The Faculty of Medicine UKM was established in 1974 and the session begun with recruitment of the first group i.e. 44 students for the 1973/74 admission. The main campus was originally located at Jalan Pantai Baru, Lembah Pantai and later moved to ‘Bangunan Kayu’ at the Kuala Lumpur Hospital Complex (HKL).
On 27 February 1975, HKL was declared as the UKM Medical Faculty Teaching Hospital. The permanent building of the Faculty of Medicine was built next to HKL in 1977. UKM successfully produced the first batch of UKM Medical Doctors in 1979.
On 2nd November 1993, UKM established its own teaching hospital named HUKM. The construction of HUKM began on a 23-hectare site in Jalan Yaakob Latiff, Bandar Tun Razak, Cheras Kuala Lumpur. HUKM was completed and started its operations on 1st July 1997. Equipped with modern and latest equipment, HUKM was officiated on 14th July 1998 by the then the Prime Minister of Malaysia, YAB Tun Dr. Mahathir Mohamad
On 20th February 2008, Faculty of Medicine and HUKM were merged to create an entity known as the UKM Medical Centre (Pusat Perubatan UKM) with the motto ‘Integrating Learning and Research for the Betterment of Society’. The transformation of these entities will allow functions and activities of separate institutions, faculties and hospital be coordinated and carried out more efficiently, improving the productivity and working methods. It will be able to ensure the administration and research activities be done better including the services it is offering. All these will further improve the performance of PPUKM as well as raising its position to be amongst preferred medical institutions which is respected at regional as well as international level.
Hospital Canselor Tuanku Muhriz (HCTM), PPUKM is the new name for Hospital Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia which was named after the DYMM Tuanku Muhriz Ibni Almarhum Tuanku Munawir, Chancellor of UKM on 14 October 2014. This new branding, a recognition and pride of UKM staff towards having been an excellent teaching hospital for the Faculty of Medicine UKM (which was established in 1997) in producing specialists from various fields of medicine and health.