Peking Union Medical College

Peking Union Medical College (PUMC) is a public medical college in Dongcheng, Beijing, China, and is concurrently known as the Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences (CAMS), with which it operates as a single institution under two names and from which Peking University Health Science Center is entirely separate.北京协和医学院是中国北京东城区的一所公立医学院，同时使用中国医学科学院名称，两者实行一个机构两块牌子的院校合一体制，与北京大学医学部并非同一机构。

Founded in 1917 by the Rockefeller Foundation and modelled on the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, it was the first medical school in China to offer an eight-year clinical medicine programme.学校由洛克菲勒基金会于 1917 年创办，以约翰斯·霍普金斯大学医学院为蓝本，是中国第一所开设八年制临床医学专业的医学院。

PUMC was placed in the 151-200 band of the Academic Ranking of World Universities 2026 and 378th in the U.S. News global ranking for 2026-2027.学校在 2026 年软科世界大学学术排名中位列第 151 至 200 名区间，在 2026 至 2027 年度 U.S. News 全球大学排名中位列第 378 位。

History

• The predecessor Union Medical College was founded in 1906 by the London Missionary Society together with five other missionary societies, and the English word Union, meaning united, was rendered as the Chinese name Xiehe.前身协和医学堂于 1906 年由伦敦会联合另外五个差会创办，英文名 Union 意为联合，被雅致地译作中文“协和”。
• The Rockefeller Foundation, established in 1913, created a commission in 1913-1914 that included Franklin C. McLean to examine medical education in China, and Wu Lien-teh strongly supported a new medical college in Peking and made recommendations that were all adopted.成立于 1913 年的洛克菲勒基金会在 1913 至 1914 年设立了一个包括富兰克林·麦克莱恩在内的委员会考察中国医学教育，伍连德大力支持在北京建立新医学院，其建议全部被采纳。
• The Rockefeller Foundation purchased the Union Medical College in 1915 and in 1916 surveyed the Yu Prince Mansion as the site for a palace-style campus and hospital complex.洛克菲勒基金会于 1915 年收购协和医学堂，1916 年考察豫亲王府，决定在那里建造中西合璧、具有宫殿式外观的校园与医院建筑群。
• Peking Union Medical College was formally established in September 1917 with a pre-medical programme, the Peking Union Medical College Hospital as its teaching hospital and its first president appointed by the foundation.北京协和医学院于 1917 年 9 月正式建立，开办医预科，以北京协和医院为附属医院，首任校长由基金会任命。
• A medical undergraduate programme with an eight-year curriculum opened in October 1919, establishing the long-cycle model for which the college became known.1919 年 10 月开设八年制医学本科，奠定了这所医学院后来闻名的长学制模式。
• A nursing school was opened in 1920 under a dean recruited from the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.1920 年开办护士学校，护校校长来自约翰斯·霍普金斯大学医学院。
• In June 1928 the Nationalist Ministry of Education required that university presidents be Chinese and that Chinese directors form a majority of governing boards.1928 年 6 月，国民政府教育部规定高校校长必须由中国人担任，董事会必须以华人董事为多数。
• In April 1929 the American directors resigned, a new board including Hu Shi, Zhang Boling, Wu Chaozhu, Shi Zhaoji, Zhou Yichun, Weng Wenhao and Liu Ruiheng was elected, and Liu Ruiheng became the first Chinese director of the college.1929 年 4 月美国董事辞职，胡适、张伯苓、伍朝枢、施肇基、周诒春、翁文灏、刘瑞恒等组成新一届董事会，刘瑞恒出任首任中国籍院长。
• The Nationalist government renamed the institution Private Beiping Union Medical College in 1929, and teaching stopped in January 1942 because of the Pacific War.国民政府于 1929 年将学校改名为私立北平协和医学院，1942 年 1 月因太平洋战争爆发而停办。
