HMU is committed to cultivating students in their post capability and leadership skills, enhancing their distinctive talents.Over the past 65 years since its founding, Hainan Medical University (HMU) has trained more than 40,000 students, with one academician, and 2 in the provincial level leadership. Graduates from HMU are now working in over 10 different countries and regions including Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan. Statistics from 22 county-level comprehensive hospitals show that over 70 % of the hospital directors (presidents) are the graduates from HMU, and 60% of the professionals and technical personnel in the medical departments and academic leading positions in the primary health units of Hainan province are the graduates from HMU.
Hainan Medical University (HMU) covers an area of 420,000 square meters. The total enrollment at present is over 14,000 students, including 8,925 full-time students, and 116 overseas students.The bachelor degree education program provides 26 majors (specialty) in the disciplines of medical science, science, and management. The three-year program provides 21 majors(specialty).
HMU has 4 affiliated hospitals and 84 teaching (practicing) bases including the General Hospital of Chinese People’s Liberation Army, the First and Second Affiliated Hospitals of Sun Yat-sen University, Xiangya Hospital of Central-south University and West China Hospital of Sichuan University.
The present staff number of HMU is 2,472, with 510 professors and specialists. 73% of of the 514 full-time teachers hold master’s or doctor’s degrees, and 57 of them are professors, 126 are associate professors. 1 is listed among the Recruitment Program of Global Experts, 14 have been entitled for the special subsidy from the State Council, 5 have entered the “Program for New Century Excellent Talents” under the Ministry of Education, 6 are vice chairmen of the secondary national academic committees under the Chinese Medical Association and other academic associations, 11 are members of the standing committee or the council, and 18 are chairmen or directors of the provincial academic committees.
Asia-Pacific Journal of Tropical Medicine, the only English-version international journal of tropical medicine in China has been cited by all the international medical retrieval systems (including SCI, Medline).Hainan Medical University Journal has been selected into Chinese Sci-tech Periodicals Citation Report (Core Edition). It has been included in 11 major international databases and 12 international retrieval systems, with its citation rate ranking fourth among more than 230 medical colleges journals. The university has offered overseas education with majors including Clinical Medicine, Stomatology, Traditional Chinese Medicine, and Nursing. It has also established international cooperation with universities including the University of Utah (USA), Newcastle University (UK), Queensland University of Technology (Australia) in the fields of undergraduates exchanging postgraduate and doctorate students collective cultivating.
Over the past years, the passing rate of the Nurse License Qualification Test has reached 100%, “zero distance” employment rate has reached 90%, the rate of first-time employment of its graduates is over 95%, annual employment rate is 100%, and over 95% of the employers have been satisfied with its graduates. The passing rate of the Doctor License Qualification Test has been high, with 100% of students of 2002 having passed the test, the passing rate of students of 2003-2005 reaching over 80%, and the second-time passing rate up to 100%.The university has been awarded such honorary titles as “Unit for Advancement in Employment Rate of Graduates from National Institutions of Higher Learning”, and “Unit for Excellency in Employment Rate of Graduates from Institutions of Higher Learning in Hainan province”, etc.The employers include many well-known medical and health units and primary hospitals both in and outside of Hainan province, such as the General Hospital of Chinese People’s Liberation Army, Beijing First Aid Center, Guangdong Provincial People’s Hospital, the Affiliated Hospitals of Sun Yat-sen University, Zhujiang Hospital of Southern Medical University, the West China Hospital of Sichuan University, etc. In particular, the General Hospital of Chinese People’s Liberation Army has recruited 135 students from HMU in recent two years.Over the past three years, the employment rate of graduates from HMU has ranked among the top in Hainan province.
School motto: virtue, rigor, erudition, harmony
Hainan Medical University is in No. 3, College Road, Longhua District, Haikou City, Hainan Province, China. HMU provides comfortable accommodation for international students. For a single room, the accommodation fee is 70RMB/p/d. For a dobble room, the accommodation fee is 35RMB/p/d.