The First Clinical College of Chongqing Medical University, also known as the First Affiliated Hospital of Chongqing Medical University, was founded in 1957. It was founded by a group of experts relocated from the former Shanghai First Medical College (now Shanghai Medical College of Fudan University ) to Chongqing. In 1958, the Department of Medicine was established, and it assumed the responsibility of delivering clinical medicine education at Chongqing Medical University. In 1994, it was formally recognized as the Clinical College of Chongqing Medical University, and in 2011, it was renamed the First Clinical College of Chongqing Medical University. Over more than six decades of sustained growth, it has emerged as one of the nation’s inaugural “Tertiary Grade-A Hospitals”, a “National Top 100 Hospital”, a “National Civilized Unit”. Today, it stands as a prestigious and expansive institution that seamlessly integrates medical services, education, scientific research, prevention, healthcare, and international medical outreach.
Currently, the college offers five undergraduate disciplines: clinical medicine, anesthesiology, psychiatry, medical imaging technology, and audiology and speech rehabilitation. Within these, the clinical medicine track is subdivided into three distinct streams: the five-year system, a 5+3 integrated curriculum, and an undergraduate-master-doctoral pathway (Qian De Class, a specialized clinical medicine program). Currently, over 4,000 undergraduate students are enrolled, and the college oversees 20 teaching bases. Since 2011, it has pioneered the nationwide exploration of integrated medical education reforms, with an emphasis on organ system-centered curricula. Furthermore, since 2020, leveraging its Sino-foreign cooperative education program in clinical medicine, the college has fostered deep academic exchanges and collaborations with the University of Leicester in the UK thus cultivating a localized international education model while continuously advancing reforms in the clinical medicine education and training model.
The college boasts a distinguished faculty team known for its exceptional academic standards and scholarly rigor. As of 2024, the faculty comprises 1,178 members, including 390 senior professors, 555 associate senior professors, 152 doctoral supervisors, 534 master supervisors. Among them, 25 are recognized as national-level talents, while 24 benefit from special government allowances. The faculty members have been honored with over 20 provincial and ministerial-level teaching accolades, such as the Fok Ying Tung Education Foundation Higher Education Teaching Award, the Fok Ying Tung Young Teacher Award, and the Chongqing “Model of Teaching and Educating People” distinction. Additionally, they have led 6 provincial and ministerial-level teaching teams, earned 69 national and provincial-level lecture competition awards, and secured 15 provincial and ministerial-level teaching achievement awards as the primary contributors.
The college is home to four nationally recognized first-class undergraduate programs (clinical medicine, anesthesiology, psychiatry, and medical imaging technology), and has developed 5 national-level courses and 45 provincial and ministerial-level courses. In 2018, it became one of the inaugural recipients of “National Clinical Teaching and Training Demonstration Hub” designation. In 2020, it was acknowledged as a pilot institution for the comprehensive reform of “Holistic Education” in Chongqing. In 2024, the college was granted approval for the “Chongqing Municipal Industry-Education Integration Professional Group for General Undergraduate Universities”, the “Chongqing Municipal Education Comprehensive Reform Pilot Project (10th Batch)”, and the “Chongqing Municipal Education Research Experimental Base”. Over the past five years, faculty members have served as editors-in-chief and deputy editors-in-chief for 14 nationally commissioned textbooks, resulting in the publication of 14 textbooks. They have also secured funding for 125 provincial and ministerial-level education and teaching reform projects. In 2022, the college ranked 4th among 691 university-affiliated (teaching) hospitals nationwide in terms of the number of teaching papers published.
The students trained by the college have achieved remarkable success, winning 1 Grand Prize and 1 First Prize in the national finals of the “National Clinical Skills Competition for Medical College Students”. The college has also nurtured a number of outstanding graduates, including Xiao Fei, recipient of the “First Prize of Science and Technology Progress from the Ministry of Education”, Zhou Xinyu, laureate of the “Tenth China Youth Science and Technology Innovation Award”, Tian Xin and Xu Xiaoming, honored as “National Top 100 Graduate Student Party Member Pacesetters”. Additionally, Chen Sizhong was recognized with the Chongqing “Outstanding Grassroots Employment Award for College Graduates”. Over the years, the college has amassed an impressive total of 89 national-level competition accolades, including 1 gold, 2 silver, and 3 bronze medals in the China International College Students Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition (National Finals), 1 second prize in the ‘Challenge Cup’ National College Students’ Extracurricular Academic Science and Technology Works Competition, 1 bronze in the “Challenge Cup” China College Students’ Entrepreneurship Plan Competition, and 1 silver in the National College Students’ Career Planning Competition.