Currently the department runs an out-patient clinic and provides in-patients care in a general internal medicine ward (16 beds) and a TB ward (6 beds), closely collaborating with the department of general medicine. We are mainly responsible for treating patients with complicated infectious diseases, such as sepsis, unknown febrile illness, HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, rickettsiosis, SFTS, tropial infectious diseases. In addition, we receive over 600 consultation cases per year, referred by almost all the other departments, suspected with infectious diseases. We also run a travel clinic for international travelers.
We take a major role of training and education on infectious diseases for undergraduate students and bed-side training programs for resident physicians and infectious disease fellows. One of our missions is to support medical doctors who aim to work abroad as a clinician volunteer or a clinical researcher. We regularly organize a clinical case conference in English Staff and resident doctors are often dispatched to hospitals in the tropics of Asia and Africa. That helps us to accumulate our knowledge and experience with clinical tropical medicine.