History
- 1927 Founded by the Yale-educated public health expert Dr. Yan Fuqing (颜福庆) as National Fourth Zhongshan University Medical College, it was the earliest medical school in China established as a national (public) Chinese university, comprising part of Fourth Zhongshan University.
- 1928 Fourth Zhongshan University was renamed Jiangsu University, and in May of the same year was again renamed to National Central University (which itself was to be renamed Nanjing University in 1949.)
- 1932 National Central University Medical College became an independent institution under the name of National Shanghai Medical College.
- 1937 Moved to Kunming (Yunnan province)because of the Second Sino-Japanese War.
- 1940 Relocated to Chongqing (Postal map spelling: Chungking).
- 1946 Returned to Shanghai after the end of the war.
- 1952 Renamed Shanghai First Medical College.
- 1959 Designated by the central government as one of the sixteen national key institutions of higher learning in China.
- 1985 Named Shanghai Medical University.
- 2000 Merged with Fudan University.
- 2001 Established as Shanghai Medical College, Fudan University (aka Medical Center of Fudan University).
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