In the early days of the War of Resistance Against Japan, the Japanese invading army occupied North China, and Shanghai and Nanjing were defeated one after another. Students in the occupied areas dropped out of school and were displaced. A considerable part of them went into exile in the southwest area behind the strategy. At that time, the Ministry of Education decided to establish a national Guiyang Medical College in Guiyang City, Guizhou Province, in order to provide opportunities for medical students to continue their studies in exile and lay the foundation for medical education in the southwest area.
On December 31, 1937, the Ministry of Education appointed Professors Li Zongen, Zhu Zhanggong and Yang Chongrui as preparatory members, and appointed Li Zongen as chairman of the preparatory committee.
On January 1, 1938, the Preparatory Committee was established in Hankou. The Ministry of Education appointed two members, Zhang Zhihan and Hangliwu, as preparatory members. In Hankou, Tang Peishong, a former professor of Biochemistry at Wuhan University, was actually in charge of the preparatory work. After arriving in Guiyang, Zhu Maogen, the former president of Guizhou Provincial Hospital, was also in charge of the preparatory work.
In July 1947, President Li Zongen was appointed President of Peking Union Medical College and Professor Zhu Maogen was appointed President of National Guiyang Medical College by the Ministry of Education. At this time, Guiyang Medical College was one of the only nine national medical colleges in China.
On November 15, 1949, the liberation of Guiyang was celebrated by teachers and students.
On November 25, the Ministry of Culture and Education of the Municipal Military Regulatory Commission appointed Fan Maoxiang, a military representative of the Health Department, and Zhang Zuliang, a Military Liaison officer, to take over the Guiyang Medical College.
On February 3, 1950, the Cultural and Educational Acceptance Department of the Municipal Military Commission ordered Guiyang Medical College to be directly managed by the Cultural and Educational Acceptance Department. Comrades Fan Maoxiang and Zhang Zuliang were transferred back to Anrui Wan as the Military Liaison Officer of your doctor. On April 14, the same year, He Jianming was also assigned as the military liaison officer, and Chen Dayu, the Secretary-General of the Cultural and Educational Acceptance Department, was assigned to assist the administrative leadership.
Since December 24, 1950, the word "national" has been abolished and the name "Guiyang Medical College" has been officially renamed, which is under the administration of the People's Government of Guizhou Province.
During the ten years of the Cultural Revolution, teachers and medical staff in schools continued to persist in saving lives and injuries, preventing and treating diseases, sending doctors and medicines, and actively carried out itinerant medical treatment. Make teaching plans to ensure the quality of teaching. Medical specialty refresher courses and Jinsha and Zhijin Branches will be held.
In 1971, the Guizhou Provincial Office of Cancer Prevention and Research was set up, and then a course of cancer census was held. In 1978, they were awarded the National Science Congress Award, the National Medical Science Congress Award and the Guizhou Science Congress Award respectively. The Parasitology Teaching and Research Group and the Physiology Teaching and Research Group were awarded the National Advanced Medical and Health Collective. The school was awarded the National University of Science for outstanding scientific research results. It will be commended.
In 1978, the whole country resumed enrollment of postgraduates, and the school recruited the first batch of postgraduates, with four better disciplines, majors and five professors and associate professors with high academic attainments as tutors. After the initial and second examinations, eight postgraduates were selected from 33 candidates. Professors Jin Daxiong, Meng Qinghua, Li Guizhen, Zhang Meixiang and Liu Jiaji were the first batch of postgraduates. Tutor.
In 1981, with the approval of the State Council, four disciplines, medical biology, parasitology, pathological anatomy and internal medicine, were granted the right of Master's degree. In the same year, eight graduates received master's degrees in medicine.
From 1978 to 1984, the school began to recruit students nationwide. From four disciplines and majors to 15 disciplines and majors, the number of instructors increased from four professors and one associate professor in 1978 to eight professors and 18 associate professors or associate chief physicians. Medical biology, parasitology, pathological anatomy, internal medicine, X-ray diagnostics, microbiology, dermatology and other disciplines have been recruited successively.
In 1985, it became one of the first units in China to obtain the "recommendation of excellent undergraduate graduates for master's degree without examination".
In 1997, it became one of the first authorized units in China to apply for master's degree with the same degree as graduate students.
On September 8, 2003, the Notice of the Academic Degree Committee of the State Council on Approving New Doctoral and Master Degree Granting Units (Degree [2003] 56) was announced and approved by the 20th Meeting of the Academic Degree Committee of the State Council. The school became a doctoral degree granting unit with the authorization point of Pathology and Pathophysiology, which is the only medical doctoral degree granting unit in the province.
In 2005, it passed the evaluation of undergraduate teaching level organized by the Ministry of Education.
In 2006, it was selected as one of the key construction universities in Guizhou Province.
In 2009, Professor Zhong Nanshan, then president of the Chinese Medical Association and academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, was appointed honorary president.
In 2009 and 2011, the first-level disciplines of basic medicine were granted postdoctoral research mobile stations and doctoral degree authorization points respectively.
In 2012, the school was awarded the project of "Basic Capacity Building Unit of Colleges and Universities in Central and Western China", and became the first batch of pilot colleges and universities to carry out the program of training outstanding doctors.
On June 16, 2015, Guiyang Medical College was officially renamed Guizhou Medical University.
In 2016, the Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences (Peking Union Medical College) signed a memorandum with Guizhou Medical University to help Guizhou Medical University.
In 2017, four disciplines of the school were awarded the first-class discipline construction project of Guizhou Province in 2017.