Nephrology

The nephrology group at Qilu Hospital of Shandong University was established in 1979 and became the Department of Urinary Internal Medicine, a second-level internal medicine department, in 2000. Its 17 physicians include four full professors, nine associate professors and four attending physicians; 15 have or are pursuing doctorates (including two current students) and one has a master's degree. The hospital describes its care for primary and secondary glomerular diseases, chronic kidney disease, renal replacement therapy for chronic renal failure and hereditary kidney disease as nationally leading, with in-depth basic and clinical research in diabetic nephropathy. Research also covers pathology, immunology, immunopathology and molecular genetics. Percutaneous kidney biopsy has been introduced and promoted, and peritoneal dialysis began in 2005. The department is a Shandong provincial key specialty and peritoneal dialysis training base. Teaching and standardized training: one doctoral supervisor and three master's supervisors teach Shandong University medical students on eight- and five-year programs, international students and nursing students. The department has developed multimedia teaching, provides standardized nephrology training, has repeatedly received excellent teaching department awards and sends selected young physicians abroad for further study. It also hosts an annual continuing education program of the Shandong Medical Doctor Association. Research: five general and three young investigator grants from the National Natural Science Foundation and six provincial natural science grants; over 80 SCI-indexed papers; one second prize in Shandong natural sciences and one second prize in Shandong medical science and technology.