Laboratory Medicine

The Department of Laboratory Medicine of Peking University People's Hospital is a comprehensive medical laboratory integrating clinical laboratory testing, teaching, and research. It undertakes the hospital's routine testing services and provides accurate, scientific laboratory evidence for the diagnosis, treatment, prevention, and prediction of clinical diseases. The department's mission is: patient-centered, quality-based, service-oriented, and science-guided. The Department of Laboratory Medicine currently offers more than 300 testing items and processes more than 2 million specimens annually; in 2008, it became one of the earlier laboratories in China to pass ISO15189 medical laboratory accreditation; in 2010, it was approved as a National Clinical Key Specialty Development Project; and in 2015, it passed the assessment of the College of American Pathologists (CAP) and obtained CAP laboratory accreditation.

The Department of Laboratory Medicine undertakes teaching in Experimental Diagnostics for the eight-year Clinical Medicine program and in Medical Laboratory Science, and is a training site for master's and doctoral students in Clinical Laboratory Diagnostics at Peking University, a training base for laboratory physicians/technologists in Beijing, and a national training base for antimicrobial resistance surveillance. Over the years, it has continuously undertaken national- and Beijing-level continuing education programs, training more than two thousand participants.

Over the years, more than ten person-times of its staff have led and participated in the formulation of industry standards and in the preparation of standardized residency training textbooks organized by the National Health and Family Planning Commission. Multiple staff members have served as chief editors, deputy chief editors, and editorial board members and contributed to the compilation of textbooks including 'Clinical Microbiology Laboratory Testing', 'Clinical Microbiology Laboratory Testing Techniques', 'Experimental Diagnostics', 'Clinical Laboratory Medicine', 'Clinical Molecular Biology Laboratory Testing', and 'Clinical Molecular Biology Laboratory Testing Techniques'.

Multiple members of the department serve as standing committee members of the Microbiology and Immunology Branch of the Chinese Society of Laboratory Medicine, executive council members of the Global Chinese Society for Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, secretary-general of the Laboratory Physicians Branch of the Chinese Medical Doctor Association, and deputy director of the Second Committee of Laboratory Medicine of the Beijing Association of Integrated Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine, among other positions.

The Department of Laboratory Medicine currently has more than 30 national-, provincial-, and ministerial-level projects under research. Over the past three years, it has published more than 60 papers in statistical-source journals and more than 20 SCI papers.