Beijing will strengthen the training of TCM talents and establish and improve the system of "learning from the west"

December 19, 2018 China news network

Beijing, Dec. 19 (xinhua) -- Beijing will strengthen the training of traditional Chinese medicine talents, establish and improve the "western learning in" system, the use of about three years, the training of "western learning in" leading scholars 20, 100 backbone talents, effectively promote the training of traditional Chinese medicine talents.

For improving medical talent supply ability and the training quality, "Beijing on deepening psychiatry cooperation to further promote the reform of medical education development plan" (hereinafter referred to as the "implementation plan") 19, the official launch, from Beijing will strengthen medical talents cultivation, perfect the system of medical education, improve the quality of medical education, improve the incentive mechanism and promote regional harmonious development and so on five aspects to carry out the ten key work.

We will strengthen personnel training in traditional Chinese medicine

"Implementation plan" pointed out that qualified institutions of higher learning within the quota of enrollment indicators issued by the state to moderately increase the enrollment scale of graduate students majoring in traditional Chinese medicine and traditional Chinese medicine, and increase the proportion of outstanding undergraduate students majoring in traditional Chinese medicine who are exempt from examination to study for graduate students.

We will establish a professional system of TCM disciplines that serves the whole life cycle and promote the cultivation of talents in TCM health care and other fields. In five to eight years, 400 medical students majoring in traditional Chinese medicine were trained for community health service institutions and village health offices.

We will improve the standardized training system for residents of traditional Chinese medicine, promote the integration of doctor's degree training for medical professionals with standardized training for specialists, and improve the education system for TCM teachers and postgraduates.

We will establish and improve the system of "western learning in China", train 20 leading scholars and 100 key talents of "western learning in China" in about three years, and effectively promote the training of TCM talents. We will support the development of ethnic medicine and encourage qualified institutions of higher learning to conduct graduate studies in ethnic medicine.

Promote the organic combination of humanistic education and professional education

"Implementation plan" also pointed out that the colleges and universities must strengthen the medical professional 5 years college education status, the basis of the ideological and political education and medical ethics training through the education teaching process, and promote the organic combination of humanistic education and professional education, to guide medical students to prevent disease, relieve pain, and safeguard people's health rights as their professional responsibilities.

General education education, basic education and professional education should be comprehensively optimized, basic and clinical fusion, clinical and preventive fusion should be promoted, clinical practice management should be standardized, integrated teaching based on organs/systems and discussion teaching based on problems should be carried out, and qualified applied medical talents should be trained.

According to the actual situation, we should do a good job in the training of targeted medical students as required. We should use 5 to 10 years to train 100 clinical medical undergraduates for pre-hospital emergency medical institutions and 500 preventive medical undergraduates for district-level disease prevention and control institutions and community health service institutions. In 8 to 10 years, we will train 1,000 undergraduates and 800 junior college students majoring in clinical medicine for community health service institutions and village clinics.