[1] The school provides medical education at undergraduate and postgraduate levels.

It lies in proximity to University Teaching Hospital.

[2] This is about 6.5 kilometres (4 mi), south-east of the city centre.

[4] This public medical school was the first to be established in Zambia in 1970.

As at 2011, UNZA School of Medicine had graduated approximately 1,200 physicians an surgeons since its inception.