This school has a history of more than 50 years. Her predecessor was Guangdong Health Cadre Training 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, becoming the third independent pharmaceutical school in China after China Pharmaceutical University and Shenyang Pharmaceutical University.
After more than 50 years of construction and development, the school has formed an education system at different levels, such as undergraduate education, postgraduate education, adult education and international student education. Now it has developed into a medical college integrating medicine, science, engineering, management and economics, which has great influence in Guangdong Province. At present, there are 18 secondary hospitals (departments) such as Academy of Medical Sciences, School of Public Health, School of Clinical Medicine, School of Basic Medicine, College of Traditional Chinese Medicine, School of Medical Information Engineering, School of Medical Business, School of Medical Economics, School of Life Sciences and Biopharmaceuticals, School of Nursing, School of Food Science, College of Pharmacy, College of Continuing Education, College of International Education, School of Foreign Languages, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Department of Sports, Training Center, etc. Modern education technology center, two teaching auxiliary units, has pharmacy, pharmaceutical preparations, traditional Chinese medicine, resources and development of traditional Chinese medicine, preventive medicine, health inspection, clinical medicine, nursing, biological science, biotechnology, pharmaceutical engineering, chemical engineering and technology, computer science and technology, biomedical engineering, food quality and safety, information management and information system, marketing, human resource management, e-commerce and public enterprise management. Postgraduate education has four first-level disciplines of master's degree authorization, including basic medicine, public health and preventive medicine, pharmacy and traditional Chinese medicine, nearly 20 master's degree authorization points, and 1 professional master's degree authorization right. Pharmacy is a provincial key supporting discipline, with 9 key disciplines and 6 school-level key supporting disciplines. The laboratory of new drug dosage forms is the key laboratory of Guangdong Province, the teaching improvement laboratory of Guangdong Provincial Department of Education and the experimental teaching demonstration center of Guangdong Provincial Department of Education are the key laboratories at the departmental level. Adult education provides multi-form and multi-level academic education and non-academic education such as correspondence and night university. By the end of June, 20 10, there were 22,764 full-time students in general higher education, including 356 master students, 2 undergraduates1003 and junior college students 1405.
The library school has 265 1 staff (including the first affiliated hospital). Full-time teachers 146 1, full-time teachers 140, deputy senior teachers 4 12, and 40% of the teachers have senior titles. Doctor 265,438+00, Master 538. Master tutor 137. Experts 12 who enjoy special allowances from the State Council and provincial governments, 8 members of the teaching steering committee of the Ministry of Education, 2 members of the teaching steering committee of the provincial education department, 3 international referees 1 person, 3 national referees, 34 outstanding teachers at the national, provincial and ministerial levels, 36 famous teachers of ideological and political theory courses in Guangdong Province 1 person, and 36 backbone teachers of the "Thousand Talents Project" in Guangdong Province.
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, constantly explored and practiced the training mode of innovative talents, and optimized the specialty and discipline structure in time according to the idea of featuring pharmacy, combining medical care with multidisciplinary development. 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 majors and the good quality of students, the first employment rate of college graduates has been in the forefront of colleges and 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 backbones 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. Under the guidance of 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 medical university with characteristics in China, which focuses on medicine, combines medical care with coordinated development of various disciplines.