Department Overview

The Department ofGeneral Medicinehas been approved as a Guangdong Provincial Key Clinical Specialty and a Shenzhen Medical Key Discipline. It encompasses inpatient wards, general practice outpatient services, and 45 community health service centers (stations). It also includes a General Practice Teaching and Research Office and 11 grassroots practice bases, with one of the first model wards for humanistic care nursing.

Leveraging the resources of the hospital group, it builds a deeply-rooted general practice service system that connects community health services with tertiary hospitals, focusing on residents' health throughout their lives. Over 400 general practitioners within the group are involved in comprehensive, life-cycle health management for Luohu residents, ensuring they receive standardized and consistent medical care and health services from community health centers to hospitals. The annual number of general practice consultations exceeds 2 million, achieving the highest ratio of community/hospital consultations in Shenzhen for the years 2021-2022.

In 2017, the department introduced the Sanming Engineering team led by Academician Gu Dongfeng from the Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences Fuwai Hospital. In 2019, it was awarded the National Standardized Metabolic Disease Management Center, with ten community health centers recognized as national standardized respiratory disease prevention and treatment centers, nutritional demonstration centers, and provincial-level community nursing and public health specialist nurse training bases. By 2020, it had been designated as a national standardized training base for general practice residency, and in 2023, it received provincial support to establish an international general practitioner training center. From 2020 to 2023, it consecutively ranked among the top nominees in the South China region in the Fudan specialty reputation rankings.

Diseases Treated and Health Issues Addressed

1. Diagnosis and treatment of common and frequently occurring diseases.

2. Chronic disease and coexisting conditions management, such as diabetes, hypertension, osteoporosis, etc.

3. Undifferentiated diseases: diagnosis and treatment of unclear health issues like fatigue, weight loss, edema, etc.

4. Health counseling, health assessment, and comprehensive interpretation of physical examination reports.

Equipment Configuration

The department is equipped with scanning glucose monitoring systems, insulin pumps, general practice diagnostic instruments, etc.

Services Provided

1. Comprehensive, all-around, and lifelong health guidance and disease treatment plans for residents.

2. Conducting preventive health consultations, health assessments, and health examinations.

3. Diagnosing and treating undifferentiated health problems or diseases, such as dizziness, headache, chest tightness, abdominal pain, fever, edema, etc.

4. Treating common and frequently occurring diseases in communities, including various upper respiratory tract infections, acute gastroenteritis, primary hypertension, hyperuricemia, hyperlipidemia, migraines, community-acquired pneumonia, etc.

5. Comprehensive management, evaluation, and treatment of chronic non-communicable diseases in communities, such as standardized assessment, diagnosis, and treatment of hypertension and type 2 diabetes; stable phase management of asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, etc.

6. Providing convenient two-way referral channels for community patients to facilitate timely visits, examinations, and hospitalization.

7. Implementing subcutaneous dynamic glucose monitoring, scanning glucose monitoring technology, and subcutaneous insulin pump therapy for diabetic patients in hyperglycemic states.

8. Preventing and treating diabetes, thyroid disorders, metabolic syndrome, osteoporosis, etc.

9. Treating gastritis, peptic ulcers, intestinal flora dysbiosis, fatty liver, drug-induced liver function abnormalities, alcohol-induced liver function abnormalities, etc.

10. Managing heart failure, secondary hypertension, stable angina pectoris, and arrhythmias through medication.

11. Treating pneumonia, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, bronchiectasis, asthma, etc.

12. For patients with multi-system involvement and multiple chronic diseases requiring simultaneous consultation across several specialties, providing integrated treatment.

Technical Advantages

1. With the department at its core, connecting with community health services and implementing two-way referrals, closely linking upper and lower levels; adopting a "general practice first, then specialized medicine" healthcare model for complex and difficult diseases involving multiple specialties, saving residents' time while providing quality, convenient, economical, effective, integrated, and continuous medical and health services for individuals, families, and communities.

2. Undertaking our hospital's general practice residency training base and teaching responsibilities for Shantou University, Anhui University of Science and Technology, etc., currently having 33 general practice resident trainees, assisting in managing daily rotations; formulating and implementing specific training plans, conducting clinical outpatient and ward teaching, teaching quality management, and evaluation; enhancing coordination between other relevant clinical departments and grassroots practice bases, regularly performing teaching supervision, strengthening teaching capabilities at grassroots practice bases, guiding them to standardize general practice outpatient teaching, actively engaging in general practitioner transition training and continuing medical education for instructors at grassroots practice bases, promoting interaction between teaching and diagnosis/treatment, and continuously improving the quality of talent cultivation.

3. Since its establishment, organizing multiple international general practice conferences, inviting experts from Germany, Australia, Switzerland, Denmark, and other countries and regions for academic exchanges.