Inner Mongolia Medical University (IMMU) is located in Hohhot, the Capital of Inner Mongolia, which is a well-structured, multi-disciplined medical university.
IMMU consists of three campuses of Jinshan, Xinhua and Xilin, and covers an area of 1,230,141 square meters with a floor area of 453,591 square meters, which includes 203,636square meters of teaching and administration building. The university has 1,050,000 copies of books and documents.
There are 14,605 full-time students, which consists of 10,643 undergraduate students and 2,325 junior college students, 1,473 master and 89foreign students. IMMU enrolls students from 28 provinces and autonomous regions every year.
IMMU gathers many prominent professors. There are 926 full-time faculties, including 220professors and 211 associate professors of whom 513 are Master supervisors and 14 part-time doctoral supervisors. 185 of these teachers have doctor’s degrees,504 have master’s degrees. The percentage of Full-time teachers with master’s degrees and postgraduate qualification are 74.41%. Other important facts and figures of faculty are as follows: 63experts who receives special government allowance from the State Council, 35 young experts who make outstanding contribution to the autonomous region and the country, one second level candidate of national “New Century Talents Project”, 72 first and second level candidates of regional “The New Century 321 Talents Project”, 9 first and second level candidates of regional “111 Talents Project”, 6 regional outstanding teachers, 22 regional meritocrats in the grassland, one regional model in the respect of teacher’s morality, 6 regional prominent teachers, 3 regional excellent teachers, 4 regional promising young teachers. It also has built one national teaching team and 4 regional ones. The famous expert of Mongolian Medicine, Professor Su Rong Zarb, won the national honorary title of “the Master of Chinese Culture”.
The motto of IMMU is erudition, virtue, integrity and benevolence. As a local medical university, it has formulated the idea on administrating the university, namely, equally stressing on integrity and ability, and attracting talents, and will dedicate itself to cultivating medical advanced applied professionals, carrying out the research of medical science, serving the society, and promoting the social development.
IMMU, founded in 1956, was one of the earliest medical universities in minority areas. It was under the direct jurisdiction of the Ministry of Health before 1958, and then put under the administration of Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. IMMU was formerly known as Inner Mongolia Medical College. After the approval of the Ministry of Education, it was renamed as Inner Mongolia Medical University in March, 2012.
With the 50 years of construction and development, IMMU has trained more 30,000 qualified people to meet the needs of the country, made a major contribution to economic development, social progress, technological innovation, cultural inheritance, national unity and the stability in border areas of the autonomous region and had the distinct school-running feature. In 2007, it was granted A level by the Ministry of Education during the evaluation of undergraduate teaching.
IMMU has 16 schools, namely, the School of Basic Medical Science, the School of Pharmacy, the School of Traditional Chinese Medicine, the School of Traditional Mongolia Medicine, the School of Public Health, the School of Foreign Language Study, the School of Computer Science, the School of Nursing, the School of Health Management (The Research Institute of Health Policy in Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region), the Graduate School, the School of International Education, the School of Continuing Studies, Department of Physical Education, Department of Ideological and Political Education, etc., 5 affiliated hospitals, including 3 directly affiliated hospitals and 2 indirectly affiliated hospitals, 5 schools of Clinical Medicine, which are comprised of the first and third School of Clinical Medicine, the School of Clinical Medicine of Inner Mongolia People Hospital, School of Clinical Medicine in Chifeng and School of Clinical Medicine in Erdos. In addition, it also has 22 teaching hospitals and 54 practical teaching bases of other majors inside and outside the Autonomous Region.
Undergraduate students were enrolled from 1956, and postgraduate students from 1978. IMMU obtained the authorization of master’s degree in 1981 and persons in the same educational level applying for master’s degree in 1999. It was approved as a Master of Medicine education unit in 2003 and a Master of Stomatology unit in 2009. Since 2005, it had cooperated with Beijing University of Chinese Medicine, Capital Medical University and Tianjin University of Traditional Chinese Medicine in training jointly doctoral students majoring in seven disciplines, including Traditional Mongolian Medicine, the combination of traditional Chinese and Western Medicine, Chinese Internal Medicine, Imaging and Nuclear Medicine, Surgery, Cell Biology and the Science of Chinese Pharmacology. In 2009, it was designated an intellectual construction station for cultivating future PhDs by the government of Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. From then on, IMMU took the lead in building the system of ethnomedicine higher education which can simultaneously train undergraduate students, postgraduate students and doctoral students and evolved a trinity educational pattern of higher education of Modern Medicine and Pharmacology, Traditional Chinese Medicine and Traditional Mongolia Medicine.
