The Department of Dermatology of THE FOURTH AFFILIATED HOSPITAL ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE is national resident standardization training base. It is also a national approved drug/medical device clinical trial base, one of the first batch of adverse reaction monitoring of cosmetics in Zhejiang Province, a specialized clinic for psoriasis authorized by the Chinese Medical Association, and a vice leader unit of the "Zhejiang Province Psoriasis Diagnosis and Treatment Alliance." The department has formed a dermatology specialist medical consortium with the Ruijin Hospital affiliated with Shanghai Jiao Tong University. Currently, the department has a staff of 13 people, including 1 chief physician, 3 associate chief physicians, 2 attending physicians, 1 supervising technician, 5 resident physicians, and 1 technician. All physicians hold master's degrees or higher and possess GCP(Good Clinical Practice) certificates.
The department is equipped with specialized equipment such as the Israeli M22, 1064nm wide-pulse laser instrument, carbon dioxide fractional laser , miraDry fresh microwave system, Peninsula RadioFrequency Microneedling, high-frequency ion therapy instrument, Shuminzhixing, 308nm excimer laser therapy instrument, UVB phototherapy instrument, red-blue light therapy instrument, photodynamic therapy instrument, as well as specialized diagnostic equipment like dermatoscopes and the VISIA system, to meet the diagnostic and treatment needs of patients at different levels.
In terms of scientific research, the department's staff members have led or participated in multiple research projects, including national natural science funds, Zhejiang provincial natural science funds, and Zhejiang provincial public welfare technology research projects.
They have conducted more than 20 randomized controlled trials for class 1 innovative drugs and other trails including international or nationwide multicenter clinic trials. The department of dermatology conduct new projects in 2022 ranked the 35th in China and published many SCI papers in BMJ ,iScience and other journals as the first or corresponding author.