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Curriculum for Undergraduate Medical Education (for international students)

Catalogue

Part I. Compulsory Basic Courses ................................................................................................................................................................................................... 5

Medical Chinese ........................................................................................................................................................................................................................................ 5

Computer Technology ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................ 5

Medical mathematics ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................. 5

Medical Physics ......................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 6

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Medical Chemistry ..................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 6

Medical Literature Retrieval and Utilization ............................................................................................................................................................................................... 6

Part II. Pre-clinical Courses .............................................................................................................................................................................................................. 6

Medical Ethics ............................................................................................................................................................................................................................................ 6

Introduction to psychology and Behavioral Sciences ............................................................................................................................................................................... 7

Medical genetics ........................................................................................................................................................................................................................................ 7

Human anatomy ......................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 7

Histology and Embryology ......................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 8

Physiology .................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................. 8

Physiology experiment ............................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 8

Pathogen biology ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 9

Immunology ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................ 9

Pathology .................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 9



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Pathophysiology ......................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 9

Pathophysiology experiment .................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 10

Pharmacology .......................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 10

Pharmacology experiments ..................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 10

Part III. Clinical Courses – Compulsory Courses ............................................................................................................................................................................ 11

Clinical Diagnostics .................................................................................................................................................................................................................................. 11

Diagnostic Radiology ............................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 11

Laboratory Medicine ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................ 11

Hygienics .................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................. 11

Epidemiology and Statistics ..................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 12

Internal medicine ...................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 12

Surgery ..................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 12

Obstetrics and Gynecology ..................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 13



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Pediatrics .................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................. 13

Neurology ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................. 13

Psychiatry ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................. 13

Nuclear Medicine ..................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 14

Ophthalmology ......................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 14

Otorhinolaryngology ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................. 14

Dermatology and Venereology ................................................................................................................................................................................................................ 14

Emergency medicine ............................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 15

Family Medicine ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 15

Part IV. Clinical Courses – Elective Courses ................................................................................................................................................................................... 15

Forensic Medicine .................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 15

Evidence-based medicine (EBM) ............................................................................................................................................................................................................ 15

Clinical pharmacology ............................................................................................................................................................................................................................. 16



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General Introduction to the TCM theory .................................................................................................................................................................................................. 16

Acupuncture and moxibustion of the TCM .............................................................................................................................................................................................. 16

Part I. Compulsory Basic Courses

Medical Chinese

Medical Chinese course aims to provide the students with a sufficient level of medical Chinese to help develop the reading, writing

medical documents and paper, and communication skills required to converse with Chinese speaking doctors and patients. In this Medical

Chinese course, we'll cover medical terms related to all major body systems, including: muscular system, skeletal system, respiratory

system, circulatory system, digestive system, reproductive system, urinary system and etc.

Computer Technology

The course includes basic knowledge of computers, operating systems, word processing, electronic sheets and internet technologies.

Through this course of study, students can grasp basic knowledge of computer system and enhance computer skills, thus meeting the

needs of future work.

Medical mathematics

The aim of Medical advanced mathematics is to give knowledge of functions, limits, derivatives, differentiates, indefinite integrals,

definite integrals, differential equations, function integration, probability, and statistics.



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Medical Physics

Medical physics develop knowledge on biomechanics, fluid dynamics, vibration, fluctuating harmony theory, thermodynamics, static

electric fields, magnetic fluctuations, optics, geometric optics, quantum mechanics, the medical application of laser and x-rays, and

nuclear physics. Different sections of the course also introduce biomechanics, blood flow, ultrasound, electrocardiograph, lasers, x-ray,

microscope, and nuclear magnetic resonance imaging, which directly or indirectly involve physics.

Medical Chemistry

Medical Chemistry will give students a sufficient knowledge of chemistry and biochemistry. They will encounter and require this

knowledge during their training. The course includes organic chemistry and inorganic chemistry, which also emphasizes problem solving

skills that can be transferred to their professional life.

Medical Literature Retrieval and Utilization

The course includes concepts of information, document retrieval, scientific literacy, types of medical literature, structures, principles and

means of medical literature search, research tools, Medline, network retrieval and writing of medical paper.

Part II. Pre-clinical Courses

Medical Ethics

Medical Ethics, which was made of the basic theory, principles, standards and categories, is mainly introduced by theory and case

analysis around the hot problem of life and health. The purpose of course is to help the medical students master the basic theory and

scientific methods of solving ethical problem, and then strengthen the students’ ethical awareness and legal consciousness , develop their



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capabilities of creative and ethical judgments.

