The school is headquartered in the beautiful Guangzhou University Town, including Guangzhou Chigang Campus, Baogang Campus and Zhongshan Campus. The whole campus covers an area of more than 3,200 mu.
The school has a history of 48 years. Her predecessor was Guangdong Health Cadre College, which was established in 1958. 1978 was upgraded to an ordinary undergraduate school with the approval of the State Council, and was named "Guangdong Medical College". 1February, 1994, in order to meet the requirements of further economic development in Guangdong, it was renamed "Guangdong Pharmaceutical University" and became the second pharmaceutical university in China, Shenyang Pharmaceutical University.
The school has a complete education system including general higher education, postgraduate education and adult education. At present, there are 1 1 secondary departments, including pharmacy college, public health college, basic education college, continuing education college, clinical medical college, traditional Chinese medicine college, pharmaceutical business college, life science and biopharmaceuticals college, foreign languages department and humanities and social sciences department. Undergraduate education includes medicine, science, engineering, management, economy, law and literature. There are 8 master's programs in postgraduate education, including Chinese medicine, pharmacy, medicinal chemistry, pharmaceutical analysis, internal medicine, epidemiology and health statistics, pathogenic biology, human anatomy and histology and embryology. Adult education provides multi-form and multi-level academic education and full-time, correspondence, night university and other non-academic education. With complete disciplines, mutual support, complementary advantages, strong professional adaptability, reasonable and complete structure, it has strong competitive advantages and development potential. Pharmacy and preventive medicine have obvious advantages in Guangdong Province and even South China. At present, there are more than 8000 students/kloc-0, including general education students 1 1000. By 2008, there will be 35,000 students of all kinds.
The overall structure of the school's teaching staff is relatively reasonable, with relatively strong strength and rich teaching experience. About 36% of full-time teachers are full-time associate professors and teachers with equivalent titles, and about 6 1.8% have master's degree or above.
The school attaches great importance to quality education, always regards quality and characteristics as the lifeline of running a school, and insists on deepening education reform. Especially in the past two years, we have seized the opportunity of the rapid development of Guangdong's higher education, scientifically positioned ourselves, made clear the development ideas, comprehensively strengthened the connotation construction, deepened the teaching reform according to the idea of "taking pharmacy as the characteristic, combining medicine with medicine, and coordinating the development of multiple disciplines", constantly explored and practiced the innovative talent training mode, and optimized the professional and disciplinary structure in time. Vigorously expand the space for running a school, improve the conditions for running a school, rapidly expand the scale of running a school, significantly improve the quality and efficiency of running a school, and form a coordinated development pattern of the main campus, Chigang campus, Baogang campus and Zhongshan campus, and form a multi-level education system for graduate education, general undergraduate education (including appropriate majors) and adult higher education. Due to the uniqueness of the major and the good quality of students, the first employment rate of graduates in our college has been in the forefront of universities in the province in the past decade. Since 2002, the employment rate of undergraduate graduates has exceeded 96%, and all graduates have been welcomed by employers and society! The vast majority of graduates have become the main technical backbone and management cadres of the medical and health industry in Guangdong Province, and have made important contributions to the development of medical and health undertakings in Guangdong Province.
The school attaches great importance to scientific research and technological development, and has strong research capabilities in new drug research and development, public health, basic medicine and clinical medicine. Taking the construction of key disciplines as the leader, relying on master's degree programs and provincial research institutions, and taking economic construction as the guide, the college strengthens basic research and applied research, actively participates in regional economic construction, strengthens scientific and technological development, and enhances its ability to serve economic construction. It has Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory for New Drug Creation, state administration of traditional chinese medicine No.2 Laboratory, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory for Promoting Medicine through Science and Education, Provincial Department of Education Key Laboratory for Modern Chinese Medicine, and Laboratory for Integrated Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine, as well as Medical Research Institute, Biopharmaceutical Research Institute, Chinese Medicine Development Research Institute, First Affiliated Hospital, Zhongshan Affiliated Hospital and Guangzhou Steel Affiliated Hospital. With advanced instruments and equipment, it has formed a relatively complete scientific research system. Actively undertake national, ministerial and provincial scientific research projects and obtain rich scientific and technological achievements, actively carry out horizontal cooperation with enterprises, provide technical services for scientific and technological innovation of pharmaceutical enterprises, achieve good social and economic benefits, and make due contributions to the economic construction and social development of Guangdong Province.
The school is active in foreign cooperation and exchange, and has established cooperation and exchange relations with the University of Toronto in Canada, the University of Houston in the United States and Lund University in Sweden. Jointly run a school with the University of Hong Kong; At the same time, it also has extensive contacts with all walks of life.
The school has excellent conditions for running a school and a beautiful educational environment. Guided by Deng Xiaoping Theory and Theory of Three Represents, we should establish Scientific Outlook on Development, seize the opportunity, deepen reform, strengthen connotation construction, comprehensively promote various undertakings, become bigger and stronger, and strive to build a well-known domestic medical university with "medicine as the mainstay, combination of medical care and nursing, and coordinated development of multiple disciplines".