Site of Bethune Model Hospital, Former wartime hospital in Wutai County, Shanxi, China

The Site of Bethune Model Hospital is a preserved medical facility in Wutai County dating to the 1930s wartime period. The buildings display the rooms and equipment used for patient treatment and medical training during that era.

Canadian physician Norman Bethune arrived in Wutai County in May 1938 and converted a Dragon King temple into a surgical ward, which opened on 15 September 1938 as the Bethune Model Hospital. Nie Rongzhen and Song Shaowen attended the inauguration. Japanese forces burned the compound soon after, leaving only a pine tree and the gate tower; it was rebuilt to its original form in 1974.

The compound was converted from a Dragon King temple, and its rooms keep their temple names: the dispensary occupies a former God of Wealth shrine, the disinfection room a plague god shrine. A large pine stands in the courtyard, the only tree the Japanese fire left standing beside the gate tower.

The site lies in Songyankou village, Gengzhen town, Wutai County, and admission is free. The compound is a 41-metre by 28-metre courtyard entered from the south, where a stone plaque marks its national protection status. The exhibition hall east of the old ward displays Bethune's letters, diaries and surgical instruments.

The facility was not just a place to treat patients but also a school where local doctors learned new surgical techniques from an experienced international surgeon. This hands-on training made it a center for medical advancement and knowledge transfer.