Yantai Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine,formerly known as the”Affiliated Hospital of Yantai Special Zone School of Traditional Chinese Medicine",was established on October 1,1958.At the beginning of its establishment,the teachers of the Special Zone School of Traditional Chinese Medicine assumed the tasks of diagnosis,treatment and teaching.In the early 1960s,the school moved to Laiyang.Due to the rudimentary equipment,it received fewer interns.After the 1970s,batches of traditional Chinese Medicine,Traditional Chinese Medicine,and interns from Laiyang College of Traditional Chinese Medicine were accepted.At the same time,interns from Shandong College of Traditional Chinese Medicine and other institutions were also accepted.

In 1973,the hospital began to hold a“Traditional Chinese Medicine study class”for the community,with the first batch of 25 students;in the same year,it held a“Barefoot doctor Study Class”with 24 students.Since 1980,the hospital has been commissioned by the Yantai Municipal Health Bureau to hold the second phase of the“Traditional Chinese Medicine Improvement Class”of Traditional Chinese Medicine,the first phase of the“Internal Classics"class,the"Theory of Typhoid Fever"workshop,the first phase of the"Ancient Medical Texts"workshop,the first phase of the"Warm Disease"workshop,the second phase of the dialectical nursing class,and the"Emergency class,electrocardiogram class,English class,etc."

In April 1996,the hospital successfully passed the review organized by the Shandong Provincial Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine and officially became the“Shandong University of Traditional Chinese Medicine Teaching Hospital”.Every year,Shandong University of Traditional Chinese Medicine receives more than 30 undergraduate and seven-year master's degree interns in traditional Chinese Medicine,integrated Chinese and Western Medicine,acupuncture and moxibustion and other majors.At the same time,it also accepts interns from Weifang Medical College,Jining Medical College,Binzhou Health School,Jinan Health School and other colleges and universities.The hospital is also an internship base for Shandong School of Traditional Chinese Medicine,Haiyang School of Traditional Chinese Medicine,Laiyang Health School and Yantai Nursing School.Every year,there are more than 70 intern students in various majors in various schools of the college.

In December 2002,the hospital successfully passed the review of the Affiliated Hospital of Shandong University of Traditional Chinese Medicine and was officially listed as the Yantai Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine Affiliated to Shandong University of Traditional Chinese Medicine.This marks a new level in the clinical teaching work of the hospital.

In 2003,as the co-organizer of the on-the-job postgraduate courses of Shandong University of Traditional Chinese Medicine,the hospital began to undertake the training tasks of on-the-job postgraduate courses,and opened three postgraduate courses in 2003,2008,and 2011 respectively.

In August 2010,the hospital began to accept the first batch of 62 senior students in the department of Traditional Chinese Medicine of Binzhou Medical College for clinical internships,and officially assumed the task of teaching clinical theory courses.

In June 2013,the hospital was officially listed as“Yantai Clinical School of Traditional Chinese Medicine,Binzhou Medical College”.

In August 2011,the hospital was identified by the Provincial Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine as a training base for“Western medicine learning traditional Chinese Medicine”.The first training course officially started in January 2012,with 105 students in the first batch;the second training course started in March 2016,with 69 students enrolled.

In September 2015,the hospital was identified as the national standardized training base for resident Chinese medicine practitioners,and officially recruited standardized training trainees for Chinese medicine practitioners to the society.In October 2016,it began to receive the standardized training tasks of the first batch of 17 master's degree students from Shandong University of Traditional Chinese Medicine.

In October 2016,the hospital was awarded a school-level project for the construction of a joint training base for postgraduate education of Shandong University of Traditional Chinese Medicine.The construction period is from 2017 to 2019.In 2016,the hospital added 9 master's degree tutors from Shandong University of Traditional Chinese Medicine,and there were 11 master's degree tutors in the hospital.

At the same time,our hospital is the clinical practice base of community general practitioners of traditional Chinese medicine in Shandong Province,and it is responsible for the training tasks of key doctors at the county level in Yantai City,and the technical support work of the county-level hospital health strong base counterpart.