Endocrinology Ward 3

Endocrinology Ward 3 currently has 41 authorized beds, 7 physicians: 2 chief physicians, 1 deputy chief physician, and 4 attending physicians; and 10 nurses: 6 supervising nurses and 4 nurses. Five physicians hold doctoral degrees, and 2 hold master’s degrees. There is 1 doctoral supervisor and 2 master’s supervisors. Under the leadership of Professor Qiao Hong, director of the department, and Professor Gao Ping, director of the ward, Endocrinology Ward 3 places great emphasis on discipline development, actively cultivates reserve personnel, and focuses on team development. It has initially formed a team with a reasonable structure, a relatively high level of educational attainment, and a strong reserve of personnel.

Our ward attaches great importance to talent development. Despite staffing shortages, it encourages young physicians to apply for doctoral programs; it regularly selects and sends physicians abroad for study and within China for further training, keeping pace with the times and updating their knowledge. Among them, Dr. Yao Yue is currently undertaking exchange studies at the University of Hong Kong.

We attach importance to training residents and young teachers, strictly implement the rules for standardized resident training and pre-service training for young teachers, conduct regular rotations and assessments, and all have successfully passed the assessments and obtained qualifications; multiple individuals have also received commendations in hospital-level young teachers’ teaching skills competitions.

The department continuously strengthens management and innovates new models of high-quality service; strictly implements the shift handover system and carefully records the handover log; persists in discussions of difficult and critically ill patients or special lectures, and regularly conducts study sessions on rare endocrine diseases; strengthens medical-record management; and strives to develop specialty features. In addition to common diseases such as diabetes and its complications and thyroid diseases, it also places particular emphasis on the diagnosis and treatment of pediatric diabetes, hypothalamic-pituitary diseases, adrenal diseases, gonadal diseases, endocrine diseases during pregnancy, secondary hypertension, and various hypokalemic conditions. It improves service quality and strives to achieve 0 complaints. It strengthens management of provincial and municipal medical insurance, strictly observes all medical-insurance regulations, does not issue take-home medications, reduces examination and treatment costs, and eliminates patient shifting and excessive medical treatment. The department has also implemented a medical-insurance expense reminder and warning system and a system of fines for excesses, and regularly carries out self-inspection and self-correction. In addition, it has made inpatient beds transparent, promptly updates the number of beds, and implements "no need to ask anyone for hospitalization"; it uses electronic admission forms, eliminates "bed holding," adopts an appointment system, and saves patients’ time.

Higher medical schools bear the important responsibility of training medical students suited to the country’s future development. We attach importance to postgraduate training, emphasize quality-oriented education, continuously strengthen the moral education of postgraduate students, influence students’ hearts through our actions, and improve the quality of educating people through subtle influence. We care about postgraduate students’ living conditions, help them establish mental-health awareness, improve their psychological qualities, enhance their ability to adapt to social life, and provide students with meticulous care and selfless help. At the same time, we emphasize the development of postgraduate students’ professional competence. After each internship rotation, assessments are conducted of theoretical knowledge and practical operating skills; with the supervisor at the center, difficult-case analyses are conducted regularly; postgraduate students are organized to participate in the rescue of critically ill patients and to help write rescue records for critically ill patients; and transcription and reading of foreign-language literature and one case-analysis discussion are conducted regularly. We attach importance to cultivating postgraduate students’ research abilities, and all graduates are able to publish papers in core journals ahead of schedule, thereby meeting the school’s graduation requirements. All professional-degree postgraduate students successfully complete standardized resident training. Every year, the postgraduate students graduating from our department are assigned to work at renowned hospitals inside and outside the province. The graduates are of high quality and receive unanimous praise from their employers. By improving medical students’ professional qualities, we enable them to possess noble medical ethics and conduct and medical skills characterized by the pursuit of excellence, perform their duties conscientiously in medical work, and become healthcare professionals who satisfy the public.

Regarding standardized resident training, residents are trained in strict accordance with the detailed rules for standardized resident training, with regular rotations and assessments; the "360 evaluation" system is used to assess students from multiple perspectives. Assessments focus on trainees’ job competence, professional ethics and conduct, interpersonal communication, and humanistic literacy, organically combining assessments of theory, skills, and humanities, and consistently cultivating trainees’ integrated "clinical medicine, teaching, and research" thinking. At the same time, we continuously improve the professional qualities of teaching instructors, regularly organize instructors to participate in training, and improve teaching quality. Every week, we conduct various forms of training, including mini-lectures, chief physician rounds, difficult-case discussions, transcription and reading of foreign-language literature, and practical skills drills; combine theory with practice, strengthen cultivation of trainees’ clinical thinking, and emphasize doctor-patient communication. Based on feedback from resident trainees, our standardized resident training base has received widespread praise from the trainees.