A Brief Introduction of Henan University of Traditional Chinese Medicine
Henan
University of Traditional Chinese Medicine (HUTCM), founded in 1958,
is one of the earlier established TCM institutes of higher education in
China, and also one of the first educational institutes approved by the
ADCSC (Academic Degree Committee of State Council) to award master’s
degree in China. Hunan University of Traditional Chinese Medicine (HUTCM),
comprises 12 schools: the School of Basic Medical Sciences, the School
of TCM pharmacy. It has 6 affiliated hospitals, 12 research centers, and
91 teaching practice bases.
Among its over 2000 staff members, HUTCM has 632 full-time
teachers including 253 professors, and associate professors, 278
supervisors of master's programs, 18 part-time supervisors of doctoral
programs, and 95 of the teaching staff members were awarded doctoral
degrees.
In its 50-year history, observing the traditional spirit of
"inheritance and innovation”, HNTCM has worked to progress TCM training,
to both meet the needs of modern education whilst preserving the
integrity of TCM in the modern world. The university has trained 62 PhD
and 2 122 Master postgraduates, and over 40 000 graduates.
The institution has over 5000 academic theses published, including
1194 articles in core journals, 43 were collected in SCI、EI、ISTP,66 in
MEDLINE, 611 in CSCD; 181 academic books (including translated books),
169 unified teaching courses, 12 jointly-compiled books were published;
41 patents were obtained.
The advancement of academic levels has resulted in 14 staff
members holding posts of executive directors in first-level national
academic associations, 3 chairpersons and 18 vice chairpersons in
second-level academic associations, and 13 chairpersons in provincial
academic associations.
Comprehensive external cooperation and academic exchanges are
flourishing, including Harvard Medicinal School, Yale Medical School,
Pharmaceutical Department of Kanazawa University, Hamamatsu Medical
University and State Infection Syndrome Research Institute in Japan, as
well as Taegu Korean Medicine University and other overseas institutes
of education and medicine research centers.
Emphasizing quality training to promote student competence
HUTCM recruits foreign students and students from 29 provincial
areas, also students from Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan. Currently, there
are approximately 11,000 enrolled campus students. Since 1979, the
university has granted over 2000 masters postgraduate degrees, over 1300
MA degrees.
In 1992, th e university was approved by the Education Committee
of Henan Province to recruit overseas students and students for further
study. In 1994, approval by the Ministry of Education was granted to be
one of the first 200 colleges and institutes to recruit overseas
students as well as students from such areas as Hong Kong, Macao and
Taiwan, and today there are 236 on-campus overseas students including
both master and doctor undergraduates.
In recent years, a large number of graduates from HUTCM have gone
on to receive honors for their achievements, such as Wang Yishuo,
awarded one of the "Nationwide Models of Morality” and "Top 10 College
Students” in 2006; Bai Yunping, another TCM graduate was awarded the
national "Stars among College Students”… These graduates, fully
exemplify the fruitful achievements of HUTCM.
Teacher Sun and students at TCM
