Introduction
Department of Forensic Medicine is initiated in 1984. The Kunming Medical University was one of the 9 universities which set up forensic medicine discipline firstly in China. The Department of Forensic Medicine was established in 1988, and it was renamed as School of Forensic Medicine in 2002. At the same time, the school set the discipline of Law in 2005. In 1996, the discipline of Forensic Medicine was authorized to confer master's degree, and began to confer doctoral degree in Forensic Medicine in 2012.
Laboratory of Forensic pathology
Currently, the School of Forensic Medicine offers undergraduate and graduate programs, including Bachelor's Degree in Forensic Medicine, Bachelor's Degree in law, Master's Degree in Forensic Medicine, and the Doctoral Degree in Forensic Medicine. At present, more than 600 students are studying at the school including 60 graduate students.
The discipline Forensic Medicine was awarded as the Key Construction Discipline of Yunnan Province in 2005, National Characteristic Discipline in 2009, the First-class Undergraduate Discipline of Yunnan Province in 2019, and the National First-class Undergraduate Discipline Construction Site in 2020. In 2021, the disciplines Forensic Medicine and Law were funded by Kunming Medical University for the construction of key disciplines during the 14th Five-year Plan period.
There are 5 National Brand Courses, 7 Provincial Brand Courses and 22 School-level Brand Courses in Forensic Medicine and Law.
The School has excellent teaching facilities and fully functional laboratories for teaching, scientific research platforms, and judicial expertise services as well. The School is a joint-training base for postgraduate education and innovation and an experimental area for talent training and innovation in Yunnan Province. It has 11 forensic practice teaching bases which were in cooperation with Provincial Public Security Department and has 6 law practice teaching bases.
Laboratory of Forensic Toxicology Analysis
The School has 46 excellent staff members, including 6 professors, 21 associate professors. 19 of them hold doctoral degree. There are 3 doctoral supervisors and 22 master's supervisors for postgraduate programs.
The School is composed of the Department of Forensic Medicine, Department of Law, General Office, Teaching Management Office, Discipline, Research, and Postgraduate Management Office, and Student Affairs Office. The School also administrates the Judicial Center of Kunming Medical University.
The Judicial Center was recognized by China National Accreditation Service for Conformity Assessment (CNAS), and the Certification and Accreditation Administration of P.R.C (CMA). The Judicial Center offers forensic expertise services for the public including all areas of forensic medicine, and has a good social reputation for excellent and professional service.
Campus Activities of the Legal Aid Service Team
The specific research fields of forensic medicine including the neurotoxicity of drug abuse and its mechanism, craniocerebral injury and its mechanism, mechanism of sudden unexpected death, genetic polymorphism of Yunnan ethnic minorities and forensic identification, genetic polymorphism and pathogenesis of schizophrenia, the mechanism of alcohol abuse etc.
In the past ten years, the staff of the School have undertaken 119 scientific research projects, including 22 projects of National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC), 2 sub-projects of National Key Research and Development Program, 40 joint projects of Yunnan Province Science and Technology Department and Kunming Medical University, 8 Provincial Philosophy and Social Science Research projects, 3 projects of the key laboratories of drug dependence and abstinence of the National Health Commission.
The School has made significant progress in the area of international exchange and cooperation. It has launched inter-institutional academic partnerships and cooperation with medical schools and institutions from different countries, such as the USA, Australia, New Zealand, Germany, Japan and Thailand.
Programs
The School of Forensic Medicine offers undergraduate programs including Bachelor's Degree in Forensic Medicine and Bachelor's Degree in law.
Bachelor of Forensic Medicine has a five-year academic courses and candidates will be awarded Bachelor of Medicine. On-campus attendance is required for courses in 5 years of this program.
Bachelor of law has a four-year academic courses and candidates will be awarded Bachelor's Degree in Law. On-campus attendance is required for courses in 4 years of this program.
Contact
Address: No.1168, Chunrong West Road, Yuhua Street, Chenggong District, Kunming City. 650500.
Tel.: +86 871 65922829
E-mail: 120443601@qq.com