The department of surgery currently has 21 operating rooms, general wards, 3AI cardiovascular surgery and transplantation SICU beds, 3BI surgical and neurosurgical intensive care units and a burn center, all offering complete emergency and critical care services.
The Surgery Department face increasing demands on medical services, so that each subspecialty of the Surgery Department makes an all-out effort to enhance the quality of services by 1) reducing the proportion of deaths and complications and 2) monitoring and improving the ratio of readmission within 14 days, extended hospitalization, postoperative ventilatory support more than 48 hours, postoperative TPN and postoperative dialysis. Moreover, every subspecialty also participate in the project of interdisciplinary collaboration for achieving quality improvement, actively promote the development of each subspecialty and plan to cultivate all specialists.
In respect of education, the Surgery Department plans for various types of teaching program such as subspecialty morning conference, residents training courses, thesis writing, teaching clinic conducting and UGY & PGY surgical related topics. The Surgery Department also regularly hold ATLS, endoscopic manipulation training and suture training workshop. The department requires physicians at all levels to participate in cross-functional team conference and expecting them to understand the model of holistic health care. The Surgery Department also invite Mr. LIOU, ZIH-JIA, a consultant from Wan Fang Hospital to provide continuous solid training education for our physicians.
In respect of research and teaching, the Surgery Department encourage every physicians to propose research topics, publish research articles, and obtain teaching licensure.