Integrated Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine Gynecology Department

Integrated Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine Gynecology

The Department of Integrated Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine Gynecology of the Obstetrics and Gynecology Hospital of Fudan University was founded in 1958 by the renowned Shanghai traditional Chinese medicine physician Dr. Tang Jifu, and was later developed and strengthened and formed its own characteristics through the continuous efforts of the nationally renowned veteran TCM physicians Professor Li Chaojing, Professor Yu Jin, Professor Cao Lingxian and others. It was the first in China to conduct continuous in-depth research confirming the role of the TCM theory “the kidney governs reproduction” in the regulation of female reproduction, which has been widely recognized and applied by domestic peers. In 1994 and 1996, under the leadership of Professor Yu Jin, it undertook the construction of the Shanghai Integrated Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine Menstrual Disease Diagnosis and Treatment Center and of the Shanghai Medical Leading Specialty — the Integrated Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine Gynecology key discipline; in 2004 the Shanghai Integrated Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine Menstrual Disease Characteristic Specialty was completed, with Professor Gui Suiqi serving as director of the characteristic specialty. In 2008, the project “Integrated Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine Diagnosis and Treatment of Spontaneous Abortion”, led by Professor Wang Wenjun, was approved as a Shanghai Traditional Chinese Medicine Clinical Advantage Specialty construction project. In 2014 it became a demonstration unit for traditional Chinese medicine work of general hospitals and maternal and child health institutions nationwide, with Professor Zhu Zhiling serving as director. In 2018 it became a collaborative base for the standardized training of traditional Chinese medicine residents/specialists in Shanghai. There are currently 31 doctors, including 6 professors and chief physicians and 8 associate professors and associate chief physicians; 3 doctoral supervisors and 5 master's supervisors. It has attainments in gynecological reproductive endocrinology and gynecological minimally invasive surgery. It currently has 65 beds, an average annual outpatient volume of about 200,000 visits, and an average annual surgical volume of more than 2,000 cases.

Department features

Our department fully leverages the characteristic advantages of clinical practice in integrated traditional Chinese and Western medicine, organically integrates traditional medicine and modern medicine into clinical and basic research, and has unique advantages in obstetrics and gynecology reproductive medicine and minimally invasive surgery. It focuses on the integrated traditional Chinese and Western medicine treatment of diseases such as diminished ovarian function, PCOS, recurrent spontaneous abortion, dysmenorrhea, endometriosis, menopausal syndrome and ectopic pregnancy, as well as research on acupuncture for ovulation induction; at the same time, it carries out minimally invasive surgical treatment for patients with benign and malignant gynecological tumors, including robotic surgery, 3D laparoscopic surgery and single-port laparoscopic surgery, and achieves significant therapeutic effects on postoperative rehabilitation-related conditions of gynecological patients, such as urinary retention after gynecological cancer surgery, intestinal obstruction, and bone marrow suppression in patients receiving chemotherapy.

Teaching and research

Members of the department have undertaken multiple national and provincial/ministerial major projects, including National Key R&D Program projects, top-priority projects of the Shanghai Municipal Health Commission and the National Natural Science Foundation, totaling more than 20; the research fields involve the regulatory effect of the “kidney governs reproduction” theory on female reproduction, the integrated traditional Chinese and Western medicine classification-based diagnosis and treatment scheme for PCOS, integrated traditional Chinese and Western medicine treatment of endometriosis, clinical and basic research on recurrent spontaneous abortion, research on the mechanism of Pinellia pedatisecta in relation to cervical cancer, acupuncture for ovulation induction, and international cooperation in clinical application research on VitK3 acupoint injection at Sanyinjiao for primary dysmenorrhea, etc.; the research results have successively won multiple ministerial and municipal science and technology progress awards. The department undertakes relevant teaching work every year, including undergraduate teaching and the training of doctoral and master's students, actively carries out standardized training of residents, receives refresher doctors from all parts of the country for study, and holds national continuing education courses every year, imparting and exchanging the progress of integrated traditional Chinese and Western medicine diagnosis and treatment of difficult gynecological diseases together with Professor Yu Jin's academic thoughts and clinical experience.

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