Campus

The campus is divided into two parts – the Zhongshan campus and the Nangao campus, covering 1,044,700 square metersl. The college now has 13 provincial and national research institutes, including the Vascular Medicine Institute, 4 provincial key specialties and 17 provincial key courses.

‘The Journal of Southwest Medical University’ is published both in China and abroad, and has an international CO-DEN code for document retrieval. Furthermore, it is certified by the State Science Ministry as one of the resource journals for natural science information statistics.

Since 1993, the Southwest Medical University has carried out 625 research programs, more than one-fourth of which won awards conferred by the ministry, the province and the city, and 12 were patented. Nearly 9000 research papers have been published in various journals both in China and abroad.

The college has established international exchange and cooperation relationship with 26 universities and institutes in 9 countries including Japan, Germany and the U.S.A. The university employs long-term foreign teachers to teach English language and medical subjects, and invites short-term visiting scholars to give guest lectures.

The Zhongshan Campus is located on Mt. Zhongshan and is surrounded by the historical Yangtze river and the Tuo river, with a lot of green camphor trees, birds and flowers enriching the local ecology.

The Nangao Campus is relatively newly constructed with state-of-art facilities. The college now has 13 provincial and national research institutes including the Vascular Medicine Institute, 4 provincial key specialties and 17 provincial key courses.

On the campus, the academic buildings cover 150,000 square meters of area, the dormitories 80,000 square meters, the canteens 11,600 square meters, and the stadium 10,000 square meters, including one swimming pool.

The Southwest Medical University, one of the best foreign destinations for pursuing an MBBS degree, has 3 affiliated hospitals. They are: The Affiliated Hospital of SWMU, the traditional Chinese Medicine Hospital of SWMU and the Dental Hospital of SWMU. There is also a nursing school, a Pharmaceutical Factory, 7 non-subordinating hospitals and 56 teaching hospitals with a total of 20,000 clinical beds.

The Affiliated Hospital of Southwest Medical University is a ‘National, Class A, Grade III Hospital’, and is one of the biggest and most advanced in Southwest China. It has 1,500 staff (300 are professors and associate professors) and 60 departments with 1000 clinical beds. Every year, it accepts 30,000 in-patients and 500,000 outpatients.

The Southwest Medical University has had a landmark moment in its journey so far: the separating surgery performed on a pair of Siamese twins in 2004 was the first such case in Sichuan.

Academic

At present, there are 12,547 students at the Southwest Medical University. They include 93 international students, 363 Postgraduate students, 11,587 Graduate students and also some short-term international students.

The international students come from South Asian countries and the Chinese students come from 29 provinces.

The college library has 940,000 books and journals, and 120 electronic reading rooms. The campus network covers both campuses.