Thoracic Surgery

The Department of Thoracic Surgery of the Affiliated Hospital of Inner Mongolia Medical University is a key medical and health discipline in the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, the Autonomous Region Thoracic Surgery Medical Quality Control Center, and the only lung transplantation center in the autonomous region. The department also undertakes the training of undergraduates and master's students at Inner Mongolia Medical University, as well as the standardized training of residents in the autonomous region. The Department of Thoracic Surgery currently has 14 physicians, including 8 chief physicians, 3 deputy chief physicians, and 2 attending physicians; 7 with doctoral degrees, 5 with master's degrees; and 5 master's student supervisors. It has 24 nursing staff members, including 1 chief nurse, 2 deputy chief nurses, 13 nurse-in-charge staff, and 8 nurses. It undertakes 1 project funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China, 16 Inner Mongolia Natural Science Foundation projects, and 12 other department- and bureau-level scientific research projects. Several department members serve as standing committee members or members of the thoracic surgery specialty committees of the Chinese Medical Association, Chinese Medical Doctor Association, and Chinese Anti-Cancer Association, and the department is also the chairing institution of the Thoracic Surgery Branch of the Inner Mongolia Medical Association. It has received 2 second prizes and 1 third prize of the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region Science and Technology Progress Award, and 3 second prizes and 1 third prize from the Inner Mongolia Medical Association. It has published more than 200 papers, 10 of which are indexed by SCI. It has trained 14 master's students in thoracic surgery and provided further training to physicians on 16 occasions; all the master's students and physicians receiving further training have become the core workforce of local thoracic surgery. The Department of Thoracic Surgery regards “tumors, transplantation, and trauma” as its key research areas, takes “multidisciplinary diagnosis and treatment, small nodule management, and new technology innovation” as its development direction, and features thoracoscopic surgery. It performs more than 1,000 thoracic surgery procedures annually, including approximately 700 grade III and IV procedures, making it the thoracic surgery department in the autonomous region with the highest annual number of patients treated, annual number of surgical cases completed, and annual number of thoracoscopic surgical cases completed. In recent years, it has actively carried out minimally invasive diagnosis and treatment of tumors, including ablation therapy for lung cancer, with good therapeutic outcomes. The Department of Thoracic Surgery provides surgical treatment for lung tumors, esophageal tumors, mediastinal tumors, pleural diseases, thoracic trauma, and other benign diseases of the chest. Outpatient telephone: 3451240, 4th floor of the Outpatient and Inpatient Comprehensive Building Inpatient telephone: 3451489, Thoracic Surgery, 6th floor of the Surgical Building.