The school was founded in 1956 by the Shanghai First Medical College (now Fudan University Shanghai Medical College). It was formerly known as Chongqing Medical College and renamed Chongqing Medical University in 1985. The school is the first batch of units approved by the Academic Degrees Committee of the State Council with the right to grant doctoral and master's degrees. It is the first batch of demonstration bases for studying in China approved by the Ministry of Education. In 2015, the school became the Chongqing Municipal People's Government, the National Health and Health Committee (formerly the National Health and Family Planning Commission) and the Ministry of Education to build a university. In 2016, it became the first place for the “School Innovation Initiative for Higher Education Institutions” (“111 Plan”). One of the universities.

The school consists of Yuanjiagang Campus in Yuzhong District and Jinyun Campus in Chongqing University City. The total area of the campus is 2,650 mu. Among them, the Jinyun Campus covers an area of 2,100 acres, and the campus has a beautiful environment and picturesque scenery.

There are 25,760 full-time students, including 5,740 graduate students, 19,310 undergraduates and 710 international students. The school has recruited post-doctoral researchers, Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan students and foreign students. The school has 7 first-level doctoral degree authorization points, 12 first-level discipline master's degree authorization points, 3 doctoral degree degree authorization points, 11 master's degree degree authorization points; 4 national key disciplines, and 4 enter ESI global The first 1% of the disciplines (in March 2018, Ke Rui Wei'an released), 4 Chongqing's first-class disciplines, 12 Chongqing's "13th Five-Year" municipal key disciplines. In the fourth round of subject evaluation of the Ministry of Education's degree center, clinical medicine and other disciplines rank among the top in the country.

The school has 21 colleges (departments) and a graduate school. Opened 34 undergraduate majors. There are 12 specialties in the “Three Special Action Plan” of Chongqing Municipality, and 6 specialty specialties of the “Three Special Action Plan” in Chongqing. The clinical medicine major has passed the international professional certification of clinical medicine, and the specialty of stomatology and nursing has passed the professional certification of the Ministry of Education. Now it has 4 national experimental teaching demonstration centers, 4 national-level boutique resource sharing classes, and 3 national-level boutique video open classes. The school has 2 chief scientists of "973", 7 national "Thousand Talents" experts, 6 "Changjiang Scholars", 9 national "100 million talent projects" candidates, and the State Council "Special Government Allowance" winners. “Ministry of Health and Industry Outstanding Young and Middle-aged Experts”, “National Outstanding Youth Science Fund” winner, “National Outstanding Youth Science Fund” winner, Ministry of Education “New Century Excellent Talent Support Program”, Chongqing “Two River Scholars”, “ The chief expert studio leads the experts, and the academic and technical leaders are more than 100 high-level talents. The total number of teachers is 2,220, including 1,340 senior professional and technical personnel. There are 239 doctoral tutors. There are 5 post-doctoral research stations.

The school has 44 national, provincial and ministerial research institutions, including one National Engineering Research Center, one National Animal Industry Base Experimental Animal Center, one national-level international science and technology cooperation base, and three key laboratories of the Ministry of Education. 1 international cooperation joint laboratory, 1 provincial key laboratory cultivation base, 5 provincial engineering research centers, 23 provincial key laboratories, 1 Chongqing international science and technology cooperation base, Chongqing clinical There are 6 medical research centers and 1 provincial humanities and social science base. There are also provincial-level “overseas high-level talent innovation and entrepreneurship bases” and “academician expert workstations”. The school actively carries out exchanges and cooperation at home and abroad. In recent years, the school has established partnerships with 44 educational or health care institutions in 20 countries and regions in Europe, Asia, North America, and Oceania, including Dartmouth College, University of British Columbia, and University College London. Such as international famous schools, extensive exchange of teachers and students and international scientific research cooperation. At the same time, it will carry out joint training of long-term medical students with “double-class” construction universities such as Fudan University and Huazhong University of Science and Technology.

There are 9 affiliated hospitals directly under the school (5 comprehensive hospitals, 1 child hospital, stomatological hospital, rehabilitation hospital and 1 Chinese hospital). The Affiliated First Hospital, Affiliated Children's Hospital, and the Affiliated Second Hospital have been selected as one of the “Top 100 Best Hospitals in China” for six consecutive years (released by Fudan University Hospital Management Research Institute), ranking 52nd and 58th respectively in 2016. 93 people. Each affiliated hospital has a total of 28 national key clinical specialties, more than 11,000 beds, 10.3 million outpatients per year, and 400,000 inpatients per year. In addition, the school has 20 non-affiliated affiliated hospitals and 30 teaching hospitals in Chongqing, Sichuan and Shenzhen.

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