National Sun Yat-sen University applied for the establishment the public-financed School of Post Baccalaureate Medicine. The groundbreaking ceremony of the Medical Education Building happened to coincide with the 40th anniversary of the University and the Doctor’s Day (November 12th). It was solemnly celebrated in the Renwu Campus with a few hundred guests and local residents. The total floor area of the seven floors (including one underground floor) of the Medical Education Building will be 3160 m2. The construction of the Medical Education Building is scheduled to end in 2022. NSYSU President Ying-Yao Cheng said that this is the first building in the Renwu Campus and also the first medical education facility at a public university in the Kaohsiung-Pingtung-Penghu-Taitung area; in the future, it is expected that the research capacity of the University can be integrated with the clinical medicine resources of Kaohsiung Veterans General Hospital to develop a cross-disciplinary smart healthcare education different from the traditional one, and cultivate public-financed resident medical doctors and scientists for rural areas.