Going Down to Grassroots to Offer Help—Popularization of Medical Sciences and Technologies | |||||
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I. Going Down to Grassroots to Offer Help—Popularization of Medical Sciences and Technologies In 2017, the “Thousand Talents Program” invited a total of 223 experts(205 associate seniors or higher and 18 PhDs)to popularize sciences and technologies in 7 provinces, 13 prefecture-level municipalities, 13 counties and 34 hospitals, with ward-round teaching, surgery teaching and gratuitous treatment for the rank and file serving as a platform for study, communication and sharing among grassroots doctors. In this way, the“Thousand Talents Program”set up a bridge of partnership between grassroots hospitals and major hospitals. 8 events conducted in the year attracted a total of 4914 participators, with 4800 copies of data compilations issued gratuitously and downloads of the electronic version reaching 7149. In addition, some CMA branches secured funds from other sources or used their own funds to conduct special training courses much needed by grassroots units or poverty-stricken areas. In 2017, CMA’s pathology branch conducted the“West Bound”pathology training course in 2017 to teach 165 trainees gratuitously;the anesthesiology branch offered the clinical anesthesia guide training course;and the pediatrics branch launched the 11th Pediatricians’ Lecture Tour in West China, etc. II. Ushering in Grassroots Medical Staffs for Training—Further Education and Training for Grassroots Doctors In 2017, CMA organized two batches of core-member doctors totaling 207 from county hospitals in 10 provinces to receive a 5-month professional training at 37 provincial Class-A tertiary comprehensive hospitals with a view to improving their abilities in standard diagnosis and treatment of common and frequent diseases, which provided a personnel support for reducing the referral rates from counties. 10 provinces, including Guizhou, Sichuan, Gansu, Qinghai, Jiangxi, Shaanxi, Hubei, Yunnan, Henan and Hunan, were chosen for the pilot project. The provinces were a linked aggregation of destitute areas as listed by Poverty Relief Office of the State Council, highlighting the requirement of improving health conditions for poverty-stricken areas. The trainees came from 177 hospitals, 91.7% of which were county hospitals or hospitals at the county level(trainees from impoverished counties made up 32.27%, and those from poor cities accounted for 7.73%)while 5.8% were prefecture-level hospitals. The trainees were all honored with the professional title of attending doctor or higher and had an educational background of college degree or above. Two-thirds of the trainees were less than 40 years old and signed the letter of commitment to promise return to their original units after training to serve continuously at the grassroots level. The pilot project accorded with the sanitation and health work guideline of the new era and observed the “Enhancing Grassroots” spirit stressed in the medical reform and complied with the requirements of establishing and perfecting the mechanism for conducting further education among grassroots health workers as well as training among core-member doctors of county hospitals as are put forward in the National Health and Family Planning Talents Development Plan for the 13th Five-Year Plan and the National Health and Family Planning Professionals Training Plan for the 13th Five-Year Plan. To ensure the quality of the further education and training, CMA signed entrusted orientation training agreements with the said 37 Class-A tertiary comprehensive hospitals and appropriated training funds directly to the hospitals to entrust them to cultivate the trainees and issue qualification certificates to the eligible after the training. Apart from entrusting provincial medical associations to guide and appraise the training work in their provinces, CMA also organized a supervising team composed of 10 famous experts in pediatrics, gynecology, intensive care medicine, ultrasonic medicine and medical pedagogy to launch intensified inspections from Sep. 21ST through 22nd, 2017 in Sichuan where trainees were relatively concentrated. The experts went to Sichuan Maternal and Child Health Hospital and Chengdu First People’s Hospital, where they made on-site inspection over the implementation of the training system by the hospitals. In the meantime, the experts offered ward-round guidance and conducted case discussion and academic lectures, etc. CMA also invited representatives of medical associations of other 9 pilot provinces to constitute a research group to watch live demonstrations and make work discussions to enhance the implementation of the training quality requirements and the overall progress in the provinces. |
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