School of Medicine (School of Health Management) is formerly known as Zhejiang Medical University Hangzhou branch, which was established in 1979 (the history of nursing education dates back to 1917). The school sets up 8 departments, 7 scientific research institutions, and owns 1 directly affiliated hospital, 9 non-directly affiliated hospital and more than 70 teaching practice bases. It ranks among top in the world in the field of "Preventive Treatment of Disease", "Anti-aging", "Vegetative State", etc.

School of Medicine is the largest school of HNU as well as one of the most potential and fastest-developing schools and has the qualification of enrolling doctoral candidates and postgraduates. It owns "Preventive Treatment of Disease and Health Management", a PhD cultivation program to meet the special needs of the country, and four master degree programs for first-class disciplines, i.e. Nursing, Public Administration, Public Health and Preventive Medicine, and Clinical Medicine, and 5 professional master degree programs, i.e. Clinical Medicine, Stomatology, Pharmacy, Public Health and Preventive Medicine, and Nursing. The school has established cooperation and communication with plenty of institutes in more than 10 countries. Every year, it selected and assigned outstanding undergraduates to study and exchange in famous domestic and overseas colleges and universities and undertakes educations of international students from more than 10 countries.

At present, the school has more than 3500 students, approximate 300 teachers. 54% of the full-time teachers hold senior professional titles and 60% hold doctoral degrees. The college now has 1 sharing academician, 2 winners of National Outstanding Youth Fund, 1 expert supported by National Thousand Youth Program, 2 selected by National level New Century Hundred, Thousand and Ten Thousand Talents Program, 1 chief scientist for National Major Research Program of Academy of Science.

The school has 7 undergraduate majors, i.e. Clinical Medicine, Preventive Medicine, Stomatology, Nursing, Public Service Administration (Health Service Management direction), Public Service Administration (Health Management Direction) and Pharmacy, of which, the Clinical Medicine is a provincial key speciality, Public Service Administration is a key provincial superior speciality, Nursing is a provincial characteristic speciality, Pharmacy is a municipal key speciality. The school has built 2 provincial level experimental teaching demonstration centers (Basic Medicine, Nursing) and 6 provincial excellent courses, 1 key discipline of State Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine (Preventive Treatment of Disease and Health Management), 1 Zhejiang Province first class discipline category A (Public Administration) and Category B (Nursing) respectively. The ESI ranking of Clinical Medicine discipline is among world’s top 1%.

In recent 3 years, the school has undertaken more than 70 national scientific research projects of various categories, including 1 "national 973 project", 1 outstanding youth project supported by National Natural Science Fund, 1 excellent youth project supported by National Natural Science Fund, 2 national projects under Key R&D Program of Ministry of Science and Technology, 1 key research program supported by National Natural Science Fund, 1 National Sci-tech Support Program, 4 key projects supported by National Natural Science Fund. At present, the school owns 1 Ministry of Education Engineering Research Center, 1 Zhejiang Province Key Laboratory, 1 Zhejiang Province Engineering Laboratory and 1 Zhejiang Province Key Technical Innovation Team.

The target of the school is to build "a college with the best academic atmosphere". In recent years, the employment rate of the undergraduates has reached 98%. The passing rate of Clinical Medicine and Stomatology students who attend Medical License Examination is remarkably higher than the national average, ranking among the first tier in China.