Southern Medical University is located in Baiyun District, Guangzhou City, Guangdong Province and Shunde District, Foshan City. It is one of the first national key universities jointly established by ministries and commissions, and one of the first eight universities in China to offer eight-year undergraduate and doctoral programs in clinical medicine.

It has been selected into the national public graduate program for building high-level universities, the training program for top-notch students in basic disciplines 2.0, the national "key discipline project" construction universities, the first batch of pilot universities for excellent doctoral education and training programs in China, and the key construction universities of high-level universities in Guangdong Province.

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 the end of 2002 1 and1,the school had 21teaching institutions and offered 30 undergraduate majors. Directly under the hospital 13, with more than 3000 beds/kloc-0. 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 and 4 state administration of traditional chinese medicine key clinical specialties (diseases).

There are 60 clinical key specialties in Guangdong province and 35 high-level clinical key specialties in Guangdong province; 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 14 100, graduate students 7692, international students10/2.