Hunan College of Traditional Chinese Medicine is a full-time general college approved by the Ministry of Education and affiliated to the Provincial Department of Education and the Health Department. Zhuzhou City is the resting place of Shennong, the ancestor of the Chinese nation, Yan Di, and also the transportation hub of Central and South China. Founded in 1959, the school was originally Zhuzhou Health School, and 1987 was transformed into Zhuzhou Traditional Chinese Medicine School, which was subordinate to the Provincial Health Department. 1989 was renamed as Hunan Provincial School of Traditional Chinese Medicine. From 65438 to 0998, it was promoted to the provincial key secondary school, and in 2000 it became one of the eight key schools of traditional Chinese medicine in China. Under the situation of the reform of the national higher education system, in order to meet the needs of the development of higher Chinese medicine education, the Ministry of Education and the Hunan Provincial People's Government issued documents on May 17 and June 18, 2004 respectively, approving the establishment of Hunan College of Traditional Chinese Medicine on the basis of the former Hunan College of Traditional Chinese Medicine. At present, the school has a campus area of 247 mu and a building area of 1, 654,38+0,000 square meters. The teaching administrative room is 57,836 square meters, including 95 classrooms * * *14,206 square meters; The total value of teaching and research instruments and equipment is15.97 million yuan, and there are more than 360,000 books and materials. There are 140 laboratories for experiments, teaching and skills training in various disciplines, 15 multimedia classrooms and language laboratories, 2 100 seats and 320 teaching computers. Build a campus network with optical fiber as the backbone, and all information points in the campus are interconnected with the Internet through telecom 100M broadband. CT bidirectional closed-circuit video system integrates multimedia teaching, management and monitoring, which can fully meet the needs of audio-visual teaching. The school has 26 full-time teachers1person, including 20 full-time senior titles, 4 associate senior titles1/kloc-0, and 69 doctors, masters and graduate students (Q bar). The school consists of eight departments, including the Department of Basic Medicine, the Department of Clinical Medicine, the Department of Pharmacy, the Department of Nursing, the Department of Rehabilitation and Health Care, the Department of Public Education, the Department of Ideological and Political Theory, and the Department of Adult Education, and enrolls students from all provinces and regions in China. More than 5600 full-time students. At present, there are 1 1 specialties at the specialist level, including traditional Chinese medicine, integrated traditional Chinese and western medicine, traditional Chinese medicine, acupuncture and massage, rehabilitation technology, nursing, midwifery, pharmaceutical technology of traditional Chinese medicine, drug quality inspection technology and medical beauty technology, covering three major disciplines: medicine, medicine and nursing. 1 1 Featured majors include 1 provincial key featured majors and 1 provincial quality courses. The school has a national vocational skills appraisal institute, which carries out five types of vocational skills appraisal for students of various majors, such as beautician, health care massage therapist, Chinese medicine dispenser, computer office software application, and medical commodity trader. There are 2 directly affiliated hospitals, 2 loosely affiliated hospitals and 83 fixed experimental practice factories (fields). In the past three years, the school * * * has undertaken and completed 3 1 scientific research projects above the city (department) level, and won 7 scientific and technological achievement awards at all levels, including 3 national utility model patents and invention patents 1 and 3 provincial scientific and technological progress awards for traditional Chinese medicine. 265 academic papers were published, of which 120 were published in core journals. * * * 8 1 compiling textbooks, reference books and monographs, including 9 textbooks planned by the Ministry of Health, which have great influence in China. The school also hosted 22 academic conferences above the municipal level, which effectively improved the school's scientific research and teaching level. The school gives priority to general junior college education and offers adult junior college education, which is compatible with ordinary middle schools. The school is directly under the Health Branch of Provincial Radio and TV University, Hunan Teaching Center of Distance Education College of Beijing University of Chinese Medicine, and one of the first pilot schools in state administration of traditional chinese medicine. After decades of development, the school has gradually formed its own characteristics and advantages. After being upgraded to a junior college, the school has further defined its orientation and adhered to the principle that discipline construction and specialty setting are close to the market. The direction of running a school is clearly defined as: facing rural grassroots and urban communities, facing the whole industry of Chinese medicine, facing medical technical posts in medical institutions at all levels, and facing various rehabilitation and health care institutions at all levels, so as to cultivate talents with advanced skills in Chinese medicine, medicine and nursing. The school insists on taking students as the main body and teaching as the center, and vigorously promotes teaching, management, service and environmental education. While paying close attention to the quality of teaching and establishing brand awareness, the school pays attention to the all-round development of students, vigorously carries out quality education and colorful student club activities, and has complete cultural and sports facilities such as standard track and field, football field, basketball court, volleyball court, gym, fitness practice room, table tennis room and 400-meter auditorium. The school has formed a virtuous circle of survival by quality, development by quality and enrollment by employment, and initially established an employment information network that radiates the whole central and southern regions and some developed provinces and cities. In the past three years, the employment rate of graduates has reached more than 90% within one year. In the long-term process of running a school, the school has formed an excellent school spirit of "studious, dedicated, realistic and innovative", with clear school direction, outstanding school characteristics and remarkable school results. The school is the executive director of the National Chinese Medicine Vocational Education Association and the director of the National Medical Vocational Education Research Association. It has been rated as a provincial garden-style unit and an advanced unit in the annual work assessment of the Provincial Health Department for many years, and has been awarded honorary titles such as "Red Flag Unit for Building Two Civilizations in Zhuzhou City", "Advanced Unit for Traditional Chinese Medicine in Hunan Province" and "Advanced Unit for Ideological and Political Work in National Health System".