[1] In 1917, Mr. Shen Yunfei (Chinese:沈云扉), a member of the association, became the director of Nantong Medical School.
With the support of the association, a 10-people committee was established to prepare the school and raise money.
They rented No.19 Markham Road (now Huai'an Road) as the school building, and were named Tong De Medical School.
Mr. Jiang Fengzhi was elected as the master and Mr. Shen Yunfei was chosen as the director of educational administration.
There were 16 teachers, 12 of them were the alumni of Tongji German Medical College, most of them were volunteers.