During this year's Wenzhou Municipal "Two Sessions", in the face of increasingly fierce competition among domestic medical universities, Zhou Tieli, deputy to the Wenzhou Municipal People's Congress and director of the Medical Laboratory Center of the First Affiliated Hospital of Wenzhou Medical UniversityIt is suggested that the Municipal Party Committee and Municipal Government should support Wenzhou Medical University to hang up the "provincial brand" and change its name to "Zhejiang Medical University" or "Zhejiang First Medical University".
For example, after Taishan Medical College was renamed Shandong First Medical University, and Weifang Medical College was renamed Shandong Second Medical University, it was of great help in school development, enrollment and employment. Zhou Tieli introducedZhejiang Medical College was split into two in 1958, and the Zhejiang Medical College that remained in Hangzhou was finally merged into Zhejiang University, and the Wenzhou branch was renamed Wenzhou Medical College"In addition to the historical origins, today's Wenyi University also has enough strength to support such a provincial signboard. In order to further improve the city's energy level, Wenzhou also needs to build a more top university. ”
According to the school's official website, Wenzhou Medical University is a provincial ordinary higher education institution in Zhejiang Province. The school can be traced back to Zhejiang Medical College, founded in 1912, in August 1958 by Zhejiang Medical College from Hangzhou to Wenzhou to establish, the initial name of "Zhejiang Second Medical College", and later named "Wenzhou Medical College" after the location of the school, in 2013 it was renamed "Wenzhou Medical University", and in 2015 it became a university jointly built by Zhejiang Province, the National Health Commission and the Ministry of Education. In 2017, it became a key construction university in Zhejiang Province.
Source: Wenzhou Medical University.
The school began to recruit five-year undergraduate students in 1958 and master's students in 1978It is one of the first batch of master's degree-granting institutions in Chinawith the right to confer doctoral degrees. At present, there are 11 first-level discipline master's programs in clinical medicine, basic medicine, pharmacy and biomedical engineering, and doctoral programs in clinical medicine and medical technology, 11 first-level discipline master's programs in clinical medicine, nursing, traditional Chinese medicine, biology, biomedical engineering, basic medicine, integrated traditional Chinese and Western medicine, pharmacy, stomatology, public health and preventive medicine, and public administration, and 7 master's degree programs in clinical medicine, biomedical engineering, stomatology, nursing, pharmacy, public health, and applied psychology. There is a postdoctoral research station for the first-level disciplines of clinical medicine and pharmacy.
It is reported that as early as 2016, Jin Litai, then a member of the Zhejiang Provincial Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference and deputy director of the Science and Technology Department of Wenzhou Medical University, submitted a proposal to the Fourth Session of the 11th Provincial Political Consultative Conference to rename Wenzhou Medical University as Zhejiang Medical University.
Jin Litai said that Wenzhou Medical University was renamed Zhejiang Medical University, which is well deserved. The school has a deep historyIt originated from the "Zhejiang Medical College" established in 1912 and has the history of "Zhejiang Second Medical College". Through the continuous efforts of several generations of educators at the university, nearly 75% of the medical talents in Zhejiang Province are trained every year. Wenzhou Medical University also has 5 directly managed affiliated hospitals, of which 4 are first-class hospitals, and there are 17 non-directly managed affiliated hospitals (clinical colleges) in the province, and in 2014, it was shortlisted for the Ministry of Education, the National Health and Family Planning Commission and the first university in Zhejiang Province. Jin Litai said that it marks that the university has entered the first phalanx of independent medical schools in the country, and has a great influence in the province, China and even the world.
Jin Litai said that if Wenzhou Medical University changes its surname to "Zhejiang" and uses the old name of Zhejiang Medical University, it will effectively promote the university's foreign exchanges and attract teachers and students.
Jin Litai explained that in the history of Chinese universities, the names of Hangzhou University, Zhejiang Medical University, and Zhejiang Agricultural University have a certain influence in the country. Until 1998, after merging with Zhejiang University and taking the name of Zhejiang University, the three school names have been suspended for 18 years. However, the names of these three "golden plates" are still remembered. At present, the quality of education in colleges and universities in Zhejiang Province is constantly improving, the level of scientific research and internationalization is increasing day by day, and the work is gradually moving to the forefront of the country, but there are few school names that are resounding throughout the country. Why not restart the names of "golden brands" such as Hangzhou University, Zhejiang Medical University, Zhejiang Agricultural University, etc.? Mr. Kim said he had repeatedly suggested that Wenzhou Medical University be renamed Zhejiang Medical University, but received a reply from the authorities"The old school name can only be reactivated after 30 years of disuse".
*: The Paper, Wenzhou Medical University.