Integrated Traditional and Western Medicine Surgery

The Department of Integrated Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine of Tianjin Medical University General Hospital is a professional department established at the same time as the hospital. It has gradually grown and developed under the continuous efforts of Professors Wu Yingkai, Yu Songting, Wu Xianzhong, Liu Zikuan and other seniors. It has provided many talents to support the construction of hospitals in Tianjin and even the country. It has a high influence in Tianjin and the Three North Areas. Many majors are at the advanced level in the country and the leading level in Tianjin.

In 1986, the Department of Surgery with Integrated Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine became an independent clinical department, with previous department directors including Professor Wang Pengzhi, Professor Zhu Liwei, Professor Liu Tong and Professor Zhang Zhixiang.

The discipline is a doctoral and master's degree awarding point and a postdoctoral mobile station in the two disciplines of general surgery and integrated traditional Chinese and Western medicine. The integrated traditional Chinese and Western medicine discipline is a national key discipline, a key discipline in the "211 Project" construction and a "top priority" construction discipline in Tianjin. The integrated traditional Chinese and Western medicine surgery is a national key clinical specialty.

The Department of Surgery of Integrated Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine currently has 6 sub-professional wards with 234 beds. The annual number of discharged patients and operations have reached more than 6,000, and the number of outpatient and emergency visits has exceeded 120,000.

In 2012, with the joint efforts of the Integrated Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine surgeons, the department broke through the competition among the top five integrated traditional Chinese and Western medicine surgeries in Tianjin, completed the summary and writing of the application with high quality, and successfully applied for the National Key Clinical Specialty Project of Integrated Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine Surgery. It became the only national key clinical specialty in integrated traditional Chinese and Western medicine surgery in Tianjin. It received 10 million yuan of national funding and hospital matching funds, injecting new vitality into the development of the discipline, and the clinical technical level of integrated traditional Chinese and Western medicine surgery once again reached a new level.

In 2014, the Department of Integrated Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine Surgery was divided into sub-specialties on a ward-by-ward basis, forming sub-specialty directions such as gastrointestinal anorectal, hepatobiliary, pancreatic and spleen, nail, breast and abdominal wall, and vascular surgery.

After several years of unremitting efforts, laparoscopic surgery using combined traditional Chinese and Western medicine has become routine to perform radical gastrointestinal tumor surgery, liver resection, splenectomy, and hernioplasty. Recurrent laryngeal nerve monitoring during thyroid surgery, treatment of complex intra-abdominal infections, and complex endovascular surgical treatment are in the ascendant.

The talent structure of the surgical medical and nursing technology research center with integrated traditional Chinese and Western medicine is reasonable, with currently 70 doctors and 4 research and technical staff.

Among clinicians, young and middle-aged doctors under the age of 40 account for nearly 40%.

Among the clinicians, there are 18 senior professional titles (12 professors), 29 deputy senior professional titles, 8 doctoral supervisors (Wu Xianzhong, Wang Pengzhi, Zhu Liwei, You Shengyi, Liu Tong, Wang Hao, He Xianghui, Qi Feng), and 9 master's degree supervisors (Zhang Zhixiang, Tian Weijun, Luo Yudong, Li Weidong, He Xiaoling, Ma Tao, Fu Weihua, Dai Xiangchen, Liu Gang).

Nearly 60% of clinical and scientific researchers have obtained a doctorate or are currently studying for a doctorate, and nearly 20 clinicians have long-term study abroad experience.

At the same time, the department and related majors have built a long-term, fixed clinical academic and technical platform, enriching the connotation of specialty construction.