Advantages of Zhejiang University School of Medicine

1. The University LISTED in the top ten university in China.2. There are sufficient faculties to teach different specialization .3. The First Affiliated Hospital of College of Medicine, Zhejiang University (First Hospital of Zhejiang Province) is a well-known hospital in China and one of the instruction centers of health care, medical education and scientific research in Zhejiang Province. It was founded on November 1, 1947. Now there are about 1650 staffs in the hospital, including 250-some senior doctors and nurses. There are 1,200 ratified beds, the inpatients numbering at 15,000 yearly compared with an annual 1,000,000 outpatients. Many important laboratories and medical centers are located here, including the key laboratory of Viral Infectious Diseases under the Ministry of Public Health, Clinical Pharmacology Base under the Ministry of Public Health, Provincial Key Labs of Organ Transplantation, Provincial Organ Transplantation Center, Nuclear Medicine Center, Clinical Surveillance Center of Drug-Resistant Bacteria, Surveillance Center of Drug Adverse Reaction, First-aid Center of Toxinosis and Nursing Center at provincial level. All departments of the hospital have formed their own characteristics, especially departments of infectious diseases, hematology, ophthalmology, cardiology, cardiovascular surgery, urology, gastroenterology, etc. Rapid progress has been made in organ transplantation. Kidney, liver, heterogeneous bone marrow, corneal and combined liver – kidney, pancreas – duodenum – kidney and heart – lung transplantation have been successfully performed in the hospital. Now the hospital has become one of the famous organ transplantation centers in China. Great achievements in scientific researches have been made during the past five years. Both" Combined pancreas – duodenum – kidney transplantation” and “Artificial liver supporting system” have won the Second Prize in a National Award and the first in Science and Technology Advancement provincially. Great achievements were also made in other fields.4. We also offer five doctoral programs, and 19 master’s programs. Apart from these, there are five circulating post-doctoral workshops. Moreover, we have one key thematic subject at provincial level, four primarily supporting academic subjects receiving funds from the provincial government, two key thematic subjects at university level, and four academic subjects are accepted as the provincially important. In addition, it encompasses four institutes, namely, Institute of Surgery, Institute of Infectious Disease, Institute of Hematology, and Institute of Cardiology.5. Insisting on the tenet of “patient first, quality first, service first”, First Affiliated Hospital has successfully striven to be one of the “Top 100” in China