East Campus Pediatrics Department

The Department of Pediatrics, East Campus of Qingdao Municipal Hospital, is a comprehensive pediatric clinical department integrating medical care, teaching, scientific research, and child health care. It undertakes the treatment of common diseases and difficult and critical illnesses in children aged 0–18 years in eastern Qingdao and surrounding areas, especially the treatment of critically ill newborns, follow-up of high-risk infants, and child health care. It is an important pediatric diagnosis and treatment service platform in Qingdao, and its medical service capacity ranks among the leading positions in the city .

It covers neonatal diseases; pediatric respiratory, digestive, neurological, renal, cardiovascular, endocrine, rheumatic and immunological, developmental and behavioral conditions; child health care; and physical examinations for sports events. The outpatient service includes general outpatient clinics, specialist outpatient clinics, 24-hour emergency care, and specialty clinics for asthma, allergies, growth and development, follow-up of high-risk infants, children’s psychological and behavioral conditions, pediatric traditional Chinese massage, and pediatric bone and sports injuries. It provides specialized diagnosis and treatment for short stature, precocious puberty, enuresis, epilepsy, food allergies, ADHD, flat feet, scoliosis, and other conditions.

The department’s core specialties include the treatment of critically ill newborns, pediatric allergies and respiratory diseases, early intervention for high-risk infants, and health care related to children’s growth and development and developmental behavior. The department has a mature system for treating premature infants and provides neonatal resuscitation, noninvasive and invasive respiratory support, umbilical vein catheterization, exchange transfusion, and other technologies; it treats extremely low birth weight premature infants and has established a complete system for post-discharge follow-up and early intervention for high-risk premature infants. The pediatric respiratory subspecialty provides standardized asthma registration and long-term follow-up management, and combines pulmonary function testing, allergen testing, traditional Chinese massage and acupuncture, and other methods to provide comprehensive diagnosis and treatment for recurrent wheezing, chronic cough, and severe pneumonia. At the same time, relying on the platform of a general hospital, it carries out multidisciplinary collaboration to manage difficult pediatric cases complicated by multiple-system diseases, and has strong diagnostic and treatment capabilities for Kawasaki disease, allergic purpura, pediatric epilepsy, kidney disease, immune diseases, and other conditions .

In teaching and scientific research, the department undertakes clinical observation and internships for undergraduates of Qingdao University, teaching for international students, and standardized residency training. It routinely conducts teaching ward rounds and discussions of difficult and critical cases, continuously improving the quality of clinical teaching. Its research focuses on clinical studies of the damage caused by fluoride exposure to the body, the neonatal intestinal microbiota, pediatric respiratory, immune, and allergic diseases. It applies for provincial and municipal projects, as well as teaching and scientific research projects of Qingdao University and the University of Rehabilitation; publishes multiple academic papers in national core journals, including multiple SCI articles; has obtained multiple pediatric patents; actively participates in academic exchanges at home and abroad; and keeps up with frontier pediatric technologies.

The department has established a systematic training mechanism. It accepts medical students from the University of Rehabilitation, the School of Medicine of Qingdao University, Shandong Second Medical University, and other institutions for clinical teaching internships; undertakes the teaching of standardized-training physicians and the training of interns; and continuously trains and supplies outstanding pediatric clinical professionals to hospitals at all levels. It supports young physicians in improving their academic qualifications and undertaking external advanced study, and selects personnel to participate in various academic conferences. It attaches importance to the training of specialty nurses, strengthens critical-care nursing skills training, encourages medical staff to take academic positions, and expands the department’s regional influence .

The department has a well-structured medical and nursing team, rich clinical experience, and proficient professional knowledge and diagnostic and treatment techniques. Its systems for treating critical illnesses (premature infants), post-discharge follow-up, and early intervention are mature. Its pediatric subspecialties are comprehensive, covering the diagnosis and treatment of common childhood diseases, child health care and psychological and developmental-behavioral assessment, sports-event physical examinations, pediatric traditional Chinese medicine, and pediatric bone and joint surgery. In combination with multidisciplinary consultation, pulmonary function testing, allergen testing, psychological assessment, traditional Chinese massage and acupuncture, sandplay therapy, desensitization therapy, and other methods, it provides accurate diagnosis and treatment for common and chronic diseases in children, multisystem comorbidities, and difficult diseases. It provides professional, comprehensive, and convenient medical and health-care services for children and parents .

Editing time: 2026/9/21 14:44:44