General Practice

The General Practice Department was renamed from Ward 2 of the Geriatrics Department in October 2018. It is a comprehensive internal medicine department integrating medical care, scientific research, teaching, prevention of chronic internal medicine diseases, health care, and management, providing patients with high-quality, efficient, prompt, and personalized services. The department has a total of 34 beds and 6 private rooms, providing patients with a comfortable and quiet environment for medical treatment, and admits patients covered by provincial medical insurance, municipal medical insurance, and railway medical insurance, as well as ordinary insured patients and retired patients. The department currently has 2 chief physicians, 3 deputy chief physicians, 4 attending physicians, and 2 resident physicians. The department’s medical and nursing staff possess comprehensive technical expertise and provide high-quality services. They are primarily responsible for the standardized diagnosis and treatment of common and frequently occurring internal medicine diseases, and have particularly extensive experience in the management of chronic diseases of the respiratory, nervous, digestive, endocrine, and cardiovascular systems, as well as in the diagnosis of undifferentiated diseases and the treatment of common and frequently occurring diseases in older adults. The nursing team has consistently implemented the service tenet of "patient-centered" care, consolidated basic nursing, optimized nursing procedures, and continuously improved the quality of nursing services, providing patients with whole-process, comprehensive, professional, and humane nursing services. During the pandemic, several medical and nursing staff members of the department went to the front line of epidemic prevention and control, successfully completing tasks including supporting Wuhan, collecting pharyngeal swabs for COVID-19 nucleic acid testing, and providing health care for COVID-19 vaccination, adhering to their original aspiration and shouldering their mission, and safeguarding the health of the people through concrete actions. The General Practice Teaching and Research Office is mainly responsible for postgraduate training, standardized training for general practitioners, community faculty training, retraining for primary-level doctors transferring to other posts, and the teaching of undergraduate students at Harbin Medical University. The department currently has 1 master’s supervisor and 9 medical master’s degree holders. The department attaches great importance to teaching, works hard to train young teachers, and has had multiple teachers receive hospital-level awards. It has trained and is currently training more than 50 master’s students and general practitioners in total. It has received the hospital’s title of "Excellent Standardized Residency Training Base." The department’s medical and nursing staff have successively led multiple scientific research projects at the provincial, departmental, and bureau levels, and published numerous papers in SCI-indexed and core journals.

The department adheres to the service philosophy of "warm and high-quality service," is equipped with a well-trained medical and nursing team, and relies on the profound cultural heritage of Harbin Medical University to provide patients with high-quality, prompt, and personalized medical and health care services. It emphasizes disease prevention at all levels and provides personalized health concepts and high-quality comprehensive diagnosis and treatment of internal medicine diseases.