Foshan University

Foshan Xundao Nursing School founded in 1924, others of which were Foshan Health School, Foshan School of Sun Yat Sen, Foshan Vocational School of Medical Science. In 2005, the university merged with Foshan University under the approval of the Government of Guangdong. The university took over the control of higher education of medicine.

Courses:

• Department of Basic Medicine
• Department of Clinical Medicine
• Department of Stomatology
• Department of Medical Laboratory and Pharmacy
• Laboratory Center of Basic Medicine.

The university accepts the students nationally and internationally. Currently the university has the population of over 3,000 students.
The school has a total staff of 116 (except people in affiliated hospital), of which 69 teachers are senior and associate professors, 7 teachers being M.D Holders and other 4 doctoral candidates. Some of them are the academic leaders with the awards of "Yangtse River Scholar Achievement" conferred by the National Ministry of Education. They love their profession and content, and they will be the role model for their students.

The whole school occupies a land area of 143 acres ( Medical School itself 85 acres, while affiliated hospital 58 acres ),. The school library holds about 160,000 volumes of books on medical science with about 400 kinds of Chinese and foreign journals. It now owns a Laboratory Center of Basic Medicine (including 3 laboratory platforms) and 5 specialized laboratories.

The university has 2 associated hospitals. One is a Foshan Oral Hospital, which is a healthcare organization consolidating health care, training activities, and scientific research. It includes departments of stomatologic, orthopedics and stomatologic repair have reached the advanced level. Every year, there are about 200,000 sufferers, which can fulfill the training requirements of oral medicine. The other hospital is an affiliated general hospital Foshan Fifth People's Hospital. It merges scientific research and satisfy the teaching needs of clinical medicine.

The multi-media teaching methods are applied almost by 100% in theory teaching. Hence, the teaching quality has been constantly improved. The school was once awarded the second-prize of teaching achievements of Guangdong province. The specialties of oral medicine and nursing have been determined to be the provincial exemplary specialties, of which the oral medicine has been rated to be the national exemplary specialty by the National Ministry of Education