Medical education is an important cornerstone of health development. In this paper, medical education in Yunnan province is taken as the research object, and 16 prefectures and cities under the administrative jurisdiction of yunnan province are taken as the statistical scope. The present situation of medical education distribution in yunnan province is analyzed, and the node analysis method is used to classify medical education in various prefectures and cities of Yunnan Province, and the growth level, high gradient area and ground gradient area are determined. Based on the results of the empirical study, this paper puts forward the thoughts and policy suggestions on optimizing the distribution of medical higher education in Yunnan Province.