Main Campus Urologic Surgery Department

Our Department of Urology is a clinical key specialty of Shandong Province and a key discipline of Qingdao; the Department of Urology of Qingdao Municipal Hospital is centrally organized and uniformly managed across the East and West campuses, and was among the first group of key disciplines in Qingdao’s health system. The specialty’s development is focused on endoscopic and minimally invasive surgery. Urological endoscopic and minimally invasive surgery has become a distinctive feature of the department and reached an advanced domestic level. Specific measures include developing subspecialties and multiple centers. Five subspecialties have been established: andrology, prostate diseases, urinary calculi, urogenital tumors, and urinary continence and pelvic-floor diseases. The department is also actively preparing a Ministry of Health endoscopy training base and the Qingdao Consultation Center for Urogenital Diseases. There are currently 82 beds. The department attaches importance to building its academic team; the personnel structure and overall level continue to improve, and the professional echelon is becoming increasingly rational. There are 53 medical and nursing staff, including 53 professional and technical personnel. Among the professional and technical personnel, 4 have doctoral degrees, accounting for 7.5%; 12 have master’s degrees, accounting for 22.6%; and 20 have bachelor’s degrees, accounting for 37.7%. By professional rank, there are 2 senior-ranking staff, 11 associate-senior-ranking staff, with senior professional titles accounting for 24.5%; 16 intermediate-ranking staff and 24 junior-ranking staff. The Urology Department of the Main Campus (West Campus) has 35 beds, 11 physicians, including 1 chief physician, 2 deputy chief physicians, 3 master’s supervisors, 1 PhD holder, 3 doctoral candidates, and 2 master’s holders. There are 12 nurses.

The department has advanced equipment and a complete set of advanced urological endoscopic and minimally invasive surgical instruments, including Olympus electronic laparoscopy systems, Olympus high-definition laparoscopes, Wolf laparoscopes, an image acquisition and editing system, the ERBE VIO electrosurgical workstation, the LigaSure vessel-sealing system, Olympus ultrasonic scalpels, Jonson ultrasonic scalpels, Olympus bipolar plasma resectoscopes, Storz resectoscopes and internal urethrotomes, Wolf resectoscopes, Shunkang resectoscopes, Tiansong resectoscopes and internal urethrotomes, Storz and Shenda cystourethroscopes, Wolf standard percutaneous nephroscopes, Wolf rigid ureteroscopes and Olympus flexible ureteroscopes, the Swiss EMS fourth-generation ultrasonic lithotripsy system, the American AMS 120W GreenLight laser, the Beijing Aike Kaineng 90W holmium laser, an X-ray- and B-ultrasound-guided extracorporeal shock-wave lithotripter, mechanical lithotripsy equipment, the Laborie BONITO fully intelligent urodynamic analyzer, a free uroflowmetry meter, a pelvic-floor biofeedback therapy instrument, a computerized semen analyzer, prostate-treatment and male-function testing and treatment instruments, and a biological vibration-sensation threshold tester.

The diagnostic and treatment scope covers urological diseases, including: calculi, tumors, urinary continence and pelvic-floor diseases, andrology, transplantation, etc. Urological endoscopic and minimally invasive surgery has become a distinctive feature of the department and reached an advanced domestic level. Various procedures through natural passages are routinely performed, such as transurethral cystoscopic surgery and ureteroscopic and nephroscopic surgery. Transurethral resection of the prostate is a routine procedure; thousands of cases have been successfully performed. The segmental rotary, layer-by-layer resection technique has been promoted in more than 30 medical institutions in China and has reached internationally advanced and domestically leading levels. In recent years, transurethral holmium-laser enucleation of the prostate and high-power GreenLight laser vaporization have also been performed. Flexible and rigid ureteroscopes are skillfully combined with lasers to complete various lithotripsy, endourethrotomy, and tumor-enucleation procedures. Various laparoscopic operations are routinely performed, including laparoscopic resection of giant renal tumors and pheochromocytomas, nephron-sparing tumor resection, pyeloplasty, radical prostatectomy, radical cystectomy, and orthotopic continent neobladder reconstruction. In addition, several difficult and complex operations have been successfully performed, including management of giant renal cancer complicated by an inferior vena cava tumor thrombus, comprehensive treatment of advanced tumors, surgery for complex posterior urethral strictures, transurethral surgery in high-risk patients, and tension-free sling surgery for female stress urinary incontinence. These procedures have produced good results, reduced trauma, and shortened hospital stays, earning the trust of patients and their families. Patients from various parts of China have successively come for consultation or been transferred to our hospital for diagnosis and treatment.

Measures including recruitment, overseas dispatch, and on-the-job training are used to strengthen the research team and improve the overall quality of the academic team. Two doctors with doctoral degrees have been recruited, and 3 visiting scholars have been sent abroad. Twelve master’s students have been trained, 8 obtained medical master’s degrees after graduation, and 4 doctoral students are currently enrolled. Training is conducted strictly in accordance with the guiding principles and teaching syllabus of the former State Education Commission for training master’s students, and the master’s training program of Qingdao University Medical College. Deputy chief physicians are regularly sent abroad for further study and to attend high-level specialized training courses in China, enabling them to master the latest developments in the specialty at home and abroad; the goal is to send 1–2 each year. Attending physicians and resident physicians are regularly sent to national-level hospitals in China for further study, so that they master advanced domestic developments and reach the advanced level of the specialty in comparable domestic hospitals. Every physician at each level who has graduated from a bachelor’s program is selected to undertake in-service doctoral study.

The department is currently a master’s training site for Qingdao University Medical College, Dalian Medical University, Weifang Medical University, and Taishan Medical University, and undertakes clinical teaching for Qingdao University Medical College, Dalian Medical University, Nanjing Medical University, Weifang Medical University, and several other medical schools. In recent years, 4 SCI-indexed papers and nearly 20 papers in Chinese core medical journals have been published; nearly 100 papers have appeared in domestic core medical journals; more than 10 professional books have been edited or co-written; and multiple provincial, ministerial, and Qingdao research projects have been undertaken, with multiple awards received.

The Urology Center not only has a group of experts and scholars renowned in China and a well-trained, highly skilled medical backbone team, but has also developed distinctive medical features and strengths through clinical practice. It has gained major leading advantages in the diagnosis and treatment of prostate diseases, urogenital tumors, urinary calculi, and andrological diseases, among others. It is at a leading level in Shandong Province and is one of the largest and strongest centers in Shandong for the medical care, research, and teaching of urological diseases. It benefits the many patients in the Shandong Peninsula and Shandong region as well as neighboring provinces and cities, and drives the rapid development of other disciplines in the region. Honors received in recent years: 2008 Key Discipline of the Qingdao Health System; 2008 Qingdao Youth Civilization Award Unit; 2008 Affiliated Discipline of the Urology Professional Committee of the Shandong Association of Integrated Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine; Advanced Collective in the annual assessment of the Qingdao Municipal Hospital Group in 2008, 2009, 2010, and 2011; 2009 Demonstration Ward for Doctor–Patient Communication and Demonstration Ward for Quality Nursing Service of the Qingdao Municipal Hospital Group; 2009 “Youth Civilization Award Unit” of the Shandong Provincial Committee of the Communist Youth League and Shandong Provincial Department of Health; 2010 “Shuchang Home,” one of the Top Ten Service Brands of the Shandong Health System; 2011 National Health System Award for Best Hospital Department Culture Construction with Distinctive Characteristics; 2012 Clinical Key Specialty of Shandong Province.

Editing time: 2026/5/20 15:43:59