West China Medical Center of Sichuan University
| 四川大学华西医学中心 | |
Museum of the West China College of Stomatology, which has a 100-year history
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Former name
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West China University of Medical Sciences (WCUMS), Sichuan University |
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Motto in English
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Strength through self-renewal, strive to persevere, aspire for the truth, toil to discover. |
| Type | National university |
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Chengdu, Sichuan, China 31°33′19.47″N 105°59′47.44″E / 31.5554083°N 105.9965111°ECoordinates: 31°33′19.47″N 105°59′47.44″E / 31.5554083°N 105.9965111°E |
| Website | wcums.scu.edu.cn |
West China Medical Center of Sichuan University (Chinese: 四川大学华西医学中心), formerly West China University of Medical Sciences (WCUMS), is located in Chengdu, Sichuan, China, and is administered by the Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China. The Center was founded in 1914 and it merged with Sichuan University in 2000. The Center is ranked 3rd in China for medicine. It is one of the 8 key medical universities under the direct control of Ministry of Education of China.
In 1910, five Christian missionary groups from the United Kingdom, Canada and the United States founded the private university, West China Union College (Chinese: 華西協合大學). The university's medical school was founded in 1914 and taught basic medicine and clinical medicine, biomedicine and stomatology. Three years later the school became the first to teach dentistry in China. In 1924 women were admitted to the college as a whole. Helen Yoh was the first woman to graduate medical school.
On September 23, 1933 West China Union University was registered with the Provincial Board of Education. In 1941 the East-West Cultural Agency, a foreign exchange student program for distinguished scholars and staff members, was created with the University of Cambridge and Oxford University.
In 1985 the school changed its name to West China University of Medical Sciences (WCUMS; Chinese: 华西医科大学). It merged with Sichuan University in 2000 and became the West China Medical Center of Sichuan University.
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