• The college reopened for the first time in October 1947, was renamed Peking Union Medical College in September 1949 and became the China Union Medical College in 1951, the year the People's Republic nationalised it.学校于 1947 年 10 月第一次复校，1949 年 9 月复称北京协和医学院，1951 年改名为中国协和医学院，同年被中华人民共和国收归国有。
• Enrolment stopped in 1953, the college was merged into the Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences in 1957, and an eight-year China Medical University was established on the original basis in 1959.1953 年学校停止招生，1957 年并入中国医学科学院，1959 年在原协和医学院基础上成立了八年制的中国医科大学。
• The institution closed in 1970 during the Cultural Revolution, reopened in August 1979 as China Capital Medical University and was renamed China Union Medical University in 1985.学校在 1970 年文化大革命期间停办，1979 年 8 月复校并改称中国首都医科大学，1985 年更名为中国协和医科大学。
• In September 2002 the ministries of education and health signed an agreement on close cooperation between Tsinghua University and the China Union Medical University, bringing the college into the 211 and 985 projects.2002 年 9 月教育部与卫生部签署清华大学和中国协和医科大学紧密合作的协议，学校由此进入 211 和 985 工程。
• In September 2006 the college was renamed Peking Union Medical College as the Tsinghua University School of Medicine, with a second name Peking Union Medical College, Tsinghua University, and the change was formalised in May 2007.2006 年 9 月学校更名为北京协和医学院（清华大学医学部），可同时使用北京协和医学院—清华大学医学部作为第二名称，2007 年 5 月完成正式更名。
• In June 2016 president Cao Xuetao and University of Science and Technology of China president Wan Lijun signed a strategic cooperation framework and a biomedical interdisciplinary PhD programme agreement in Hefei.2016 年 6 月，院校长曹雪涛院士与中国科学技术大学校长万立骏院士在合肥签署战略合作框架协议和生物医学交叉学科博士项目合作协议。
• In 2018 the college began a pilot long-cycle clinical medicine class that admits students from Peking University, Tsinghua University and the University of Science and Technology of China after three years of non-medical undergraduate study.2018 年，学校启动长学制临床医学专业培养模式改革试点班，从北京大学、清华大学和中国科学技术大学的非医学本科生中招收已完成三年学业的学生。
• Pilot students enter PUMC in their fourth undergraduate year and complete five years of medical study, the model later described as the 4+4 programme.试点班学生于本科第四年进入协和，完成五年医学专业学习，这一模式后来被称为 4+4 项目。
• In 2023 PUMC joined the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, USTC, Beihang University, Beijing Institute of Technology and Beijing Normal University to create the Xiehe medical class, covering eight interdisciplinary directions on a 4+4 model.2023 年，协和与中国科学院大学、中国科学技术大学、北京航空航天大学、北京理工大学和北京师范大学合作创办协和医班，按 4+4 学制在八个交叉方向培养人才。
• Construction of the PUMC Tianjin campus began in September 2023, and in 2024 the college launched a pharmacy class with Beijing Normal University on a 2+2 model.协和天津校区于 2023 年 9 月开工建设，2024 年学校又与北京师范大学合作开设药班，按 2+2 模式联合培养。
• In August 2024 a new north campus dormitory for PUMC students opened within the Institute of Medicinal Plant Development compound in Malianwa, Haidian District.2024 年 8 月，位于海淀区马连洼药用植物研究所院内的协和医学院北区宿舍建成投入使用。
• In 2025 the 4+4 pilot programme drew public scrutiny after a case involving falsified admission documents and thesis plagiarism, and the National Health Commission ordered a review and rectification of admissions, clinical training and thesis procedures.2025 年，4+4 试点班在一起涉及入学成绩造假与论文抄袭的事件后受到公众审视，国家卫生健康委员会要求对录取、临床实习与学位论文程序进行全面评估和整改。

