The Chinese People's Liberation Army Air Force Medical University (Fourth Military Medical University) is a national key university that cultivates high- and mid-level medical professionals. The school’s predecessor was the Health School of the Eighth Route Army’s North Shanxi Military Region founded in 1941. In 1952, it was named the Fourth Military Medical University by the Central Military Commission. In 1954, it merged with the former Fifth Military Medical University to form the new Fourth Military Medical University. In 2017, it was transferred to the Air Force. The former Air Force Institute of Aviation Medicine was merged to form the Air Force Medical University. In 2018, the former Air Force General Hospital and the former Air Force Institute of Aviation Medicine merged to form the Air Force Specialty Medical Center, which is affiliated with the school. In 1959, the school was designated by the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China as one of the first 20 key universities in the country. In 1981, it became the first batch of institutions authorized to grant master's and doctoral degrees in the country. In 1995, it entered the ranks of key military construction universities. In 1997, it became the first 22 "national universities". It is one of the key construction universities of the "211 Project". In 2017, it was selected into the first batch of first-class discipline construction colleges and universities in the national "double first-class" construction. In 2019, it was selected into the first batch of key discipline construction colleges and universities in the military's "dual first-class" construction. The school headquarters is located in the ancient city of Xi'an. Since the founding of the school, the school's successive party committees have always insisted on cultivating people with moral integrity and educating people for war. The school has distinctive characteristics and outstanding achievements in running the school. It has trained more than 90,000 high-quality medical talents, and many graduates have become well-known experts and scholars at home and abroad and leaders of health institutions at all levels in our military. Outstanding models across the country's military, including Zhang Hua, an "outstanding college student with ideals and courage to sacrifice," the Huashan Rescue Combat Team, the Model Cadet Brigade, "Master Educator" Li Jishuo, and "Model Military Doctor" Chen Shaoyang, have emerged. The school is rich in talents and has strong teaching, medical and scientific research capabilities. There are 2 academicians of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, 5 academicians of the Academy of Engineering, 16 candidates for the National “Ten Thousand Thousand People Plan (Special Support Plan)”, 8 chief scientists of the National “973 Program”, 43 “Yangtze River Scholars” of the Ministry of Education, and the National Millions There are 13 candidates selected for the talent project, 10 young and middle-aged experts with outstanding contributions to the country, 22 winners of the National Outstanding Youth Fund, 13 national outstanding scientific and technological workers, 6 winners of the "Qiushi" Outstanding Youth Practical Engineering Award, and the Ministry of Education There are 14 candidates for the New Century Excellent Talent Support Program, 2 winners of the Military Professional and Technical Major Contribution Award, 7 winners of the Military Outstanding Professional and Technical Talent Award, 4 outstanding young people in national defense science and technology, 56 military innovative talent project training subjects, and There are 37 winners of the School Education Gold Award. There are currently 416 doctoral supervisors, 610 master's supervisors, and 5 members of the subject evaluation group of the State Council Academic Degrees Committee. More than 300 well-known experts at home and abroad, including Zhou Guangzhao and Yang Zhenning, are honorary professors or visiting professors. The school currently has three training levels: undergraduate education, postgraduate education, and on-the-job education. The school is one of the first batch of doctoral and master's degree authorization units approved by the State Council. It currently has the disciplines of education, science, engineering, medicine and management, 12 first-level discipline doctoral and master's degree authorization points, and 2 professional doctoral degree authorization areas. There are 8 master's degree professional degree authorization areas, and there are 9 postdoctoral mobile stations and 1 postdoctoral workstation. Currently, 8 subject areas are among the top 1% of ESI globally, and 1 subject area is among the top 1‰ of ESI globally. There are 19 national key and cultivated disciplines, 1 major national science and technology infrastructure, 3 national key laboratories, 2 national clinical medical research centers, 23 national key clinical specialty military construction projects, 35 military medical specialty centers, and There are 19 logistics scientific research laboratories, 17 key medical laboratories of the entire military, and 1 mobile biosafety protection level 3 laboratory, the first in northwest China. In recent years, the school has made remarkable achievements in teaching reform. In 2001, it won the National Teaching Achievement Special Award with Peking University. In 2009, the school won the first prize at the national level for teaching achievements. So far, a total of 11 national outstanding doctoral dissertations, 56 military outstanding doctoral dissertations, 76 military outstanding master's degree dissertations, and 142 Shaanxi provincial outstanding doctoral dissertations have been awarded. The school's teaching facilities are well-equipped. The library covers an area of 12,000 square meters and currently has a collection of more than 740,000 books, more than 900 types of paper journals, and more than 60 various databases. The school's wired and wireless integrated information network covers all units and public areas of the school, and smart security and one-card coverage cover key areas of