Pediatric Internal Medicine Department

The Department of Pediatrics of Qilu Hospital of Shandong University was founded in 1924. After nearly a century of development and the concerted efforts of several generations, it has accumulated a profound departmental cultural heritage and become a comprehensive, strong department with complete subspecialties and a nationwide reputation. The Department of Pediatric Medicine of Qilu Hospital is currently a National Clinical Key Specialty (development project), a dual-core institution of the National Clinical Research Center for Child Health and Diseases, a National Demonstration Base for Standardized Residency Training (Category I), a National Training Base for Key Pediatric Faculty, a National Specialized Training Base for Neonatal and Perinatal Medicine, and the Chinese Nursing Association's training base for neonatal specialist nurses outside Beijing. It is also home to the Shandong Provincial Clinical Research Center for Child Health and Diseases and a Shandong Provincial Clinical Key Discipline; it is a standing-committee member unit of the Pediatric Branch of the Chinese Medical Association and the Pediatricians Branch of the Chinese Medical Doctor Association, a chairing unit of the Pediatric Branch of the Shandong Medical Association and the Pediatricians Branch of the Shandong Medical Doctor Association, a key 985 discipline of Shandong University, a master's/doctoral degree-granting site of Shandong University, and a postdoctoral research station.

The department has nearly 300 beds and 12 subspecialties, covering pediatric neurology, pediatric hematology, pediatric cardiology, pediatric nephrology and endocrinology, pediatric respiratory medicine, pediatric gastroenterology and immunology, pediatric critical care, neonatology, and child health care and rehabilitation. It has a major influence in the field of pediatrics nationwide.

In recent years, as the national influence of Qilu Hospital's Department of Pediatric Medicine has steadily expanded, it has participated nationwide in formulating nearly 30 expert consensuses and clinical guidelines, and has taken the lead in establishing multiple disease-specific alliances, including the Shandong Provincial Alliance for the Diagnosis and Treatment of Pediatric Hematologic Diseases and Tumors of the National Regional Medical Center jointly built by the commission and the province, the Qilu Hospital of Shandong University Pediatric Cardiovascular Disease Alliance, the Shandong Provincial Pediatric Endocrinology and Growth and Development Alliance, the Shandong Provincial Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder Alliance, the Qilu Hospital of Shandong University Pediatric Epilepsy Health Management Consortium, and the Qilu Hospital of Shandong University Pediatric Neurocritical Care Alliance. Nearly one hundred physicians from inside and outside the province come each year for advanced professional or standardized residency training, and the department's academic influence reaches across the country.

The discipline has an excellent teaching tradition. As a demonstration base for undergraduate teaching and standardized residency training of the First School of Clinical Medicine and an outstanding teaching and research section, it brings together 7 doctoral supervisors and 15 master's supervisors, and trains more than 30 doctoral and master's students each year. Many teachers have repeatedly achieved excellent results in provincial-, university-, and hospital-level teaching competitions. Over the past five years, it has undertaken more than 10 university-level or higher teaching-research projects, published numerous teaching papers, and taken the lead within the hospital in publishing 2 SCI papers related to residency-training education, demonstrating its teaching innovation and academic influence.

The department has strong research capacity, undertaking nearly 100 national- and provincial/ministerial-level research projects, serving as associate editor for the publication of more than 10 monographs, and receiving more than 10 research-achievement awards from the Shandong Provincial Department of Science and Technology and Department of Education. It has published more than 400 academic papers in total, including more than 300 SCI papers. Each year it participates in formulating multiple national-level diagnostic and treatment standards, disease guidelines, and expert consensuses. It emphasizes the integration of clinical work and research, advances the translation of multiple achievements, directly serves clinical practice, and improves medical care.

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