Explorations in disciplines development at a research hospital

Aiming at building research disciplines, Xijing hospital has initially achieved a strategic transformation into a hospital with research disciplines, with such measures as scientific layout of disciplines, making of advantageous disciplines with overseas benchmarks, encouragement of potential disciplines with advantageous disciplines, promotion of medical innovation with innovative ideas, and upgrading clinical service quality with technical innovation. Key words: Research hospital; Discipline construction; Strategic transformation; Innovation