Wannan Medical College

About The University
Wannan Medical College, a general institute of higher learning, is situated in Wuhu, an enchanting city open to the outside world along the Yangtze River, which has been renowned for its great harbor and beautiful sceneries. The college grew out of Wuhu Medical Vocational School that was founded in 1958 and merged into Anhui Medical College in 1970,functioned as its branch in South Anhui in 1971.

The college is among the first list of colleges and universities with authority to award bachelor's and master's degrees vested by the Academic Degree Evaluation Committee under the State Council. In 1998, Wannan Medial College went successfully through with the evaluations on the undergraduate programs by the Ministry of Education and was entitled as "qualified" by the Ministry. It also got through the evaluation on its undergraduate programs by Anhui education government in 1999, and obtained the appraisal of the provincial teaching labs for basic courses in 2002.

The college has grown into a medicine-focused and fully accommodated medical institution of higher learning. It now offers 17 undergraduate specialties including clinical medicine, nursing and forensic medicine, and 9 vocational specialties. In postgraduate specialties, there are 15 master's degree authorized units, covering nearly all the branches of learning in the basic and clinical medicine. There are also 10 experimental centers in the college.

The staff members of the college are reasonable-organized, good-qualified and high-leveled. Now the members are over 2100, including more than 120 professors, 310 associate professors and 49 experts who enjoy special subsidies of the government.

Wannan Medical College is expanding steadily the teaching scale and improving gradually the personnel level of training. By the end of August of 2007, the number of full-enrolled students had reached 8672, of which there are 7135 undergraduate students, 438 vocational students and 245 postgraduate students. Employment rate of the graduates ranks higher in the list of the provincial colleges and universities. Since the establishment, the college has provided 21,000 graduates for public health purposes. From 1984 to 1997, the college cooperated with the former People's Republic of China ministry of geology and mineral resources for 14 years, with the graduates all over the country.

Wannan Medial College has perfected the running conditions and facilities. The college covers an area of 62.4 hectares, with the building areas of 331,900 square meters. On the campus, there are well-equipped teaching facilities such as two major teaching buildings, a modern library, three advanced experimental buildings, dormitory buildings and a students' activity center. There are also such sports facilities as a multi-functional stadium, football fields, basketball and volleyball playgrounds. What's more, a computer information network has been completed on the campus.

Stressing the scientific research of teaching, Wannan Medial College has installed much advanced equipment. At present, the college has 7 key courses and 1 exemplary center of basic courses teaching at provincial level. The college also publishes 2 academic journals both at home and abroad The Journal of Wannan Medical College and The Journal of Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics of China.

The college has 58 teaching hospitals, among which are 8 affiliated hospitals (one under the leadership of the college), 7clinical hospitals, and 46 hospitals as bases for medical teaching and practice. The affiliated hospital of Yijishan Hospital, established in 1888, is the first hospital of western medicine in Anhui province. It entered into the first list in our country as a First-class of the Third Level Hospital, and has become the center of treatment, teaching, research and disease prevention in South Anhui and the Yangtze River valley in the province.

HISTORY OF SCHOOL
After the historic victory in Spring 1975 and unified the country, the birth of Highlands University is a historically inevitable unification match between the policy of the Party and State with a passionate desire of people Central Highlands ethnic population. Through thirty years of construction and growth, a growing school, did strive to complete a long mission, really become a regional University not only capable of training staff highly qualified scientists, but also a center of culture, science and technology of the Central Highlands and South Central mountains, on a par with other universities. The development of the school has undergone many phases of ups and downs associated with the development of education and training along with the development of economic and cultural - of our country's society.

The first phase of school (1977-1986) with staff are transferred from universities in the North and the military, forces young officers graduated from various sources will be recruited together to build build a new university in the context of both teaching, learning, doing, and also contribute to the local people to defend the border against foreign invaders, they fight reactionary FULRO, participants self-production workers food. Thanks to the attention of investment in human resources and physical facilities of the leaders from central to local level, schools have built the initial facilities with classrooms, laboratories ... to ensure teaching and learning conditions for six of the four science subjects.

