Anhui Medical University, a key university in Anhui Province, was selected as a basic capacity-building project for universities in the central and western regions, and became the first batch of "high-level university construction with local characteristics" in the revitalization plan of higher education in Anhui Province and the "excellent doctoral education training plan" in the Ministry of Education. The school's predecessor was the private Southeast Medical College founded in Shanghai in May, 1926. At the end of 1949, in response to the call of the Central East China Bureau, Anhui moved to Anhui Province and became the first medical college in Anhui Province. 1952 was renamed Anhui medical college. 65438+1June, 1996, with the approval of the State Education Commission, it was renamed Anhui Medical University. As of June 20 14, the school has 22 directly affiliated teaching institutions, 5 directly affiliated hospitals and 6 non-directly affiliated hospitals. * * * There are 3,733 staff and students * * *18,700, including 3 160 graduate students and 250 international students. The school has hosted large-scale international and domestic academic conferences such as the mid-term defense and final acceptance meeting of the National Science Foundation for outstanding young scholars in the medical field, the Sino-German Complex Disease Genetics Research Forum, and the genome-wide association studies Research International Forum.