Located in Shiyan City, Hubei Province, Hubei University of medicine is an independent general higher medical college with western medicine. It has been selected as "the first-class discipline construction university in Hubei Province", the "excellent doctor education and training plan" and "Hubei 2011 plan" of the Ministry of education. The school focuses on medicine, with the development of medicine, science, engineering, management and other disciplines. 

The University was founded in 1965, formerly known as Yunyang branch of Wuhan Medical College. It started general undergraduate education in 1977, renamed Yunyang Medical College of Tongji Medical University in 1986, set up independently as Yunyang Medical College in 1994, and began to jointly cultivate postgraduate students in 1995; it was renamed Hubei Medical College with the approval of the Ministry of education in 2010, and was approved as a master's degree by the academic degree committee of the State Council in 2013 In October 2017, the school established a clinical college in Shenzhen, and Shenzhen Pingshan hospital became the eighth Clinical College of Hubei Medical University. 

According to the official website of the school in January 2019, the school covers an area of 1477.41 mu, with 398600 square meters of school buildings, 999800 books and 1.385 billion yuan of fixed assets (excluding affiliated hospitals); it has 16 secondary colleges and 19 undergraduate majors; it has 1113 teaching staff, including 144 teaching staff, 406 associate professors and 221 doctors (including affiliated hospitals); it has full-time ordinary books in the school There are nearly 18000 science and graduate students and more than 400 international students. There are 5 tertiary general affiliated hospitals.