The First Affiliated Hospital of Dalian Medical University

Dalian's principal teaching hospital, founded in 1930, with 3,700 authorised beds across 391,900 m² of building and more than 4,000 staff. It holds six national key clinical specialties — clinical nursing, cardiovascular medicine, nephrology, critical care, integrated Chinese-Western acute-abdomen surgery, and orthopaedics — plus the national key discipline in integrated Chinese-Western medicine, ranked fourth nationally.

The most useful thing on this page is what the hospital does not have. Its official profile documents an extraordinary set of international *research collaborations* — Johns Hopkins on neuro-gastrointestinal motility, Yale New Haven on day-surgery anaesthesia, University of Louisville on gynaecologic laparoscopic surgery, UC San Diego on precision medicine, Keele and Oxford on cartilage research, Le Havre on laparoscopic training — and not one of them is a patient-facing international department. No 国际部 or 国际医疗中心 appears anywhere in its official material.

That distinction is the single most useful thing we can tell an international patient about Dalian: a hospital can be a serious research partner of American and British institutions and still not have an English-language reception desk.

Currency caveat: the profile text we verified is dated November 2020, so bed counts and campus details may have changed.

Before you rely on this: There is no named international department, so plan to arrange your own translation, scheduling and payment.