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Guangzhou University of Traditional Chinese Medicine is one of the oldest colleges of its kind in China and is governed directly by the State Administration of TCM. The university is located at Sanyuanli, near the foot of Baiyun mountain in northern Guangzhou. The campus covers an area of about 400,00 square meters and has a building area of about 290,000 square meters (including the affiliated hospitals). The university was Guangzhou College of TCM until February 1995, when the State Educational committee approved the transition to university status.
The university consists of two Departments of Medicine, the Departments of Acupuncture & Moxibustion, Department of Chinese Materia Medica, Basic Science and Social Science, and the Affiliated Middle School of TCM. Seven branches have been designated as the doctoral degree - granting units, and twenty-two branches as the master's degree - granting units. The university offers seven specialties for undergraduates, including Traditional Chinese Medicine, Acupuncture and Moxibustion, Chinese Materia Medica, Orthopedics and Traumatology, ENT and Ophthalmology of TCM, TCM Literature and Resources of Chinese Materia Medica (development and utilization). A seven-term undergraduate and postgraduate TCM class and a two-term TCM class for the second bachelor degree for professionals of Western Medicine have been held since 1991 and 1992, respectively. At present, the total number of the faculties and staffs is more than 3,000, and about 400 of them hold senior titles of professional posts and over 700 of them hold intermediate ones. There are more than 2,000 full-time students studying at the university, including undergraduates, postgraduates, foreign students and students from Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan. Continuing education includes evening, correspondence and self-paced classes have also been held. |
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