Introduction to psychology and Behavioral Sciences

General psychology aims to promote the awareness of ‘Bio-psycho-social Medical Model’ of the medical students. It introduces holistic

perspectives on human nature, especially the basic knowledge of psychology, Main topics includes relationship between psychology and

medicine, biological bases of human behavior, developmental psychology, psychology of cognition, psychology of emotion, affect-need

motivation and volition, psychology of personality, and social psychology. In order to strengthen the awareness of ‘New Medical Model’,

behavior medicine offer students the opportunity to expand their knowledge of behavioral sciences that are closely relevant to medical

practices, such as sociology, social biology, medical sociology, cultural anthropology, social work, family study and hospital management.

Students have also opportunity to visit our affiliated hospital and to get early experiences with clinical patients.

Medical genetics

The molecular genetics course is designed to generally introduce the molecular aspects of human genetics and related diseases. The

course will cover basic material on DNA structure and function, chromosome, pedigree analysis and basic techniques used in laboratory.

The course will also discuss genetic testing, screening, approaches to therapy, functional genomics, proteomics and bioinformatics.

Moreover, stem cells and cell therapy, comparative genomics, personalized medicine, model organisms, noncoding RNAs and their

functions, and epigenetics will be included as the text for advanced study.

Human anatomy

Human anatomy is the science to study the structures of human body. It reveals morphology, position, function of structures and

structural relationships of the parts of the body. It is the pillar course of the preclinical medicine. Human anatomy is a visual science of

the configuration of the body, and thus the success of learning and understanding depends largely on the quality of dissection and the

illustrations of the human structures. The course provides students the opportunities to dissect bodies and learn the body structure well.



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Histology and Embryology

Histology is a science which studies the microstructure and functions of human body. Embryology is the study of the development of

human embryos. It investigates the ontogenesis and underlying mechanisms. The teaching enables medical students to understand basic

theories and systemic knowledge of human microstructure and the development of the human embryo, to establish a good basis for

learning other basic and clinical medical courses.

Physiology

Physiology is one of the major courses of preclinical education and also an important division of biomedical science. The Medical

Physiology Course is designed to give students a good understanding of the function of living organisms with emphasis on human beings.

In human physiology, we are concerned with the specific characteristics and mechanisms of the human body that make it a living being.

The course will provide an understanding of how cells, tissues, organs and organ systems function together to create one organism. A key

goal is to become familiar with normal physiology to be able to comprehend pathological conditions as presented later in the medical

training and in the practice of medicine. So this course is also a prerequisite to pathology, pathophysiology, pharmacology, and other

clinical medicine courses as well.

Physiology experiment

Physiology is concerned with the function of organisms at many stages of organization, from the subcellular level to the intact organism.

The establishment and the development of this subject are mainly based on laboratory research work. Most of the systematic

physiological principles and knowledge are obtained from the observations, analysis and results in well-designed experiments.

Physiological experiments are carried out by observing and recording the physical activities and the related influent factors under

artificial controlled conditions, and then exploring the mechanisms of a certain function by analysis of the experiment data. The

physiology experiment course, as main part of the physiology course, helps the medical students to learn and understand the

physiological knowledge.



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Pathogen biology

This course is about pathogen, medical microorganisms and parasites, and pathogen-induced infectious diseases. Study focuses on the

biological characteristics and pathogenesis of pathogens, as well as the simple demonstration, lab and clinical diagnosis, treatment and

preventive measures of infectious diseases.

Immunology

Immunology is to study the mechanisms of how immune system can effectively fight against microbial pathogens without damaging self.

This field also extends its study to immunopathology and to its practical applications such as vaccine development and

immunology-related technologies.

Pathology

Pathology is a basic medical discipline involved in the etiology, pathogenesis and pathological changes (including those of metabolism,

function and morphology) and transformation. Its goal is to understand and master the nature and development regularity of diseases and

consequently to offer foundations for theories and practices in prevention and treatment of diseases. Its task is to study diseases from the

viewpoint of morphology and to study the relations between etiology, pathogenesis, pathological changes and clinical presentations on

the basis of changes of metabolism and functions. The course of pathology consists of 119 class hours including 68 hours for lectures and

51 hours for practice.

Pathophysiology

Pathophysiology mainly studies the cause of the disease, pathogenesis, and the changes of function and metabolism in sick body. Its

object of study is the sick body. It shows the law of the development and outcome of disease and provides the theoretical basis and

experimental evidence to the clinical prevention and treatment. Pathophysiology is a medical and related professional public basic course.

