Ophthalmology

I. Historical evolution The Department of Ophthalmology of Zhongshan Hospital affiliated to Xiamen University was founded in June 1988. From its inception, the discipline started from a high starting point and benchmarked against domestic frontiers; under the leadership of the then discipline leader, it took the lead in establishing the first eye bank in Fujian Province, filling the gap in regional ophthalmic resources. In the early days of the department, it pioneered in the province a number of leading domestic intraocular and extraocular surgeries, including allogeneic corneal transplantation, interlamellar corneal diathermy, vitrectomy, RK surgery, excimer laser surgery, and cataract extraction combined with intraocular lens implantation, breaking regional ophthalmic technological limitations and greatly promoting the iterative upgrading and standardized development of ophthalmic diagnostic and treatment technology in Fujian Province, establishing the department's pioneering advantages and important industry status in the ophthalmology field of southwestern Fujian. After more than thirty years of dedicated development, the department has grown into a comprehensive key ophthalmology department integrating medical care, teaching, scientific research, and blindness prevention and treatment, gradually forming a mature disciplinary system with complete specialty categories, a well-established talent echelon, strong technical strength, and coordinated development of medical care, teaching and research, becoming an important core platform for eye disease diagnosis and treatment, talent cultivation and scientific innovation in southwestern Fujian. II. Disciplinary qualification platform and third-party endorsement The department relies on the platform of Xiamen University's directly affiliated Grade A tertiary hospital and the teaching system of Xiamen University's Medical College, possesses authoritative disciplinary support and third-party industry endorsement, and is a core member unit of the Department of Ophthalmology of Xiamen University, deeply integrated into the integrated medical-educational-research construction system of university ophthalmology; its disciplinary standardization, professionalism and authority have won dual recognition from the university and the industry. As a long-established key regional ophthalmology department, the department has been engaged in clinical work for more than thirty years, accumulating a good industry reputation and public reputation through solid diagnostic and treatment technology, a massive number of surgical cases, and standardized disciplinary management. It has long undertaken public-welfare and professional tasks such as regional blindness prevention and treatment, diagnosis and treatment of difficult eye diseases, and ophthalmology talent cultivation; its technical level, service quality and disciplinary construction achievements have continuously received recognition from health authorities, university research platforms and peers, making it a comprehensive ophthalmic diagnosis and treatment department with outstanding public credibility in southwestern Fujian. At the same time, relying on research and teaching platforms at all levels, the department continuously participates in provincial scientific research projects and the formulation of industry expert consensus, steadily enhancing its academic influence and industry recognition. III. Talent team and disciplinary structure The department has built an ophthalmic professional medical team with a reasonable structure, a complete echelon and exquisite professionalism. It currently has 11 professional ophthalmologists and 25 medical technicians and nursing staff, with complete talent allocation and fine division of labor. Among them there are 3 chief physicians and 4 associate chief physicians; senior-titled physicians constitute the core diagnostic and treatment backbone of the department; there are 2 doctoral students and 6 master's students, with a high proportion of highly educated personnel, and the team has a solid theoretical foundation and rich clinical experience. To achieve refined, specialized diagnosis and treatment, the department has precisely divided subspecialty directions, establishing a number of mature subspecialty groups including cataract, vitreoretinal, glaucoma, optometry, strabismus and amblyopia, orbital-ocular surface-oculoplastic, and lacrimal duct diseases, fully covering all fields of ophthalmic disease diagnosis and treatment. The leaders of each subspecialty have completed advanced training at well-known domestic ophthalmology institutions and are proficient in cutting-edge diagnostic and treatment technologies at home and abroad. Relying on the collaborative development model of subspecialties, a disciplinary development pattern of "specialized disease-specific treatment, precise diagnosis and treatment, full-domain coverage" has been formed, with strong overall technical strength and efficient team collaboration. IV. Core technology and diagnostic-treatment advantages The department's clinical technical strength is outstanding, routinely performing all kinds of routine and highly sophisticated, difficult ophthalmic surgeries, with a stable surgical volume and rich diagnostic and treatment experience. Currently the department has 7 cataract group-leading experts and 3 vitreous surgery group-leading experts, completing 3,000-4,000 ophthalmic surgeries of various types annually, and tens of thousands of sophisticated ophthalmic surgeries cumulatively. Its diagnostic and treatment scope fully covers all kinds of ophthalmic diseases; it can routinely perform glaucoma surgery, lacrimal duct dredging and repair surgery, strabismus correction surgery, diagnosis and treatment of orbital diseases, ocular plastic repair and other full-category ophthalmic surgeries, comprehensively meeting the eye disease diagnosis and treatment needs of adults and children. Relying on excellent surgical technology and a mature diagnostic-treatment system, the department vigorously promotes the ophthalmology day-surgery model; more than 85% of the hospital's ophthalmic surgeries are completed through day surgery. This model effectively optimizes the allocation of medical resources, greatly shortens