, the college has obtained and transferred more than 10 patents.
As an important window for the foreign exchange of our university, the college dispatches specialists to Southeast Asia, European countries, and the U.S. to give lectures and to offer medical treatments every year, and also receives scholars and groups from various countries, which make great contribution to the appearance of Traditional Chinese Medicine on the international stage.
Acumox and Tuina College, according to the requirements of the economy, science and technology, society and human hygiene in the new century, will insist on the simultaneous process of inheritance, development and innovation, and taking quality as the core, reformation as the drive, development as the theme and innovation as the source, to cultivate high leveled, foreign-oriented and interdisciplinary talents with strong practical ability and creative sprit through an open development way for education and instruction. The college will progress actively in instruction, scientific research, scientific and technological industry and other aspects, and endeavor to construct a first-class Acumox and Tuina College nationwide.