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The school was founded in 195 1, formerly known as Southwest Sichuan Medical College. 1959 was upgraded and renamed as Luzhou Medical College, 1978 was upgraded and renamed as Luzhou Medical College, 1993 became an authorized unit for master's degree, and began to jointly train doctors in 200 1. 20 15 was renamed as Southwest Medical University. Address: Xianglin Road 1 Section 1, Longmatan District, Luzhou City.
Southwest Medical University, referred to as "Southwest Medical University", located in Luzhou City, Sichuan Province, is a provincial-level institution of higher learning in Sichuan Province. Selected into the excellent doctor education and training program, excellent doctor (Chinese medicine) education and training program, medical master's degree postgraduate training model reform pilot universities, and comprehensive clinical medicine reform pilot universities.
The governing unit of the national medical education research alliance of colleges and universities, and the chairman unit of the South Sichuan University Alliance. It has the qualification of recommending excellent undergraduate graduates to pursue postgraduate studies without examination, and has established the National University Science Park.
The school was founded in 195 1 year, and changed its name to Luzhou Medical College in 1959. 1978 upgraded to Luzhou medical college; 1982, the school obtained the right to award bachelor's degrees; 1993, the school was approved by the State Council Academic Degrees Committee as an authorized unit for master's degree; The postdoctoral research center was established 2010;
On April 20 15, it was renamed as Sichuan medical university, and on February 12, it was renamed as Southwest Medical University. 202 1, approved as a doctoral degree awarding unit.
As of June 2022, the school has two campuses, Zhongshan and Chengbei, covering an area of 20 1 1 mu; There are 20 colleges (departments) and 33 undergraduate majors; There are 5 directly affiliated hospitals with 6,543,800 paper documents and 5,662,000 electronic documents. There are 1 doctoral degree authorization points, 8 first-class master degree authorization points and 10 professional degree authorization points;
The school's clinical medicine, pharmacology and toxicology, biology and biochemistry have entered the top of ESI global rankings1%; The school (including directly affiliated hospitals) has more than 8,000 medical staff, full-time teachers 1.284, undergraduates, postgraduates and international students 1.9 million.