Affiliated Stomatological Hospital

Affiliated Stomatological Hospital (Stomatological College)of Nanjing Medical University , also known as Stomatological Hospital of Jiangsu Province and Red Cross Stomatological Hospital of Jiangsu Province, is the first tertiary Class A specialized stomatological hospital in Jiangsu Province, the leading unit in the establishment of the national oral regional medical center jointly built by the National Health Commission and the provincial government, and a key construction unit of high-level hospitals in Jiangsu Province. It is currently the vice-president unit of the Chinese Stomatological Association, the president unit of the Jiangsu Stomatological Association, a construction unit of research-oriented hospitals in Jiangsu Province, the Jiangsu Oral Medicine Innovation Center, and also the affiliated unit of the Jiangsu Oral Health Guidance Center, the Jiangsu Oral Medicine Professional Quality Control Center, and the Jiangsu Grassroots Characteristic Department Incubation Center.

The hospital has a total area of more than 70,000 square meters, with 13 first-level clinical departments, 7 medical technology departments, and 9 outpatient departments outside the hospital. It has an annual outpatient and emergency volume of more than 900,000 person-times and an annual discharge of more than 5,000 patients. It has 4 national key clinical specialties including the Department of Endodontics, Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Prosthodontics, and Orthodontics, and all the main departments of stomatology are provincial key clinical specialties. It has ranked A in the national tertiary public hospital performance assessment for three consecutive years (the highest level among national stomatological specialist hospitals).

The hospital was the first in China to propose the medical service concept of "3 minutes before diagnosis", which was affirmed by the former Ministry of Health. It has continuously promoted multidisciplinary diagnosis and treatment and the construction of characteristic specialties, and focused on building the first 5G + oral telemedicine consultation center in the province to improve the diagnosis and treatment of difficult diseases and the ability to carry out key technologies. As a construction unit of the Jiangsu Elderly Health Promotion Project and the Jiangsu Center for Oral Health Education Research for Children and Adolescents, it focuses on the "elderly and children" and takes multiple measures to promote oral health throughout the life cycle. The hospital is also the first national medical qualification examination practical skills examination and examiner training base (oral category) in the province, a provincial demonstration clinical base for general stomatology training, one of the first batch of national standardized residency training bases (oral category), and a standardized training base for oral and maxillofacial surgery specialists.

The hospital currently has more than 900 employees, including more than 160 with senior professional titles, more than 20 doctoral supervisors, and more than 70 master supervisors. More than 50 people have been selected into various provincial and above talent programs such as the National Major Talent Plan, experts enjoying special government allowances from the State Council, "Young and Middle-aged Experts with Outstanding Contributions" in Jiangsu Province, outstanding medical leading talents in Jiangsu Province, recipients of the Jiangsu Outstanding Youth Fund, famous teachers in Jiangsu Province, specially appointed professors in Jiangsu Province, the "333 Project" in Jiangsu Province, the "Double Creation Plan" in Jiangsu Province, and the "Six Talent Peaks" in Jiangsu Province; more than 90 experts have held academic positions such as chairpersons and vice-chairpersons in the Chinese Stomatological Association.

The discipline of stomatology is the only advantageous discipline in stomatology in Jiangsu Province. It has the right to confer doctoral degrees in the first-level discipline and professional doctoral degrees, and has a postdoctoral research mobile station. It has been approved as a Jiangsu Postdoctoral Innovation Practice Base. In the 2024 Soft Science Ranking of Chinese University Oral Majors, it ranks 7th in the country and 1st in Jiangsu. The stomatology major is one of the first batch of national first-class undergraduate majors, a characteristic major in higher education, a brand major and a key major in Jiangsu higher education. It has won one second prize of the National Teaching Achievement Award and one first prize of the Jiangsu Teaching Achievement Award.

The hospital has built a national key laboratory for oral disease research and prevention (under cultivation and construction), the Jiangsu Oral Translational Medicine Engineering Research Center, and the Nanjing Medical University Oral Medicine Clinical Research Center. In the past five years, it has undertaken more than 200 projects at all levels, including more than 50 national projects such as key projects of the National Natural Science Foundation of China, and has successively won the second prize of the Natural Science Award of the Ministry of Education and the second prize of the Jiangsu Science and Technology Award.

The hospital attaches great importance to exchanges and cooperation at home and abroad. It has established long-term cooperative relationships with universities such as the University of Illinois at Chicago in the United States, Aarhus University and Aalborg University in Denmark, and the University of Hong Kong. It has jointly offered international courses with universities such as the University of Dundee in the United Kingdom and Marquette University in the United States. It has established various forms and multi-level cooperation such as medical consortiums, specialty alliances, and characteristic department incubations with more than 100 stomatological medical institutions in Xinjiang, Tibet, East China and other regions.

Since its establishment 50 years ago, the Hospital has always adhered to the mission of safeguarding people's health, cultivating medical talents, and conducting scientific research. Adhering to the spirit of the hospital motto of "Respecting people and work, being extremely precise and sincere", it has continuously strived to create a high-level research-oriented stomatology school and stomatological specialist hospital that is first-class in China and renowned internationally.