Samsung Medical Center

 

Contributing to improving the nation’s health through the best medical service, advanced medical research, and development of outstanding medical personnel

 

The Samsung Medical Center consists of a hospital and a cancer center. The hospital is located in an intelligent building with floor space of more than 200,000 square meters and 20 floors aboveground and 5 floors underground, housing 40 departments, 10 specialist centers, 120 special clinics, and 1,306 beds. On the other hand, the 655-bed Cancer Center has 11 floors aboveground and 8 floors underground, with floor space of over 100,000 square meters. SMC is a tertiary hospital manned by approximately 7,400 staff including over 1,200 doctors and 2,300 nurses.

 

Since its foundation, the Samsung Medical Center has successfully incorporated and developed an advanced model with the motto of becoming a "patient-centered hospital," a new concept in Korea. Equipped with advanced medical service infrastructure including outstanding medical staff, order communication system (OCS), picture archiving communication system (PACS), clinical pathology automation system, and logistics automation system, SMC is defining a new hospital culture in Korea by being the best hospital in terms of hi-tech medical services and through the provision of genuine patient-centered medical services (shortest waiting time, hospital that does not require guardians).

 

Since March 1997 when it was established to train the students of Sungkyunkwan University's school of medicine, the Samsung Medical Center has admitted 40 of the nation’s top students each year to prepare for a bright future at the center. As such, the Samsung Medical Center as a medical institute leading the medical community has become Korea's best hospital in terms of care, research, and education. The Samsung Medical Center considers the next 10 years to be crucial in its bid to become a world-class medical institute and makes all-out efforts and investment in ensuring that it is prepared for the future.