海南医学院的前身是海南医学专科学校，由创办于1947年的私立海强医事技术学校和创办于1948年的私立海南大学医学院合并而成。1973年设立直属附属医院。1977年起开办临床医疗专业本科。1983年并入海南大学，改称海南大学医学部。1993年经国家教委批准成立海南医学院，隶属海南省人民政府主管。1994年获准授予学士学位。1996年被国家教委确定为本科教学工作合格学校。2000年校本部从海口市龙华路旧校区迁至学院路新校区。2003年被国家教育部确定为联合培养硕士学位研究生单位。2004年起与北京大学联合招收硕士研究生。现为海南省唯一的高等医学院校。
学院占地面积557060.99M2，分城西、龙华两个校区。现有教职工（含附院）1300多人，专任教师320人，其中研究生学位占46.3%。分别聘请了近50名国内外著名的专家学者为学院名誉教授、客座教授、特别顾问。下设高等职业教育学院、临床学院、预防医学系、护理学系、药学系、检验医学系、中医学系、口腔医学系、基础医学部、人文社会科学部、外语部、信息技术部、体育部等院系部；有6个基础实验室、5个专业实验室。设立附属医院3家（直属1家、非直属2家），病床总数2320张；临床教学（实习）医院20家，开放病床数6433张。另有教学基地9个。
学院坚持“立足本科教育，积极发展研究生和留学生教育，普通教育与继续教育并重”的办学方针，以多种模式拓展办学规模。目前开设临床医学、医学检验、
预防医学、药学、护理学、中医学、口腔医学、医学影像学、中西医临床医学、康复治疗学等10个本科专业，课程总门数达207门。
校园已构成了主干千兆带宽、百兆到终端的校园网络架构体系，并以100Mbase的带宽连接中国教育与科研计算机网海南省节点，实现了Internet的高速连接。建有学院门户网站、电子邮件服务系统、文件传输服务系统、电子社区，实现了校园Intranet功能。新校区已具备无线上网功能。图书馆是海南省唯一的部、省两级医药卫生科技项目查新咨询单位，有馆藏文献511584册，与CADLIS等国内数字图书馆等建立了广泛的文献传递服务关系。主编出版《海南医学院学报》、《海南医学院院报》等刊物。
学院基本上面向全国招生。现有在校生7200余人，“十一五”末将达到12000人。建校以来，为国家和社会培养了近20000名合格的医学人才。在造就海南基层卫生骨干队伍、利用现代技术促进医学教学改革等方面有特色。
学院坚持“改重基础研究为主为重应用研究为主，改抓小课题为主为抓大课题为主，改分散单一研究为主为集体攻关为主”的科研工作方针，充分发挥自身的人才优势和海南省的资源优势，将分子生物学、转基因研究、植物化学、干细胞研究、南药与海洋药物开发作为科研的主攻方向。近几年，科研工作发展迅速，先后成功申报了国家863课题2项实现海南省“零”的突破；“精子载体法转基因杂交水牛的研究”成果部分达到国际先进水平，先后发现并成功克隆出2个人类新基因，经审核已获准加入国际基因库（编号分别为GenbankAF157027和GenbankAF160979）；获省级科技奖14项，在研国务院各部委课题20项、国家自然科学基金课题14项。现有省级重点学科2个（妇产科学、天然药物化学）；省级重点实验室2个（海南省热带药用植物研究开发重点实验室、海南省热带病原学研究重点实验室）；省级精品课程4门；省级重点课程3门。已形成和正在培育分子生物学、生殖医学、热带医学等一批特色学科。
海南医学院附属医院是学院直属的附属医院，建于1973年，是一所集医疗、教学、科研、预防、保健、社区卫生服务于一体的综合性三级甲等医院。医院编制床位数513张，临床医技科室齐全，拥有螺旋CT仪等一批现代化医疗仪器设备。医院在省内率先开展人类体外受精与胚胎移植技术（俗称试管婴儿），现已跻身国内一流水平，成为海南省唯一被国家卫生部正式批准开展常规体外受精—胚胎移植技术和卵细胞浆内单精子注射技术的医疗机构。
学院积极推进体制创新，在创新中加快发展。学院第二次党代会确立了“三步走”的发展战略目标，即从2004年起，力争用十年左右时间，建成国内独树一帜的热带医学医疗教育中心，进而把学院建设成为具有鲜明海南特色的现代水准的医药大学。
Hainan Medical College was founded on the basis of Haiqiang Medical Vocational School built in 1947 and the Medical School of the Private-owed Hainan University built in 1948. In 1973 the affiliated hospital was built. Since 1977 Hainan Medical has been enrolling undergraduates for a 5-year program in the specialty of medicine. It was officially approved by the Chinese Ministry of Education in 1993 to be an independent school of higher education subjected to Hainan Educational Committee and in 1996 it was evaluated as qualified college for its undergraduate teaching practice. In 2000, Hainan Medical College set up its new campus on Xue Yuan Avenue in Haikou. In 2003, it was approved? the qualification by the National Commission of Education to co-cultivate postgraduates. And in 2004, it started to co-enroll postgraduates with Beijing University. Now the HMC is the only medical school of higher education.
