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The discipline of Biomedical Engineering (BME) in Tianjin Medical University was established in 1986. It had cooperated with Tianjin University on undergraduate education back in 1980 and has been one of the first approved BME majors by the Ministry of Education nationwide. The school became a Master’s degree authorizing unit in 1996 and became a first level Ph.D authorizing unit for biomedical engineering in 2003. In 2012, it was authorized the research station for the post-doctors of biomedical engineering and established a high-level talent cultivation system from bachelor to post-doc. Characteristics and Advantage ME with distinctive cross- discipline of science, engineering and medicine. (1) Medical education, scientific research and clinical advantage:Tianjin Medical University is one of the national “211 Project” key universities in China. Supported by first-class medical education, scientific research and clinical advantage of both Tianjin and Binhai New District, the discipline developed BME research with medical frontiers and clinical demands, which established good basis for high quality medical education of postgraduate students. (2) BME innovative talents cultivation with medical characteristics: The discipline established National Trial of Cultivation for Biomedical Engineering Innovative Talents, entitled National Excellent Course of BME with medical characteristics, High-quality Good Resources Sharing Class and Tianjin brand discipline. In 2003, the discipline had won the first prize of Tianjin Teaching Achievement Award for higher education on the project ‘Cultivation on BME innovative talents with medical characteristics’. (3) BME teaching team with medical characteristics: the discipline has formed a cross-disciplinary academic team of great potentiality with rational age structure, professional and technical structure as well as educational background. Average age of full time staff is 41.7, of which 79.5% with Doctor degree, 41% have experienced long-term overseas research. The discipline has been entitled Tianjin BME Innovative Teaching Team with Medical Characteristics in 2013. Aim of Talent Cultivation In accordance with the demand of medical and health service across the country, Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region, and Tianjin, the discipline combined its disciplinary advantage and characteristics, cultivating talents in the following levels: (1) High level cross-disciplinary BME research talents demanded by universities and institutions. (2) Senior inter-disciplinary BME talents demanded by hospitals and enterprises. |