Ophthalmology
The Department of Ophthalmology of Peking University People's Hospital is a modern clinical and research base for ophthalmology integrating medical care, teaching, and scientific research. It is a key discipline of the Ministry of Education, a key specialty of the Ministry of Health, a key discipline under the “211” and “985” Projects, an authorized site for awarding doctoral degrees by the Ministry of Education, a postdoctoral research station, a resident physician training base for ophthalmology of the Ministry of Health and Beijing Municipality, a Beijing resident physician examination base, a national continuing education base for ophthalmology, a core hospital of the Beijing Specialty Medical Consortium, an ophthalmic drug research base of the National Medical Products Administration, the Beijing Branch of the National Clinical Medical Research Center for Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat Diseases, a vice-chairing institution of the National Ophthalmic Optometry Alliance, the chairing institution of the Beijing Ophthalmic Optometry Alliance, a deputy leader institution of the National Blindness Prevention Technical Guidance Group, a deputy-chairing institution of the National Expert Advisory Committee on Vision Health Management for Children and Adolescents, and a deputy-chairing institution of the Subcommittee for Teaching Guidance in Ophthalmic Optometry Medicine of the Teaching Guidance Committee for Chinese Higher Education of the Ministry of Education. It is one of the 5 universities in the first group nationwide to receive authorization to confer doctoral degrees in the first-level discipline of Ophthalmic Optometry under Medical Technology. For many years, the Department of Ophthalmology of Peking University People's Hospital has remained among the top 10 ophthalmology institutions nationwide in the Fudan rankings, ranking first in ophthalmology among general hospitals for 6 consecutive years, and ranked sixth nationwide in the 2021 Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences Science and Technology Value (STEM) rankings.
People's Ophthalmology has 110 medical, technical, and nursing staff members, including 21 staff with senior professional titles and 7 with associate senior professional titles; 7 members or young members of specialty groups of the Chinese Medical Association; 9 experts serving as editorial board members of journals in the Chinese Medical Association series; 8 doctoral supervisors; 2 master's supervisors; and 1 Beijing Science and Technology Nova. It has 60 inpatient beds, more than 200,000 emergency and outpatient visits, an average annual surgical volume of more than 10,000 procedures, and more than 7000 discharges. Experts hold social positions including Academician of the International Academy of Ophthalmology, President of the Asia-Pacific Vitreoretina Society, former Chair of the Ophthalmology Branch of the Chinese Medical Association, Editor-in-Chief and Deputy Editor-in-Chief of the Chinese Journal of Ocular Fundus Diseases, and Deputy Leaders and group members of the Fundus Disease Group and the Strabismus and Pediatric Ophthalmology Group.