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 college has a history of 45 years. Her predecessor was Guangdong Health Cadre College, which was established in 1958. 1978 was upgraded to an ordinary undergraduate college 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 college has a complete education system including general higher education, postgraduate education and adult education. At present, there are 1 1 departments, including pharmacy college, public health college, basic education college, continuing education college, clinical medicine department, Chinese medicine department, biopharmaceutical department, management department and foreign languages department. Undergraduate education includes seven disciplines: medicine, science, engineering, management, economics, law, literature and pharmacy. Postgraduate Education 17 Specialty and Professional Direction of Pathogenic Biology, Medicinal Chemistry and Pharmacy. 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. This year, there are more than 3000 students in the hospital, including more than 7000 general education students. By 2008, there will be 35,000 students of all kinds.
The overall structure of the faculty is reasonable, with strong strength and rich teaching experience. About 36% of full-time teachers are full-time associate professors and teachers with equivalent titles, and about 50% have master's degree or above.
The college attaches importance to quality education, always regards quality and characteristics as the lifeline of running a school, and insists on deepening educational 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 college attaches great importance to scientific research and technological development, and has strong research and development capabilities for new drugs, environmental protection and social security. 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 of Controlled Release Preparations, state administration of traditional chinese medicine No.2 Laboratory, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Promoting Medicine through Science and Education, Provincial Key Laboratory of Modern Chinese Medicine, Institute of Medicine, Institute of Biological Pharmacy, Institute of Chinese Medicine Development, Zhongshan Hospital, Guangzhou Steel Hospital, etc. With advanced instruments and equipment, it has formed a relatively complete scientific research system, actively undertaken scientific research projects at the national, ministerial and provincial levels, and obtained achievements and patents. In the past five years, it has undertaken 65,438 scientific research projects at or above the provincial level. Nearly 50 scientific research achievements (of which 10 has won scientific and technological achievement awards at or above the provincial level); Apply for 8 invention patents and authorize 6; 6 national new drug certificates, more than 2,000 academic papers and more than 50 monographs; At the same time, it has undertaken a large number of horizontal projects, achieved good social and economic benefits, and made due contributions to the economic construction and social development of Guangdong Province.
The college actively carries out foreign cooperation and exchanges, and has established cooperative 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.
With excellent conditions for running a school and a beautiful environment for educating people, the College will 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 in China with "focusing on medicine, combining medicine and coordinated development of multiple disciplines".