Census report on Chinese urological surgeons

doi:10.1016/j.ajur.2019.12.002

Asian Journal of Urology, 2020, 7 (2): 149-160 doi: 10.1016/j.ajur.2019.12.002

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Census report on Chinese urological surgeons

Yinghao Sun^a,*(

),Liqun Zhou^b,Junhua Zhang^c,Nianzeng Xing^d,Qian Zhang^b,Xiuzhong Hu^c,Linhui Wang^e,Yinglu Guo^b

^a Department of Urology, Changhai Hospital, Naval Medical University, Shanghai, China
^b Department of Urology, Peking University First Hospital, Beijing, China
^c Health Human Resources Development Center, National Health Commission of the People's Republic of China, Beijing, China
^d Department of Urology, Beijing Chaoyang Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China
^e Department of Urology, Changzheng Hospital, Naval Medical University, Shanghai, China

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Objective: To grasp the general situation of Chinese urological surgeons and the status quo of their scientific research, work and training, thus providing valuable recommendations for urological talent team construction in future.
Methods: The survey respondents were the urological surgeons, who held the Certificate of Medical Practitioner in the People's Republic of China, whose scope of practice was confined to urological surgery. The urological surgeons involved in the project completed an online questionnaire survey. All the data were collected through the internet.
Results: There were a total of 18 981 urological surgeons in China in 2015, of whom 15 875 from 2 602 hospitals participated in this project, with a mean age of 39.64 years old. In 2015, 1 949 631 cases of surgery were performed, including 493 723 cases of open surgery, 1 146 444 cases of endoscopic/laparoscopic surgery (robot-assisted laparoscopic surgery were excluded), 6 259 robot-assisted surgery and other types of urological surgery. Besides, Chinese urological surgeons published 1 358 monographs as well as 14 558 academic papers, and also obtained 2 064 scientific funds in 2015. A total of 92 122 person-time participated in academic conferences. Urological surgeons with higher educational degrees as well as higher academic titles and from Eastern China or higher-level hospitals had more opportunities to participate in further education and training.
Conclusion: This is the very first census conducted through internet on urological surgeons' multiple aspects. After analyzing and summarizing the data collected, the Census could improve the quality of urological diseases diagnosis and treatment in China.

Key words： Census Surgeons Hospitals Surgery Education Laparoscopy Endoscopy

Received: 07 April 2019 Available online: 10 December 2019

Corresponding Authors: Yinghao Sun E-mail: sunyhsmmu@126.com

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Yinghao Sun,Liqun Zhou,Junhua Zhang, et al. Census report on Chinese urological surgeons[J]. Asian Journal of Urology, 2020, 7(2): 149-160.

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Census timeline.

The number of urological surgeons in each province or municipality (sorted by number of urological surgeons per 1 000 000 population) [3].

Age distribution of urological surgeons in each province or municipality.

Highest education degrees obtained by urological surgeons in each province and municipality.

Proportion of hospitals with department of urology among all the hospitals in China in each province or municipality.

Hospitals of different levels in China.

Cases of surgery performed in each province or municipality in 2015.

Cases of surgery performed per urological surgeon in 2015.

Amount of surgery performed in different levels of hospitals.

Cases of open surgery performed in each province or municipality in 2015.

Cases of laparoscopic surgery performed in each province or municipality in 2015.

Cases of robot-assisted surgery performed in each province or municipality in 2015.

Monographs published by urological surgeons in 2015.

Academic papers published by urological surgeons in each province or municipality in 2015.

Scientific research funds at different levels in each province or municipality.

Chinese urological surgeons' participation in academic conferences in each province or municipality in 2015.

The frequency of Chinese urological surgeons' participation in vocational education and professional skills training.

The variables influencing the frequency of Chinese urological surgeons' participation in vocational education and professional skills training.

Feedback of Chinese urological surgeons from different regions on current situation of laparoscopy/endoscopy training.

Feedback of Chinese urological surgeons from different levels of hospitals on current situation of laparoscopy/endoscopy training.

Approaches to improve the understanding of minimally invasive surgery procedures.

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