Dermatology

The Department of Dermatology was established in 1898 and is, among other distinctions, a key clinical discipline of Shandong Province; a training site for doctoral and master’s students in dermatology and venereology; a standardized training base for resident physicians in Shandong Province; a national sentinel surveillance unit for sexually transmitted diseases and AIDS and a VCT testing-point institution in Shandong Province; an institution that founded and implements the “three-in-one” (medical institutions–disease-control departments–social organizations) model for preventing and controlling sexually transmitted diseases and AIDS; the China Center for the International Window Exchange Project of the European Society of Dermatology and Venereology; an eczema and dermatitis research base; and a distinctive specialty of Qingdao, among others. The department integrates medical care, teaching, and research; spans Jiaozhou Bay; and is jointly composed of the four hospital campuses of Shinan, Huangdao, Laoshan, and Pingdu, together with the Dermatology Teaching and Research Section. It currently has 24 physicians in active service or re-employed after retirement; including 7 chief physicians and 6 deputy chief physicians; 10 of whom hold doctoral degrees. In recent years, the department as a whole has undertaken more than 10 research projects; it currently has 2 ongoing projects funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China and 1 ongoing project funded by the Shandong Provincial Natural Science Foundation, with more than 900,000 yuan in ongoing research funding; it has published more than 500 academic papers, including more than 30 SCI papers and approximately 90 papers in Chinese national-level journals; participated in the compilation of more than 40 books; and in recent years has taken part in international and domestic academic conferences more than 100 person-times. It has received a total of 15 awards at the national, provincial, ministerial, and departmental levels, 5 Qingdao Municipal Science and Technology Bureau Achievement Awards, and 7 Qingdao University Science and Technology Achievement Awards. Several members of the department hold important concurrent academic positions in national- and provincial/municipal-level professional academic organizations. It has hosted national and provincial continuing medical education programs on numerous occasions, making a major contribution to the academic development of dermatology in the region. The department sees up to 260,000 outpatient visits annually, has 20 open ward beds, and treats more than 700 inpatients each year. It has multiple subspecialty areas, including allergic dermatoses, infectious dermatoses, erythematous-squamous dermatoses, dermatopathology, photoaging dermatoses, disfiguring dermatoses, dermatologic laser aesthetics, dermatologic surgery, and sexually transmitted diseases. It has several internationally leading dermatologic laser and cosmetic treatment devices: for treating seborrheic keratoses, freckles, café-au-lait macules, nevus of Ota, tattoos, spider angiomas, port-wine stains, rosacea, post-acne erythema, telangiectasia, hemangiomas, pigmented nevi, filiform warts, skin tags, hypertrophic scars, depressed scars, fine wrinkles, enlarged pores, skin aging and photoaging, brightening skin tone, improving skin smoothness, tightening and lifting the skin, hair removal from all parts of the body, and more. The department upholds the responsibility of a regional medical center and has extensive experience in the treatment and rescue of difficult and critically ill cases.