General Information
Third Military Medical University (TMMU), located in Chongqing municipality, is a national key university with long history. The university covers an area of about 205.63 hectares, with a built-up area of 155.13 hectares. The university has a library with a collection of books amounting to 620,000, and owns equipments and devices with a total value of 1.832 billion RMB Yuan.

Subject & Specialty
For many years, the university is renowned for its quality education and ranks among the leading group of medical universities in China. The university has established 14 specialties including clinical medicine, preventive medicine, laboratory medicine, medical imageology, pathologic diagnosis, nuclear medicine, altitude medicine, biomedical engineering, experimental medicine, nursing, pharmacy, nutrition and food hygiene, biotechnology and computer utility. There are 59 subjects that are approved to confer doctor’s degrees while 71 to confer master’s degrees.

Expert
The university has more than 700 professors and associate professors, among whom 2 are academicians of Chinese Academy of Engineering and 195 are enjoying governmental allowance from the State Council.

Research
The university holds 17 National Key Subjects, 1 National Key Laboratory and 5 Post-doctoral Research Centers of senior subjects. Till now, it has obtained more than 1500 S & T achievements marked by 6 National Awards for Scientific and Technological Progress (First Prize).

Medical Treatment
There are 3 general teaching hospitals attached to TMMU and all of them are with good reputations in China. With a great capacity of 5000 beds in total, the 3 affiliated hospitals have a batch of world famous specialized departments like burns, respiratory diseases, hepatobiliary surgery, and chest surgery. The treatment of burns and hepatobiliary duct calculus are in the world leading position. For years, a number of new clinical skills and methods have been developed and some treatments were firstly carried out by these hospitals domestically. This includes pediatric heart transplant, heart-kidney transplant, successful separation of conjoined twins and ultrasound-mediated disruption for coronary artery diseases. In addition, the operational skills of liver allograft, pancreas-kidney transplant, and kidney transplant are at advanced level in the country, and the clinical application of high-tech means like artificial organs, molecular and gene therapies has also achieved a great breakthrough.

Academic Exchange
The university always supports international academic exchanges and cooperation in a wide range and has established bilateral relations with more than 50 universities from 16 countries or regions. In recent five years, more than 1000 teachers were sent abroad to lecture, investigate and to pursue a further training.