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What kind of university is Peking Union Medical College?
Peking Union Medical College is the only key medical university directly under the National Health and Family Planning Commission of the People's Republic of China. Integrating with China Academy of Medical Sciences, it is a national medical academic center and comprehensive scientific research institution in China. "Excellent Doctor Education and Training Program" pilot universities. Peking Union Medical College was founded by Rockefeller Foundation in the United States in 19 17, and an eight-year medical undergraduate program was established in 19 19. It is the first medical college in China to offer eight-year clinical medicine specialty and undergraduate nursing education, and is known as the Chinese Medical Hall.

Institutions of higher learning have strong and systematic scientific research strength and clinical medical ability to diagnose and treat difficult and serious diseases, with a wide range of disciplines, including basic medicine, clinical medicine, preventive medicine, pharmacy and basic disciplines such as biology, physics and chemistry related to medical disciplines; There are 18 research institutes (and 5 branches), 7 clinical hospitals (including Tiantan Hospital jointly built with Beijing * * *), 5 colleges, 1 graduate school and 5 branches. There are 6 national key laboratories, 10 departmental open laboratories, 2 national industrial experimental bases, 17 national centers, 6 postdoctoral research mobile stations, 1 1 WHO cooperation centers.

This school is the first unit that has the right to award doctoral degrees and master's degrees. At present, there are 7 doctoral programs and 3 master programs in the first-level discipline. The State Council Academic Degrees Committee is the entrusted degree awarding unit, which independently examines the first-level disciplines authorized by doctoral degrees and the first-level disciplines authorized by master's degrees. At present, there are 2 national key disciplines as first-level disciplines, 8 national key disciplines in two disciplines, 2 national key disciplines as third-level disciplines, and/kloc-0 national key cultivation disciplines.