Southern Medical University put forward the idea of "exploring the implementation of the academy system" from 20 13, and began to implement it in Shunde campus on September 20 16, creating four academies: Boya Academy, Zhixing Academy, Shang Jin Academy and Defeng Academy.
Under the management mode of the academy system, the school brings all the freshmen and sophomores into the academy for training, constructs a humanistic education system and a characteristic innovative education platform in the academy, and makes the students' living environment a space for educating people, thus forming a good situation in which medical professional education and comprehensive quality education go hand in hand.