Paediatrics

The Department of Pediatrics of Zhejiang Provincial Hospital of Chinese Medicine was founded in 1956. Through generations of physicians who have passed on the flame of learning and devoted themselves unremittingly, the department takes the academic thought of the famous masters of the “Zhejiang school of Chinese medicine pediatrics” as its root and integrates the frontier achievements of modern medicine, gradually forming a uniquely characteristic system of collaborative diagnosis and treatment integrating Chinese and Western medicine. It is a domestically distinctive department integrating clinical practice, scientific research and teaching, with a pronounced combination of Chinese and Western medicine; it possesses both the thousand-year accumulation of Qihuang scholarship and the solid strength of modern medicine, and has long been renowned in the field of pediatrics within Zhejiang Province. It currently has three campuses — Hubin, Qiantang and Xixi — with 74 open beds and 41 doctors, and has 5 instructors for the inheritance of the academic experience of national veteran Chinese medicine experts, 2 Zhejiang Provincial National Medical Masters, 6 Zhejiang Provincial Famous Chinese Medicine Doctors, 2 doctoral supervisors and 10 master's supervisors. It has general pediatrics, neonatology and NICU diagnostic and treatment units, an annual outpatient and emergency volume of more than 200,000 person-times, 17 specialty and special-disease clinics and 2 MDT clinics, and has for consecutive years received the title of Best Clinical-Type Specialty (Pediatrics) among Chinese medicine hospitals in China.

Technical advantages

The Department of Pediatrics of Zhejiang Provincial Hospital of Chinese Medicine centers on three disciplinary directions of Chinese medicine prevention and treatment — “pediatric heart-liver system diseases”, “pediatric lung system diseases” and “pediatric kidney system diseases” — and takes special diseases such as pediatric tic disorder/ADHD, developmental behavior, asthma, recurrent respiratory tract infection, precocious puberty, allergic purpura and nephropathy as its advantageous diseases. Relying on the experience inheritance and working foundation of the studio of National Medical Master Ding Ying and of the national and provincial famous Chinese medicine studios of Yu Jingmao, Xuan Guiqi, Sheng Lixian, Wang Xiaoming, Chen Hua, Chen Jian and others, it takes raising the level of prevention and treatment of pediatric diseases by Chinese medicine means and improving clinical efficacy as the purpose of the discipline's development, conducts in-depth research on the connotation and extension of Chinese medicine pediatrics, and promotes the tertiary discipline differentiation and construction of modern Chinese medicine pediatrics.

Academic status

It is one of the first units of Zhejiang Chinese Medical University authorized to confer master's degrees, and later obtained the right to confer doctoral degrees. Relying on profound academic heritage and outstanding clinical strength, it has successively been selected as a key specialty of the National Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine, a key discipline of the Zhejiang Provincial Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine, a national advantageous specialty of Chinese medicine (pediatrics), a key discipline of Chinese medicine of Zhejiang Province, and the leading unit of the Zhejiang Provincial Chinese Medicine Advantageous Specialty (Pediatrics) Alliance, becoming an important force leading the development of regional pediatrics.

Scientific research achievements

In the past 5 years it has won 2 scientific research achievement awards at various levels, been approved for 32 projects at various levels, including 4 national-level projects such as the National Natural Science Foundation; been approved for 3 patents; participated in the formulation of 9 society diagnosis and treatment guidelines and clinical pathways, and completed 1 achievement transformation. Medical care, teaching and scientific research advance side by side. It offers more than 10 courses for different levels and has a full-chain, high-quality Chinese medicine pediatrics talent training system covering master's, doctoral and standardized training bases; it possesses the “Provincial First-Class Undergraduate Course” and the online demonstration course for professional degree postgraduates of the Academic Degrees Committee of the State Council; its single course “Chinese Medicine Pediatrics” in the licensed physician examination has ranked first nationwide in both indicators for three consecutive years; and it has participated in compiling 6 national-level textbooks related to pediatrics and Chinese medicine pediatrics.