After the name change, the school expanded rapidly, from having only Departments of Medicine and Dentistry (others having been temporarily suspended), to include the Departments of Medical Technology (1979), Nursing (1980), Nutrition (1981), and Rehabilitative Medicine (1985).
在蔡滋浬校長努力之下，中山醫專終於在民國六十六年八月「破例」升格改制為「私立中山醫學院」，但只含醫學系和牙醫學系，其他各學科暫時停招。其後在六十八、六十九及七十年，再陸續增設醫技系、護理系及營養學系，七十四年又成立復健醫學系。精簡人力，重點發展