There are three medical universities in Wu Hanyou, namely Tongji Medical College of Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan University Medical College and Yunyang Medical College. Huazhong University of Science and Technology is a key comprehensive university directly under the Ministry of Education. On May 26th, 2000, it was formed by the merger of Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Tongji Medical University and Wuhan Institute of Urban Construction. It is the key construction of the national "2 1 1 Project" and "985 Project". It is the first batch of "double first-class" universities. The Medical College of Wuhan University has a strong faculty and a high level of teaching, medical care and scientific research. There are 744 faculty members with senior titles/kloc-0, including 352 doctoral supervisors and 72 national high-level talents, including 3 academicians of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, 3 winners of the National Master Award and 165438 winners of the National Outstanding Youth Fund. Yunyang Medical College is the only independent comprehensive medical college of western medicine in Hubei Province and the adjacent areas of Hubei, Henan, Chongqing and Shaanxi, which focuses on medicine and has the coordinated development of medicine, science, engineering and management.
The main research directions of medical college are anatomy, pathology, microbiology, molecular biology, biochemistry, pharmacology, forensic medicine and radiation medicine.