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The
Obstetrics and Gynecology Hospital of Medical
Center of Fudan University( Former Shanghai Medical University) is
a teaching hospital developed from Xi Men Women and Children
Hospital--a missionary hospital set up by an American woman --Ms
Margaret Willianson in 1884. In 1951, it was affiliated to Shanghai
First Medical College and renamed as the Obstetrics and gynecology
Hospital of Shanghai First Medical College. The hospital belongs
directly to the Ministry of Public Health. In 1992, it was approved
to be the obstetrics and gynecology hospital of the Red Cross of
Shanghai and was in the first group to be entitled "baby
friendly hospital" by the Ministry of Public Health and the
Children Foundation of the United Nations and WHO. The hospital was
entitled ¢óA
specialized hospital in 1995 and the model unit of Shanghai in
1997-1998.
The
hospital's occupying area is 12,000 square meters and its building
area is 21,000 square meters. The hospital owns many kinds of
facilities for diagnosis and treatment such as the whole set of
gynecological endoscopes (including laparoscope, colposcope,
hysteroscope and amnioscope), automatic biochemical analytical
apparatus, 3-D color Doppler, color ultrasound, sound scan for bone
mineral density, 800mA Siemens X-ray, TV laparoscope for diagnosis,
treatment and teaching. There are 10 wards with 370 beds in the
hospital including department
of gynecology, obstetrics, family planning, traditional Chinese
medicine combined with western medicine, neonatology etc. In
addition to normal clinical departments, there are many specialized
clinical departments in the outpatient department such as
perinatology, genetics, endocrinology, oncology, infertility,
perimenopause, cervical diseases, sexually transmitted diseases etc.
The annual number of outpatient and inpatient is 270,000 and 70,000
respectively. There are 663 faculties including 61 professors and
associate-professors in the hospital.
In
order to develop the ascendancy the hospital set up the Obstetrics
and gynecology Research Institute mainly working on women
reproductive regulation in 1979, the Reproductive Regulation
Research Center of Former Shanghai Medical University in 1986, the
Traditional Chinese Medicine combined with Western Medicine Center
treating menstrual disease in 1994 and the Shanghai Female
Reproductive and Endocrinological Disease Center in 1998.
The
hospital has a long history and solid academic basis. The former
chairman of the hospital--Shuzhen Wang is one of the founders of
Chinese obstetrics and gynecology. It has long been said that there
was Shuzhen Wang in southern China and Qiaozhi Lin in northern
China, both of whom were known all over the world for their academic
achievement. Under Dr Wang's supervision, many qualified doctors
have grown up from the hospital and became famous experts in the
field of obstetrics and gynecology. With their great efforts, the
hospital has the ascendancy over other hospitals in such academic
area as reproduction and endocrinology, gynecological oncology,
traditional Chinese medicine combined with western medicine,
perinatology, perimenopause and reproductive immunology etc. The
gynecology of traditional Chinese medicine combined with western
medicine was entitled "The Ascendant academic of Shanghai".
The
first test tube baby in eastern China was born in our hospital. This
achievement won the second prize of Shanghai Clinical Medicine in
1995. The Genetics and IVF Institute China--USA Center was set up by
our hospital and the American Genetics and Laboratory Biology
Institute in September 1998. More than 200 test tube babies have
been succeeded since the opening of the center, the success rate is
as high as 35%, this help the center's assisted reproductive
technology gain the leading place in China.
Medical
Technique
Doctors
carry out operations of highly developed technique in daily clinical
work, such as operations for complicated gynecological diseases,
cytoreductive surgery, transplantation of sigmoid for vaginal
construction, hysterectomy and ovariocystectomy by TV laparoscope,
laser therapy, excision of neoplasm or myomectomy of submucous myoma
by hysteroscope, resection of endometrium for hypermenorrhea, HSG or
SSG, salpingostomy, artificial insemination and test tube baby etc.
According to the statistics in 1999, the correct diagnosis rate was
99.72%, cure rate was 90.59%, successful salvage rate was 88%,
perinatal mortality was 7.2¡ë,
maternal mortality was 0%. These achievements are at the leading
place in Shanghai.
Teaching
Level
Xi
Men Women and Children Hospital set up Xie He Nurse School and
Shanghai Medical College for women, and undertook all teaching task
since the early twenties in this century. Since its affiliation to Former Shanghai Medical University
in 1951 the hospital undertook the
teaching task of Ob&Gyn for undergraduate medical students.
Every year the hospital finishes teaching, demonstrating and
internship in Ob&Gy for more than 300 undergraduate medical
students and advanced teaching for more than 60 doctors from all
over the country. Several national short-termed academic classes are
held every year in order to promulgate new knowledge and technique.
The hospital has taken up the task for postgraduate student training
since the restoration of postgraduate system in 1978. There are 5
tutors for doctor degree and 16 tutors for master degree in the
hospital at present. 69 masters and 26 doctors had got their degrees
from the hospital. There are more than 40 students studying for
doctor or master degree in the hospital annually. The hospital used
to be the chief editing unit for unified text book of Ob&Gy for
Chinese medical college and university for many years. The text book
of Ob&Gy which was chiefly edited by Huaimei Zheng won the prize
of outstanding text book and the second prize of scientific
development by the Ministry of Public Health. The experts of our
hospital published a great number of scientific monographs and
clinical references since the foundation of the P.R.China.13
monographs had been published in the latest 5 years. All these have
helped the development of Ob&Gy in China.
Scientific
Research
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professional researchers and all clinical doctors are engaged in the
research troop of the hospital. The research condition is fairly
good. In addition to the research instruments in the Obstetrics and
Gynecology Institute new labs for clinical research of gynecology,
obstetrics, Chinese traditional medicine combined with western
medicine and molecular biochemistry were set up in the late years.
These provide advantage for the development of scientific research.
In the latest 10 years the hospital won 42 prizes of scientific
achievement, among them 2 were from the nation and 26 were from the
ministry or commission. The hospital is at the leading place in the
fields of Chinese traditional medicine combined with western
medicine, gynecological oncology, reproductive endocrinology.
Chinese traditional medicine combined with western medicine is most
outstanding and is at the leading place in the world.
Representatives from Germany, England, America and Bulgaria used to
come and study in our hospital in this field. The researches of
early diagnosis and treatment for cervical cancer, pregnancy induced
hypertension and the use of GNRH-a which is made in China in
gynecology are at the leading place in the world.
With
the development of economics and deepening of medical reformation
the hospital has made new policy and measures for scientific
development and staff training and is now working hard to build a
modern Ob&Gyn hospital.
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