Comprehensive Teaching Department

1. Basic Information About the Department

The Department of Comprehensive Teaching was established in 2012 with the aim of training outstanding general dentists and specialists in the various disciplines. Currently, the department is headed by Hou Xiaomei and has 3 associate chief physicians, 4 attending physicians, and 14 resident physicians. Most of the department’s doctors have postgraduate qualifications, including 2 postdoctoral fellows, 12 PhD holders, and 4 master’s degree holders; in addition, the department has 16 nurses. The department has a total of 14 dental chairs and undertakes standardized residency training for newly hired employees of the Second Outpatient Department. Upon completion of the training period and after passing the assessments conducted by the respective specialties, they will enter specialty departments to work. In addition, the department also undertakes standardized residency training for residents from other hospitals, as well as training for postgraduate students currently enrolled at Peking University School and Hospital of Stomatology and visiting trainees.

2. Specialty Features

The Department of Comprehensive Teaching focuses primarily on training general dental professionals and specialists, covering five major specialty areas: conservative dentistry and endodontics, periodontology, oral and maxillofacial surgery, prosthodontics, and implant dentistry. It has 2 associate chief physicians specializing in conservative dentistry and endodontics, 1 associate chief physician in general dentistry, and 4 attending physicians in general dentistry. The Department of Comprehensive Teaching follows the system under which the physician conducting the initial consultation assumes responsibility and can diagnose and treat common oral diseases, including filling treatment for dental caries, root canal treatment, basic periodontal treatment, periodontal surgery, splinting of loose teeth, tooth extraction, fixed and removable prosthodontic restoration, and dental implant placement and restoration.

3. History and Development of the Department

With the rapid rise in the reputation of the Second Outpatient Department and its gradual expansion, talent cultivation became the top priority for sustaining the team’s further growth. Accordingly, the Department of Comprehensive Teaching came into being in 2012. Its first department director was Associate Chief Physician Li Deli; its head nurse was Li Ying; and its second department director was Associate Chief Physician Zhao Xuezhu. After seven years of development, the teaching department also grew, evolving from training personnel for our hospital to training outstanding young physicians for both our hospital and other hospitals; and from a teaching model centered mainly on conservative dentistry and endodontics to a standardized and rigorous general-dentistry teaching model that consistently included daily summaries, regular study, case discussions, and so on. In addition, the Department of Comprehensive Teaching regularly conducts systematic case-based learning, literature presentations, discussions of scientific research work, and other activities, laying a foundation for training outstanding young physicians. All these improvements constitute the history of the teaching department’s rapid growth.

The Department of Comprehensive Teaching has a relatively large membership, consisting mainly of young medical and nursing personnel. The team atmosphere is lively, the sense of teamwork is strong, and together they form a young and outstanding medical and nursing team!