Wuhan University Stomatological Hospital
Wuhan University Stomatological Hospital has a significant role in the development of modern stomatology,[1] and was one of the earliest hospitals of stomatology in China.
History
Wuhan University Stomatological Hospital,[2] known as the birthplace of China’s modern dental science education, was founded in 1960.
Personnel
For the past 100 years, Wuhan University Stomatological Hospital has enjoyed the reputation as the Mecca of China’s higher education in dental sciences. With the notion of “excellent, dedicative, skilled and competitive”, the College nurtures not only the nation’s top educators and leading scholars in dental sciences, but also the backbones who chosen to preside over many of the nation’s Colleges of Stomatology. Wuhan University Stomatological Hospital employs the integration model of teaching, clinical care, and research. This College has faculty and staff of 417. Among them, there are 128 senior faculty members, 38 mentors for Ph.D., 57 mentors for M.S. West China College of Stomatology has 5 instruction departments embedding with 24 research sub-units that cover the fields of basic science of Stomatology, oral medicine, oral and maxillofacial surgery, prosthodontics, and orthodontics. Accredited doctoral degree programs are offered in Clinical Science of Stomatology and Basic Science of Stomatology which have been included into National Quality Courses. The college offers 5-year bachelor's degree programs, 7-year master's degree programs, and 8-year doctoral degree programs.
International Journal of Oral Science
The International Journal of Oral Science,[3] which has been listed into database of Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE) and PubMed[4] (MEDLINE), was edited and published in English by the college in 2008, with the government’s approval as the nation’s first English journal on dental sciences in China. Awards and honorable titles are bestowed upon its faculty members by national and provincial institutions because of their achievements. Just to name a few: 3 National Doctoral Theses, one faculty member as one of chief scientists for our nation’s 973 Project, 2 as Eminent Professor with Thousand Talent Project; one as the nation’s Eminent Professor, 2 as Eminent Professor with National Changjiang project, 2 as award-winners of National Outstanding Youth Foundation, 2 professors as the members of Discipline Review Group of State Department, 2 professors as National Talents by Ministry of Human Resource Administration, 16 as New Millennium Talents by National Ministry of Education, 1 as Eminent Professor by the National Ministry of Science and Technology, 2 as Specialist by National Ministry of Public Health.
Affiliated organizations
Wuhan University Stomatological Hospital has long been ranked as one of the nation’s top hospitals. The hospital functions as the clinical treatment center for oral diseases and maxillofacial surgery in China because of its abilities to provide full range of sophisticated diagnostic and therapeutic treatments. The hospital has a 54,540 square-meter new clinical building which hosts 350 dental units and 260 in-patient beds. The hospital annually treats about 400,000 outpatients (including emergency cases) and admits 4,000 inpatients among whom about 3,500 receive operations.
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