The Third Hospital of Hebei Medical University was founded in 1958 and is now a provincial comprehensive third-level Grade A hospital covering medical treatment, teaching, research, prevention, healthcare and rehabilitation. It has 58 clinical departments, 13 technical departments and 7 other professional departments, with a total bed number of 1,726. There are 2 national key clinical specialities, i.e. Orthopedics and Nephrology, 7 provincial key medical disciplines, 1 candidate provincial key discipline (Ophthalmology), and 1 provincial key TCM speciality (TCM-Western Medicine Integration based Liver Disease Treatment). The hospital has 11 research institutions including the Hebei Orthopedics Research Institute, Hebei Nephropathy Research Center and Hebei Coloproctology Research Center. It has also established the Hebei Clinical Research Base of Texas Back Institute. It offers 4 doctoral programs and 15 master programs. The hospital receives over 500,000 thousand outpatients annually, discharges 50,000 inpatients, and carries out operations on 40,000 cases each year. There are 25 doctoral candidate supervisors, 172 masters tutors and 1 academician of Chinese Academy of engineering, 9 extraordinary experts under the direct management of the province, 23 experts receiving a special allowance from the government and 26 young experts with outstanding contributions.