Founded in 1938, Guizhou Medical University (GMU) was originally known as the National Guiyang Medical College. It was one of the nine national medical universities under the Ministry of Education at that time. GMU owns 4 direct affiliated hospitals, 11 non-affiliated hospitals, 12 teaching hospitals, and 21 teaching institutions covering 49 majors. GMU has developed into a higher education institute of medicine with influence and reputation in China from the perspective of scale, structure, quality and efficiency. GMU is also the only key provincial university in Guizhou Province that offers a complete medical training system: from Bachelor, Master, to Doctor of Medicine.

GMU International Students Program established in 2014, and has been recognized by WHO,GMC,CMC, ECFMG and WCAME, GMU also has Postgraduate Program for international students. Until now, there have been more than 300 international students from 19 countries were in Bachelor, Master and doctor program at GMU.