胸外科创建于1957年，是我国最早的胸外科专科之一，由我国著名胸心外科学家黄家驷、顾恺时教授等创建。科室于2011年获得国家重点专科，是上海市住院医师规范化培训外科基地（胸心外科方向），上海市专科医生培训基地。科室开展规范、全面、系统的“国际临床教育项目”（Intenational Fellowship），并被亚洲胸腔镜教育委员会（ATEP）授予中国大陆第一家也是唯一家示范中心。
胸外科下设肺外科、纵隔外科、食管外科、气管外科、肺移植外科等亚专科，常规开展各类微创和复杂肺部手术、巨大纵隔肿瘤手术及微创纵隔手术、各类食管癌手术及各类食管良性疾病手术、气管外科手术、肺移植手术、各类达芬奇机器人手术、气胸、胸壁肿瘤、漏斗胸、鸡胸、以及各种疑难胸外科手术，手术数量及手术难度都处于国际领先地位。
胸外科目前拥有5个普通病区200余张床位，4个特需病区，1个ICU病区，20间手术室，一个食管内镜室。科室现有医师43人，学科人才雄厚，梯队健全，年手术量逾万台，其中胸腔镜微创手术达近90%，达芬奇机器人手术达350余台/年。自科室创立至今已举办全国心胸外科进修班48期，为我国的胸外科事业培养了大批人才，现每年承担“肺癌多学科诊断治疗”、“胸心外科学进展”等多项国家级继续教育项目的培训任务以及各高等院校的教学任务，并设有博士后流动站招生点。
Thoracic Surgery Department
Established in 1957, the thoracic surgery department was one of the earliest thoracic surgery specialties in China and founded by famous Chinese thoracic and cardiac surgeons, Prof Huang Jiasi and Gu Kaishi.
Awarded the national key specialty in 2011, the department is the city’s standardized surgical training center for residents major in thoracic and cardiac surgery and training center for specialized doctors. It has carried out standardized, comprehensive and systematic international clinical education program, and has been awarded the first and only demonstration center on the Chinese mainland by Asian Thoracoscopy Education Program(ATEP).
The thoracic surgery consists of many specialized subjects, such as pulmonary surgery, mediastinal surgery, esophageal surgery, tracheal surgery and lung transplant surgery. It routinely carries out all kinds of minimally invasive and complex lung surgery, huge mediastinal tumor surgery and minimally invasive mediastinal tumor surgery, all kinds of esophageal cancer surgery and benign esophageal diseases, tracheal surgery, lung transplant surgery, all kinds of Da Vinci robotic surgery, pneumothorax, chest wall tumor surgery, funnel chest, pigeon chest, and all kinds of complicated thoracic surgeries. The quantity and difficulty of surgeries are in the international leading position.
At present, the thoracic surgery department has more than 200 beds in five general wards, four special wards, one ICU ward, 20 operating rooms and one esophageal endoscopy room. This department has tremendous talents and 43 physicians. The annual operation volume is over 10,000 including nearly 90 percent thoracoscopic minimally invasive surgery and more than 350 Da Vinci robotic surgeries.
Since the establishment, it has held 48 sessions of national cardiothoracic surgery workshop and trained a large number of talents for thoracic surgery in China. Every year, it undertakes many national training tasks of post-graduate education program and teaching tasks of higher education institutions, such as “Multiple Disciplinary Team” and “the progress of chest surgery.” It also sets up the enrollment site for post-doctoral program.