IMMU has 6 first-grade disciplines, including Preclinical Medicine, Clinical Medicine, Traditional Chinese Medicine, Pharmacy, the Science of Chinese Pharmacology and the Science of Nursing, 47 second-grade program authorized to award master’s degree and 25 bachelor’s degree programs which are composed of 3 the second category of characteristic majors awarded by the Ministry of Education, namely, Traditional Mongolian Medicine, Traditional Chinese Pharmacology, Traditional Mongolian Pharmacy, 12 brand majors named by Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, such as, Clinical Medicine, the Science of Pharmacy, Traditional Chinese Medicine, Traditional Mongolian Medicine, the Science of Nursing, etc.. Besides, it also has 28 regional excellent courses of Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, e.g. Histology and Embryology, Morbid Anatomy, Pharmacology, Pediatrics, Natural Medicine Chemistry, Diagnostics, the Science of Pharmaceutical Analysis, Internal Medicine of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Medicinal Chemistry and so forth.
IMMU has been strong in science and research and making remarkable achievements over the years. It has developed 3 national key clinical specialized disciplines, Osteological Surgery, Neurosurgery and General Surgery, 3 key disciplines of the State Administration of Traditional Medicine, Traditional Mongolian Medicine, Traditional Mongolian Pharmacy and the Theory of Exogenous Febrile Diseases, one key specialized discipline of the State Administration of Traditional Medicine, the Science of Spleen and Stomach Diseases of Mongolian Medicine, and 5 provincial key disciplines, Pathology and Pathophysiology, Ophthalmology, Imaging and Nuclear Medicine, Surgery and Mongolian Medicine, 2 key disciplines which are supported their development by Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, Human Anatomy and Embryology and Internal Medicine, i.e. the Science of Hematological Disease, 7 clinical medical disciplines which take the lead in the autonomous region and 7 key regional clinical medical disciplines. In addition, it also has 12 regional key laboratories and experimental teaching demonstration centers, including a key laboratory for Chinese and Traditional Mongolian Medicine, a key laboratory for Medical Cell Biology, a research center of Molecular Biology Study, laboratories of Molecular Pathology, Human Histoembryology, and the Treatment of Mongolian Traditional Medicine, general experimental teaching center for Biomedicine, experimental teaching center for Morphology, clinical simulation of Chinese and Traditional Mongolian Medicine, Nursing and training in clinical skills, and basic experimental teaching center for Pharmacy. Moreover, the Museum of Traditional Mongolian Medicine of Inner Mongolia Autonomous, the Institute of Health Policy, Angiocarpy and Orthopedics are in our school, which play a key role in promoting the development of the university.
The development of Traditional Mongolian Medicine major mainly relies on teaching resources of the School of Traditional Mongolian Medicine and the School of Pharmacy, medical resources of Inner Mongolia International Mongolian Hospital, document resources of the Museum of Traditional Mongolian Medicine of Inner Mongolia, and platforms of Science and Technology of the Institute of Traditional Mongolian Medicine and GLP laboratory, which make it become preponderant and characteristic. Furthermore, it has been chosen as the key discipline by the autonomous region and the State Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine, which further consolidates its leading position around the world. In July, 2009, it was listed as one of national non-material cultural heritages. At present, Wu Lan and A Gula are inheritors of this project in China. Both of them are supervisors in our school.
In recent five years, faculties have undertaken over 1500 projects. Among them, there are 153 projects of the National Natural Science Foundation of China, one project getting the second Award of National Scientific and Technological Progress, 76 projects receiving the Regional Science and Technology Award and 10 projects awarded as the regional great achievement of Philosophy and Social Science, 11 projects awarded the State Patent Certificate.
The Journal of Inner Mongolia Medical University edited by the school is rated as the Characteristic Scientific and Technological Periodical of Chinese University, and confirmed as the periodical of Chinese Science and Technology Paper and Citation Datebase by the Institute of Scientific and Technical Information of China. Furthermore, the Journal of Disease Monitor and Control is involved in serial magazines published by Chinese Preventive Medicine Association.
