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Southwest Medical University
China

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Official website: https://www.swmu.edu.cn/
Tel：0830-3161658
Address：Zhongshan Campus: No. 319, Section 3, Zhongshan Road, Luzhou City, Sichuan Province; Chengbei Campus: No. 1, Section 1, Xianglin Road, Longmatan District, Luzhou City, Sichuan Province
Southwest Medical University is a provincial general higher education institution in Sichuan Province. It is located in Luzhou, a national historical and cultural city, a national health city, and a national civilized city in the Sichuan, Chongqing, Yunnan, and Guizhou regions. The predecessor of the school, Southwest Sichuan Medical School, was founded in 1951, upgraded to Luzhou Medical College in 1959, upgraded to an undergraduate institution in 1978 and renamed Luzhou Medical College. It obtained the right to confer bachelor's degrees in 1982, became a master's degree-granting institution in 1993, began joint doctoral training in 2001, and started undergraduate education for overseas students in 2004. In 2010, it was approved to set up a postdoctoral research workstation, and was renamed Southwest Medical University in 2015. In 2021, it was approved as a doctoral degree-granting institution. In the long-term practice of running schools, the school has formed the fine tradition of "unity and struggle, hard work and entrepreneurship", adhering to the school motto of "virtue and industry, benevolence and saving the world" and the spirit of "self-improvement, adherence to the school philosophy of "virtue and industry, tolerance and openness", and formed the school characteristics of "dual cultivation of virtue and industry, equal emphasis on Chinese and Western medicine". The school currently has two campuses, Zhongshan and Chengbei, covering an area of 2011 acres; there are 20 colleges (departments), with more than 22,000 undergraduates, postgraduates, and international students. Since its establishment, the school has trained a large number of health professionals at all levels and types, and has become an important base for the training of medical and health talents and scientific and technological innovation in Sichuan, and a regional prevention, medical, scientific research and health industry service center combining Sichuan, Chongqing, Yunnan and Guizhou. The school (including directly affiliated hospitals) has more than 8,000 medical and teaching staff; 1,399 full-time teachers, including 636 senior professionals and 672 doctors; 70 doctoral supervisors and 1,193 master's supervisors; more than 830 high-level talents of various types, including 75 national high-level talents. The school has a relatively complete range of disciplines and outstanding disciplinary characteristics. Clinical medicine and pharmacy are first-class disciplines in Sichuan Province. Clinical medicine, pharmacology and toxicology, biology and biochemistry are among the top 1% of ESI global rankings, among which clinical medicine ranks 29.72% among the top 1% of ESI global institutions. There is currently 1 doctoral professional degree authorization point, 8 first-level master's degree authorization points, and 10 master's professional degree authorization points, covering disciplines such as medicine, management, law, and education. There are 33 general undergraduate majors, covering 7 disciplines; there are 10 national and provincial first-class undergraduate major construction sites, 3 national specialty majors, 3 provincial specialty majors, and 5 provincial application-oriented demonstration majors. We vigorously promote the combination of "medical engineering, medical science, and medical literature" and build a medical professional education system covering "the whole life cycle and the whole health process". The school is a qualified unit for recommending outstanding undergraduate graduates to study for a master's degree without examination, and has undertaken 5 national medical education reform projects. In 2021, we participated in the 10th China University Medical Technology Skills Competition, and the four tracks of clinical medicine, traditional Chinese medicine, nursing, and preventive medicine all advanced to the national finals and won awards. We participated in the National College Students Clinical Skills Competition for 7 times, and won 1 special prize in the Southwest and Northwest regions, 6 first prizes, 3 second prizes in the national finals, and 4 third prizes; among the more than 140 participating medical schools in the country, our school is one of the 9 schools that have entered the national finals for 6 consecutive sessions. The employment rate of graduates has remained above 90% for many years. The passing rate of the National Medical Practitioner Qualification Examination is higher than the national average, and in recent years it has ranked in the top 20% of reference institutions. In the past four sessions, it has won 19 provincial teaching achievement awards, including 6 first prizes. The school has successively built 46 provincial and ministerial-level and above scientific and technological innovation platforms, including the National Engineering Research Center for Isotopes and Drugs (co-built), the National Traditional Chinese Medicine Inheritance and Innovation Center, and the Key Laboratory of the Ministry of Education. It has been approved for 46 provincial and municipal scientific research teams, and is the lead unit of the "Sichuan Province 2011 Collaborative Innovation Center for Cardiovascular Disease Prevention and Treatment". From 2019 to 2023, the school was approved for 595 scientific research projects at the provincial and ministerial level and above; and won 36 scientific and technological achievement awards at the provincial and ministerial level and above. The school has established foreign cooperation and exchange relations with 25 countries and regions, successfully held international academic conferences many times, and was approved as a national traditional Chinese medicine service export base, and built a China-Portuguese-speaking countries and regions traditional Chinese medicine international cooperation base. More than 600 postdoctoral, graduate and undergraduate students have been trained for countries along the "Belt and Road" such as Pakistan, India, and Bangladesh. The university currently has 5 directly affiliated hospitals, which have demonstrated strong emergency rescue capabilities and high success rates in public emergencies and emergency rescue. As a provincial medical center in the four southwestern provinces (cities), it protects the health of the people in the Sichuan, Chongqing, Yunnan and Guizhou regions.