Ophthalmology
The Department of Ophthalmology of the First Affiliated Hospital of Dalian Medical University is a specialized discipline integrating clinical care, scientific research, teaching, and blindness prevention. The discipline became an independent department in 1930, was authorized nationally to confer master’s degrees in 1986, and was authorized nationally to confer doctoral degrees in 2010. It is the National Sub-center for Clinical Medical Research on Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat Diseases; the National First-Batch Resident Physician Training Base; the National Research Base for Ophthalmic Drugs and Medical Devices; the National Optometry and Excimer Training Base; a Humanistic Department of the Chinese Medical Doctor Association; the China–US Center for the Diagnosis, Treatment and Research of Genetic Eye Diseases; the Liaoning Provincial Clinical Key Specialty of Ophthalmology; the Liaoning Provincial Key Laboratory of Vitreoretinal Diseases; the Liaoning Provincial Base for Blindness Prevention and Treatment; the Liaoning Provincial Medical Renowned Unit for Ophthalmology; the institution serving as the incoming chair of the Liaoning Ophthalmological Society; the institution serving as chair of the Northeast China–Inner Mongolia Four-Province/Region Pediatric Eye Disease Specialty Alliance; a first-level key discipline of Dalian; a renowned medical department of Dalian; the Dalian Ophthalmology Engineering Center; and the institution serving as chair of the Dalian Ophthalmological Society. The department’s development direction is “highlighting the distinctive clinical and academic characteristics of ophthalmology and promoting the integrated development of medicine, education, and research”. After nearly 90 years of effort, it has become one of the large medical-university ophthalmology centers in China, enjoying a high reputation nationally and being one of the most renowned in Northeast China, integrating clinical care, teaching, scientific research, and blindness prevention.
It currently has 51 beds and comprises 2 wards, 2 outpatient clinics, 1 ophthalmic optometry center, 1 dedicated outpatient operating room, 3 dedicated ward operating rooms, and 2 ophthalmic examination centers, equipped with internationally advanced medical equipment. It has a highly qualified and experienced technical backbone team composed primarily of holders of doctoral and master’s degrees. There are 58 medical and nursing staff members, including 7 professors, 10 associate professors, 4 associate chief nurses, 10 nurses-in-charge, 1 doctoral supervisor, 8 master’s supervisors, and 12 physicians with overseas study experience. It also has 6 members of specialty groups of the Chinese Medical Association, 7 members of specialty groups of the Chinese Medical Doctor Association, and more than 20 appointments in provincial academic organizations.
It undertakes the training of international students, postgraduate students, students in seven-year programs, undergraduates, trainees in standardized training at all levels and in all categories, and physicians undertaking further training at all levels. In recent years, it has served as principal investigator for 1 project under the National Key Research and Development Program of the Ministry of Science and Technology, 2 subprojects under the 863 and 973 key research projects, 10 projects of the National Natural Science Foundation of China, 17 provincial- and ministerial-level projects, and more than 10 Dalian municipal projects. It has contributed to 3 Ophthalmology textbooks: the 9th-edition national higher-education textbook published by People’s Medical Publishing House and the national 12th- and 13th-Five-Year-Plan Ophthalmology textbooks; it has served as chief editor or contributor to 11 ophthalmology monographs, published more than 200 papers, and had more than 40 papers indexed in SCI in full text and abstracts. It has received more than 20 awards, including the Research Award of the International Society for Eye Research, the First and Second Prizes for Scientific and Technological Progress of Liaoning Province, and the First Prize for Scientific and Technological Progress of Dalian.
Its clinical subspecialty structure is comprehensive, comprising 12 subspecialties: fundus diseases (medical and surgical), corneal and ocular-surface diseases, optometry, cataract, glaucoma, strabismus and amblyopia, orbital diseases and oculoplastic surgery, ocular trauma and neuro-ophthalmology, uveitis and immunologic ophthalmology, genetic eye diseases, and integrated traditional Chinese and Western medicine ophthalmology. Its professional specialties are distinctive; multiple signature technologies have reached internationally advanced levels and leading levels in China or Liaoning Province, and more than 10 new technologies have filled gaps at the national, provincial, and municipal levels.