| Department
of otorhinolaryngology, Xijing Hospital, the 4th Military
Medical University, is an ENT Center of the Chinese People’s
Liberation Army (PLA). It traces its history back to the
warring years of the WWII. In 1954, Prof. Jiang Sichang,
a renowned ENT expert and an academician of the Chinese
Academy of Sciences, became the director of the department
when the University was merged with the 5th Military Medical
University. Since then a series of new techniques such as
fenestration of inner ear have been developed by its staff
and a great many excellent medical workers, some of whom
later became celebrated ENT experts, have been cultivated
in it. Owing to its remarkable contribution to otorhinolaryngology
of the army as well as the country, it has won many awards,
honors and prizes at national and the army levels. To name
just a few, in 1997, it was entitled as one of the first
model grass root units by the General Logistics Command
of PLA and awarded a Merit Citation Class II.
With its exceptional actual strength in clinical medicine,
research and teaching and ranking best among its counterparts
in the army as well as the country, the Department is
well known both at home and abroad as a medical department
in brisk growth. As a key department of the University,
it has research areas of its own and boasts unique medical
therapies and techniques and state-of-the-art teaching
facilities. In 1986, it was authorized to confer master’s
degree, in 1993 to confer doctoral degree and in 1994
as a clinical post-doctoral station. In 2001, it was accredited
as a specialized medical center of the army. The Department
is a standing member unit of ENT Branch, Chinese Medical
Association, a deputy chairman unit of the ENT Association
of PLA and Chairman Unit of Shaanxi Provincial ENT Society.
Today, the Department prides itself in a strong faculty
force with middle-aged and young researchers and doctors
as the main force and a rational human resources echelon
formation and discipline structure.
With its exceptional
actual strength in clinical medicine, research and teaching
and ranking best among its counterparts in the army as
well as the country, the Department is well known both
at home and abroad as a medical department in brisk growth.
As a key department of the University, it has research
areas of its own and boasts unique
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