patients' hospital stays and reduces medical costs; at the same time, a complete whole-course perioperative management and control system has been established, which, while improving diagnostic and treatment efficiency, strictly guarantees surgical safety and treatment quality, fully demonstrating the department's refined, efficient and safe hardcore diagnostic-treatment strength. V. Advanced equipment configuration The department is equipped with a complete set of internationally high-end ophthalmic examination and surgical equipment, building a whole-process hardware support system for precise diagnosis, fine surgery and efficient rehabilitation, providing solid equipment guarantee for precise diagnosis and treatment, complex eye disease intervention and difficult case assessment. In terms of examination equipment, it is equipped with a series of internationally advanced ophthalmic specialty examination devices such as the Heidelberg optical coherence tomography scanner, OCTA and angiography examination instruments, Zeiss fundus laser and anterior segment laser treatment instruments, Zeiss's new-generation Humphrey visual field analyzer, and dry-eye comprehensive analysis and corneal topography examination instruments, enabling precise screening and refined diagnosis of items such as fundus, visual field, cornea, dry eye and vascular imaging, providing a scientific basis for the formulation of clinical diagnostic and treatment plans. In terms of surgical equipment, it is configured with top-level surgical equipment such as the new-generation Zeiss surgical microscope, RESET wide-angle lens, high-end fundus laser system, Alcon phacoemulsification machine, and Alcon vitrectomy-phacoemulsification all-in-one machine. The equipment has high precision and stable performance, is adapted to various routine and complex ophthalmic surgical operations, and safeguards the safe and efficient conduct of sophisticated ophthalmic surgeries. VI. Distinctive core diagnostic and treatment technologies The department stands at the technological frontier, focuses on clinical essential needs, and cultivates various high-difficulty, refined ophthalmic diagnostic and treatment technologies; its core distinctive technology system is mature with stable efficacy. It routinely performs micro-incision phacoemulsification cataract surgery combined with foldable intraocular lens implantation, various complex vitreoretinal surgeries, rescue of severe ocular trauma, reconstruction of anterior and posterior segment tissues, limbal stem cell transplantation, precise strabismus correction, various anti-glaucoma surgeries, orbital disease diagnosis and treatment, and ocular plastic repair and other sophisticated diagnostic and treatment projects. It can independently handle all kinds of common, difficult and complex ophthalmic diseases, balancing disease treatment and visual function protection, and provides patients with individualized, precise diagnostic and treatment plans. VII. Coordinated development of medical care, teaching and research (I) Clinical medical care The department always takes patients as the core, adheres to the service philosophy of precise diagnosis and treatment and safe medical practice, relies on a complete subspecialty system, high-end equipment platform and mature technical team, and carries out various ophthalmic diagnostic and treatment services in a standardized manner. From screening, diagnosis and treatment of common eye diseases to intervention in difficult and complex eye diseases, from routine surgery to sophisticated minimally invasive surgery, quality is strictly controlled throughout the process and medical procedures are optimized, winning wide trust and recognition from regional patients with efficient, safe and high-quality medical services. (II) Teaching and training As the core teaching base for ophthalmology of Xiamen University's Medical College, the department has long undertaken core teaching tasks such as theoretical teaching of ophthalmology, clinical observership and internship supervision, relying on rich clinical case resources and strong faculty to systematically cultivate reserve ophthalmology professionals, continuously delivering high-quality, high-level professionals to the regional ophthalmic medical industry and helping build the regional ophthalmology talent echelon. (III) Scientific research and innovation The department adheres to two-way empowerment and coordinated development of clinical work and scientific research, focuses on frontier hotspots and clinical difficulties in the ophthalmology field, and actively carries out systematic research. Currently it independently undertakes a number of natural science fund research projects of Fujian Province and Xiamen City, and deeply participates in the research of a number of National Natural Science Foundation projects, with rich levels of research project approval and a wide coverage of research. At the same time, the department's expert team actively participates in the formulation of domestic ophthalmology industry expert consensus, continuously organizes clinical research results, and has published many high-quality academic papers in core academic journals at home and abroad, feeding back scientific research innovation into clinical technology upgrading and promoting the continuous iterative progress of the department's diagnostic and treatment level. VIII. Vision for department development The department will continue the disciplinary advantages accumulated over more than thirty years, continuously refine minimally invasive ophthalmology core technologies, optimize the day-clinic service system, deepen research, teaching and talent cultivation, further improve subspecialty construction and strengthen the capacity for diagnosis and treatment of difficult eye diseases. Relying on the high-quality platforms of Xiamen University and its affiliated hospitals, it will continuously enhance its disciplinary influence and regional radiation capacity, committed to building a high-level distinctive ophthalmology specialty with exquisite technology, high-quality services and coordinated development of medical care, teaching and research, providing the people of southwestern Fujian with more precise, efficient and high-quality full-cycle eye health medical services.