Laboratory Medicine

The Department of Medical Laboratory Medicine of the Second Affiliated Hospital of Harbin Medical University, founded in 1954, is a comprehensive clinical laboratory integrating medical care, teaching, and research. It undertakes clinical testing for all outpatients, inpatients, and individuals undergoing health examinations at the hospital, as well as teaching, research, and other work, and plays an important supporting role in various emergencies and missions.

After more than 70 years of development, the Department of Medical Laboratory Medicine of the Second Affiliated Hospital of Harbin Medical University currently has 82 formal employees, including 29 laboratory physicians and 53 laboratory technologists; 8 hold doctoral degrees, 27 hold master's degrees, 44 hold bachelor's degrees, 2 hold associate degrees, and 1 holds a secondary technical school diploma. There are 2 third-level professors, 3 doctoral supervisors, and 5 master's supervisors.

The department is organized into 5 specialty groups: the Clinical Laboratory Group, Biochemistry Group, Immunology Group, Microbiology Group, and Emergency Laboratory Group. It conducts 340 testing items. The Clinical Laboratory Group conducts complete blood cell analysis, urinalysis, quantitative urine sediment analysis, urine red blood cell morphology analysis, coagulation testing, hemorheology, routine stool examination, fecal occult blood testing, routine cerebrospinal fluid examination, routine serous cavity effusion examination, and other tests. The Biochemistry Group conducts liver function, renal function, ions, blood glucose, blood lipids, cardiac enzymes, amylase, trace elements, and other tests. The Immunology Group conducts autoantibodies, infectious serological markers, immunoglobulins, complement, blood drug concentrations, allergens, vitamin D, immunofixation electrophoresis, lymphocyte subsets, HLA-B27, hypertension indicators, and other tests. The Microbiology Group conducts bacterial and fungal smears, culture and identification, antimicrobial susceptibility testing, fungal β-D-glucan, procalcitonin, tuberculosis antibodies, mycoplasma antibodies, vaginal secretions, and other tests. The Emergency Laboratory Group conducts cardiac injury markers, blood gas analysis, complete blood cell analysis, urinalysis, quantitative urine sediment analysis, routine stool examination, fecal occult blood testing, routine cerebrospinal fluid examination, routine serous cavity effusion examination, coagulation testing, emergency biochemistry, infectious serological markers, and other tests. The department is equipped with advanced instruments, including a hematology analysis line, urinalysis line, fully automated coagulation analysis line, fully automated biochemical analyzers, a flow cytometer, a fully automated chemiluminescent immunoassay analyzer, a fully automated specific protein analyzer, a fully automated electrophoresis analyzer, a fully automated blood group analyzer, a fully automated microbial identification and antimicrobial susceptibility analyzer, a bacterial culture instrument, a fully automated medical PCR analyzer, a fully automated rapid biological mass spectrometry analyzer, a fully automated blood gas analyzer, a fully automated biochemical and immunoassay line, a fully automated chemiluminescence analyzer, and a fully automated stool analysis system. These instruments provide rapid and accurate test results for clinical care and laboratory evidence for precise diagnosis and treatment.

The Department of Medical Laboratory Medicine of the Second Affiliated Hospital of Harbin Medical University, namely the Teaching and Research Section of Laboratory Diagnostics, is an authorized master's and doctoral degree conferring site in Clinical Laboratory Diagnostics at Harbin Medical University. Since receiving approval as an authorized master's degree site in Clinical Laboratory Diagnostics in 1998, it has trained 176 master's students. In 2000, it was approved as a doctoral degree conferring site in Clinical Laboratory Diagnostics and has trained a total of 22 doctoral students. In 2014, it was approved as a professional base for standardized training in laboratory medicine and has trained a total of 59 graduates of standardized training. It undertakes the teaching of Laboratory Diagnostics and undergraduate professional courses in laboratory medicine for students in clinical medicine, anesthesiology, nursing, pharmacy, and other specialties at all levels of the university. It provides an average of more than 100 teaching hours of theory and more than 400 hours of clinical practice between classes annually. It is an internship base for laboratory medicine students from the Daqing Campus of Harbin Medical University and Heilongjiang Provincial College of Higher Nursing. It provides more than 3,000 hours of graduation internships annually. It has published 34 teaching papers and undertaken 12 educational and teaching projects at various levels.

The department has stable research directions. It has undertaken 10 National Natural Science Foundation projects and more than 60 provincial- and ministerial-level projects, including key projects of the Natural Science Foundation of Heilongjiang Province. It has published more than 200 papers in academic journals in China and abroad, of which more than 60 have been indexed by SCI.