Gansu Medical College, formerly known as Pingliang District Health School, was founded in 1958. With nearly 50 years of technical secondary school education and 15 years of medical education history.
65438-0997 Pingliang Health School was rated as "provincial (ministerial) key middle school".
In 200 1 year, it was approved as a "national key middle school" by the Ministry of Education.
In April 2003, it was upgraded to junior college.
On February 20 15, it was upgraded to an undergraduate school and renamed Gansu Medical College.
There are 2 affiliated hospitals directly under the College, of which the Affiliated Hospital of Gansu Medical College (formerly Pingliang People's Hospital) is a third-class first-class hospital, and the Second Affiliated Hospital (formerly Pingliang Second People's Hospital) is a third-class second-class hospital. The college also has 10 non-affiliated hospitals such as Lanzhou Army General Hospital, Lanzhou First Hospital and Lanzhou Second Hospital, and 80 teaching practice bases inside and outside the province. It has the Gansu General Practice Training Sub-center and the 11th National Vocational Skills Appraisal Institute in Heping City.
The admission score of arts and sciences before college entrance examination is about 150 points higher than that of higher vocational colleges in Gansu Province, and it ranks among the best in higher vocational colleges in Gansu Province. The annual enrollment rate of freshmen is over 95%, and the annual employment rate of graduates is over 89.3%. The employment rate of graduates ranks first in higher vocational colleges in the province, forming a benign mechanism of "smooth export and prosperous import".
The College has successively won provincial and national honorary titles such as "National Advanced Unit of Health Civilization", "No.1 in the Unified Examination of Nursing Graduation in Gansu Province", "Advanced Collective of Gansu Red Cross Society", "Provincial Civilized Unit" and "Advanced Collective of Employment in Gansu Province". The emergence of advanced models such as Chen and Niu Xuelian, the national moral model of "filial piety and love for parents" and the most beautiful angel in white have further enhanced the influence of the college in the whole province and even the whole country.