1. Sun Yat-sen University School of Medicine
2. Guangdong University of Traditional Chinese Medicine
3. Guangzhou Medical University
4. Guangdong Pharmaceutical College University
5. Southern Medical University
Sun Yat-sen University Zhongshan School of Medicine is located in Guangzhou, Guangdong. It is a second-level college affiliated with Sun Yat-sen University. It is one of the first batch of university medical schools established by the Ministry of Education and the Ministry of Health.
The predecessors of Zhongshan Medical College of Sun Yat-sen University were Boji Medical College founded in 1866, Guangdong Guanghua Medical College founded in the spring of 1908, and Guangdong Public Medical College founded in the spring of 1909; in 1953 and 1954 , three schools merged to form South China Medical College; in 1956, it was renamed Guangzhou Medical College; in 1957, it was renamed Sun Yat-sen Medical College; in 1985, it was renamed Sun Yat-sen Medical University; in October 2001, the former Sun Yat-sen University and Sun Yat-sen Medical University merged into New Sun Yat-sen University, and established Zhongshan Medical College of Sun Yat-sen University.
As of March 2015, Sun Yat-sen University’s Sun Yat-Sen Medical College*** has a total of 4,130 full-time students (including 3,619 full-time undergraduates, 843 adult undergraduates, 287 master’s students, There are 224 doctoral students and 452 students in postgraduate courses), and a total of 473 faculty members (including 192 full-time teachers, 68 professors, researchers, and chief technicians, and 84 associate professors, associate researchers, and deputy chief technicians); It has 9 departments and 6 undergraduate majors; it has 7 affiliated hospitals.
The medical school is a college under the higher education system. The curriculum is mainly designed to cultivate medical-related professionals and researchers. The departments and research institutes of the medical school can be roughly divided into clinical medicine and basic medicine. The clinical medicine part includes the Department of Medicine, Department of Pharmacy, Department of Nursing, and Department of Medical Technology to train doctors, pharmacists, nurses, medical examiners, and rehabilitation specialists. Teachers and other talents whose occupations are directly related to safeguarding the safety of human life. Sometimes the pharmacy department becomes an independent school of pharmacy within the university.
The basic medicine part mainly focuses on cultivating research talents in the medical field. The main research directions include anatomy, pathology, microbiology, molecular biology, biochemistry, pharmacology, etc.
The dean of a medical school is usually a professor with medical qualifications