Renji Hospital Affiliated to Shanghai Jiaotong University School of Medicine
Built in 1844, Renji Hospital was the first Western medical hospital after the opening of Shanghai, with a history of one hundred and sixty years so far, she is one of the earliest comprehensive Western medical hospitals in China, and it is the cradle of China's modern medicine.
Over a century and a half, the scale of the hospital has been expanding, especially in the past fifty years since the founding of the country, the hospital has been developed rapidly, and has become a comprehensive Grade 3A hospital with a complete range of disciplines, integrating medical treatment, teaching and scientific research. The western part of the hospital is located in the Central Business District of Huangpu District, Shanghai; the eastern part is located in the Lujiazui Financial and Trade Zone of Pudong New Area. The hospital has about 1,200 beds and more than 2,200 employees. There are 10 administrative functional departments, 26 clinical departments, 6 medical technology departments, 2 municipal research institutes, 17 clinical research laboratories, 8 clinical research centers, and 10 clinical diagnostic and treatment centers.
Renji Hospital has strong medical and technical strength, with 87 chief physicians and professors and 127 deputy chief physicians and associate professors. The hospital attaches great importance to the construction of disciplines and the cultivation of talents, and has achieved remarkable results, with many disciplines having a certain reputation in China. Among them, Gastroenterology is the key discipline of the Ministry of Education and the key laboratory of the Ministry of Health; Cardiovascular Medicine and Surgery are the key disciplines of Shanghai Municipal Education Commission; Rheumatology and Anesthesiology are the leading disciplines of Shanghai Municipal Bureau of Health; Laser Medical Research Center is the key laboratory of Municipal Science and Technology Commission; Neurosurgery is the key discipline of Shanghai Jiaotong University; and Reproductive Medicine is quite special in the diagnosis and treatment of reproductive immunity and male diseases. The hospital has taken various measures to strengthen the cultivation of young and middle-aged scientific and technological talents, and at the same time, it has actively introduced excellent talents from home and abroad and done a good job in returning expatriates. Twenty-five young teachers have been awarded the title of "Outstanding Young Teachers" at the municipal and bureau levels, and 23 young scientists and technicians have been awarded the "Hundred Talents Program" of Shanghai Municipality, the "Shuguang Program" of Shanghai Municipal Education Commission, the "Shuguang Program" of Shanghai Municipal Science and Technology Commission, and the "Shuguang Program" of Shanghai Municipal Government. "The program has laid a solid foundation for the construction of the discipline and the development of medical education and research.
Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine has 18 teaching and research departments, which undertake the teaching tasks of clinical medicine, nutrition, health management, medical testing, stomatology, imaging and other specialties, and has trained more than 5,000 medical talents for the country over the decades. There are 13 doctoral degree-granting points and 30 supervisors for doctoral students; 21 master's degree-granting points and 109 supervisors for master's students. So far, 146 doctors and 340 masters have been trained, and 4 postdoctoral fellows have entered and left the postdoctoral mobile station of clinical medicine. Clinical medical education is rich in characteristics and has a wide influence in the field of clinical education in China. The Clinical Education Branch of National Society for Higher Medical Education and the National Center for Higher Clinical Medical Education are both located in Renji Hospital, which has won ten excellent teaching achievement awards at the ministerial and municipal levels.
The hospital is committed to strengthening exchanges and cooperation with overseas medical circles, and has established academic exchanges and friendly cooperative relationships with more than 20 medical schools in nearly 10 countries and regions, including the United States, France and Japan. Since the reform and opening up, it has received more than 7,000 visits and lectures from foreign guests, and has sent more than 900 persons to study, lecture and cooperate in scientific research abroad.
The hospital has advanced medical equipments such as stereotactic microelectrode stimulator (cytoknife), magnetic resonator (MRI), whole-body X-ray computed tomography (CT), digital radiography (DR), digital subtraction angiography (DSA), single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT), color Doppler diagnostic instrument, flow cytometer and so on. large-scale medical equipment, and liquid oxygen center supply system.
The hospital has been awarded the title of Advanced Collective of National Health System for six times and Shanghai Civilized Unit for five consecutive times.