Department of Affiliated Hospital of Guilin Medical College: Refinement of Gastroenterology and Internal Medicine to Make Patients More “Medical” Relying

This article is reproduced from: People’s Daily Online

Auntie Wang from Xiangshan District, Guilin City, Guangxi has often felt “stomach pain” after dinner in recent years. . After examination, the doctor found that two peanut-sized stones in the common bile duct were the “culprit”.

Bo Xiaotong, deputy director of the department, performed minimally invasive endoscopic choledochopancreatic lithotripsy (ERCP) for Auntie Wang. It only took 20 minutes to remove the stones without surgery, which completely solved the problem. It has been a chronic disease for several years, and the cost is more than half of that of traditional surgery.

Dr. Liyan Wang (right) is performing a painless gastroscopy examination for a patient. Photo courtesy of the Affiliated Hospital of Guilin Medical College

“Thanks to the coordinated development of medical treatment, teaching and scientific research in the affiliated hospitals of colleges and universities, in recent years, our department has closely followed the cutting-edge development direction of digestive disease treatment, improved treatment technology, and continuously provided Patients relieve their pain.” Li Bin, director of the Department of Gastroenterology at the Affiliated Hospital of Guilin Medical College, introduced that the predecessor of this department was the “Second Internal Medicine Department” founded in 1985. In 1997, it was officially renamed the Department of Gastroenterology, and in 2017, it was rated as a clinical key point in Guangxi. specialist. “After more than 30 years of development, it has become the largest diagnosis and treatment center, first-class equipment, most powerful and most influential digestive system disease diagnosis and treatment center in northern Guangxi.”

Li Bin introduced that at present, the There are 29 physicians and 35 nurses in the department, including 5 professors and chief physicians, 9 associate professors and deputy chief physicians, 7 attending physicians, and 4 deputy chief nurses; 1 doctoral supervisor and 4 master supervisors; All physicians have master’s degree or above, 4 of them have obtained MD, 4 are studying for MD, and 3 have experience of studying abroad. “Our department’s talent echelon construction is relatively reasonable. Each sub-specialty focuses on cultivating top-notch young talents, and has won many honors and awards in various professional competitions, such as: ‘Deyou Cup’ early gastric cancer standardized diagnosis and treatment case evaluation competition in Guangxi and South China The first place in the competition area, the winner of the national finals; the first prize of the Guangxi ‘Genie Cup’ standard gastroscope operation competition.”

Dr. Li Bin examines a patient. Photo by People’s Daily Online reporter Peng Yuanhe

It is understood that in recent years, high-level talents such as Wang Liyan and Li Bin have been introduced to the Department of Gastroenterology by the hospital and have led the department to carry out various domestic advanced digestive endoscopic treatment techniques. , including: endoscopic full-thickness resection, peroral endoscopic myotomy, endoscopic submucosal tunnel tumor resection and other minimally invasive treatment techniques, and endoscopic ultrasonographic fine-needle aspiration, endoscopic pancreatic Bile duct lithotomy, endoscopic submucosal dissection for early cancer, gastrointestinal metal stent placement, early gastrointestinal cancer screening and many other technologies maintain the leading level in the field of digestion in Guangxi. At the same time, many other special techniques have also been carried out, such as enteroscopy, endoscopic retrograde appendix lavage, endoscopic treatment of internal hemorrhoids, endoscopic laser photodynamic treatment of malignant tumors in the alimentary canal cavity, etc. The concept of minimally invasive treatment under endoscopy has created good social benefits.

“In addition to being an excellent clinician, we must also strive to be an excellent research worker and teacher.” Li Bin said that based on the attributes of the affiliated hospital of the university, his colleagues in the department also persevered. Do research and get good research results.

It is understood that the department has carried out extensive research on gastrointestinal tumors, hepatobiliary and pancreatic diseases, chronic liver diseases, primary liver cancer and other diseases. In 2021, Wang Liyan’s scientific research team won the second prize of Guangxi Science and Technology Progress Award, and Wang Liyan and Li Bin respectively won one of the general projects of the National Natural Science Foundation of China. So far, the Department of Gastroenterology has won 5 projects of the National Natural Science Foundation of China, 16 department-level projects, and received a total of more than 3 million scientific research funds; published 16 SCI papers, and published more than 100 papers in foreign medical journals and domestic medical journals above the provincial level. , participated in the compilation of many domestic undergraduate textbooks. Among them, the Higher Education Press “Internal Science” co-authored by Professor Wang Liyan and Professor Li Bin has become a series of textbooks for national excellent courses, and won the second prize of the National Excellent Textbooks issued by the Ministry of Education.

Team of Gastroenterologists. Photo courtesy of the Affiliated Hospital of Guilin Medical College

Li Bin introduced that the Department of Gastroenterology of the Affiliated Hospital of Guilin Medical College is also the chairman unit of the Digestive Endoscopy Branch of the Guilin Medical Association, and the Guilin Digestive Endoscopy Quality Control Center, which is responsible for local and It is responsible for the quality control of digestive endoscopy, continuing education and professional training of digestive specialists in the region, and provides assistance and guidance to surrounding and grass-roots hospitals.

“The department regularly organizes national-level and autonomous-level continuing education programs and academic activities, and invites well-known experts at home and abroad to give academic lectures and trainings, as well as surgical demonstrations and guidance, and strive to improve gastroenterology physicians in northern Guangxi. improve the level of diagnosis and treatment, so that patients can get better diagnosis and treatment services.” Li Bin said.

Because of its fruitful achievements in clinical, scientific research and teaching, in 2021, the department will be rated as the hospital’s annual civilized department, and the internal medicine teaching and research department will be rated as an excellent teaching and research department by Guilin Medical College. Wang Liyan and Li Bin were elected as The new deputy director of the Digestive Endoscopy Branch of the Guangxi Medical Association and the new deputy director of the Gastroenterology Branch of the Guangxi Medical Association.