Peking Union Medical College Hospital (PUMCH), an institutional Faculty of Clinical Medicine affiliated to both Peking Union Medical College (PUMC) and Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences (CAMS), is a renowned general hospital in China with a prestigious historical background.

Designated by Ministry of Health, PUMCH is the national medical technical support center for diagnosis and treatment of severe and complicated diseases. Founded by Rockefeller Foundation in 1921, the hospital, with its gathering of notable experienced physicians, medical professionals and scientific researchers of various specialties, has maintained its leading position as one of the top-ranked hospitals in China for over 80 years. PUMCH consists of a complete spectrum of specialties with excellent, strong clinical foundations and expertise. Equipped with the most advanced medical equipments and technologies in China, the hospital, famous for its outstanding clinical professional cooperation amongst different specialties, maintains a primary role above all other hospitals in China in terms of medical treatment, scientific research and medical education.

After 85 years of development, PUMCH not only expanded in terms of experience accumulation, but also developed a completely unique medically professional culture. All medical records from history are meticulously preserved since hospital establishment, PUMCH’s library stores a prolific amount of medical records and papers in various languages, and numerous professors are acting as national leaders in various medical specialties. PUMCH holds itself high and proud with the hospital motto, “strict assiduousness, advancement, diligence and devotion”, these exact words represents the unique PUMCH family culture generation after generation.

The PUMC Hospital consists of two campuses comprising over 170,000㎡of clinical and research working area,1800 hospital beds, with more than 40 medical equipments and apparatus valuing over RMB 2 million as well as approximately 10 medical apparatus valued over RMB 10 million. There are 40 clinical departments and 15 adjunct departments, including 10 national key disciplines (in 12 departments) and 2 municipal key disciplines. A hospital based research center was introduced through a modern Central Lab, Clinical Trial Research Base, and the Animal Research Laboratory. Over the past decade, patient visits steadily increased, last year alone tallying up to 1,850,000 outpatient visits, 48,000 inpatient admissions and 28,000 surgical operations, with inpatient admission occupancy above 90%.

PUMCH includes 3,980 staff members, including 500 professors and associate professors and including one Chinese Academy of Sciences academician and two Chinese Academy of Engineering academicians. Fifty-seven professors serve as honorary presidents, presidents or vice-presidents in various Chinese Medical Association (CMA) specialty societies and/ or the Chinese Hospital Association (CHA), with 36 professors residing over the CMA’s Beijing Branch. Moreover, 46 professors serve as editor-in-chief or vice editor-in-chief in over 79 state-level medical journals.

As the CAMS Institute of Clinical Medicine, the hospital has always attached great importance to scientific research. In the past 20 years, over 20 research projects received National Science and Technology Progress Awards, and 95 research projects receive ministry level or provincial awards. Within recent 5 years, the hospital conducted over 120 research projects at state level and over 130 projects at a ministry/ provincial level, including 84 projects funded by the NSCF (National Natural Science Foundation of China). Over 4000 research papers published in major Chinese or foreign medical journals within recent years.

As PUMC’s Faculty of Clinical Medicine, the hospital places great effort upon basic and continued medical education and training, emphasizing upon basic principles, methodology, training individual independence. Resident on the job training programs as well as post-graduate training programs are amongst the most intensive and competitive nationwide. For several decades, the hospital trained numerous outstanding medical professionals, displaying an important and leading role in the development of China’s medical sciences.

The hospital has 71 doctor degree mentors for 13 programs and 149 master degree mentors for 19 programs. PUMC post-doctoral training program in clinical medicine is located within PUMCH. As one of the nation’s top-ranked clinical training centers, the hospital provides advanced training to over 600 physician fellows and 300 nursing fellows from various nationwide hospitals annually.

Within the last decade alone, PUMCH received 19 medals or certificates from Central Government agencies and local government agencies, such as “Top Ten Hospitals in Beijing” and “Top 100 National hospitals”, bestowing great honor and pride upon the hospital for its outstanding medical service and quality patient care.