Olympic Sports Campus – Burn and Wound Repair Surgery Ward

The Department of Burns and Wound Repair Surgery of Shandong Provincial Hospital was established in 1958. At that time, it had only a burn ward and was affiliated with the General Surgery specialty. In 1976, the specialty of burn and plastic surgery was formally established. It was the earliest burn surgery specialty established in Shandong Province and is a discipline integrating medical care, teaching, scientific research, and guidance for primary-level institutions.

The discipline has a total of 36 medical personnel, including 11 doctors and 25 nurses. It has 2 doctoral supervisors and 1 master’s supervisor. It has 4 chief physicians, 2 deputy chief physicians, 1 attending physician, and 4 resident physicians. Of these, 5 hold doctoral degrees and 1 holds a master’s degree. It currently has 46 beds, with a burn ward, a burn intensive care unit, and an independent operating room.

In 1995, the department was designated as one of the first batch of key disciplines by the Shandong Provincial Department of Health.

In 1996, it became the first training institution for a master’s program in burn surgery at Shandong Medical University (later renamed the School of Medicine of Shandong University).

In 2000, it became the first training institution for a doctoral program in burn surgery at the School of Medicine of Shandong University.

In 2007, the discipline was designated as a national training base for specialist physicians in burn surgery.

In 2009, the Ministry of Health awarded the department the title of “Ten-Year Hundred-Item Plan VSD Technology Training Base”.

In 2010, Professor Wang Dechang of the department received the “China Burn Medicine Lifetime Achievement Award” awarded by the Chinese Medical Association.

In 2012, it was designated as a National Key Clinical Specialty for Burns.

The discipline is the institution whose representatives served as committee members in the 2nd, 3rd, 4th, and 5th sessions of the Burn Surgery Branch of the Chinese Medical Association (Ren Weiguo, Wang Dechang), as standing committee members in the 6th, 7th, and 8th sessions (Wang Dechang, Wang Yibing); it is also the institution whose representatives chaired all sessions (1-6) of the Burn and Plastic Surgery Branch of the Shandong Medical Association (Zhang Xuebin, Fu Hongbin, Wang Dechang).