Southwest Medical University


Southwest Medical University, formerly Luzhou Medical College, is a public medical university in the city of Luzhou, Sichuan, China.
WWW lzmc.edu.cn

History

The school was first established in 1951 as Southern Sichuan Doctors' School. In 1958, the school was renamed as Luzhou Specialist School of Medicine. In 1978, it was authorized to grant bachelor's degrees and changed its name to Luzhou Medical College.
In 2015, Luzhou Medical College was authorized to change its name to Sichuan Medical University. However, the well-known West China Medical Center of Sichuan University, which was famously known as "Sichuan Medical College" from 1953 and 1985, protested that the new name was too similar to its former name. In 2016, the school changed its name again to Southwest Medical University.