General Practice

The Department of General Practice of Tongji Hospital was founded in 2019. Under the leadership of Professor Zhang Cuntai, head of the Department of General Medicine, and successive department heads, chief physician Zhou Honglian and Professor Xue Zheng, the entire staff has worked together; the discipline was listed in the latest 2024 Fudan edition of the Chinese Hospital Specialty Reputation Ranking and is the only department of general medicine in Hubei Province to receive a specialty nomination. The current discipline leader is chief physician Hu Qi. As a national-level general practice residency training base, the department has a well-structured faculty team with rich teaching experience, and many faculty members have achieved excellent results in national faculty teaching skills competitions. Adhering to a learner-centered training model with competency at its core, it has trained more than 100 trainees. It has innovatively carried out a variety of teaching activities, including teaching clinics for multimorbidity, One Health MDT clinic teaching and a cloud classroom for general practice residency training, and has obtained 8 provincial, municipal and university-level teaching reform projects. It hosts the national-level teaching course "Comprehensively Improving the Capacity for Diagnosis and Treatment of Undifferentiated Diseases and Common Diseases at the Primary Level," organizes a number of academic conferences and provincial training courses for residency program managers and core faculty, and provincial continuing education projects, and undertakes the Hubei Province clinical practical skills examination for general practice residency graduation. As the "youngest" discipline of the hospital, the department actively explores and develops distinctive clinical services, building a "one-stop" service platform for multimorbidity, focusing on the diagnosis and treatment of undifferentiated diseases, chronic disease and health management. Working together with communities, it optimizes the family doctor model and the two-way referral system. It carries out public health education to strengthen residents' understanding of general medicine and their self-management of common diseases. The discipline conducts research closely centered on chronic disease management, multimorbidity and community nursing, attaches importance to big data mining, and explores the application of artificial intelligence to community prevention and control. Over the past 5 years it has published 81 papers, including 40 SCI papers, with a highest impact factor of >10.