Peking Union Medical College

Peking Union Medical College

北京协和医学院
Type	Public
Established	1917
President	Cao Xuetao
Location	Beijing, China
Campus	Urban
Affiliations	Tsinghua University, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences
Website	www.pumc.edu.cn

Old building of the Peking Union Medical College in Beijing

Peking Union Medical College (Chinese: 北京协和医学院)^[1] was founded in 1917 and is among the most selective medical colleges in the People's Republic of China, located in Beijing. The school is widely considered to be the best medical school in China and was ranked 1st in China by CUCAS in 2015.^[2] It is a relatively independent institution affiliated with Tsinghua University, one of the top two universities in China. Peking Union Medical College graduates receive Peking Union Medical College diploma signed by both the Peking Union Medical College and Tsinghua presidents.^[3] It is the only medical school in China to be affiliated with the Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and the first medical school in China to introduce the 8 year M.D. program.

The Hospital and College is located at No.9 Dongdan 3rd Alley, Dongcheng, Beijing, next to the Wangfujing shopping area.

History

The Peking Union Medical College was founded in 1906 by the American and British missionaries and funded by the Rockefeller Foundation. It remains one of the finest medical schools in China today.

The Peking Union Medical College Hospital was founded in 1906. The American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, the Board of Foreign Missions of the Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A., the London Missionary Society, and later, the Board of Foreign Missions of the Methodist Episcopal Church, the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel, and the Medical Missionary Association of London, together with the then-Chinese government cooperated in the foundation and development of the Medical College and maintained it until 1915. The Rockefeller Foundation was established in 1913 and in 1913-1914 the newly formed Foundation created a Commission, including Dr. Franklin C. McLean, to examine medical education in China. One of its recommendations was that the Foundation - through a subsidiary organization - should assume financial responsibility for the College. On July 1, 1915 the recently established China Medical Board assumed full support of the Union Medical College, having previously acquired the property. The Commission's members had included both William Welch, the first Dean of the Johns Hopkins Medical School and Simon Flexner and the China Medical Board modeled the school after Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine following the recommendations of the Flexner Report which set the foundation of modern Medical Education in the United States and Canada. The PUMC was reorganized in 1917 and celebrated its 90th anniversary with a ceremony attended by the President of Johns Hopkins University, the Chair of the China Medical Board and representatives of the Rockefeller family and Rockefeller Brothers Fund. During the Cultural Revolution, Peking Union Medical College was closed. In 1979, it reopened as the "Capital University of Medical Sciences" then returned to Peking Union Medical College (协和医科大学)

Current status

Peking Union Medical College students traditionally attend Peking University biology department for their pre-meds portion of education. Since 2006, Tsinghua University has been holding a joint MD program in clinical medical science. Enrollment of the clinical medical science at PUMC is based on individual's performance in high school and the score of National Exam at the graduation. The curriculum of clinical medical science is 8 years, accepts about 90 students each year and includes 2.5 years of pre-medical education in the School of Life Sciences at Tsinghua University, the students have their pre-med studies at Tsinghua University are considered as the students of both PUMC and Tsinghua University. The college also has its independent Graduate School which recruits from other medical schools around country. The health care services at Peking Union Medical College Hospital are widely believed in mainland China to be among the most technically advanced. Many prominent political and social leaders in China have sought medical treatment at the PUMC Hospital.

Peking Union Medical College has provided generations of leaders for academic and clinical medicine and related areas all over the world. Peking Union Medical College describes itself as an official college of Tsinghua University, and advises students to state "Tsinghua University, Peking Union Medical College" on résumés.

Peking Union Medical College is part of the Project 211 list of universities receiving national funding.^[4]

Research

The medical school is the home to 4 state key labs and 6 WHO collaborating centers including the:

• WHO Collaborating Center for Health and Biomedical Information^[5]
• WHO Collaborating Center for the Family of International Classification (WHO-FIC)^[6]
• WHO Collaborating Center for Nursing Policy-Making and Quality Management^[7]
• WHO Collaborating Center for Traditional Medicine^[8]
• WHO Collaborating Centre for the Community Control of Hereditary Diseases (Thalassemia)^[9]
• WHO Collaborating Centre for the Prevention and Control of Sexually Transmitted Infections^[10]
• The State Key Laboratory of Molecular Oncology^[11]
• The State Key Laboratory of Medical Molecular Biology^[12]
• The State Key Laboratory of Bio-active substances and the function of natural medicines^[13]
• The State Key Laboratory of Experimental Hematology ^[14]

Hospitals

• Peking Union Medical College Hospital
• Fuwai Hospital
• Cancer Hospital
• Plastic Surgery Hospital
• Blood Disease Hospital
• Skin Disease Hospital

Gallery

• Peking Union Medical College
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References

Citations

Sources

• Mary Brown Bullock, An American Transplant: The Rockefeller Foundation and the Peking Union Medical College (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1980).
• McLean, Franklin C, Ph.D, Guide to the Franklin C. McLean Papers 1881-1969 (Special Collections Research Center, University of Chicago Library, 2006)

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Peking Union Medical College.

• Official Website

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