Academics

• PUMC and CAMS operate as one institution with two names, with CAMS supplying faculty and technical strength and PUMC training high-level talent for the academy.协和医学院与中国医学科学院实行院校合一体制，医科院为学院提供师资与技术力量，学院则为医科院培养高层次人才。
• The combined institution has 19 directly affiliated institutes and two sub-institutes, five branch institutes, seven clinical hospitals including the co-built Beijing Tiantan Hospital, and five colleges.院校合计设有 19 个直属研究所和 2 个分所、5 所分院、7 所临床医院（含与北京市共建的天坛医院）以及 5 所学院。
• It hosts two national centres, five state key laboratories, 35 ministerial key laboratories, six postdoctoral stations and 13 key disciplines.院校拥有 2 个国家中心、5 个国家重点实验室、35 个部级重点实验室、6 个博士后流动站和 13 个重点学科。
• The School of Basic Medicine, founded in 1978, has 13 departments, the State Key Laboratory of Medical Molecular Biology, a national experimental teaching demonstration centre, four provincial and ministerial laboratories and 14 institutional centres.基础学院成立于 1978 年，设有 13 个学系、医学分子生物学国家重点实验室、国家级基础医学实验教学示范中心、4 个省部级实验室和 14 个院校中心。
• The School of Basic Medicine employs 64 doctoral supervisors and 37 master's supervisors and includes two academicians of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and five of the Chinese Academy of Engineering.基础学院拥有 64 名博士生导师和 37 名硕士生导师，其中包括 2 名中国科学院院士和 5 名中国工程院院士。
• The Clinical School is the Peking Union Medical College Hospital, which follows a small but excellent model, supervises more than 600 graduate students and has produced over 2,000 graduates.临床学院即北京协和医院，采取小而精的培养模式，现有研究生 600 余人，自成立以来已培养 2,000 多名毕业生。
• The School of Nursing traces its origins to the 1920 nursing school, China's earliest bachelor-level nursing education, and became a college in 1996 after periods as a secondary school and a department.护理学院前身是 1920 年创办的护士学校，是中国最早开展护理本科教育的机构，历经中专与护理系阶段后于 1996 年组建为学院。
• As of September 2021 the School of Nursing had 49 staff, including 30 full-time teachers, 17 with senior titles and 16 with doctorates, plus two doctoral supervisors and 13 master's supervisors.截至 2021 年 9 月，护理学院有教职工 49 人，其中专任教师 30 人，17 人具有高级职称、16 人具有博士学位，另有博士生导师 2 人和硕士生导师 13 人。
• The nursing school enrols about 180 undergraduates a year, 10 to 15 master's students, one or two doctoral students and one or two direct-entry doctoral students, with more than 600 students in total.护理学院每年招收约 180 名本科生、10 至 15 名硕士生、1 至 2 名博士生和 1 至 2 名直博生，在校生合计 600 余人。
• Seven nursing graduates have received the Florence Nightingale Medal and eight have been elected foreign fellows of the American Academy of Nursing.护理学院毕业生中有 7 人获得南丁格尔奖章，8 人当选美国护理科学院外籍院士。
• Public health education at PUMC began in 1921, and the School of Population Medicine and Public Health was jointly founded in 1989 and renamed under its present title on 16 July 2020 with Wang Chen as first dean.协和的公共卫生教育始于 1921 年，群医学及公共卫生学院源于 1989 年联合创建的公共卫生学院，2020 年 7 月 16 日更名，由王辰院士担任首任院长。
• The School of Humanities and Social Sciences was established in July 2014 with Zhai Xiaomei as first dean and has departments of medical history and doctor-patient communication, medical ethics and health law, foreign languages, and arts and sports.人文和社会科学学院于 2014 年 7 月成立，翟小梅任首任院长，下设医学史与医患沟通学系、医学伦理与卫生法学系、外国语言文学系和艺体教学部。
• The School of Marxism was established in December 2021, and the School of Health Management and Policy was founded in July 2020 with four departments covering health systems, hospital leadership, social medicine and health economics.马克思主义学院于 2021 年 12 月成立，卫生健康管理政策学院于 2020 年 7 月成立，下设卫生健康体系、医院领导力与管理、社会医学与卫生事业管理、健康经济与医疗保障四个学系。
• The Brain and Brain-like College is run with the Beijing Municipal Science and Technology Commission, the Zhongguancun Science Park administration and the Beijing Institute for Brain Science.脑和类脑学院由学校与北京市科学技术委员会、中关村科技园区管理委员会及北京脑科学与类脑研究所合作建设。
• The School of Continuing Education, established in 2003 from a 1986 continuing education office and a 1998 adult education college, offers adult higher education, self-study examinations and continuing medical education from its Dongdan base.继续教育学院成立于 2003 年，前身为 1986 年的继续教育处和 1998 年的成人教育学院，在东单办学，提供成人高等学历教育、自学考试和继续医学教育。
• The eight-year clinical medicine programme is taught jointly with Tsinghua University, with the first 2.5 years of pre-medical study in Tsinghua's biology department and the remaining 5.5 years at PUMC.八年制临床医学专业与清华大学联合培养，前 2.5 年在清华大学生物系完成医学预科，后 5.5 年在北京协和医学院学习。
• Eight-year students hold dual registration at Tsinghua and PUMC, and their graduation certificates carry the seals of both institutions while the degree certificate carries the PUMC seal.八年制学生在整个学习期间拥有清华大学与北京协和医学院双重学籍，毕业证书加盖两校公章，学位证书加盖北京协和医学院公章。
• In the 2017 fourth round of discipline evaluation by the Ministry of Education, PUMC received an A+ for basic medicine and an A for clinical medicine, and it is a Double First-Class university.在 2017 年教育部第四轮学科评估中，协和的基础医学获评 A+、临床医学获评 A，学校同时是国家双一流建设高校。

