The Department of Pediatrics was originally established in 1953 under the hard work of YANG Xiansu, YANG Aide, GUAN Huiying, XIE Bicheng, and other senior experts. The first pediatric training program qualified to grant a doctoral degree was approved by the State Council in 1986. At present, there are more than 180 medical staff and 272 beds. And there are more than 10,000 inpatients, and over 200,000 outpatients visit every year.

As a top-tier teaching, scientific research, and medical service institute, the department has a strong technical force. Many professors with nationwide reputation and critical personnel who returned from overseas joined the department. Many of them serve as members or chairs of the Pediatric Branch of the Chinese Medical Association and the provincial and municipal societies. Among them, the department's current director, Professor JIN Runming, has served as a member of the Pediatric Branch of the Chinese Medical Association, the vice-chairman of the Hubei Pediatrics Association, the Pediatric Oncology Committee of the Chinese Anticancer Society, and the first chairman of the Pediatric Oncology Committee of the Hubei Anticancer Society.

Features

Pediatrics Department has a complete set of subspecialties, including pulmonary medicine, infectious disease, cardiology, immunology, nephrology, GI, neonatology, hematology, genetics, endocrinology, and neurology. The pediatric hematology and genetics are the best units of the China Children's Oncology Treatment Cooperation Group in Hubei province. It has carried out technologies, such as hematopoietic stem cell transplantation. It was the first in China to establish a special school in the ward. In September 2018, the Pediatric Hematology Ward won the Gold Award for Customer Service Projects at the 17th Asian Hospital Management Awards. The neonatal subspecialty has an intensive care unit, a mother-baby ward, and a laboratory. And its intensive care unit is a sub-unit of the Asian Emergency Center. Pediatrics Department of cardiology, infectious disease, GI, pulmonary medicine, and nephrology altogether admitted and successfully treated children with various conditions such as myocarditis, congenital heart diseases, respiratory infections, gastrointestinal diseases, nephritis, nephropathy, enuresis, etc. The endocrinology subspecialty is the leading unit of the Genetic-Metabolism-Endocrinology Group of the Hubei Pediatric Association. It conducts the diagnosis and treatment of various metabolic and endocrine diseases, such as short stature diseases, hyperthyroidism, hypothyroidism, obesity, and diabetes mellites. The subspecialty of child nutrition and health care is the Hubei Preventive Medicine Association's outstanding leading unit, which conducts child feeding, physical development evaluation, and various health and nutrition consultations. The PICU was the first to set up a ward among general hospitals in Wuhan, which can routinely carry out invasive/non-invasive ventilator assisted breathing, bronchoscopy diagnosis, and treatment technology, continuous blood purification technology, sedation and analgesia, critical illness nutritional support, central venous catheterization, and various related diagnosis and treatment techniques.

Teaching and Research

In the past ten years,the department has obtained more than 40 research projects, including the National Natural Science Foundation of China, the Ministry of Health Project Fund, and the Health Commission's scientific research fund, and participated in two national projects. And more than 80 SCI papers published in the past ten years.

Pediatrics Department undertakes pediatrics teaching, including the eight-year clinical MD program, the five-year clinical MBBS program, medical laboratory, and foreign student classes. Over the years, it has trained more than 100 doctors and masters students. In 2012, it was awarded the first batch of standardized training bases for resident physicians, accumulating more than 110 resident students. At the same time, it trains more than ten advanced trainees every year. It sends a large number of pediatric medical talents to primary medical institutions inside and outside the province. It undertakes dozens of teaching projects from the National Health Commission and the university. The video and audio-visual teaching materials have won many awards, including the first prize of the National Health Commission. Many professors have participated in the editing and review of national pediatric teaching materials and journals.