南方医科大学前身为中国人民解放军第一军医大学，创建于1951年，1979年被确定为全国重点大学，2004年整体移交广东省，更名为南方医科大学。学校是广东省高水平大学重点建设高校中唯一的医学院校，也是全国首批“部委省”共建医科大学、广东省“冲一流”高校。

Southern Medical University, formerly known as the First Military Medical University of the Chinese People's Liberation Army, was founded in 1951. It was identified as a national key university in 1979 and was transferred to Guangdong Province as a whole in 2004, renamed Southern Medical University. The university is the only medical school among the key universities in Guangdong Province's high-level university construction plan, and also one of the first batch of "ministry-province co-constructed" medical universities in China and a "first-class" university in Guangdong Province.

学校学科特色鲜明，临床医学、基础医学、公共卫生与预防医学等学科实力雄厚，其中临床医学入选国家“双一流”建设学科，拥有5个国家重点学科，8个学科进入ESI全球前1%。学校现有13所直属附属医院，其中三级甲等医院11所，医疗服务能力位居全国前列。

The university has distinctive disciplinary characteristics, with strong strengths in clinical medicine, basic medicine, public health and preventive medicine. Among them, clinical medicine was selected into the national "Double First-Class" construction disciplines, with 5 national key disciplines and 8 disciplines ranking among the top 1% in ESI globally. The university currently has 13 directly affiliated hospitals, including 11 tertiary first-class hospitals, and its medical service capacity ranks among the top in China.

学校坚持立德树人根本任务，致力于培养高素质医学人才，现有全日制本科生、研究生、留学生等各类在校生近3万人。学校科研实力突出，拥有国家重点实验室、国家临床医学研究中心等多个国家级科研平台，在重大疾病防治、新药研发等领域取得了一系列重要成果。

Adhering to the fundamental task of fostering virtue through education, the university is committed to cultivating high-quality medical talents, with nearly 30,000 full-time undergraduates, postgraduates, international students and other types of students. The university has outstanding scientific research strength, with multiple national-level scientific research platforms such as state key laboratories and national clinical medical research centers, and has achieved a series of important results in the fields of major disease prevention and treatment, new drug research and development.