Gynaecology

The Gynecology Department of the Provincial Hospital Affiliated to Shandong First Medical University dates to 1902. It is among the first national key clinical specialties, first Shandong key specialties and national standardized obstetrics and gynecology resident training bases, and was an early national and the earliest provincial doctoral training base. It is also a Shandong key medical and health specialty. It holds the vice-chair unit role in the Chinese Medical Doctor Association’s pelvic and pelvic floor pain committee under its minimally invasive branch; chairs the Shandong Medical Doctor Association committees for endometriosis and chronic pelvic pain and for minimally invasive gynecology; chairs the Shandong Medical Association family planning branch; and leads the endometriosis group of the Shandong Medical Doctor Association obstetrics and gynecology branch.

The department combines clinical care, teaching and research in gynecologic oncology, general gynecology, pelvic floor medicine, gynecologic endocrinology, cervical lesions, fallopian tube conditions and family planning. Its academic team includes one Taishan Scholar distinguished expert, one young Taishan Scholar, one Qilu Talent Program health professional, two Qilu outstanding young health professionals, six doctoral supervisors and 18 master’s supervisors.

Four wards comprise Gynecology Ward I at the central campus and Wards I, II and III at the Olympic Sports campus. The department reports 162 standard beds, an average of 210,000 outpatient visits, around 9,500 operations and more than 10,000 discharges each year.

It teaches undergraduate, master’s and doctoral students from Shandong First Medical University and Shandong University, provides standardized resident training and continuing training for physicians from hospitals across Shandong, and regularly organizes academic meetings and technical training. The hospital reports that it has trained many health professionals and received broad recognition.

Over the past five years the department reports undertaking over 30 research projects at provincial or ministerial level or above, including a subproject of the 14th Five-Year National Key R&D Program, a National Health Commission/Ministry of Industry and Information Technology advanced medical equipment application project, Shandong key R&D projects and National Natural Science Foundation projects. Cumulative research funding exceeded RMB 20 million. It published over 200 papers, including over 70 SCI-indexed papers, and received one Shandong natural science second prize, one Shandong higher education science and technology third prize, one Shandong science and technology third prize and over ten other provincial or ministerial research awards.