Brief Introduction of the College of Basic Medical Sciences

The collage of basic medical sciences (CBMS) is the base of basic medical education for all the specialities and faculties of China Medical University. It was founded in 1949 and named as CBMS in April 1994.Now CBMS has 397 faculty members. Among them there are 57 professors, 57 associated professors and 92 lectures. CBMS is responsible for the teaching and education of students of all levels: postdoc, students for doctor and master degrees, undergraduates of 5 years, 6 years (foreign language class ) and 7 years trainings, foreign students, trainees of special courses, etc. There are 19 departments and 21 research laboratories, 1 key laboratory of Ministry of Health, and 2 institutes, 2 mobile stations for postdoc, 20 directors for doctor degree and 79 for master degree. CBMS insists on educating students to be good citizens as well as teaching them knowledge and always do its best to improve and modernize its teaching facilities. Now CBMS has 24 laboratories for experimentation, the total value of the equipment is 25 million yuan. The general level of teaching is ranked as "leading " among comparable collage, 2 teachers were named national and 5 provincial talent teachers. CBMS has undertaken 3 national,2 provincial and 22 university studies on teaching, with 100 papers published. In the past few years our faculty members were the chief-editors of 60,co-editors of 60 national textbooks or major reference books. CBMS has been working on 14 national key research projects, 50 projects funded by National Natural Science Fund, 234 projects funded by health ministry, education commission and provincial government. The total funding amounts to 8 million yuan. CBMS has established cooperative relations with medical collages in Japan, USA, German, UK, Australia, Russia, etc. Ninteen cooperative research projects have been established with 4.7 million yuan funding from abroad. Some of the major research projects of CBMS are leading in China, Some are among the most advanced level of the world.