Peking Union Medical College is the only national key medical university directly under the National Health Commission of the people's Republic of China. It implements an integrated management system with the Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences. It is a national academic center and comprehensive scientific research institution of Medical Sciences in China. It is one of the first batch of "double first-class" world-class discipline construction universities in China, and one of the first batch of Pilot Universities of excellent doctor education and training program in China. Peking Union Medical College was founded by Rockefeller Foundation in 1917. In October 1919, it started eight year undergraduate medical program. It was the first medical college with eight year undergraduate clinical medicine and nursing education in China. The Academic Degrees Committee of the State Council independently examined and approved the authorized degree awarding unit of the first level discipline authorized by the doctoral degree and the first level discipline authorized by the master's degree It is a full member of the scientific research organization, and is known as the "palace of Chinese medicine".The Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences was established in 1956. Peking Union Medical College was established in 1917. Since 1957, the Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College have implemented the management system of integration of colleges and universities. As the highest medical research institution and the highest medical education institution in China, since its establishment, the university has always taken leading the development of medical science and technology education and maintaining people's health as its own responsibility, and has made important contributions to the development of medical health in China.According to the official website of the college in February 2019, the college has 18 research institutes (and 5 branches), 7 clinical hospitals, 6 colleges and 1 Graduate School; 654 on-the-job doctoral supervisors and 845 master's supervisors; 4726 students of all kinds, including 3862 graduate students, accounting for 82%, 628 general undergraduate and adult undergraduate students, accounting for 13%, 236 general college students, accounting for 5%; and 6 hospitals directly under the college And one hospital.