General Pediatrics Department

The General Pediatrics Department of the Laoshan Campus of the Affiliated Hospital of Qingdao University was established in January 2007. To date, it has 32 open beds and offers specialties including pediatric respiratory diseases, neonatal diseases, and neurological diseases. The department’s medical staff undertake multiple responsibilities, including pediatric outpatient and emergency services, obstetric consultations, and ward management at the Laoshan Campus. It is the Critical Neonatal Treatment Center of Laoshan District, Qingdao City, and also undertakes the treatment of critically ill neonates throughout the district. In 2017, the Pharmacological Clinical Trial Base of the Pediatric Respiratory Specialty was approved by the National Food and Drug Administration, and 6 drug clinical trials have been conducted. In 2019, the number of outpatient visits exceeded 110,000; in 2019, the department’s number of discharges reached 2,000. Over the past 5 years, physicians in the department have published more than 100 papers, served as chief editors or contributing editors for more than 10 books, and received approval for 4 National Natural Science Foundation of China projects. Among them, the pediatric respiratory specialty and neonatal specialty rank among the top in the province. The department has successfully established subspecialties in pediatric asthma and respiratory diseases in premature infants, and has opened a specialty outpatient clinic for asthma and a follow-up outpatient clinic for premature infants. It is one of the first batch of standardized pediatric asthma outpatient clinic demonstration units in China and a demonstration outpatient unit for standardized subcutaneous immunotherapy in China. The department undertakes multiple national-level and Shandong Province continuing education projects, and its subspecialties enjoy a high academic reputation in China and within the province.