As voted by the Nanjing Medical University students and faculty, and supervised by the Board of Campus Affair, the NMU 'Top Ten Successes' of 2013 are now unveiled:
1. NMU successfully implemented the Communist Party's “Mass Line” education policy, a campaign designed to irradicate such workplace problems as extravagance, bureaucratism, and corruption.
2. NMU's Kangda College opened its Lianyungang branch, and ushered the first batch of 1105 freshmen onto the new campus.
3. Professor Wang Cunyu, an outstanding alumnus of NMU, has been enlisted as a member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. Another member of the NMU alumni, Xie Lulu, was listed by an American journal in their “Biggest Scientific Breakthroughs of 2013”
4. In 2013, NMU received 233 National Science Foundation grants, with the number and gross amount of the grants ranking 26th and 33rd, respectively.
5. The First Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University was ranked 20th in "China's Best Medical Institutions of 2012”, with its Rehabilitation Department ranked first nationwide. The number of SCIE articles published by the hospital put it in third place of all the hospitals nationwide.
6. As of the end of 2013, NMU owned the intellectual property rights to 836 published SCI articles, of which nine articles had an 'impact factor' greater than 10, and were published in renowned journals. NMU also picked up three first prizes in the Provincial Science and Technology Achievement Awards.
7. The National Key laboratory of Reproductive Medicine successfully passed an inspection.
8. The NMU curriculum was evaluated by the Ministry of Education, which ranked the NMU's programme in Public Health & Preventive Medicine 3rd; Stomatology 6th; Nursing, though evaluated for the first time, ranked 8th; Basic Medicine ranked 7th; and Clinical Medicine, was ranked in 18th place.
9. Three of NMU's courses, including Orthodontics, were recognised as “National Excellent Resource Sharing Courses,” and the module Doctor-Patient Communication” as a National Excellent Open Course.
10. NMU also achieved further outstanding results in teaching. One faculty member was decorated as a “Yangtze River Scholar.” Another faculty member was awarded a “China National Grant for Distinguished Young Scientists.” Several other faculty members have been awarded grants by the “Program for New Century Outstanding University Staff” and the “National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars.”
Reported by: Communist Party Committee Office
Translated by: Sun Jiatong
Edited by: Rosalind Ochengo
