Dermatology

The Department of Dermatology of Qilu Hospital was founded in 1922 by the American professors R. T. Shields and L. F. Heimburger, who established it jointly; it was then called the Department of Dermatology and Venereology, with Professor Heimburger serving as department director. In 1926, Professor You Jiajun graduated from Cheeloo University and remained to work in the Department of Dermatology and Venereology. In 1934, Professor Heimburger returned to his home country, and Professor You Jiajun became department director, serving until his death in 1969. The subsequent department directors, in order, were Professor Liu Chunlin (term 1969-1975), Professor Zhang Wencai (term 1975-1990), Professor Han Danji (term 1990-1991), Professor Li Chunyang (term 1997-2010), and Professor Sun Qing (term 2010-). Through the unremitting efforts of several generations, the Department of Dermatology has become a clinical department integrating medical care, teaching, research, cosmetology, and health care.

As of the end of 2021, the Department of Dermatology had a total of 47 medical, nursing, and technical staff, including 8 chief physicians, 5 associate chief physicians, 7 attending physicians, and 4 resident physicians; 16 held doctoral degrees and 8 held master's degrees; there were 2 doctoral supervisors and 6 master's supervisors. There were 6 supervising nurses, 7 nurses, and 1 nursing aide; 1 supervising technician and 2 technicians.

The outpatient service includes a renowned dermatology experts clinic, an expert clinic, a sexually transmitted disease expert clinic, a general clinic, a laser clinic, specialty clinics (psoriasis, acne, vitiligo, hair disorders, and dermatologic surgery), and emergency services at noon and night. The department has a laser treatment room, an outpatient dermatologic surgery operating room, a sexually transmitted disease treatment room, a mycology laboratory, a dermatopathology room, a cryotherapy room, an autologous epidermal transplantation treatment room, an ultraviolet treatment room, a photodynamic therapy room, and a dermatologic imaging examination room, among others. It has distinctive expertise in treating psoriasis, allergic skin diseases, fungal skin diseases, bullous skin diseases, diseases of the skin appendages, and sexually transmitted diseases, and has advantages in the diagnosis and treatment of difficult and critically severe skin diseases. The Department of Dermatology handles approximately 150,000 outpatient visits/year and approximately 4,000 emergency visits/year. The dermatology ward has 18 beds (including 6 dermatologic surgery beds), admits patients with acute and critically severe skin diseases, and handles approximately 700 inpatient admissions/year; it has received the hospital's awards for achievements in the rescue of difficult and critically severe cases on multiple occasions.

The department undertakes courses in dermatology and venereology and provides internship and observational training for undergraduates, master's students in the "5+3" integrated program, and international students at the Qilu Medical College of Shandong University. By the end of 2021, it had supervised more than 30 doctoral students and more than 100 master's students. In 2014, it was recognized as a national standardized residency training base for dermatology and venereology; more than 40 trainees successfully completed standardized training. Since 2017, it has hosted the backbone faculty training course for standardized residency training in dermatology in Shandong Province every year.

Over the past ten years, the department as a whole has had more than 20 research projects approved, including 1 project under the National Key Research and Development Program, 5 General Program projects of the National Natural Science Foundation of China, 4 Young Scientists Fund projects of the National Natural Science Foundation of China, 2 Shandong Provincial Key Research and Development projects, and 2 Young Scientists Fund projects of the Shandong Natural Science Foundation, among others; more than 100 papers have been published in domestic and international journals, including more than 70 indexed in SCI and more than 20 in domestic core journals. Several department members concurrently hold positions in academic organizations within and outside the province, and have successively undertaken multiple national- and provincial-level continuing medical education projects, training courses, and academic conferences; they have participated in compiling more than 10 textbooks and medical works included in the national "12th Five-Year," "13th Five-Year," and "14th Five-Year" planning, participated in drafting multiple expert consensuses/diagnostic and treatment guidelines for skin diseases, and participated in more than 60 domestic multicenter clinical trials.