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                                1907 Established German Medical School, the founder is a German doctor whose name is Erich Paulun. 
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                                1912 In 1912, the school merged with a German Engineer School, which was founded by an engineer, Dr Berrens. The school became known as Tongji German Medical and Engineering School. 
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                                1923 Renamed Tongji University. Altough there were many difficulties, we held on education and rented the Chinese Public School. At the same time, we were building the new campus. 
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                                1927 Tongji University became one of the eight national universities after Nanking National Government established and she is named Tongji National University 
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                                1937 Moved from Shanghai to eight other provinces during Anti-Japanese War 
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                                1940 Tongji University was settled in a small town that named Lizhuang.In Lizhuang, Tongji University persisted in operating and developing the school. 
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                                1946 Tongji University owned five colleges and became one of the most excellent universities in China and she moved back to Shanghai. 
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                                1952 School of Medicine, Tongji University moved to Wuhan. 
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                                1978 Tongji University changed her policy of educating. The main task was to make our university a comprehensive and opening international university instead of a single-disciplined and closed one. 
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                                1995 Tongji University is including “Project 211”. 
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                                2000 Shanghai Railway University was merged with Tongji University 
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                                2001 TUSM started the admission of the 7-year major in clinical medicine. 
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                                2002 Tongji University is listed in “Project 985”. 
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                                2004 TUSM started piloting the 8-year major in clinical medicine. 
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                                2006 TUSM initiated the training program for the innovative ability of medical students and started to recruit standardized patients. 
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                                2007 The undergraduate education of TUSM was evaluated as outstanding by the Ministry of Education. 
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                                2009 TUSM promoted teaching reforms in a comprehensive way and coordinated the development of scientific research and teaching with an eye toward improving teaching quality. 
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                                2010 Tongji University dedicated itself to education and teaching reform. TUSM initiated a pilot program of standardized training for resident physicians in Shanghai, and started to devise the “5+3” t... 
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                                2011 TUSM received the right to grant the doctoral degree in the first-level discipline of clinical medicine and of bioengineering. TUSM set up the first international class of clinical medicine taught ... 
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                                2012 TUSM was among the first pilot units for the physician education and training program of excellence by the Ministries of Education and of Health. 
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                                2013 TUSM partnered with the University of Nebraska Medical Center whose general practice education is among the highest ranked in United States to establish the Sino-US collaborative “Department of Ge... 
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                                2014 The joint department of rehabilitation therapy under the auspices of Sino-US collaboration was set up. 
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                                2015 The major in clinical medicine started admitting “5+3” integrated students in order to ensure that all the students in the major in clinical medicine are brought in the Bachelor-Master integrated... 
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                                2016 TUSM ruled “Double-Supervisor” for students in Direct-Entry Cultivation Program.