Currently, the department runs an outpatient clinic and provides inpatient care in the general internal medicine ward with 16 beds and TB ward with 6 beds, closely collaborating with the Department of General Medicine. We are primarily responsible for treating patients with complicated infectious diseases such as sepsis, unknown febrile illness, HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, rickettsiosis, SFTS, and tropical infectious diseases of returned travelers. Additionally, we receive over 700 consultation cases per year, referred by almost all the other departments, suspected infectious diseases. We also operate a travel clinic for international travelers.
We take a major role in training and education undergraduate students, resident physicians and infectious diseases fellows. One of our missions is to support medical doctors who aim to work abroad as clinician volunteers or clinical researchers. We regularly organize clinical case conference in English. Staff and resident doctors are often dispatched to hospitals in the tropics of Asia and Africa, which helps us accumulate our knowledge and experience with clinical tropical medicine.