Brief Introduction
    Prevention, treatment and rehabilitation center for children cerebral palsy in Heilongjiang province (It is called "the Center" for short), locates in Sanjiang, the beautiful banks of the Songhuajiang River. The Center, founded in 1987, is the first specialist agency on prevention, treatment, rehabilitation and scientific research  for children cerebral palsy, and it is an A-rate among the three- Level specialist hospitals. On this basis, the Center established Rehabilitation Medicine College in 1999. Presently, the Center is a member of Society of Child Rehabilitation Medicine and Chinese Cerebral Palsy Association, the National Training Center for Rehabilitation Medicine, the Provincial and National Demonstration Unit of Heilongjiang Province for introducing the results of foreign intelligence research. The Center has not only stably long-term friendship and cooperation but also communication projects with the universities, academic groups and rehabilitation agencies of Japan, UK, US, Holland, Russia and other countries. Now, the Center has a provincial-level key discipline--Rehabilitation and Physiotherapy, a provincial key laboratory--Children's neurological rehabilitation laboratory of Jiamusi University, Nursing Majors and Rehabilitation Majors. It is the Postdoctoral Research Base of Heilongjiang Province and accredited professor posts through the provincial government approval.
    The Center takes the prevention, treatment, research and rehabilitation for the children with cerebral palsy as its characteristics, where various treatments are provided for children and adults with disabilities and special rehabilitation needs as well .The center has integrated advanced foreign rehabilitation techniques with our traditional medicine and drug therapy for patients. The total efficiency maintains the leading position in the country. So far, the center has received more than 20,000 patients from Russia, Macau and the national provinces, municipalities and autonomous regions. Those patients suffer from cerebral palsy(CP), autism,minimal brain dysfunction(MBD),mental retardation, and sensory integration dysfunction. The adult patients suffer from cerebral apoplexy, cerebral trauma, and spinal cord injury. Its excellent service and outstanding medical skills are well-known all over the country.
    The Center has an outstanding workgroup with a reasonable structure of age, title and academic qualifications to carry out clinical application. Among them, 80% backbone has ever been abroad for training and further education. Meanwhile, we often invite noted experts as our guest professors, part-time professors, and invited professors. The Center trains the postgraduates of rehabilitation and physical medicine, undergraduates of rehabilitation therapy and nursing (a major in rehabilitation nursing). These two specialized graduates have a good employment prospect. Simultaneously the Center holds one national technology training course of rehabilitation of children with cerebral palsy every year, having succeeded sponsoring 14 sessions and having cultivated more than 800 technical backbones. Moreover, the Center holds the national academic exchange on children cerebral palsy every 1-2 year and has succeeded chairing 10 sessions.
    The Center focuses on the definite scientific research and different levels of research subjects, and has made many scientific research achievements, some of which have filled the domestic blank. Therefore, the Center maintains the domestic leading status. During the recent 10 years, the Center has published 20 books and more than 200 research papers. Since 1983, the center has cultivated 100 graduates of master's degree on rehabilitation and physical medicine, who work in 11 provinces and cities, becoming the backbone of children's rehabilitation.

