Yangzhou University was established in 1902. It is a key comprehensive provincial university in China. Yangzhou University has 6 colleges in different fields of education. The Yangzhou University was started as the Teachers School of Tongzhou and the Agricultural School of Tonghai. In the year 1958, from ‘Subei Health School’, the College of medicine at Yangzhou University evolved. It was renamed as ‘Yangzhou Medical College’ in the year 1984. The university also established five other colleges along with this medical college and thus the medical college was renamed eventually as ‘College of Medicine of Yangzhou University’. School of Medicine of Yangzhou University is the first medical school in China to establish the study of Gynecology and Obstetrics. The combined study of Western and Chinese medicine is also introduced by this university.