Guilin Medical University

Guilin Medical University

Motto	弘德善医
Type	Public coeducational
Established	1935
Location	Guilin , China

Guilin Medical University (GLMU; simplified Chinese: 桂林医学院; traditional Chinese: 桂林醫學院; pinyin: Guìlín yī xué yuàn) is a public university, located in Guilin, Guangxi, China. The university offers undergraduate and postgraduate programs in medicine.

Introduction

  Located in the historical and tourist city of Guilin which is world well-known for its unique beauty of hills and rivers, Guilin Medical University (GLMU) is an undergraduate university directly under Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region. It is made up of 3 campuses-----Le Quan, Dong Cheng and Lin Gui campus. Le Quan campus is near the Solitary Beauty Peak rising sharply from the ground, Dong Cheng campus lies in the east bank of the colorful Li River and Er Tang campus is being planned and built.

 Founded in 1935 from the former Guilin Senior Nurse Midwifery School, GLMU was upgraded and renamed as Guilin Medical School in 1958. Approved by the former State Education Committee in 1987, the school was upgraded to a college for medical undergraduates. In 2006, GLMU was authorized to conduct the graduate education and was evaluated and accredited an “Excellent University” by the Ministry of Education of China. In a word, Guilin Medical University gives priority to clinical medicine and also integrates pharmacy, biotechnology, medical assay as well as Nursing into a multi-major harmoniously-developed university with stronger comprehensive power to run a university and also with a definite influence in and out of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region.

  At present, the university has 9 full-time specialties of undergraduate level, including Clinical Medicine, Medical Laboratory, Oral Medicine, Preventive Medicine, Nursing, Biotechnology, Pharmacy, Pharmaceutical preparation, and Marketing (medical-orientation)；Besides, it also provide adults with 6 specialties in vocational education covering Medical Imaging, Clinical Laboratory, Nursing, Pharmacy, Medical Marketing and Medical biotechnology. Also, there are 3 levels corresponding education for adult, 3-year program, undergraduate program (bachelor degree of medicine) for high school graduates, and undergraduate program for the associates, whose specialties cover Clinical Medicine, Pharmacy, Nursing, Clinical Laboratory, stomatology, etc. We have enrolled students from 18 provinces and regions in China. At present, students of various kinds in our university have reached over 10,000.
                                                                                                    GLMU takes an active part in the international exchanges and cooperation, and it is one of the earlier institutions of higher learning being accredited by the former State Education Committee and the State Administration Bureau of Traditional Chinese Medicine to enroll international students and offer education of traditional Chinese medicine to oversea students. Currently, we have foreign students from USA, India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Vietnam and so on.

Colleges (faculties)

College of Biotechnology, College of Pharmacy, College of Basic Medicine, College of Clinical Medicine , the Second College of Clinical Medicine, the Third College of Clinical Medicine , College of Clinical Medicine at Nanxi Shan , College of Nursing and College of Further Education.

References

www.glmu.edu.cn

External links

• Guilin Medical University