Rehabilitative Therapist Specialty

    As a newly rising medical subject, rehabilitation has been developing 20 years or so in our country, while it has been developing in the developed countries for more than 60 years. However, it shows the tendency of rapid growth in recent years. The main object of rehabilitation is to revive the physical, mental and social functions of people with disability, with senile disease or chronic functional impairment. According to the present facts of domestic rehabilitation, our country needs at least 30,000 physiatrists, and 300,000 rehabilitation therapists. So the specialized subject has a notable feature. At present, it is urgent for our country to explore a personnel training mode according to the requirements of the development of our rehabilitation and to transform the simple biology mode into the biology-psychology-society mode. Consequently, developing the education and nurturing the experts in rehabilitative treatment are oriented to the objective situations as well as the requirement of the medical education projects.
    We founded the first rehabilitation medicine college in 1999 and began to recruit students majoring in rehabilitative treatment in 2001. Approved by Ministry of Education of Heilongjiang Province and registered in Ministry of Education of the State in 2004, the college turned vocational teaching to undergraduate teaching, enrolling students in the whole country. Our college trains students associating with Sapporo Medical University Hospital and their teachers come to teach, which shows the characteristics of our college. Many teachers have gained successful experiences and dramatic effects in teaching. We enrolled 69 students majoring in the undergraduate course in 2004. There are 17 full-time teachers in Rehabilitation Teaching and Research Section, including 5 full professors, 2 associate professors , 1 special appointed professors, 1 part-time professor,1 doctor still learning  and 2 masters still learning. Our faculties are from those of Rehabilitation College, and our facilities in the relative teaching and research section are shared. The area of teaching lab is 268 square meters, in which there are four various kinds of functional labs. The cost of all the equipments adds up to 678,120 RMB.
    Many of the teachers undertake a part-time social duty in this field, taking an active part in domestic and foreign academic meetings, who are invited to give lectures throughout the world. Backbone teachers can make the academic communication in English, Japanese and Russian proficiently. We send 1 to 2 teachers to go another institution for the advanced study for 3 to 6 months, or to attend the national training class, purposefully and designedly every year. We also send 1 teacher abroad to gain the advanced training and study. All the practice makes the teachers and students have the chance to get the latest information, learn and master the leading-edge theory and technology, and it also promotes innovation education and quality education actively.
    According to the rehabilitation therapist development program of Ministry of Public Health, we draw on the experience from the foreign countries, especially Japan, as well as other colleges in our country. Moreover, we base ourselves on the basic condition and feature. According to the social demands, we make a systematic argument and scientific analysis. We proceed from the strategic development and sustainable development view, making it clear to the character of cultivating students, making the training aim and the courses of four-year undergraduates majoring in rehabilitation.      
    Undergraduates majoring in rehabilitation can undertake common rehabilitation and therapy tasks, are qualified for children rehabilitation and therapy tasks and can go in for physical therapy, occupational therapy and speech therapy. The courses also include humanities, psychology, pedagogy, Evidence-Based medicine, sociology, phoronomics and rehabilitation engineering.

Nursing Specialty

    College of rehabilitation medicine of Jiamusi University was established in August, 1999. The antecedent is the first prevention and treatment center for CP children in China and Jiamusi Medical College with more than 50 years history. Approved by Ministry of Education of Heilongjiang Province and registered in Ministry of Education of the State, the college began to enroll four-year nursing undergraduate students from the whole country in September, 2000. For years, with the development of rehabilitation medicine and exchanges of medical model, the College always develops the nursing specialty construction with features of rehabilitation nursing, which is a newly emerging subject, treating disabled people and people in senile disease and chronic disease to recover their physical, mental and social functions and improve their life quality.
    Reflecting modern education concept and emphasizing the cultivation of students' abilities and diathesis, Rehabilitation Nursing teaching inspires students' cognitive need for scientific thinking ability on a high level and attaches importance to Psychological Nursing to meet the demands of large medical institutions and rehabilitation centers.
    Nursing undergraduates of College of Rehabilitation Medicine is the first cradle of cultivating rehabilitation medicine talents. The joint operation with Sapporo Medical University makes up for the shortage of teaching materials, experiences and faculties and explores a new way for cultivating rehabilitation medicine talents. In September 2008, Nursing Specialty of the college formally signed the cooperation agreement with the nursing discipline of Sapporo Medical University for three years. Their nursing professionals come to our university for nursing teaching; they also receive our nursing teachers to do research. At the same time, more broad cooperation is being conducted on the teaching reform, the teaching method and the scientific research of mutual interests.
At present, graduates of Nursing Specialty have a promising employment. Many are recognized and highly praised by their working units throughout the country.
    The college aims at training students with abilities in aspects of the humanities and social science, rehabilitation medicine and health care, prevention of basic theoretical knowledge and skills, self-study ability of analyzing and solving problems. Meanwhile, the college focuses on cultivating the backbone personnel in the international academic exchanges, nursing education, clinical nursing, nursing management and nursing research.
    Curriculum of basic course and specialized course is divided into two categories. The basic courses include human biology, cytology, anatomy, physiology, pathology, pharmacology, life and health regulations and health ethical statistics, etc. Some public courses involve politics, English and PE. Specialized courses cover rehabilitation nursing, medical care, surgical nursing, pediatric nursing, gynecological care, nutrition growth, interpersonal, traditional Chinese medicine, nursing introduction, nursing, community health nursing care, scientific research, education and management, etc.
    Conforming to the regulations of the University, students majoring in Nursing Specialty can be awarded bachelor degree and graduation certificate after completing the four-year courses, passing all examinations, gaining the elective credits and going through graduation thesis defense.
    Graduates can work on clinical nursing, nursing teaching, nursing research and the corresponding management. They can gain employment in hospitals, nursing teaching units of many medical colleges and the owned or joint medical institutions.