North Sichuan Medical University

North Sichuan Medical University (), previously North Sichuan Medical College (NSMC), is a provincial medical school with campuses in Shunqing District and Gaoping District, Nanchong city, Sichuan Province, China.
North Sichuan Medical University is a government-run college of medicine in Sichuan Province and is in the second largest higher education center of Sichuan Province — Nanchong, a famous city, the origin of the Three Kingdoms Culture. Its two campuses occupy an area of over 823,693 square meters.
NSMC has its national and international enrollment; its campuses enroll nearly 10,000 students in undergraduate and postgraduate programs. With the guidance of its motto — Commitment, Fraternity, Honesty, and Creativity — it has developed into an important national and provincial center of higher medical education, disease prevention, and rheumatism treatment since its establishment in 1951.
History.
Founded in 1951 as North Sichuan School of Medicine (southwest region of China), the school was renamed North Sichuan Medical College in 1985.
Campus.
North Sichuan Medical has two campuses. The west campus, also known as the old campus, is in downtown Nanchong City. The east campus, or the new campus, is in Gaoping District of Nanchong City.
Affiliated hospitals.
The Affiliated Hospital of North Sichuan Medical College is one of the best hospitals in northeast Sichuan. It is the only hospital under direct jurisdiction of North Sichuan Medical College. It has an affiliated Nursing School, which is a technical secondary school.
Nanchong Central Hospital became the Affiliated Nanchong Central Hospital of North Sichuan Medical College and the Second Clinical College of North Sichuan Medical College in 2005.
Other affiliated hospitals include the following:
Faculty.
NSMC has over 400 members of the faculty holding Master’s or Doctorate degrees. More than 300 have obtained the academic title of professor and associate professor. In addition, there are over 50 returned scholars and experts. Over 20 of them enjoy special government subsidies or have been given positions of national leadership in their field.
Facilities.
There are three national scientific research labs, three provincial key subjects, one key lab, one top-quality course, and 13 key courses on the provincial level.
Its library has over 930,000 books and has subscribed to more than 1,567 Chinese, English and foreign periodicals in addition to over 17,000 electronic periodicals both in Chinese and foreign languages.
The college has first-class clinical training center; an advanced multimedia courseware making system; and a 1000m-campus network of leading technology. All classrooms are equipped with multimedia teaching facilities, occupying more than 45,000m2. The total value of the college’s equipment for teaching and scientific research has amounted to more than 400 million yuan (RMB).
North Sichuan Medical College is famous for its Faculty of Medical Imaging, which is one of the first five medical imaging faculties in China. In 2005, North Sichuan Medical College began to enroll its first postgraduate students.
Achievements.
In recent years, the college has undertaken 8 national research projects, five projects from the Ministry of Education, Ministry of Public Health and State Chinese Medicine Administration, and 238 provincial key and scientific research projects. It has published 3,500 scientific research papers, 65 treatises, among which 54 papers have been embodied by SCI and ET.
The rate of employment among graduates remains above 95%, the highest among colleges in Sichuan Province.