Focus on medicine and education synergy to deepen medical reform

Health and family planning, and traditional Chinese medicine management departments, as well as medical and health institutions, should insist on medicine and education synergy to deepen medical reform and work with education departments for common development based on social and medical needs.

Strengthen medicine and education synergy to deepen reform

First, all parties should focus on clinical medicine and explore the establishment of a balanced medical talent training mechanism based on industrial supply and demand. All health and family planning and traditional Chinese medicine management departments should undertake the responsibility of building a local medical talent team, understand local conditions and talent demand, voluntarily coordinate the education department, adjust local medical talent training scale, and optimize the talent training structure. Second, relevant personnel should improve the talent training system by integrating college, post-college and continuing education. They should also take care of connections between standardized resident doctor training and clinical medicine master education, and between standard specialized doctor training and clinical medicine PhD education. Third, relevant parties should encourage mature colleges to explore the establishment of clinical medicine for pediatrics and psychiatry, broaden relevant personnel training channels, strengthen construction of standardized training facilities for specialized resident doctors, and train more professional talents in short supply.

Boost the construction of after-graduation medical education system

All parties should comprehensively implement standard resident doctor training work, and heads of all health and family planning and traditional Chinese medicine management departments should personally take care of relevant work to accomplish work goals. Relevant personnel should meet the requirement of training 50,000 people this year, pay attention to coordinated regional development and give priority to training talents, including general practitioners, who are in short supply. Relevant parties should strengthen the construction of training bases and teaching staff teams, step up training assessment and supervision, establish reporting systems, enhance dynamic management, strictly evaluate training, and constantly improve training level. A standard training system for specialized physicians should be unveiled as soon as possible.

Strengthen community-level health personnel training

Health and family planning and traditional Chinese medicine management departments at all levels should bring general and traditional Chinese medicines (including ethnic medicine) into a standardized training system for resident doctors; set up general family medicine; take the lead in coordinating and organizing related clinical departments and practice facilities at the community level; and jointly take care of general practitioner training, which should be based on current circumstances and a long-term vision. On one hand, departments should train talent that can stay in the local medical sector and serve their purpose. Relevant personnel should train a group of assistant general practitioners with education at or above junior college for underdeveloped rural health clinics in 2015. On the other hand, all parties should make plans to strengthen systematic and standardized training of general practitioners, continue to scale up training, and strive to cultivate one to two general family medicine talents for each rural health clinics in most areas of China by 2020. All personnel should make full use of resources at secondary vocational schools, strengthen rural doctor training, and enhance overall management and integrate resources to promote on-the-job training for all.