Binzhou Medical University (BMU) is a provincial university of applied sciences, co-constructed by Shandong Provincial Education Department and local municipal governments. It is approved as a doctoral degree construction unit by Shandong Province.Its predecessor is the Medical School of Public Shandong University originally established in 1946. After several times of relocation and rename, in 1983, it took on its current name Binzhou Medical University after the name of city it was located in. In 2002, Yantai campus was put into use and became the main campus. With over 70 years of school-running history, BMU has combined multiple disciplines of medicine, science, engineering, management and education, with medical disciplines being its advantage and rehabilitation medicine and education for the disabled being its specialties. School-Running Scale BMU has over 17,241 full-time students, including over 15,306 undergraduates and junior college students as well as 1,525 postgraduates. The university has enrollment plans in 29 provinces (cities and autonomous regions). Besides, there are 410 overseas students from 32 countries. Now the university has 16 schools, namely, the First School of Clinical Medicine, the Second School of Clinical Medicine, School of Basic Medical Sciences, School of Special Education, School of Stomatology, School of Nursing, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, School of Marxism, School of Pharmacy, School of Integrated Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine, School of Public Health and Management, School of International Studies, School of Medical Imaging, School of Rehabilitation Medicine, School of Gerontology and School of Continuing Education. Talents Cultivation BMU insists on taking high moral value establishment in talent cultivation as the fundamental task and sticks to the centeredness on the talent cultivation. BMU puts into practices its university dictum of "Benevolent and Skillful", promotes its school spirit of “factualism, solidarity, preciseness and innovation,” and practices its teaching spirit of “imparting knowledge and cultivating people, serving as role models, adopting rigorous scholarship and dedicating to teaching” and its learning spirit of “advocating science, seeking the truth, studying diligently and keeping faith”. Over the past 40 years, BMU has made positive contributions to society and our country by cultivating more than 157,000 talents in medicine and medicine-related fields, who have become great academics, leading figures and elites in the fields and primary medical staffs, such as Prof. Meng Xiangjin, who is a member of the United States National Academy of Sciences. BMU gained excellent results in the national undergraduate teaching level assessment in 2006 and quickly passed the national clinical medicine quality certification of six years validity in 2013 and was approved to extend certification period to ten years. In 2016, BMU passed the national undergraduate teaching evaluation. BMU is one of the universities to held the Clinical and Traditional Chinese Medicine Practitioner Qualification Examination and is among the first batch of pilot units carrying out the comprehensive reform on undergraduate programs in the Teaching Projects for Undergraduates of the Ministry of Education. BMU is also the pilot unit of 5+3 education comprehensive reform on clinical medicine in the Plan of Educating and Training Outstanding Doctors and the pilot unit of reform on the Plan of Educating and Training for Traditional Chinese Medicine Outstanding Doctors. Now, BMU serves as the standardized training basis for resident doctors at national level, the training basis for nursing talents and clinical pharmacists and the cultivation basis for general practitioners. Education for the Disabled In 1985, Binzhou Medical University started the first undergraduate program in China that was especially designed for the disabled, which marked the beginning of medical education for the disabled in China. In 2012, the university took the initiative to recruit students with visual impairment to take part in a five-year program of Acupuncture and Massotherapy and in 2018, the university started to recruit students with hearing impairment, which filled in the gaps of undergraduate programs of students with visual or hearing impairment among medical universities. Over 30 years' development, BMU has created its own model of teaching the disabled and healthy students together, combining teaching and rehabilitation in the education for the disabled students and putting knowledge into practice for talent cultivation of the the disabled and has cultivated 1,300 disabled medical graduates. Now, BMU serves as the National Higher Education Basis for the Disabled, the Standardized Training Basis for Blind Massotherapy and Standardized Training Basis for Rehabilitation Physician. Discipline and Specialty BMU has 34 undergraduate programs, including Clinical Medicine, Stomatology, Pediatrics, Preventive Medicine, Nursing, Pediatrics, Traditional Chinese Medicine, Medical Imaging, laboratory medicine, Pharmacy, Applied Psychology, Ophthalmology, Rehabilitation Therapy, Special Education, Hearing and Speech Rehabilitation, Bio-pharmaceuticals, Prosthetics and Orthotics, Science of Chinese Materia Medica and Rehabilitation Physiotherapy. Among them, there are one national first-class undergraduate program construction unit, four national characteristic programs and four high-level application-oriented program construction groups and 25 first-class program construction units of Shandong Province. BMU has six master’s degree programs at first-level disciplines, nine professional master’s degree programs and eight key discipline at provincial and ministerial level. The discipline of Clinical Medicine focuses on cultivation of “Excellent Doctors” and construction of “New Medicine” and opened “Experimental Classes of New Medicine with Academicians”. It ranks top 5‰ in ESI ranking and is listed as First-Class Discipline of Shandong Province and High-level Discipline construction unit and new and old kinetic energy conversion profession and industry matching projects of Shandong province. The discipline of Pharmacy has become a national featured specialty construction unit and been elected as a cultivation target to be a high-level discipline. It adheres to the road of production-education-research-application integration and special development of school-enterprise cooperation. The discipline of Clinical Medicine, Basic Medical Sciences and Nursing have been included into the top 25% of the best discipline ranking of ARWU. There are one national virtual simulation teaching center, one key laboratory of State Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine, one provincial engineering laboratory, two technology innovation centers (in preparation), one Humanities and Social Science center, four provincial collaborative innovation centers, 22 bureau-level scientific and research platform and 23 provincial key clinical departments in its directly affiliated hospitals. We have two national first-class courses, 15 provincial first-class undergraduate courses, 32 high-quality bilingual teaching demonstration courses, three provincial teaching demonstration centers and one provincial talents cultivation innovation experimental zone.