General Surgery

The Department of General Surgery of the 2nd Affiliated Hospital of Xi’an Jiaotong University is a key medical discipline in Shaanxi Province and a construction project for the provincial-level clinical key specialty of hepatobiliary surgery in the 2nd batch of such specialties in Shaanxi Province. In 2019, it received the honorary title “Worker Pioneer” from the All-China Federation of Trade Unions. General Surgery was among the hospital’s 1st sites authorized to confer master’s and doctoral degrees and enjoys considerable recognition nationwide, particularly in Northwest China. Under the leadership of senior-generation experts and professors, the department has developed continuously over several decades and has now become a medical, research, and teaching team with profound academic expertise, rigorous scholarship, a pioneering spirit, and a well-balanced structure. The department currently has 95 medical personnel, including 9 chief physicians, 12 associate chief physicians, 3 associate chief nurses, 1 doctoral supervisor, 6 master’s supervisors, and 6 externally appointed experts; more than 90% of its physicians hold doctoral degrees. It has obtained a total of more than 10 national- and provincial/ministerial-level scientific research achievements, undertaken more than 100 scientific research projects at the national, provincial/ministerial, municipal, and other levels, and trained 65 master’s students and 53 doctoral students. Over the past 5 years, General Surgery has successfully applied for more than 10 national patents and published more than 100 papers of various types, including more than 50 indexed by SCI.