the campus. It has the world's largest international oral medicine museum, a national basic medical experimental teaching center, and a national oral medicine virtual simulation experimental teaching center. , human anatomy teaching specimen exhibition hall, computer teaching laboratory, foreign language teaching center, and teaching public facilities such as comprehensive sports training venues, indoor swimming pools, military physical training grounds, smart classrooms, and XR immersive teaching experience halls. It has a virtual experimental teaching system, clinical skills simulation training system, intraoperative magnetic resonance imaging system, surgical robot, PET/CT, PET/MR, spiral tomographic radiation therapy system, stereotactic radiation therapy system, magnetic resonance guided focused ultrasound therapy system, etc. A large number of advanced facilities and equipment. The school’s medical work has achieved remarkable results. All affiliated medical institutions are tertiary-A hospitals. Among them, the First Affiliated Hospital ranks among the top in the country in terms of comprehensive strength, and the Third Affiliated Hospital ranks among the top four in the national dental hospital rankings. In 2017, the Ministry of Education announced the results of the fourth round of national discipline evaluation, and the dental medicine discipline of the Third Affiliated Hospital ranked A+ alongside Peking University and Sichuan University. The school has created more than 100 "first" or "only" medical achievements at home and abroad, including the world's first "ten-finger separation and replantation surgery", the world's first "maxillofacial reconstruction surgery for women with dented faces", the first in China, The world's second "face transplant" and the country's first "human uterus transplant" have had a major impact at home and abroad. The school attaches great importance to scientific research and foreign academic exchanges, and has achieved a large number of research results. In recent years, it has won more than 1,000 scientific and technological achievement awards of various types, including 1 National Natural Science Award, 8 National Technological Invention Awards, 59 National Science and Technology Progress Awards, 40 First Prizes for Military Science and Technology, and First Prize for Military Medical Achievements. 17 items and 100 first-class provincial science and technology awards. Since the "Eleventh Five-Year Plan", it has won a total of 8 "973" chief scientist projects, more than 4,400 scientific research projects at the provincial and ministerial levels and above, and the total amount of approved scientific research funds exceeds 2.8 billion yuan. From 2008 to 2011, it won 5 first-class National Science and Technology Progress Awards for 4 consecutive years. In 2016, it won the National Science and Technology Progress Award for Innovation Team Award. In 2020, it won the first prize of the National Science and Technology Progress Award again. In the past five years, it has sent more than 2,000 people to participate in international conferences, studied abroad or conducted academic exchanges in internationally renowned teaching, medical, and research institutions, and received nearly a thousand foreign experts and scholars to visit the school. The school adheres to the purpose of the People's Army and resolutely fulfills the mission of the People's Army. In the War of Resistance Against Japan, the War of Liberation, the War to Resist U.S. Aggression and Aid Korea, Tibet's counter-insurgency, and the Sino-Indian and Sino-Vietnamese border self-defense counterattacks, the red gene was inherited with faith and loyalty and the battlefield rescue mission was successfully completed. It has performed more than 30 health support tasks for non-war military operations, including the fight against SARS, flood fighting, earthquake relief, National Day military parade, World Expo security inspection, Asian Games three defenses, stability maintenance and emergencies, and international peacekeeping. It has been repeatedly praised by the party, the state and the Military Commission. In 2010, the "Harmony Mission-2010" medical support mission in the Gulf of Aden was successfully completed; in 2015, 17 more people were dispatched to carry out the anti-Egypt mission in aid of Africa, using superb medical skills to build a bridge of friendship between China and Africa, demonstrating the capabilities of Chinese military doctors. style; in 2016, key medical personnel were selected to participate in the medical support of the SCO "Peace Mission-2016" international joint military exercise; since 2020, 7 batches of medical teams with 1,155 people have been dispatched to support Wuhan, Xi'an, Changchun, Shanghai and Lhasa epidemic prevention and control work in other places; in 2023, a medical team will be sent to Cambodia to conduct a joint medical rescue exercise. The school also participated in the National Day military parade three times. Especially in the military parade celebrating the 60th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China, the female soldiers' formation of the three armed forces accepted the review of the motherland and the people, creating and practicing the spirit of the female soldiers' formation of the three armed forces. In the new historical period, under the correct leadership of the Central Military Commission and the Air Force Party Committee, the school will focus on accelerating the strategy of building a powerful People's Air Force that integrates air and space, and is both offensive and defensive. It will adhere to the development of being based on the Air Force, facing the entire army, highlighting characteristics, and intensively running schools. The ideas and construction standards of being No. 1 on the battlefield of military medicine and No. 1 in basic medical innovation are aimed at the goal of a century-old prestigious school and strive to build a higher military medical school that is top in the military, leading in the country, and world-famous.
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