Referred to as Northwest Hospital, it is a modern large general hospital integrating medical treatment, teaching, scientific research, prevention and health care, and is one of the first class iii and a class A hospitals in China. The hospital was founded by the Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China in 1912 as the National Beijing Medical School and the Affiliated Hospital of National Peking University Medical School. Hospital uropoiesis surgical department, the dermatologist for the Ministry of Education national key disciplines, bone surgery, digestive diseases, clinical nurse, endemic disease (local bone disease, cardiomyopathy, iodine and thyroid disease), anaesthesia, dermatology, respiratory medicine, otolaryngology head and neck surgery, emergency departments and regions for the country's 10 disciplines such as clinical key specialty.