The continuing education work of Jinzhou Medical University began in 1980. As the second-level teaching unit of the university, relying on the advantages of the JZMU multidisciplinary coordinated development resources, it brings into full play to its geographical advantages as the only medical and health undergraduate college in western Liaoning. After years of practice and exploration, it has established an positioning of the service of high-quality applied talents required by local medicine and health and agricultural economic development.
Up to now, the school has cooperated with 34 teaching bases, covering 14 cities in Liaoning Province and Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. It offers 3 types of education: vocational diploma for senior high school graduate, bachelor degree for senior high school graduate and junior high school graduate; There are 16 majors for bachelor’s and vocational degrees; such as clinical medicine, stomatology, medical imaging, preventive medicine, nursing and pharmacy etc. There are three education forms: amateur, correspondence teaching and self-examination (since the autumn of 2025, the name "correspondence teaching" and "amateur" is unified as "non-abortion"). The cumulative number of graduates with continuing education has reached more than 74,600, which provides a high-quality learning platform for medical and health and animal husbandry practitioners, and has achieved good results.
The School of Training is a private non-enterprise unit organized by JZMU with non-state financial funds. It is an entity and social organization with independent legal representative status and engaged in public welfare education activities.
Its training work began in March 2010. It is the national medical English proficiency examination site, a workstation for the evaluation of skilled talents in the health industry in Liaoning Province, a training base for clinical coordinators ("CRC"), a entrepreneurship and employment training base for employees of Jinzhou Federation of Trade Unions, and a Jinzhou Human Resources and Social Security Bureau. Entrusted vocational training government-subsidized project training institutions. In 2017, the college won the title of "Jinzhou Citizen-run Education Excellent Unit".
In 2022, under the new leadership team, the school had determined to keep pace with the times and actively explored new training projects: jointly built the "Jinzhou Ambulance Training Base" with the Jinzhou Red Cross Society and carried out Red Cross ambulance training; cooperated with Liaoning Zhishi Human Resources Service Co., Ltd. to carry out clinical coordinators (referred to as "CRC") Vocational skills training; carry out the training of the National Medical English Proficiency Examination ("METS"); the training of the National College English Test Band 4 and CET-6 ("CET"), etc.
