Preliminary experience on construting research-based gastrointestinal surgery department of Nanfang Hospital / 中华胃肠外科杂志

ABSTRACT

Construction of research-based surgery department includes standardizing surgical practices, collecting and analyzing clinical data, discovering problems in clinical practices, designing and conducting reliable and high-level clinical research, improving and innovating surgical technologies according to research conclusions, working out technical specifications and promoting them through clinical education, and creating new clinical research needs arised by innovative and cutting-edge technologies and theories. By integrating technology, research, standardization, promotion and evaluation, and making close connections between different parts of clinical practices, scientific research and clinical teaching, it helps achieve coordinated development of surgical practices and translational research, and will finally promote the cultivation of medical talents and the progress of medical technologies. Since 2010, the General Surgery Department of Nanfang Hospital has established the basic idea of subject construction of "research-oriented surgery with data as the core, minimally invasive surgery with laparoscopic as the characteristic, and specialized surgery with high-efficiency service as the guidance", and has taken a series of measures to build it into a well-known research-based gastrointestinal surgery in China. The achievements of this speciaty have emerged from nothing, research platforms from few to many, the talent echelon from following to leading, and the influence from regional to international. The discipline construction has achieved a leap from quantitative to qualitative changes.