Campus

• The campus occupies the former Yu Prince Mansion site in Dongcheng, where the Rockefeller Foundation built a palace-style ensemble of college and hospital buildings after its 1916 survey.校园位于东城区的豫亲王府旧址，洛克菲勒基金会在 1916 年考察后在此建造了宫殿式风格的学院与医院建筑群。
• The campus and the Peking Union Medical College Hospital form an integrated medical complex in the Wangfujing and Dongdan area of central Beijing.校园与北京协和医院在北京中心城区的王府井与东单一带构成一体化的医学建筑群。
• The green-tiled palace-style buildings, with their Chinese roofs and Western planning, are among the best-known examples of the Rockefeller Foundation's architectural investment in China.绿瓦宫殿式建筑兼具中式屋顶与西式布局，是洛克菲勒基金会在华建筑投入中最著名的实例之一。
• PUMC's affiliated hospitals include the Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Fuwai Hospital, the Cancer Hospital, the Plastic Surgery Hospital, the Institute of Dermatology in Nanjing and the Institute of Hematology in Tianjin.学校附属医院包括北京协和医院、阜外医院、肿瘤医院、整形外科医院、位于南京的皮肤病医院和位于天津的血液病医院。
• Teaching hospitals include Beijing Hospital, the China-Japan Friendship Hospital, Nanjing Gulou Hospital and the Capital Medical University affiliated Capital Children's Medical Center.教学医院包括北京医院、中日友好医院、南京鼓楼医院和首都医科大学附属首都儿童医学中心。
• Construction of the PUMC Tianjin campus began in September 2023, extending the institution's footprint beyond Beijing.协和天津校区于 2023 年 9 月开工建设，使学校的办学空间延伸到北京之外。
• The new north campus dormitory opened in August 2024 within the Institute of Medicinal Plant Development compound in Malianwa, Haidian District.新的北区宿舍于 2024 年 8 月在海淀区马连洼药用植物研究所院内建成启用。
• The School of Continuing Education is based in the Dongdan and Wangfujing area, close to the historic campus and the affiliated hospital.继续教育学院位于东单王府井地区，靠近历史校园与附属医院。

Reputation

• In the 2026 Academic Ranking of World Universities, PUMC is placed in the 151-200 band, the joint interval covering the 151st to 200th positions.在 2026 年软科世界大学学术排名中，协和位列第 151 至 200 名区间，即覆盖第 151 位至第 200 位的并列区间。
• PUMC did not enter the Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2027.学校未进入 2027 年泰晤士高等教育世界大学排名。
• It ranked 378th in the U.S. News Best Global Universities rankings for 2026-2027.学校在 2026 至 2027 年度 U.S. News 全球最佳大学排名中位列第 378 位。
• The college did not enter the QS World University Rankings 2027.学校未进入 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名。
• In the 2017 Ministry of Education discipline evaluation, its A+ in basic medicine and A in clinical medicine placed it among China's leading medical schools.在 2017 年教育部学科评估中，基础医学 A+ 与临床医学 A 的成绩使协和位居中国领先医学院之列。
• In the 2024 ARWU subject rankings, PUMC stood 34th in the world for biomedical engineering, 2nd for pharmacy and pharmaceutical sciences, and in the top 100 for biological sciences and public health.在 2024 年软科世界一流学科排名中，协和的生物医学工程位列世界第 34，药剂学与制药科学位列世界第 2，生物科学与公共卫生进入世界前 100。
• Its pharmacology and toxicology ranked 9th globally in the 2025 U.S. News subject rankings.在 2025 年 U.S. News 学科排名中，协和的药理学与毒理学位列世界第 9。
• PUMC is a national key university listed in the Double First-Class initiative and was included in the 211 and 985 projects through its cooperation with Tsinghua University.协和是全国重点大学、国家双一流建设高校，并通过与清华大学的合作被纳入 211 和 985 工程。
• It is home to five state key laboratories and 35 ministerial key laboratories, a concentration of biomedical research capacity unusual for an institution of its size.学校拥有 5 个国家重点实验室和 35 个部级重点实验室，对于这样规模的院校而言，生物医学研究力量高度集中。
• The 2025 review of the 4+4 pilot programme led the National Health Commission to order improvements in admissions, clinical internship management and thesis defence procedures.2025 年对 4+4 试点班的调查促使国家卫生健康委员会要求学校改进录取资格认定、临床实习管理和学位论文答辩程序。

