The First Affiliated Hospital of Chongqing Medical University (CQMU), established in 1957 by experts relocated from the former Shanghai First Medical College (now Shanghai Medical College of Fudan University), is a leading Class-A tertiary general teaching hospital in Southwest China. Integrating medical treatment, teaching, scientific research, prevention, healthcare and international medical services, the hospital is renowned for its comprehensive range of disciplines, robust technological capabilities, distinctive specialties and exceptional patient care. Currently, the hospital has Yuanjiagang Campus, Jingwei Campus (including Dalitang Campus), Jinshan Campus, Qinggang Campus (featured with Qinggang Senior Care Center + Chongqing Nursing Vocational College). Guided by a strategy of homogenized management and differentiated development, it has established a development framework characterized by complementary functions and unique features. For six consecutive years, it has been ranked first in Chongqing and remained among China’s top-tier hospitals in the National Tertiary Public Hospital Performance Evaluation.
Exceptional Service
The hospital operates 59 clinical, medical technology, and platform departments with 4,616 beds. In 2024, it served about 4.125 million outpatients and 208,700 inpatients, conducting 96,000 surgeries. The patients come from across China as well as some foreign countries such as the United States, Australia, and Japan. By actively engaging in external medical collaboration and support efforts, the telemedicine collaboration network has now expanded to 158 participating institutions, covering over 90% of the counties and districts in Chongqing.
Eminent Medical Expertise
The hospital provides year-round care for complex, critical, and severe illnesses, undertaking emergency rescue, medical security, and international medical tasks. It has developed advantageous technologies such as minimally invasive surgery, interventional therapy, Da Vinci robotic surgery, and extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO). Leveraging its comprehensive medical advantages, the hospital has also implemented the multi-disciplinary team (MDT) diagnosis and treatment model and the Enhanced Recovery After Surgery (ERAS) strategies. The hospital houses 23 national key clinical specialties (obstetrics, laboratory medicine, critical care medicine, specialist nursing, endocrinology, cardiology, thoracic surgery, neurosurgery, anesthesiology, neurology, general surgery, ophthalmology, respiratory medicine, otolaryngology, oncology, medical imaging, geriatrics, orthopedics, psychiatry, hematology, clinical pharmacy, urology, gastroenterology) and 1 key clinical specialty of the National Administration of TCM (geriatric diseases in Traditional Chinese Medicine). Besides, the hospital has been approved by the National Health Commission (NHC) as “National Project for Improving the Diagnosis and Treatment of Difficult and complicated Diseases (tumor diseases)”. The hospital runs 37 Chongqing Clinical Treatment Centers and 22 Chongqing Medical Quality Control Centers. With distinctive strengths developed across all clinical disciplines and nationally leading diagnostic-therapeutic capabilities, the hospital is actively applying for National Medical Centers and National Regional Medical Centers.
State-of-the-Art Medical Equipment
The hospital is equipped with advanced instruments and equipment worth nearly 2.5 billion yuan in total, which have reached the first-class level nationwide, including the 4th-generation Da Vinci surgical robot, orthopedic surgical robots, PET-MRI, PET-CT, SPECT-CT, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), computed tomography (CT), linear accelerator (LA), digital subtraction angiography (DSA), cyclotron, etc.
A Confluence of Esteemed Medical Professionals
The hospital has a large number of renowned experts with profound academic attainments and rich clinical experience, including national-level leading talents, national-level young talents, National Middle-aged and Young Experts with outstanding Contribution to NHC , and the recipient of the Nightingale Medal. Currently, the hospital has 361 professors, 547 associate professors, 152 doctoral supervisors, 534 master supervisors, and 26 national-level talents, and 24 recipients of Special Government Allowances. Faculty members hold 542 academic positions in national societies and associations, including: 15 serving as vice chairs or higher in sub-societies of the CMA and CMDA; 80 chairing or vice-chairing the Chongqing Medical Association; and 59 serving as presidents or vice presidents of the Chongqing Medical Doctor Association.
Significant Accomplishments in Scientific Research and Education
The hospital houses a clinical medicine postdoctoral research station, along with 7 first-level discipline doctoral programs and 10 master's programs. It has established 3 national key disciplines (infectious diseases, neurology, clinical laboratory diagnostics), 1 national key discipline of traditional Chinese medicine (Clinical Integration Chinese and Western Medicine), and 7 Chongqing Municipal Key Disciplines (First-level Disciplines) in Higher Education Institutions, thus proudly stands among the first batch of “National Clinical Teaching and Training Demonstration Centers.” The hospital has been approved for a number of scientific and technological innovation platforms, including NHC Key Laboratory of Diagnosis and Treatment on Brain Functional Diseases, International Talent Introduction Base for Innovation in Maternal-Fetal Medicine in Higher Education Institutions (the “111 Plan”), Joint International Research Laboratory of Reproduction and Development (Maternal-Fetal Medicine) of the Ministry of Education, Sichuan-Chongqing Co-constructed Key Laboratory of Metabolic Vascular Diseases, and Chongqing Translational Medicine Center. The hospital also hosts the statistical source journal Chinese Journal of Endocrine Surgery (in both Chinese and English version). Over the past decade, the hospital has been approved for 2198 government-funded vertical research projects at various levels, including National Science and Technology Major Projects, National Key Research and Development Programs, and key projects of the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC). Meanwhile, it has been honored with 2 Second Prizes of the National Science and Technology Progress Awards, 1 National Innovation and Excellence Award, 1 China Adolescent Science and Technology Innovation Award, as well as 77 provincial and ministerial-level awards, including the First Prize of the Chinese Medical Science and Technology Award, the First Prize of the Science and Technology Progress Award of the Ministry of Education, and the Chongqing Outstanding Contribution Award in Science and Technology. According to the 2023 Science and Technology Evaluation Metrics (STEM) for Chinese Hospitals, the hospital ranked 51st nationwide overall, with 3 disciplines ranking within the top 10 nationwide and 5 disciplines within the top 20. In the same year, it holds 16th place for both SCI-indexed papers and high-quality scientific publications in China.
A Multitude of Accolades
The hospital has garnered numerous honors, including designations as “Top 100 Hospitals in China,” “National Advanced Collective in the Health System,” “National Civilized Unit,” “National Advanced Unit for Hospital Culture Development,” and “National Advanced Unit for Ideological and Political Work in the Health System”. It further received the NHC-conferred awards for the “National Advanced Unit for the 2005-2007 Hospital Management Year Campaign” and the Gold Prize in the “National Clinical Nursing Skills Competition”; the “2017 National Model Hospital for Improving Medical Services” and “Demonstration Hospital for Quality Service” (also awarded by NHC); “Advanced Primary Party Organization of Chongqing”; and “Chongqing Advanced Collective in the Fight Against COVID-19”.