Southern Medical University, formerly known as the First Military Medical University of the Chinese people's Liberation Army, was founded in 1951. It was designated as a national key university in 1979. In August 2004, it was transferred to Guangdong Province and renamed Southern Medical University. It is the only medical college among the key construction universities of high-level universities in Guangdong Province, one of the first batch in China and the only one jointly built by the Ministry of education and the National Health Commission of Guangdong Province, one of the first batch of eight universities offering eight year undergraduate, master's and doctoral programs in clinical medicine, one of the first batch of pilot universities offering excellent doctor education and training program, and the only independent medical college offering eight year medical education , Chinese government scholarship to receive international students in China, selected into the national "111 plan", "characteristic key discipline project", national construction of high-level university public postgraduate project, Guangdong Province "211 Project", national innovative talent training demonstration base, national international science and technology cooperation base, CDIO Engineering Education Alliance members.The disciplines cover seven university disciplines, including medicine, science, engineering, arts, management, law and economics. The number of first-class disciplines authorized for doctor's degree in medicine ranks first in Guangdong Province and second in medical colleges and universities in China. The doctoral enrollment scale ranks second among independent medical universities in China, and third among all universities in Guangdong. The number of effective invention patents ranks first in independent medical colleges in China.By the end of 2018, there are 1313 national specialty teachers, 1033 full-time academicians, 10 national specialty teachers, and 487 full-time academicians There are 13 national outstanding young people, 10 first-class doctoral degree authorized disciplines, 6 post doctoral mobile stations, 5 national key and cultivation disciplines, 5 ESI global top 1% disciplines, and 11 directly affiliated hospitals.