In 1986, the university was approved by the Chinese Ministry of Education to offer master's degree courses in medicine.

WFMU is authorized to grant bachelor's and master's degrees and recruit overseas students.

[citation needed] There are 24 postgraduate programs, mainly enrolling postgraduates in Physiology, Immunology, Pharmacology, Anatomy, Embryology, Pathology and Pathophysiology, Pathogen Biology, Biochemistry and Molecule Biology, Internal Medicine, Surgery, Gynecology, Pediatrics, Ophthalmology, Otolaryngology, Dentistry, Neurology, Oncology, Traditional and Western Clinic Medicine, Emergency, Imaging and Nuclear Medicine, Nursing, Anesthesiology, Epidemiology and Health Statistics, Social Medicine and Health Cause Management and Applied Psychology.

The university offers 16 undergraduate programs: Clinical medicine, Dentistry, Nursing, Anesthesiology, Medical Imaging, Medical Laboratory, Preventive Medicine, Pharmacy, Public Health and Management, Labor and Social Security, Marketing, Law, Applied Psychology, Health Statistics, Biological Technology, English Language.

There are six comprehensive teaching laboratories at the university level — Morphology, Function, Chemicoanalysis, Clinical Skills, Computer and Human Anatomy — and 16 speciality laboratories like Gene and Histology Engineering, Dentistry, and Nursing.

Anatomy, Medical Ethics, Pathology, Physiology, Histology and Embryology, Pharmacology and Medical WFMU has undertaken 90 teaching and research projects at the provincial level or above and has been awarded 24 prizes in teaching, experiment and research since 2004.

The university library holds a collection of over 2.1 million books and 3,000 kinds of Chinese and foreign journals.