Air Force Medical University of PLA (the Fourth Military Medical University) is a national key university intending to train high- and middle-level medical professionals for the army. The University has developed into its present form through the amalgamation of the former Fourth Military Medical University and the former Fifth Military Medical University in 1954, and then was transferred under Air Force after incorporating ...

The former Fourth Military Medical University, formerly known as Medical School under Northwest Shanxi Military Area Command, was founded in 1941, and moved into Xi’an in November 1948. It has successively been renamed as People’s Medical College of Northwest Military Area Command and the First Military Medical College of PLA. In October 1952, it was renamed as the Fourth Military Medical University of PLA under the command of Central Military Commission. The university had ever been subordinate to the former General Logistics Department of PLA, and had been transferred under the Management Department of Central Military Commission in December 2015.....

The AFMU has eight-year basic medicine, clinical medicine, Aerospace Medicine, Stomatology, five-year clinical medicine, Aerospace medicine, stomatology, preventive medicine, nutrition, medical psychology, general medicine, four-year public service management, biomedical engineering, Biotechnology, pharmacy, nursing and 16 undergraduate majors, There are more than 2,500 undergraduates in the university. Approved by the Ministry of Education and the CMC, the school began recruiting Students without military status in 2018.The AFMU has 3 affiliated hospitals, 18 off-campus clinical teaching b...

Air Force Medical University (AFMU) launched its graduate programs in 1962 and 31 graduate students were trained between 1962 and 1965. After the restoration of China’s graduate education in 1978 following a 13-year break, the university restarted its graduate programs. It became one of the first batch of national universities authorized to confer master’s and doctoral degrees in 1981. Pilot graduate school was founded with the approval of Ministry of Education in June, 2000. Formal graduate school was founded in June, 2001 and was accredited by Ministry of Education in June, 2004. Gradua...

Continuing Education Department is under the Office of Academic Affairs and mainly responsible for Military Post Education, Military Professional Education, Remote Education, Adult Education and Foreign Exchange and Training. Continuing education Department was formerly the continuing education division established in 1999. It was renamed office of correspondence instruction in 2004. It was renamed the distance and continuing education department in 2012. In 2017, it was transferred into Office of Academic Affairs according to the new staffing system.