Songbei – Endocrinology Department

The Endocrinology Department of the Songbei Campus of the Fourth Affiliated Hospital of Harbin Medical University was established in 2016 and has been gradually perfected and has grown to the present day under the leadership of the hospital authorities and of the successive heads of the department.

The Songbei Endocrinology Department is located on the fourth floor of the outpatient building of the Songbei Campus and has an excellent medical and nursing team, in which the physicians' group comprises 6 people: 1 chief physician, 4 attending physicians and 1 resident physician. The nursing group comprises 7 people: 2 nurse supervisors and 5 senior nurses. The Songbei Endocrinology Department has 44 beds in total, including 6 general wards, 5 two-bed rooms and 2 deluxe rooms. The department is equipped with insulin pumps, medium-frequency therapeutic apparatus, vibration perception threshold testers, narrow-band light therapeutic apparatus and other equipment, providing more means of diagnosis and treatment for patients with diabetes and accompanying complications. The main diagnostic and treatment items of the Songbei Endocrinology Department are endocrine and metabolic diseases such as acute and chronic complications of diabetes, osteoporosis, thyroid diseases, gonadal diseases, hypothalamic-pituitary diseases and adrenal diseases. The Songbei Endocrinology Department has always been devoted to development in clinical service, teaching and research; as one of the training sites for internal medicine and general practice, it has trained a number of trainees who have successfully graduated. As the department is gradually perfected, various specialized outpatient clinics will also be arranged to provide patients with different needs with clearer directions for seeking medical care. Various lecture activities on common endocrine diseases will also be gradually carried out, so as to popularize knowledge about endocrine-related diseases among the general patient population, help patients identify diseases early and seek medical care early, alleviate the suffering caused by disease and improve the quality of life.