Southern Medical University, located in Guangzhou, Guangdong Province, is the only one of the first batch of national key universities in Guangdong Province, and it is also one of the first batch of eight universities in China that offer eight-year clinical medicine graduate students and doctoral degrees. It is the only medical college under the key construction of a high-level university in Guangdong Province, and the first batch of pilot universities in China to train excellent doctors and excellent physicians (Chinese medicine).
The school, formerly known as the First Military Medical University of the Chinese People's Liberation Army, was founded in 195 1, 1979 and was designated as a national key university. In August 2004, it was transferred to Guangdong Province as a whole and renamed Southern Medical University.
By February 2023, the school had 2 1 teaching institutions and 29 undergraduate enrollment majors. There are 8 affiliated hospitals directly under the central government, and 5 hospitals managed and built by government schools with reference to affiliated hospitals directly under the central government, including 9 third-class first-class hospitals; There are 5 national key disciplines and cultivation disciplines, 6 key disciplines in state administration of traditional chinese medicine and 10 in Guangdong. There are 17 national key clinical specialties, 4 state administration of traditional chinese medicine key clinical specialties (diseases), 60 Guangdong key clinical specialties and 35 Guangdong high-level clinical specialties. There are 10 first-level disciplines authorized by doctor's degree, 16 first-level disciplines authorized by master's degree, 2 doctor's degree authorization points, 14 master's degree authorization points and 8 post-doctoral research stations; Full-time undergraduate students 14 160, graduate students 1008. ?