The former Sun Yat-sen University of Medical Sciences (SUMS; ) was located in

Yuexiu District Yuexiu District is one of 11 urban districts of the prefecture-level city of Guangzhou, the capital of Guangdong Province, China, located west of the Tianhe District and east of the Liwan District. It is the commercial, political and cultural c ...

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, China. - The address traces to "74 Zhongshan 2nd Road, Yuexiu District, Guangzhou, Guangdong Province, China" It is government run university which originated from Boji Medical College (), which was established in 1886 in part as a result of

the Canton Hospital The Canton Hospital () or Ophthalmic Hospital in Canton, also known as the Canton Pok Tsai Hospital, was founded by Protestant medical missionary Peter Parker (1804-1888) in Canton, China on November 4, 1835. The hospital treated thousands of pati ...

. The

Kung Yee Medical School and Hospital The Kung Yee Medical School and Hospital in Guangzhou (then called Canton), China China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. It is the world's List of countries and dependencies by population, most po ...

was merged into it in 1925. Dr. Sun Yat-sen once studied and worked in Boji. This university was a national key medical university. In 2001, the university merged with

Sun Yat-sen University Sun Yat-sen University (, abbreviated SYSU and colloquially known in Chinese as Zhongda), also known as Zhongshan University, is a national key public research university located in Guangzhou, Guangdong, China. It was founded in 1924 by and nam ...

and became the Sun Yat-sen College of Medical Science.

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* Sun Yat-sen University Medical schools in China Educational institutions established in 1886 1886 establishments in China Educational institutions disestablished in 2001 2001 disestablishments in China Defunct universities and colleges in China {{Guangzhou-stub