Endocrinology

The Department of Endocrinology of Hohhot First Hospital was established in January 2010. It currently has 45 beds and an average annual bed utilization rate of 99.9%.

1. Scale of medical staff in the department: The department currently has 29 medical staff.

There are 12 doctors in total, with academic qualifications: 2 doctors, 9 masters, and 1 bachelor.

Professional title composition: 3 chief physicians, 4 deputy chief physicians, 4 attending physicians, and 1 resident physician.

There are 17 nurses in total. Educational composition: all have bachelor’s degrees.

Professional title composition: 1 deputy chief nurse, 5 supervisory nurses, and 11 medical staff with junior professional titles.

There are two supervisors for master’s degree students.

2. In 2014, it was established as a municipal key specialty by the Hohhot Municipal Health Commission.

3. Workload: The annual outpatient visits are more than 30,000, and the number of inpatients is 1,400. The average hospitalization day is 11.8 days, and the cure and improvement rate is 99.9%.

Medical features (featured technologies)

The number of cases in the diagnosis and treatment of type 2 diabetes and its complications, the treatment of type 1 diabetes and its acute complications, the clinical diagnosis and treatment of adenohypophysialism, and the rescue of hyperthyroidism crisis has increased year by year, and the clinical results are good.

Among them: the application of dynamic blood glucose monitoring uses advanced medical technology theory and equipment to achieve the world's leading "3C" diabetes blood sugar control (insulin pump, dynamic blood glucose monitoring, and computer blood glucose analysis software) treatment.

Short-term intensive insulin treatment for newly diagnosed type 2 diabetes patients has enabled many people to relieve their condition and wean themselves off drug treatment.

It is the industry leader within the autonomous region.

Teaching and research situation

It trains two master's degree students and more than 140 advanced students and interns at all levels/year.

Complete scientific research projects:

National level: National Survey on Thyroid Disease and Diabetes-2014 (Inner Mongolia);

Provincial and ministerial level: Autonomous Region Natural Science Foundation General Project: Metagenomic sequencing study of intestinal flora of Mongolian type 2 diabetes in pastoral areas of Inner Mongolia;

Prefecture level: Analysis and study on the incidence of diabetes and related risk factors among residents (adults) in Hohhot City.

Published 8 SCI articles with a cumulative impact factor of 59.581 points.

Published 5 articles in national core journals and more than 10 articles in national and provincial journals.

Academic exchange activities

Hosted two national-level academic conferences and held several municipal-level professional academic conferences in surrounding counties.

Department equipment

There are 2 dynamic blood glucose monitoring systems, 12 insulin pumps, 1 body composition analyzer, 1 diabetic foot diagnostic screening box, 1 digital vibration sensation threshold tester, 2 ECG monitors, 5 infusion pumps, 2 micropumps, 1 air wave pressure therapy instrument, and 1 urine analyzer.