At present, the University consists of the following schools and departments: School of Preclinical Medicine, School of Chinese Materia Medica, School of Acupuncture, Moxibustion & Tuina, School of Administration, School of Traditional Chinese Nursing, International School, School of Distance Education, School of Continuing Studies, School of Chinese Clinical Medicine, Department of Humanities & Social Science and Department of Chinese Medicine for Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macao.
The university is striving to build a professional training system, emphasizing on high-level education ready for the new century. There are 9 majors in the university, namely, Chinese Medicine, Chinese Materia Medica, Pharmaceutical Engineering, Acupuncture, Moxibustion & Tuina, Public Industry Management (Health Industry Management), Business Administration (Chinese Herbal Medicine Business Management), Traditional Chinese Nursing, Medical English and Law (related to medicine), among which the 7-year program of the Chinese Medicine major, includes 9 training classes geared towards different directions such as traditional Chinese clinical medicine, clinical research, integrated traditional Chinese and Western medicine, acupuncture and tuina oriented towards international exchange, etc. These majors for different purposes are jointly trained with institutions such as the Nankai University, Tsinghua University, University of International Business and Economics, Beijing Normal University, and Sino-Japan Friendship Hospital.
Up to September 2003, there are a total of 16,160 students in the campus, among which 5,950 are undergraduates and vocational training students, 688 master’s degree candidates, 356 doctorate degree candidates, 758 foreign students from 41 countries and regions, 416 students from Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Macao, 4,897 distance education students and 3,095 continuing education students.
The university is among the first batch of traditional Chinese medical institutions to establish the Ph.D. program and the post-doctoral research stations. The 3 first-grade subjects, namely Chinese Medicine, Chinese Materia Medica, and Integrated Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine, have the right to grant doctorate degree, so do all the second-grade subjects for master’s degree. The university now has 6 state-level subjects, 10 ministry- and bureau-level subjects, 3 Beijing municipality-level subjects, with 3 post-doctorate stations in Chinese Medicine. The key subjects of our university is in the leading position among the country’s traditional Chinese medical institutions.
The university has one key laboratory of the level of the Ministry of Education, 2 key laboratories of the Beijing municipality level, and 2 key research centers of the level of the State Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine. The university is a base for cultivating our country’s science and life science professionals. We also have “the Research Center for Key Technology of Chinese Pharmaceuticals and Drug Innovation by the Ministry of Education”, “the Research Center for Web Cooperation in Traditional Chinese Medicine Modernization of the Tertiary Education Institutions” and “the National University of Science & Technology built through joint efforts the university and the Beijing Normal university ”.
Founded in 1958, the affiliated Dongzhimen Hospital is a base of clinical education, medical treatment and research of the university. With nearly half a century's hard work, it has developed into a first-grade, first-class general hospital with sturdy medical, teaching, and research potentials, complete departments and facilities, assuring general service capabilities with distinctive features of the specialty departments of traditional Chinese medicine. The affiliated Dongfang Hospital began its service in December, 1999. It has now developed into a state-grade modernized general hospital of traditional Chinese medicine with comfortable wards, reasonable design, hi-tech facilities, quality personnel, high medical standards, outstanding traditional Chinese medical features, scientific management, and general service abilities.
The pharmaceutical plant, built in 1958, possesses a solid technical team, with complete manufacturing facilities and improved technology, and has already been acknowledged with the GMP standards for a small dosage injection. Its reputable product, “Qing Kai Ling Injection” has been appointed as the first-choice medicament in the traditional Chinese medicine hospitals in the country for 3 years since 1992.
In the 48 years since the founding of the university, it has trained more than 20,000 traditional Chinese medical professionals of different levels and 2,342 students from 87 countries and regions of the world. In recent years, the university has eventually established 40 cooperative projects with 22 countries and regions. It has cooperated with universities and academic groups of 12 countries and regions in running branch schools and clinics.
The university publishes state-level, first-class academic periodicals entitled “Journal of the Beijing University of Chinese Medicine”, “Journal of the Beijing University of Chinese Medicine (Clinical Edition)” and “Traditional Chinese Medicine Education”. They are important windows for traditional Chinese medical academic exchange.
