Introduction to Short-term TrainingCourses at Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine

I．General Introduction of Guangzhou University of ChineseMedicine

Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine (GUCM)，established in 1956, is one of the four oldest Chinese Medicine (CM) institutesof higher education in China and a key CM university supervised by StateAdministration of Traditional Chinese Medicine of the People’s Republic ofChina and People’s Government of Guangdong Province. The current name is designatedin 1995 and it is one of the first group of universities to confer Master’s anddoctoral degrees. The university consists of the Sanyuanli campus and theUniversity Town campus covering 1,377 mu（918，000sq.m. in total）. GUCM has rich teaching resources and strongresearch ability and enjoys great fame and reputation in CM field home andabroad.

With years of striving, GUCM has steadilyaccumulated rich traditional Chinese culture, comprehensive study in ChineseMedicine, as well as in-depth and extensive research on Western culture andModern Medicine, since the development of Chinese Medicine not only demands themutual learning between Oriental and Western cultures and Chinese and WesternMedicine, but also the combination of science and humanities, ancient andmodern cultures. Over the past fifty years’ sustained efforts, GuangzhouUniversity of Chinese Medicine has become a modern comprehensive CM higher educationinstitute of research type consisting of 14 colleges andoffering 16 undergraduate specialties including medicine,engineering, administration, economics, science, arts and education. In August2007, Chinese Medicine Science is designated national first-level key subjectand 13 second-level subjects including Chinese Medicine Clinical Foundation,Chinese Medicine Internal Medicine, Chinese Medicine Orthopedics andTraumatology, Chinese Medicine Gynecology and Chinese Medicine FundamentalTheories are also included as national key subjects which realize thesignificant breakthrough in national key subject development. GUCM has 7National Administration of Chinese Medicine key subjects,4 Guangdong Province prominent subjects (Chinese MedicineScience, Chinese Materia Medica Science, Acupuncture and Tuina Massage,Pharmaceutical Engineering), 19 doctoral programs, 24 master programs and 3post-doctoral stations. The doctoral and Master’s programs cover all thefirst-level subjects of Chinese Medicine Science, Chinese Materia Medica Scienceand Integrated Chinese and Western Medicine. There are more than 18,000on-campus students.

Facing the rapidly developing science and technology,GUCM inherits the outstanding historical heritage, maintains the unique featureand charm of South of Five Ridges, keeps up with the frontier science, improvethe strict academic disciplines and ensure the academic and educational famehome and abroad. Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine is the dreamuniversity for students wishing to pursue their brilliant career in ChineseMedicine. The university now has more than 18,000 students including over 2,400postgraduate students and over 12,000 undergraduates and junior college students.

Each campus has a branch of the universitylibrary, the area in use being 32,000 square meters. The total volume reaches960,000 and there are more than 60 database products. It enjoys the richest andmost complete Chinese Medicine literary resources in Guangdong. The digitalresources are most advanced among national universities of Chinese Medicine.

In more than 30 years, GUCM offers foreigneducation through various channels and in various forms and has obtainedfavorable social and economic benefits. Till December 2008, GUCM has offered419 sessions of short-term Chinese Medicine education training courses. Morethan 6,000 people from over 50 countries and regions attended these courses. Atpresent, GUCM has established cooperative relationship with more than 50countries and regions and signed collaboration agreements with several foreignuniversities.

II. Introductionof Courses

Notes：1.Flexible Advanced TrainingCourses mentioned abovecan befreely chosen and combined according to your preference. The advisory servicesof Training-course Design are available provided by International College ofGuangzhou University of Chinese Medicine for free.

2. Besides all the courses above mentioned,delegations, groups or individual learners may inquire for other trainingprograms to the International College.

III. Fee（In RMB）

1. Tuition for Short-term Training Programs

*Notice: The fees listed in the form are just the referenceprice for teams of 6 people or more. For those that are less than 6 people,please refer to “Programs Taught in Chinese” and “Clinical Practice Taught in Chinese” part mentioned above and the interpretationfee will be added based on that. The interpretation fee is 400-500 RMB yuan /day / interpreter.

2. Other Fees

(1) International travel expenses, food, accommodation fee,local traffic and medical care fees in the period of study in the Guangzhou Universityof Chinese Medicine should be on the participants’ own account.

(2) Accommodation Fee（just for reference）

*The room mentionedabove is just 5 minutes’ walk away from the internship hospital. If learnerschoose other hotels, the training center can make reservation for those whoprefer to live off-campus. The training center will not take care of theirtraffic and participants will have to get to the center and internship place bythemselves.

3. Food：Learners can have meals in Xinglin Canteen oncampus and it’s about RMB 80 Yuan for three meals per day per person.

IV．Certificate

After thecompletionof the training, learning certificates in Chinese and English will be issued.

V. Application Time

Two weeks before the expected learning time

* Those who apply for learning of more than 3 months need to apply for Student Visa (X Visa). Please contact us half a year before the expected learning time.

VI. Notes

1. Short-term Training Courses are only available with atleast 5 people (clinical training courses are not limited to this).

2. The exact beginning date of Short-term Training Courses dependson the actual situation.

3. Applicants can negotiate the beginning date with the InternationalTraining Office of International College of GUCM and should hand in therequired documents for application by fax or mail to the International TrainingOffice 2 months before the expected learning date.

4. All applicants are required to pay tuition and fees onthe date of entrance. No payments will be refunded to anyone who withdraw thecourses during learning.

5. Participants should follow the teaching arrangements andcomply with regulations of GUCM.