Hainan Medical College has 2 campuses of Cheng Xi and Long Hua with a total land area of 557,060.99 square meters. It now has 1300 faculty and staff members (the affiliated hospital members inclusive), comprising 320 full-time teachers among whom there are 46.3% of postgraduates. There have been nearly 50 retained specialists domestically or aboard as honorable professors, visiting professors and expert counselors. There are various institutions, faculties and departments for teaching, researching and administrative purposes in HMC, such as the Institute of Higher Vocational? Education, the Clinical Institute, the Department of Preventive Medicine, the Department of Higher Nursing, the Pharmacy Department, the Department of Medical Testing, the Department of? Traditional Chinese Medicine, the Stomatology Department, the Faculty of Pre-clinical Studies, the Faculty of Social Sciences, the Faculty of Foreign Languages, the Faculty of Information Technology and the Faculty of Physical Education.
Our college always adheres to such a basic school-running policy: To base ourselves upon the undergraduate education, to actively develop the education for postgraduates and overseas students, and to coordinate common education and continuing education. Today we have all-together 10 undergraduate specialties of clinical medicine, medical testing, preventive medicine, pharmacy, higher nursing, traditional Chinese medicine, medical image, clinical medicine of Chinese and Western medicines and recuperative therapy, and totally 207 courses.
A campus network of a 1000MB Broad Band and 100MB terminals has been built, which is connected to the Hainan node of China Education and Research Computer Net with a 100MB Broad Band. This campus network system has contained all the relevant intranet functions, including portal website, E-mail service system, file-transmitted service system and electronic community service system. On the new campus of Hainan Medical College, the wireless internet system has been equipped. Our library is the only novelty-search section of provincial level and above for the research items in medicine and? sanitation. The library has a collection totaling 511,584 volumes and it has set up a regular file-transmitted service relationship with the digital library of CADLIS. Our college also publishes 2 periodicals of Hainan Medical College Transaction? and the Newspaper of Hainan Medical College.
Our college recruits students nationwide. There are more than 7200 students in our college now. At the end of “The Eleventh 5-Year Plan”, this number will reach 12000. Since the establishment, our college has provided nearly 20,000 graduates for public health purposes.
Our college always sticks to such a research guideline “Shifting the focus from basic researches to applied ones, from minor research projects to large-scale ones, from simplex researches to collective ones”, makes full use of our own teaching and research staff and the material advantage, and lays our research focus on molecular chemistry, gene-transition research, bio-chemistry, stem cell research, marine medication.
In the recent years, our college has made great progresses in scientific research, declaring 2 research projects of national high-tech project 863, cloning 2 new human genes which has become members of international gene-base(numbered GenbankAF157027 and GenbankAF160979), bearing off 14 province-leveled awards, going along with 20 ministry-leveled research projects and 14 projects of National Natural Science Fund. Now we are also going ahead with? 2 subjects (gynecology and obstetrics) of provincial level. We have set up 2 key laboratories (the Tropical Medicinal Plant Research and Exploitation Laboratory of Hainan Province, and the Pathogenic Research Laboratory of Hainan Province ). We also have 4 key courses and 3 characteristic courses, which are all of provincial level. And some characteristic courses like molecular biology, procreant medicine, tropical medicine are under cultivation.
The Affiliated Hospital of Hainan Medical College was built in 1973. This is a comprehensive class-3, grade-A hospital, which covers diagnosis and treatment, teaching and? research, disease prevention, health care and community health service. In this hospital, there are 513 beds, integrated medical sections and modernized equipments for medical purposes as well. This hospital is also only one in Hainan which is authorized by the Ministry of Health to research on In Vitro Fertilization and embryo-transfer.
The Hainan Medical College is actively innovating its own system, and in turn developing with this innovation. On the 2nd Congress of the Communist Party in Hainan Medical College, the strategic development goal of “3-Step Strategy” was put forward. With this goal, we will try to develop our college into a characteristic education center for tropical medicine and medical treatment in 10 years, and build our college into a modernized college of medicine and pharmacy with clear Hainan trait.
