1906, the London Institution of the United Kingdom cooperated with five other churches in Britain and the United States to open the Union Medical College, which was the predecessor of the Union Medical College. It's called union, which means union. It is elegantly translated into Chinese, called Xiehe.

19 15, Rockefeller Foundation acquired Union Medical College. Subsequently, the Rockefeller Foundation invested in building a new school.

19 16, Coolidge, who was in charge of designing the Concord building, visited the Yu Palace in China and decided to design and build a palace-style campus and hospital complex combining Chinese and western styles.

1965438+In September 2007, the Rockefeller Foundation of the United States helped to establish Peking Union Medical College and offer pre-medical courses. The affiliated hospital is Peking Union Medical College Hospital. The first headmaster was Franklin C. McLean.

194 1 After the outbreak of the Pacific War, the United States and Japan were at war, and their medical schools, hospitals and nursing schools were closed one after another. At the beginning of 1942, Concord Medical College was occupied by the Japanese army and was forced to close. 1945 After Japan surrendered, the Chinese Medical Foundation and the board of directors of the Union Medical College sent representatives to recover all the school property from the Japanese army, rebuild the Union Medical College, and resumed running schools for the first time in 1947+00.

1949 changed its name to Peking union medical college in September. After the founding of New China, the school was taken over by the Central People's Government.

In September 2002, the Ministry of Education and the Ministry of Health signed an agreement to establish Peking Union Medical College of Tsinghua University.

On September 5th, 2006, the Ministry of Education and the Ministry of Health jointly held the inaugural meeting and unveiling ceremony of "Peking Union Medical College-Tsinghua University Medical Department". Peking Union Medical College is under the dual leadership of China Ministry of Education and Ministry of Health, and implements a unified management system with China Academy of Medical Sciences.

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Peking Union Medical College is the only key medical university directly under the National Health and Wellness Commission of People's Republic of China (PRC). Integrating with China Academy of Medical Sciences, it is a national medical academic center and comprehensive scientific research institution in China.

The pilot universities of "Excellent Doctoral Education and Training Program" are the first batch of world-class discipline construction universities in China. 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.

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Baidu encyclopedia-Peking union medical college hospital