Pediatrics is a medical science that studies the growth and development of children, and improves the physical and mental health of children and the quality of disease prevention and treatment. It is a second-level discipline in the field of clinical medicine. Its research objects are children from fetus to adolescence. The research contents can be divided into the following four aspects:
To study the rule of children's growth and development and its influencing factors, and constantly improve children's physical and intellectual development level and social adaptability.
To study the occurrence and development of various diseases in children, as well as the theory and technology of clinical diagnosis and treatment, so as to continuously reduce the incidence and mortality of diseases and improve the cure rate of diseases.
The study of preventive measures for various diseases, including immunization, screening for congenital and hereditary diseases, and universal education in scientific knowledge, is the most promising aspect of modern pediatrics and will occupy an increasingly important position.
To study the recovery possibilities and specific methods of various diseases in children, and to help these children to improve their quality of life and complete recovery as much as possible.
The above research is summed up as the purpose of pediatrics: to protect children's health and improve the quality of life.
Its mission is to continuously explore the theory of pediatric medicine and summarize the experience in practice, improve the level of disease prevention and treatment, reduce the morbidity and mortality of children, strengthen children's physique, and ensure children's health. It can be divided into preventive pediatrics, developmental pediatrics, and clinical pediatrics. Clinical pediatrics has spawned specialized branches such as cardiology, hematology, neurology, nephrology, endocrinology, and genetics.
The textbook of this course is pediatrics, the ninth edition of the people's medical publishing house. For clinical medicine professional teaching, teaching more than 1500 people every year. Adhering to the school policy of teaching, scientific research and medical treatment, the school has formulated teaching ideas, teaching programs, teaching materials, clinical internship manuals, clinical practice manuals, computer multimedia textbooks and slides to cultivate many outstanding talents in the field of pediatrics. In pediatric clinical teaching, we should pay attention to the cultivation of students' overall quality and ability, constantly explore and implement educational reform, and establish an institutionalized and standardized teaching evaluation system.
The teaching team now has 136 professional teachers, 4 doctoral supervisors, 27 master supervisors, 33 teachers with senior professional titles and 55 teachers with deputy senior professional titles.