By mid 1982, the Ministry decided to move to the Faculty of the University of Dalat, the school only has three departments (Health, Agriculture and Forestry), the rearrangement of the structure along with the re-entry orientation criteria to the school on a period many changes related to the existence and development. Outstanding achievements of this period is to train a new generation of doctors, engineers, teachers of the Highlands and many alumni have become associate professors hold doctoral or other positions leadership and management from the provincial to the health facilities, schools, manufacturing companies in the local ...
1987-2001 period is the period the school must overcome many challenges to survival and development with outstanding features is the principal of the third term is the management staff at central, director, principal The other universities were appointed on secondment.

In the years 1987-1992, the school only four medical training, horticulture, silviculture and animal husbandry-veterinary medicine To ensure the physical life and mental health staff and students, the school opened training system contract and motivate employees to increase production in order to improve the material life, while enhancing the application priority targets for staff to study abroad and fostering a number of leading universities. The important achievements in this period is prepared by a core staff, especially ethnic minority staff locally, qualified teaching and assured work, creating momentum for subsequent development. Some scientific applications specialized training in the field have contributed in practical care and health protection, development of agriculture and forestry production in the Central Highlands.Initial access to higher education reform in the country, the central information technology and foreign languages ​​was established in time to meet social needs.

Consistently pursues the goal of building incrementally grow overall, the period 1993-1997 there have been many changes by expanding structure and systems training. Faculty of Education re-established; separation of economic activity from agriculture and forestry departments of Agriculture and Forestry of the new department, renamed the Faculty of Medicine Faculty of Medicine, Pre-established medical college ... with 10 branches open more training and training systems in 3 officials for agriculture and forestry; system GP training for 4 years.The school has links with several other universities and training in place a number of industry and university graduate, to create conditions for teaching staff meet the requirements of conversion courses and advanced vocational qualifications.

School has appropriate policies to encourage staff and ensure their professional work and going to graduate school or graduate students associated with the topic of scientific research with practical needs in the Central Highlands. There are many construction projects on school development, the partnership with foreign countries ... was drafted and amended, but are not eligible to perform as expected.Investment in teaching and learning is still insufficient for the management of higher education and the facilities, in some areas have not achieved the target set. The school's outstanding achievements in this period there was a team many staff have post-graduate degree, some scientific applications associated with the schools and institutes have been made, some staff to participate in projects with foreign countries have achieved some good results.

Along with major changes in higher education in the country, the school entered the period 1997-2001 with the goal of strengthening the organization management and reconstruction master plan for renovation of school teachers towards higher education, focusing on the task priority is teaching and learning associated with scientific research. The deployment of multiple new problems in a multidisciplinary field with funds mainly based on the state budget and staff are used to apply management experience from different sectors, will inevitably undergo more difficult step. Confirmed the reality of school development in line with the general direction of the innovation of higher education today.

During this period, five medical schools but still has 16 branches in 2001 to train and recruit a number of classes, college preparatory school. By expanding the recruitment area, the school has attracted people to the growing Central Highlands, is visible through the ratio of the candidates / students enrolled in 1997 as 2780/876, and in 2001 was 13,007 / 1064. Since 1998, schools have made competition in the form of organizational focus, from exam to the subject and examiner, apply objective testing methods in the university entrance exam and in some semesters, exam graduation, building the bank ...

If the test continues to carry out the priorities for staff as graduate students, affiliated with the graduate school classes in place (add French industry, information technology) and most staff have the credentials to college education and the State Administration of education. Priority growing number of equipment for the computer lab, foreign language classrooms, the library upgraded to Information and Documentation Center and Library; investment purchase modern equipment for the room key experiments, increasing the number of first books for internal ... have created more favorable conditions for teaching and learning. Following the scientific meeting of the Second (1999), the school has hosted and organized into a number of specialized scientific conferences, a number of projects in scientific research cooperation between institutions and with foreign activities on schedule and with high efficiency. In construction work, not only focusing on intensive investment in which the landscape of the school also has a new look; to 2001 master plan for school construction was passed and the Government on thereby approving the investment project phase I.

