Nursing

Introduced in 1999, the nursing specialty was approved as the Hubei Distinction Major in 2005, and the National Distinction Major in 2009. In 2010 nursing was approved as a distinctive undergraduate major among the colleges and universities of Hubei province. The nursing major was ratified as the important discipline in Hubei Province and program of “Pilot for Comprehensive Major Reform”. The Nursing School consists of three offices; (administrative office, teaching affairs office and students’ affairs office, 4 teaching bases, 1 department of basic courses and 1 nursing skills center for training and teaching.

The Nursing School has 142 full time faculty, including 11 professors and 44 associate professors. Of the Nursing School Staff 19 have junior titles, 68 are intermediate, 55 are professors, 31 have master's degrees and 1 has a doctorate. In the last 5 years the nursing staff have applied for about 20 scientific provincial level research projects. The Nursing School has published 18 textbooks and, 313 thesis in core journals both in China and overseas. The nursing teachers have also participated in compiling 28 textbook sets.

Hubei University of Medicine (HUM) was founded as Wuhan Medical College, Yunyang School in November 1965 and renamed Tongji Medical University, Yunyang Medical College in 1986. In 1994, HUM was independently instituted as Yunyang Medical College under the Approval of the State Education Commission. In 1996, Yunyang Medical College passed the National Undergraduate Teaching Quality Assessment (TQA) an accreditation organized by the State Education Commission.

In 2006 Yunyang Medical College was evaluated as “Excellent” in the TQA conducted by the Ministry of Education. In 2010, Yunyang Medical College was renamed Hubei University of Medicine under the approval of Hubei Provincial Government and the Ministry of Education. In 2012, HUM was authorized by the State Council to be qualified of granting Master’s Degrees as well as to enrol international students. After 50 years development, HUM is becoming the premier medical university located in the joint area of central China and west China, the adjacent area of Hubei, Chongqing, Shanxi and Henan province, where the population is around 26,000,000.