Its research results contribute to the continuous improvement and perfection of clinical prevention and treatment.



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Pathophysiology experiment

Pathophysiology is a highly experimental discipline. The course includes theory taught, videos of typical cases, case study & discussion,

experimental research and so on. The experimental course accounts for 24 hours. Except for the confirmatory experiment, there also will

be some design experiments. Through the experimental teaching, the basic skills, the scientific way of thinking and the innovation ability

of students will be trained.

Pharmacology

Pharmacology is the discipline concerned with the study of the interactions that occur between a living organism and chemicals. The two

main areas of pharmacology are pharmacodynamics and pharmacokinetics. The former studies the effects of the drugs on biological

systems (e.g. the interactions of chemicals with biological receptors) while the latter studies the effects of biological systems on the drugs

(such as the absorption, distribution, metabolism, and excretion of chemicals from the biological systems). Pharmacology may offer

fundamental theories for rational usage of drugs to prevent and treat diseases.

Pharmacology experiments

Pharmacology experiment is an experimental course which helps students to master the general methods and basic skills used in

pharmacological research. This course is also aimed to help students better understand the basic theory of pharmacology and get

acquainted with the general process of designing pharmacological research protocols. By attending experiment course, students are

expected to improve their ability of discovering, analyzing and resolving problems by themselves.



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Part III. Clinical Courses – Compulsory Courses

Clinical Diagnostics

The purpose of the course is to help students learn the basic methods of inquiry and physical examination, to learn the basic techniques

and clinical significance of electrocardiography, lung function and all kinds of endoscopies, through which students can master the basic

principles of disease diagnosis and methods of information collection, comprehensive analysis and conclusions.

Diagnostic Radiology

The purpose of diagnostic radiology is to understand modern medical imaging, including the basic principles of various imaging

techniques and features, the basic methods of analysis, diagnosis and their application value and limits. Students should master the basics

principle of different imaging techniques which is widely used in clinical practice.

Laboratory Medicine

The course aims to introduce the theory and methods of routine medical laboratory tests, the approaches to collect samples, and the

information that may affect the diagnosis results. Our goal is that students can master indications and principles of routine laboratory

tests, understand the clinical value of each common laboratory tests deeply and apply these tests to clinical diagnosis and precaution

skillfully.

Hygienics

Hygienics is a primary branch of preventive medicine and based on the principle of ‘prevention first’, is a science of study on the

relationship between the external environment and human health, is a complete course system that consist of the environmental and

occupational hygiene, nutrition and food hygiene and medical statistics. The features of hygiene are based on the



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environment-population-health research mode to observe the principles of disease occurrence and development in populations, to analyze

the influence and principles of major environmental causes affecting the development of diseases and public health by using multiply

methods of the basic science, clinical medicine, epidemiology, environment hygiene and medical statistics, to provide the scientific

evidences and implementation principles of improving and utilizing environmental hygiene, to constitute the disease prevention and

control policy and strategies, to eventually achieve the objectives of disease prevention, public health promotion and the improvement of

quality of life in populations via those measures.

Epidemiology and Statistics

Epidemiology and statistics is a subject studying the distribution of human diseases and health status and revealing various factors related

to the population distribution. The course consists of two parts. Part one is the epidemiological principles, including the basic concepts,

study design methods and ethical principles of epidemiological research. Part two is the statistical methods, which is about the commonly

used statistical analysis methods in medical research, including data collection, collation, analysis and interpretation of results.

Internal medicine

Internal medicine is the course which introduces the causes, mechanism, clinical features, diagnosis, and prevention of some common

diseases belonging to internal medicine. We plan to introduce the basic knowledge, theories, and techniques in order to help students

develop right clinical thoughts and work manner and improve their ability to deal with common diseases.

Surgery

Surgery deals with surgical diseases’ causes, processing, pathology, diagnosis, prevention and treatment. Integrated with clinical practice,

the theoretical education aims to help students understand diseases’ features and master clinical operation. The advanced goal is to grasp

the processes of some basic surgical operation.



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Obstetrics and Gynecology

Despite its main content concerning with female’s reproductive system’s physiology and pathology, the course refers to a lot of medical

knowledge. The major purpose of this course is to make students understand female’ physiological and pathological changes in their life,

including pregnancy period and non-pregnancy period, preparing for perinatal period health care, family planning, treatment of tumor

and advanced research.

