Orthopaedics

The Orthopedics Department of the Affiliated Hospital was established in 1958. After 65 years of development, it now has 100 employees, including 2 national Level II professors, 3 Level III professors, 13 chief physicians (professors), 15 deputy chief physicians, 10 staff members with doctoral degrees, 1 doctoral supervisor, and 9 master’s supervisors. One person receives a special government allowance from the State Council; one has received the Autonomous Region Youth May Fourth Medal; two have received the Autonomous Region May 1 Labor Medal; three have been recognized as high-level “Grassland Talents”; three have been selected for the first- and second-level tiers of the Autonomous Region’s “New Century 321 Talent Project”; and three teams have been approved as industrial innovation and entrepreneurship teams under the Autonomous Region’s “Grassland Talent” Project. The orthopedic outpatient service is divided into spine surgery, joint surgery, trauma surgery, sports medicine, hand and foot surgery, bone tumors, osteoporosis, hand numbness clinic, emergency orthopedics, and other specialties. In treating critically ill patients with difficult conditions, multiple injuries, and combined injuries, the department fully leverages the advantages of orthopedics in a comprehensive large hospital. The Orthopedics Department has 145 authorized beds and comprises three wards, Orthopedics A, B, and C. It handles more than 80,000 outpatient and emergency visits annually and performs more than 3,000 operations. It possesses large, high-end medical equipment required for orthopedic surgery, including an orthopedic surgical robot, magnetic resonance imaging system, high-end CT scanner, C-arm, discoscope, transforaminal endoscope, and arthroscope. It is at the leading level in the Autonomous Region in complex cervical and lumbar spinal cord injuries, minimally invasive spinal surgery, bone infections, repair and reconstruction of complex bone and joint injuries, artificial joint replacement, and severe limb trauma. The Orthopedics Department of the Affiliated Hospital is a practitioner of integrated medical education and research. Its pioneering hands-and-feet teaching method has been promoted and demonstrated at more than 60 universities and hospitals in 17 provinces and cities across 3 countries and has won recognition from peers. It has received 1 first prize and a total of 3 second and third prizes for science and technology progress from the Autonomous Region; undertaken 4 National Natural Science Foundation projects and more than 30 scientific achievement projects from the Autonomous Region’s Department of Science and Technology, Health Commission, and Department of Education; published more than 300 papers in various journals, including more than 100 papers in Chinese and national core journals, with nearly 86 papers indexed by SCI; and won 18 national- and autonomous-region-level teaching competition awards. Eighteen projects have entered the university- and autonomous-region-level quality-engineering systems. The department has published 10 monographs and holds 10 utility model patents. The Orthopedics Department of the Affiliated Hospital of Inner Mongolia Medical University is the only integrated medical, education, and research model team in China to simultaneously hold the titles of National Worker Pioneer, Outstanding Teaching Team of Autonomous Region Universities, Youth Civilization Unit, Employee Innovation Studio, and Grassland Talent Team. Outpatient clinic: West area, 4th floor, New Outpatient and Inpatient Comprehensive Building. Inpatient wards: 7th and 8th floors of the Surgical Building. Telephone: Orthopedics A 3451477, Orthopedics B 3451481, Orthopedics C 3451473.