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Zhengzhou University School of Medicine (formerly Henan Medical University), located in Zhengzhou City, Henan Province, is one of the provincial key universities directly under the Henan Provincial Education Commission.
Zhengzhou University School of Medicine was founded in Kaifeng in 1928, established independently in 1952 as Henan Medical College, moved from Kaifeng to Zhengzhou in 1958, and was named Henan Medical University in 1984.In 2000, it merged with the first batch of key universities of the 211 project in the country, Zhengzhou University and Zhengzhou University of Technology, and changed its name to Zhengzhou University School of Medicine. In 2000, it merged with Zhengzhou University and Zhengzhou University of Technology, the first batch of 211 project key universities in China, and was renamed Zhengzhou University Medical College.
Zhengzhou University School of Medicine is located at No. 40 University Road in Zhengzhou City, at the intersection of Zhongyuan Road, Jianshe Road and University Road, adjacent to Zhengzhou University in the south. The campus covers an area of 51 hectares, with a building area of nearly 110,000 square meters, and the Jinshui River running north and south.
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The school set up a medical specialty, with a 6-year course of study, which was changed to an 8-year course of study (3 years for preparatory courses and 5 years for undergraduate courses) in 1929. At that time, most of the teaching staff employed were those who had studied in Germany, Switzerland and Japan and had obtained doctoral degrees. There were many famous medical experts teaching, writing systematic teaching materials, published many influential papers, the school building and instruments and equipment are also expanding year by year to enrich, and became a more famous medical institution of higher learning in China at that time. 1937 "July 7" Incident, Henan University was forced to move from one place to another. Successively moved from Kaifeng to Zhenping, Songxian, Tantou Town, Zijingguan, Xi'an, Hanzhong, Baoji and other places.
Tantou town was ransacked by the Japanese, heavy losses. But the teachers and students of Henan University patriotic ambition, perseverance, although running around, the conditions are difficult, but still run the school. Due to the strong faculty, rigorous governance, students work hard, graduates of the business foundation is solid, in the community has won a good reputation.