Pediatrics

Pediatrics is a special part of clinical medicine, which studies children’s growth, development, health care and disease prevention from

fetal period to teenage. Theoretical education and clinical practice are available to help students completely comprehend children’s

anatomical and physiological features, health interventions, diagnosis and prevention of pediatric common diseases.

Neurology

Neurology focuses on the diseases of central nervous system, peripheral nervous system and skeletal muscles. This course will teach

students to learn how to check nervous system by physical examination. Students are expected to master the principles of diagnosis and

understand the causes, pathology, clinical features, diagnosis and treatment of common nervous system diseases.

Psychiatry

The curriculum of Psychiatry and Mental Health includes two parts: medical psychology and psychiatry. Students are expected to

primarily master knowledge such as the principle of medical psychology, the application method of psychological measurement tools and

psychotherapy and theory of mental disorders. Through the course of study along with early clinical practice, students can learn how to

independently analyze, diagnose and handle common mental health problems and disorders based on integrity concept and innovation

ability.



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Nuclear Medicine

Nuclear medicine applies radionuclide to get images, make diagnosis and treat diseases. This course will introduce some useful

examination and treatment methods in use of radionuclide. Self-protection from radionuclide is also very important. The course will

focus on the imaging theories, indications, affecting factors of organ radionuclide imaging, especially in endocrine system,

cardiovascular system, nervous system, urinary system.

Ophthalmology

Ophthalmology researches the diseases of eyes. It deals with the anatomy, physiology, pathology and other professional knowledge of

eyes. Common diseases’ pathology, clinical features, diagnosis, prevention and the relationship with other systems are required to be

grasped. And students should be familiar with common treatment and surgical operation.

Otorhinolaryngology

Otorhinolaryngology specially deals with ears, noses, pharynx and larynx’s anatomy, physiology, pathology and other professional

knowledge. The course is designed to improve students’ basic theory and professional knowledge of otorhinolaryngology through clinical

practice and theoretical learning. Basic treatment interventions, common diseases’ causes, mechanisms, diagnosis and differential

principles, treatment principles, common drugs should be grasped.

Dermatology and Venereology

Dermatology and venereology introduce diseases of skin and mucosa, as well as the sexually-transmitted diseases. Basic theories,

knowledge, operation and some research processes of dermatology and venereology will be introduced. Clinical practice is planned to

help students handle common diseases skillfully and know something about complex diseases.



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Emergency medicine

Emergency medicine is a newly-developed course and a cross-discipline or fringe discipline which calls for practice and bears great

society responsibility. This course is aimed to help students understand clinical features and rules of diagnosis as well as treatment of

emergency, master first aid and examination techniques of common emergency case.

Family Medicine

Family medicine is aimed to develop students’ whole-person paradigm and patient-centered conception. It concerns changes of thinking

style, levels of observation and systematic methods. Our goal is to enable students to master general practitioner’s techniques and

knowledge.

Part IV. Clinical Courses – Elective Courses

Forensic Medicine

This course aims to apply theory and techniques of medicine, the biology and other natural science, study and solve the problems relating

to medicine in juridical practice, and give assistance to the judgments of criminal and civil case.

Evidence-based medicine (EBM)

Evidence-based medicine (EBM) covers the basic concepts of EBM, the modern medical model, the type and the distribution of EBM

information resources, searching methods for databases and internet resources and the latest techniques for obtaining the best evidence

efficiently. The course makes use of the education modules which allow students to integrate clinical cases with specific clinical issues,

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programs and evaluation of clinical decisions and aftereffect. Thus, it combines the theory and practice of EBM effectively.

Clinical pharmacology

Clinical pharmacology is a branch of biomedical science that is focused on the therapeutic application of pharmaceutical drugs and their

effect on humans. The main objective is to promote the safety of prescription, maximize the drug effects and minimize the side effects.

The main contents include clinical pharmacodynamics, clinical pharmacokinetics, clinical trials of new drugs, therapeutic drug

monitoring, adverse drug effects monitoring, drug interactions, etc.

General Introduction to the TCM theory

Traditional Chinese medicine is based on Chinese traditional culture and philosophy. We will emphasize the conception of life and

disease, diagnosis and treatment of Chinese traditional medicine. Students can get a good understanding of Chinese traditional medicine,

the complexity of life, and the gap in between Chinese traditional medicine and modern western medicine.

Acupuncture and moxibustion of the TCM

*The above content may not include the introduction of some courses due to the updating of the current curriculum.

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