Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical College Hospital (abbreviated as Peking Union Medical College Hospital, PUMCH), founded by the Rockefeller Foundation in 1921, stands as China's premier institution for medical education. Its graduate training system is internationally recognized for being highly selective, elite-focused, and equally emphasizing clinical expertise and scientific research.
Our hospital consistently upholds The Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era as our guide, adhering to the philosophy of "fostering virtue and nurturing talents." In alignment with the "14th Five-Year Plan," we anchor our mission to the vision of becoming a "World-Class Institution with Chinese Characteristics." We are driving comprehensive disciplinary advancement with full commitment, achieving remarkable outcomes in talent cultivation and faculty development. We have achieved significant breakthroughs in strategic disciplinary positioning, infrastructure enhancement, and both fundamental and clinical research.
Centered on clinical medicine, our hospital has established a disciplinary cluster encompassing five supporting fields: Nursing Science, Integrated Traditional and Western Medicine, Medical Technology, Chinese Materia Medica, and Basic Medical Sciences. Anchored to our overarching vision and upholding the fundamental mission of "fostering virtue and nurturing talents," we pioneer innovative medical education models that yield national-level teaching achievements. Through diversified talent recruitment and cultivation channels, we strengthen our high-end innovative workforce. By focusing on global scientific frontiers and benchmarking against international first-tier standards, our research translation capabilities have reached new milestones. Leveraging disciplinary cluster development as our strategic foundation, we expand global collaborations and optimize disciplinary architecture. Supported by national key laboratory infrastructure, we accelerate cross-disciplinary integration within major research platforms and cultivate interdisciplinary talent in emerging fields. Our hospital actively serves national strategic imperatives with significant societal contributions. We are advancing a paradigm shift from disease-centered care to health promotion-centered systems, propelling high-quality disciplinary advancement.
Peking Union Medical College Hospital (PUMCH) features comprehensive disciplinary scope with distinguished integrated strengths, boasting 5 National "Double First-Class" Initiative disciplines, 57 clinical and technical departments, 20 State Key Disciplines, and 29 National Clinical Key Specialties. The institution maintains 9 first-level doctoral degree authorization programs, operates 22 National Standardized Residency Training Bases and 8 National Pilot Specialty Physician Training Bases, and supports 17 national/ministerial-level research platforms.
The hospital has a large cohort of distinguished faculty members with extensive expertise and high academic standing in medical sciences, many of whom have made exceptional contributions to the field. Among them are 3 academicians of both the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Chinese Academy of Engineering, along with 260 doctoral supervisors and 324 master's supervisors.