Student life

• Eight-year clinical medicine students spend their first 2.5 years at Tsinghua University studying biology before moving to the PUMC campus for 5.5 years of medical training.八年制临床医学专业学生前 2.5 年在清华大学生物系学习，随后转到协和校园接受 5.5 年医学训练。
• These students hold dual student status and receive graduation certificates bearing the seals of both Tsinghua and PUMC.这些学生拥有双重学籍，毕业证书同时加盖清华大学与北京协和医学院公章。
• The 4+4 pilot admits graduates of non-medical undergraduate programmes at Peking University, Tsinghua and USTC after three years of study, and they complete five years of medical education.4+4 试点班从北京大学、清华大学和中国科学技术大学完成三年学业的非医学本科生中招生，入学后完成五年医学教育。
• The Xiehe medical class launched in 2023 with five partner universities trains students in eight directions, including medicine, population medicine and public health, pharmacy and biomedical engineering, on a 4+4 model.2023 年与五所高校合办的协和医班按 4+4 学制，在医学、群医学与公共卫生、药学、生物医学工程等八个方向培养复合型人才。
• The pharmacy class with Beijing Normal University, launched in 2024, splits undergraduate study into two years at each institution and offers direct-entry doctoral pathways in chemistry or pharmacy.2024 年与北京师范大学合办的药班采用 2+2 本科培养模式，并为符合条件的学生提供化学或药学方向的直博通道。
• Clinical students train at the Peking Union Medical College Hospital, which supervises more than 600 graduate students under its small but excellent teaching model.临床学生在北京协和医院接受训练，该院以小而精的模式指导 600 余名研究生。
• Nursing students can choose a four-year bachelor's, a six-year bachelor-master's, a three-year master's, a three-year doctorate or a five-year direct doctorate, with about 180 new undergraduates a year.护理学生可选择四年制本科、六年制本硕、三年制硕士、三年制博士或五年制直博，每年本科新生约 180 人。
• The college's residential provision expanded in August 2024 when the new north campus dormitory opened in Malianwa, Haidian District.2024 年 8 月海淀区马连洼的北区宿舍启用，学校的住宿条件由此改善。

Notable people

• Wu Lien-teh, the plague-fighting epidemiologist, supported the creation of a new medical college in Peking and saw his recommendations adopted by the Rockefeller Foundation commission.抗击鼠疫的流行病学家伍连德支持在北京建立新的医学院，其建议被洛克菲勒基金会委员会全部采纳。
• Franklin C. McLean served on the Rockefeller Foundation commission that examined medical education in China before the college was founded.富兰克林·麦克莱恩参加了洛克菲勒基金会在建校前考察中国医学教育的委员会。
• Liu Ruiheng became the first Chinese director of the college in 1929 after the board was reorganised under Chinese majority control.1929 年董事会按华人多数原则改组后，刘瑞恒成为协和首任中国籍院长。
• Tang Feifan, a microbiologist, discovered the chlamydia organism that causes trachoma and is counted among the college's alumni.微生物学家汤飞凡是沙眼衣原体的发现者，被列为协和校友。
• Jin Xianzhai, a surgical oncologist known as the father of Chinese oncology, trained at PUMC.被誉为中国肿瘤学之父的肿瘤外科医学家金显宅曾在协和学习。
• Ma Wenzhao, a histologist and academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, was associated with the college.组织学家、中国科学院院士马文昭与协和有着密切的学术联系。
• Lin Qiaozhi, a pioneering obstetrician and gynaecologist, and Huang Jiasi, a thoracic surgeon, are among its best-known medical graduates.妇产科学先驱林巧稚与胸外科专家黄家驷是协和最著名的医学毕业生之一。
• Wu Jieping, a urologist and dual academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Chinese Academy of Engineering, graduated from the college.泌尿外科医学家、中国科学院与中国工程院双料院士吴阶平毕业于协和。
• Zhang Xiaoqian, a leading internist, and the contemporary writer Feng Tang are also listed among its alumni.内科学专家张孝骞与当代作家冯唐也被列为协和校友。
• Wang Chen, a respiratory physician and academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, became president of PUMC and CAMS in 2018.呼吸病学专家、中国工程院院士王辰于 2018 年出任北京协和医学院院校长和中国医学科学院院长。
• Cao Xuetao, an immunologist and academician, served as president of CAMS and led the college's cooperation agreements with other universities.免疫学家、院士曹雪涛曾担任中国医学科学院院长，并推动协和与多所高校签署合作协议。