SUMMARY
The UIN campus which has been converted from IAIN has a very great interest in opening a Medical Education Study Program. Currently, of the 24 existing UIN campuses, only 3 campuses already have a Medical Education Study Program. One of them is UIN Alauddin Makassar. Establishing a Medical Education Study Program is not easy, it requires a very long and very rigorous struggle. Therefore, this paper is intended to provide an overview of the process of the birth of the Medical Education Study Program, the obstacles encountered and the strategies to deal with them as well as the prospects for the Medical Education Study Program in the future. This paper uses qualitative methods and collects data through documents related to studies of program weaknesses, interviews with historical actors, and literature studies. As a result, UIN Alauddin took 10 years to prepare the attitudes of the Medical Education Study Program which involved 3 periods of the chancellor's leadership, namely the preparatory stage during Prof. Dr. H. Azhar Arsyad, MA, the formation preparation stage during Prof. Dr. H. Qadir Gassing HT, MS and the stage of the study program was born during Prof. Dr. H. Musafir Pababbari, M.Si by continuing the construction of hospitals and learning facilities. The process of the attitude of the Medical Education Study Program faced various obstacles, but it was successfully passed, so the Ministry of Research, Technology, and Higher Education issued an operational permit at that time. The prospect of medical education at UIN Alauddin is expected to contribute to producing doctors who can integrate world health with Islamic sciences.