There are six major features of this institute

1. A graduate institute cultivated and run by the collaboration of college of medicine and college of life science of the university

2. A graduate institute with a cross-disipline integration in life science, basic medicine, clinical medicine and health science.

3. A graduate institute with diverse and sound research environment from community health, teaching hospital, the national health information data base, library information center, experimental animal center to laboratory and core facilities of different scales and functions.

4. A postgraduate program with close integration of basic and clinical medicine.

5. A curriculum with capacity of remote communication and teaching by internet.

6. A program with abundant resources of student exchange and cooperateon with international and domestic institute and pharmacyeutics.