Since the 2002-2003 school year, the school entered a new era with distinctive features is the first school principals are officials from the early adult development. The development of the school from 2002 to now be fully reflected in this self-assessment report.
With the achievements gained during 30 years of construction and growth, Highlands University has been awarded the titles:

UNIVERSITY OF SPECIALIZED TRAINING VETERINARY
Training Objectives: Training of veterinarians, knowledge, professional capacity in diagnosis, prevention, treatment and control of animal diseases to livestock development. Able to carry out scientific research, technology transfer relating to animal health protection, protection of public health and the environment. Graduates are granted by a veterinarian

Recruit subjects were students in the country, high school graduate or equivalent level, successful candidates in the entrance exams to universities and colleges every year.

Training program in five years, students are learning and studying the knowledge of general education and professional education, with a total of 55 subjects with 259 units of study. In addition students have 10 weeks to forge professional practice, teaching practice and general practice veterinary medicine at the Veterinary Station, Department of Animal Health, and other production facilities, the business of veterinary drugs, vaccines; Veterinary clinics, diagnostic centers and treatment for animals in the Central Highlands, Ho Chi Minh City, Bien Hoa - Dong Nai, Nha Trang - Khanh Hoa. Every year, students are lead or participate in scientific research to practice skills in scientific research.

The opportunity to work and study after graduation: After graduating from the new vet qualified to work at the Station and Department of Animal Health, the Veterinary Hospital, Department of Agriculture & Development Rural Extension Centre, the Institute for animals; universities, vocational, vocational, and other production companies inbreeding, feed, veterinary drugs and vaccines; companies animals; farms agricultural development banks, credit programs, projects and foreign Livestock, Veterinary Medicine ..or self-employed in the field of Animal Husbandry, Veterinary Medicine Students graduated with excellent priority selection and training for teaching staff of the department and the school.

Students after graduation have aspirations and conditions may continue their Masters Veterinary Medicine and PhD student at the school.

RESEARCH WORK AND INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION
In five years, the department has conducted 16 ministerial-level, 03 provincial-level subjects, 20 subjects level, 15 research groups of students. 2007, 01 research topics of students who have achieved second prize in science and technology conference and Agriculture-Forestry-Fishery blocks nationwide. Many faculty have CBGD participate in research topics in the program, state-level projects as collaborative research: gene fund pet projects, programs and green forage, is the coordinator of international projects " Development of green forage in agricultural households in Dak Lak "funded by the Australian government (1995-1999)," Animal production systems and livelihoods in Dak Lak "(2000 - 2005) by the Asian Development Bank financing support, this project had two good results for livestock development in Dak Lak, the provincial government and the districts in the project area appreciate and participate in project management "regional research forum high in Vietnam "(by five co-management university, from 2003 to 2009) by multiple donors (Ford Foundation, Rockefeller Foundation, IDRC ...).

This project has good results in training and capacity building of young researchers Animal Production and Health Sciences, Faculty of Agriculture, Forestry and Economics; Coordinator of the project "Capacity building of research and participatory development (2006) by the Organization of the Minister of University of South-East Asia (SEAMEO ) funding. Officials of the Department attended and participate in many scientific reports of international conferences in countries of Southeast Asia.

LIBRARY
Date 11/11/1977 The Prime Minister signed Decision No. 298/CP V / establishment Highlands University. This is a particular concern of the Party and State for Central Highlands ethnic minority people to meet the demand of training and scientific research. In the process of formation and development of the University of Central Highlands Library Highlands University was founded to meet the training requirements and tasks of the school. Along with the development of the school library on a growing, at first only as a working group with 3 to 4 people, under the training room. In 1998 the Library was upgraded and renamed: Middle tamThong News - Library. The name is now Center Library.

Currently the Library has purchased a database of the Centre National science and technology. 135.000USD database value, in which the Library - Highlands University has contributed funding and are allowed full exploitation. Database contains a lot of content related to training programs of the University, to improve foreign language skills for officers and students in the university. Library introduces brief ProQuest database.

ProQuest is a database (database), with 11 top online database covering most fields of Economics, Medical, Education, Agriculture, Forestry, Social Sciences ProQuest provides access to over 13,000 journals (8000 journals with full text) and the 3000 report on the industrial sector, 45,000 posts profiles of commercial, 30,000 dissertations, dissertations in full text. With journals, reports, thesis, dissertation on has created a collection of journals and periodicals basically complete all fields with necessary information and is updated daily . So the Board of Directors respectfully request the teachers and students in the entire search fee exemption