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The Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine (), formerly Shanghai Second Medical University, is a public
medical school A medical school is a tertiary educational institution, professional school, or forms a part of such an institution, that teaches medicine, and awards a professional degree for physicians. Such medical degrees include the Bachelor of Medicine, ...
in
Shanghai Shanghai, Shanghainese: , Standard Chinese pronunciation: is a direct-administered municipality and the most populous urban area in China. The city is located on the Chinese shoreline on the southern estuary of the Yangtze River, with the ...
, China. Clinical medicine of SJTUSM is consistently ranked first among medical schools nationally and #62 by the '' U.S. News & World Report'' globally. The "Clinical and health" discipline of SJTU also ranked #53 globally by
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as of 2022. Its "Pharmacy & Pharmaceutical Sciences" and "Public Health" were ranked 35th and 76th in the world respectively by the
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. It is one of the two medical schools that received the highest ranking of "A+" in Clinical Medicine from the Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China. In the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th round of evaluating disciplines in degree and graduate programs organized by the Ministry of Education from 2009 to 2018, and the comprehensive strength of various disciplines belonged to the first echelon of the nation's medical schools.


History

Shanghai Second Medical College was established in 1952 and was renamed Shanghai Second Medical University in 1985. It was composed of the medical schools of
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, St. John's University and Tong De Medical College. It was a municipal university before 2005. In July 2005, under an agreement signed by
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and the
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,
Shanghai Jiao Tong University Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU) is a public university in Shanghai, China. It is affiliated with the Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China, Ministry of Education of China. The university is part of Project 211, Project 98 ...
and Shanghai Second Medical University were merged into one. The new university is administered by both the Shanghai Municipal Government and the Ministry of Education. In November 2010, SJTUSM became one of the first ten universities jointly supported by the Ministry of Health and the Ministry of Education. The rich historic background of over one hundred years and heroic journey of more than 50 years have eventually brought about a research-oriented medical school with all-round development in medical education, clinical services, and scientific research, as well as other social services, a medical school with outstanding features and distinct advantages, a strong faculty, and remarkable academic achievements. In the second round of evaluating disciplines in degree and graduate programs organized by the Ministry of Education in 2009, clinical medicine of SJTUSM ranked first nationally, and the comprehensive strength of various disciplines belonged to the first echelon of the nation's medical schools.


List of presidents

*Gong Naiquan () (October 1952 - December 1953) *Sun Zhongde () (December 1953 - February 1958) *Guan Zizhan () (February 1958 - 1966) *
Lan Xichun Lan Xichun (; 1907–1995) was a surgeon of general surgery General surgery is a Surgical specialties, surgical specialty that focuses on alimentary canal and Abdomen, abdominal contents including the esophagus, stomach, small intestine, l ...
(August 1978 - March 1984) *
Wang Zhenyi Wang Zhenyi (; born November 30, 1924), also known as Zhen-yi Wang, is a Chinese pathophysiologist and hematologist who is a professor emeritus of Medicine and Pathophysiology at the Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU). He is most well known ...
(王振义) (March 1984 - January 1988) *Wang Yifei () (January 1988 - July 1997) *Fan Guanrong () (July 1997 - March 2003) *
Shen Xiaoming Shen Xiaoming (; born May 1963) is a Chinese politician who is currently the Chinese Communist Party Committee Secretary of Hunan. A pediatrician by training, Shen rose through the ranks in the health and education bureaucracy of Shanghai. He ...
(沈晓明) (March 2003 - March 2006) *Zhu Zhenggang () (March 2006 - December 2010) *Chen Guoqiang () (December 2010 - present)


Affiliated hospitals

* Ruijin Hospital * Renji Hospital * Xinhua Hospital * Shanghai General Hospital (
Shanghai First People's Hospital Shanghai General Hospital is a Class A tertiary general hospital located in Shanghai, China. Names The hospital was originally founded as General Hospital in Shanghai or Shanghai General Hospital. The hospital might not have had an official Chi ...
) * Shanghai Third People's Hospital * Shanghai Sixth People's Hospital * Shanghai Ninth People's Hospital * Shanghai Chest Hospital * Shanghai Mental Health Center * Shanghai Children's Medical Center * Shanghai Children's Hospital * International Peace Maternity and Child Health Hospital, also of
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* Shanghai Tongren Hospital


References


External links


Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine
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Overview of Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine


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