General Surgery Ward 2

The Second General Surgery Ward has a total of 10 physicians, including 3 chief physicians, 2 associate chief physicians, and 5 attending physicians; 3 have graduated with doctoral degrees, 1 is currently pursuing a doctoral degree, and 5 have graduated with master's degrees.

The ward mainly provides diagnosis and treatment for gastrointestinal diseases, hepatobiliary and pancreatic diseases, abdominal wall hernias, thyroid diseases, breast diseases, anorectal diseases, and peripheral vascular lesions. In addition to conventional general surgery, the ward performs level III and IV procedures, including laparoscopic biliary exploration and stone extraction, laparoscopic appendectomy, laparoscopic hernia repair, laparoscopic radical resection of gastric, colon, and rectal cancers, hemihepatectomy, pancreaticoduodenectomy, endovascular exclusion of abdominal aortic aneurysms with covered stent placement, lower-extremity arterial angiography with stent placement and balloon dilation, lower-extremity arterial exploration, thrombectomy, and angioplasty, inferior vena cava angiography with retrievable filter placement, inferior vena cava angiography with retrievable filter removal, lower-extremity venography with thrombus aspiration, great saphenous vein closure and vascular exploration, abdominal aortic aneurysm resection and prosthetic vascular graft replacement, and peripheral vascular interventional treatment; endoscopic procedures account for more than 60%.

The department currently has 1 National Natural Science Foundation of China Young Scientists Fund general project and 4 provincial Natural Science Foundation general projects, and has published a total of 25 SCI articles and dozens of papers in core journals.

The director of our ward serves as the director of the specialist training base at the Fourth Affiliated Hospital of Harbin Medical University. Department members serve as the teaching secretary of the Department of General Surgery and the secretary of the specialist training base at the Fourth Affiliated Hospital of Harbin Medical University. The ward undertakes all teaching activities, including the enrollment, proposal opening, thesis defense, theoretical instruction, interim internships, clinical internships, graduation assessments, and theoretical examination question setting for undergraduate students, graduate students, resident trainees, and specialist trainees. Department members have received awards for outstanding residency training secretaries.