The West China School of Public Health/West China Fourth Hospital of Sichuan University is one of the most famous public health colleges in China and the only tertiary Grade A occupational disease specialist hospital among the 44 commissioned hospitals of the National Health Commission. The college and hospital are deeply integrated, implementing the important deployment of "promoting the construction of a healthy China" and "innovating the mechanism of medical prevention coordination and integration, and improving the public health system" proposed in the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China report. We actively explore new models for the development of West China Public Health/West China Fourth Hospital, innovate the system and mechanism of "medical prevention integration, medical education integration, and industry education integration", take multiple measures and take multiple measures to promote the coordinated development of medical prevention research and management, strengthen the deep integration of industry, academia, and research, share development achievements, focus on improving the level of medical services, continuously promote the modernization of the governance system and governance capacity of the college hospital, and create a new benchmark for domestic medical prevention integration. In recent years, our hospital has won the honors of National Advanced Collective in Medical and Health System, Sichuan May Day Labor Award, Sichuan Advanced Collective in Poverty Alleviation, Sichuan Advanced Collective in Fighting COVID-19, Sichuan Advanced Collective in Health Emergency, and Sichuan Advanced Collective in Radiological Health.
School/hospital has always adhered to the development strategy of "Party building leading, medical prevention establishing the hospital, science and education revitalizing the hospital, and talent strengthening the hospital", insisting on "medical education centered on students, medical services centered on patients, and management services centered on employees", and leading the high-quality development of the cause with high-quality Party building. Our hospital is the earliest cradle of public health talents in China, and one of the earliest colleges to establish a major in preventive medicine. We were the first to establish a major in health inspection in China and enjoy a high reputation. At present, there are national first-class undergraduate majors in Preventive Medicine, Health Inspection and Quarantine; Provincial first-class undergraduate major in Food Hygiene and Nutrition; There are four undergraduate majors, including a dual bachelor's degree in Preventive Medicine and Software Engineering, which are interdisciplinary and cross disciplinary. There are postdoctoral mobile stations and first level discipline authorization sites for "Public Health and Preventive Medicine" and "Public Health", as well as 9 second level discipline doctoral authorization sites and 11 second level discipline master's authorization sites for graduate students. Our hospital currently has one national key discipline, one national clinical key specialty, ten national clinical key specialty construction projects, and five provincial key disciplines: nutrition and food hygiene are national key disciplines, occupational diseases are national clinical key specialties, labor health and environmental hygiene, social medicine and health management, health inspection, palliative medicine, health promotion and health education are provincial key disciplines. In 2020, our hospital was approved for the "High level Applied Public Health Talent Training Innovation Project" and is one of the 11 approved units in China. We have already recruited applied PhDs; In 2022, the Ministry of Education recognized Sichuan University as one of the first universities to construct a high-level public health college. In the 2023 "Ranking of Chinese Universities in Soft Science", our hospital's Food Hygiene and Nutrition and Health Inspection and Quarantine majors are rated as A+level majors. In 2023, our project "Emphasizing Integration, Strengthening Practice, and Promoting Innovation - Reform and Practice of the Training Model for First Class Health Inspection Undergraduate Talents" won the second prize of the "National Teaching Achievement Award for Higher Education (Undergraduate)".
The hospital covers an area of 18 acres, with a building area of approximately 70000 square meters and nearly a thousand open beds. It features geriatric medicine, occupational disease, and minimally invasive treatment. The clinical medical technology department is fully equipped and provides services such as health management, occupational health examinations, and hazard factor detection and evaluation. The occupational medicine discipline group has diagnostic qualifications for pneumoconiosis and all ten major occupational diseases, which can meet the testing needs of all occupational disease projects in the industry. It is a leader in occupational health monitoring in Sichuan Province and even the southwestern region; The new double lung large capacity lung lavage surgery, which was first implemented in the western region, has treated thousands of patients; Application of blood purification technology for the diagnosis and treatment of various acute and chronic poisoning and renal failure; Treat various acute poisonings and shoulder the responsibility of emergency hygiene for poisoning in the southwest region. The geriatric medicine discipline group has outstanding comprehensive diagnosis and treatment capabilities for chronic diseases in the elderly, especially critical illnesses such as comorbidities; Establish a multidisciplinary comprehensive management system for chronic diseases; Form a three-level linkage palliative care service network of home community hospital. The Minimally Invasive Diagnosis and Treatment Discipline Group introduces cutting-edge medical equipment and adopts a characteristic minimally invasive diagnosis and treatment model that combines laparoscopic technology, multidisciplinary joint treatment, and accelerated rehabilitation surgery. It is guided by microvessels and nerves in urology, digestion, respiration, bone, eye, ear, nose, tumor and other surgeries, with precision and efficiency. As of now, our hospital has 10 national clinical key specialty construction projects and 1 national clinical key specialty.
we aim to achieve high-level integration and development of disciplines and specialties, and faces the major health needs of the people. We have laid out the "Active Health and Precision Prevention Medicine Discipline Group for Major Chronic Non communicable Diseases" and the "Occupational Health and Occupational Medicine Discipline Group" to increase platform construction, and established the "Sichuan University West China Union Medical College Chen Zhiqian Health Research Institute", which has 10 medical prevention integration research centers; Construct three refined queues, namely the "West China Elderly Health Queue", "West China Occupational Pneumoconiosis Queue", and "West China Bone Health Queue", incubate a series of national key research projects, and contribute to the construction of a healthy China. Our hospital publishes the journal "Modern Preventive Medicine" as a core journal in the fields of preventive medicine and hygiene, as well as a source journal for Chinese scientific and technological paper statistics. It has been awarded the titles of "Excellent Journal of the Chinese Preventive Medicine Association Series" and "5th China Excellent Scientific and Technological Journal".
The experimental platform of the college hospital covers an area of over 4000 square meters, with equipment value exceeding 70 million yuan, supporting three provincial-level laboratories. Our institution currently has over 1100 faculty members, including 40 doctoral supervisors and 84 master's supervisors. Among them, 9 have been selected for the national high-level talent plan, 14 have been selected for the Sichuan Province high-level talent plan, 8 have been selected for the Sichuan University "Double Hundred Talents Project", and 16 are academic and technical leaders and reserve candidates in Sichuan Province. In the past 5 years, our institute has initiated more than 1500 scientific research projects at all levels and types, and more than 100 scientific research achievements have won awards at all levels, including 2 national and provincial awards.
Our institution maintains long-term exchanges and friendly cooperation with well-known universities or research institutions at home and abroad. Actively implement the hierarchical diagnosis and treatment system, take the lead in building the West China Fourth Hospital Medical Consortium, and promote the sinking of high-quality medical resources. Fully fulfilling the responsibilities of medical and social services, we have established analysis and testing centers/testing centers, health management cadre training centers, medical and health institutions, etc., which are chemical poisoning treatment bases in Sichuan Province and Chengdu City, occupational poisoning and nuclear radiation injury treatment bases in Chengdu City, chemical poisoning treatment drug reserve warehouses in Sichuan Province, and occupational disease prevention and control hospitals in Sichuan Province.