Hangzhou Medical College (HMC) is a full-time ordinary institute of higher learning officially accredited by the Ministry of Education and the Zhejiang provincial government. Founded in 1925 as Zhejiang Provincial Women's Obstetric School, Hangzhou Medical College was officially established in March 2016.

The college occupies an area of more than 44 hectares with 262,200 square meters of floor area. At present, the number of students on campus is about 5,100. The college has 496 full-time faculty members, of whom 123 are professors; 175 are associate professors and 288 have a master’s or doctoral degree.

The college has a 3A directly affiliated hospital, five non-directly affiliated hospitals and 76 teaching hospitals. It has established the Zhejiang Medical Vocational Education Group with nine clinical schools, and has a simulated hospital and clinics that are open to the public on campus. It has 13 on-campus training labs, three of which have grant funding from the central government while another three are provincial demonstration labs.

The college attaches importance to collaboration and communication with relevant colleges and universities abroad. It has a joint bachelor degree program of health information administration with California Baptist University and has established friendly relations and cooperation with Denmark Zealand University College and the Social and Healthcare College of Zealand Denmark.