Ultrasound

The Department of Ultrasound of the Second Hospital of Dalian Medical University is a provincial clinical key specialty in Liaoning Province, a first-level key discipline in Dalian, a backbone base for quality control in ultrasound medicine in Liaoning Province, a standardized training base for ultrasound residents, and an authorized master’s degree program in Imaging Medicine and Nuclear Medicine (ultrasound). The department currently has 8 postgraduate supervisors. It possesses more than 30 advanced, high-end ultrasound diagnostic devices of various types.

There are currently 30 registered physicians and 2 nurses. Among the physicians, 10 hold senior professional titles (6 with senior titles and 4 with associate senior titles), 9 are attending physicians, and 11 are resident physicians; all hold doctoral or master’s degrees. In 2021, the department was divided into the Department of Ultrasound and the Department of Cardiovascular Ultrasound. It has a high level of expertise in diagnosing difficult and rare diseases, and its diagnostic capabilities for cardiac and superficial organ diseases have had a significant influence in Dalian and even throughout southern Liaoning. The department has initially established subspecialty directions in cardiac ultrasound, superficial organs, interventional ultrasound, and musculoskeletal ultrasound. It has established the Ultrasound Precision Diagnosis Training Center and the Ultrasound Intervention Center of the Medical Alliance of the Second Affiliated Hospital of Dalian Medical University, and organizes training activities every year.

The department has substantial scientific research capabilities and has developed a series of research directions, including ultrasound molecular imaging, the evaluation of cardiac function using new ultrasound technologies for various heart diseases, fetal cardiac ultrasound, and ultrasound evaluation of diabetic complications. Research projects led or participated in by the department have received 8 provincial awards for scientific and technological progress, including first-, second-, and third-class awards, and 5 municipal awards for scientific and technological progress, including first-, second-, and third-class awards. The department has led 3 projects funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China and numerous provincial and municipal scientific research projects. More than 30 SCI-indexed articles have been published, along with more than 200 articles in Chinese core journals and CSCD journals in the specialty. In education, the department undertakes ultrasound teaching for students at various levels, including specialist, undergraduate, postgraduate, and international students. It also has Chinese- and English-language planning textbooks published by Science Press and edited by the department.