Rehabilitation therapist will become "Fragrant Pastry"
As people pay more and more attention to health, the requirements for health and medical care are getting higher and higher, and the scope of medical services has expanded from treatment to rehabilitation services.
How to increase the supply of rehabilitation talents is a realistic health issue facing our country.
Professor Wan Chunxiao, chairman of the Youth Working Committee of the Chinese Society of Rehabilitation Medicine and director of the Department of Rehabilitation Medicine at Tianjin Medical University General Hospital, believes that rehabilitation medicine occupies an important position in the long-term planning of a healthy China. In the future development, opportunities and challenges coexist. Employment prospects for rehabilitation therapists Very optimistic.
The supply of rehabilitation talents in my country has not yet met the needs of rehabilitation medicine
According to data released in 2016, my country has only 1.4 rehabilitation professionals per 100,000 population, which is far below the international standard of more than 15 physical therapists and 8-10 occupational therapists per 100,000 population.
According to data released by the China Disabled Persons’ Federation, in 2018, the total number of disabled people in my country exceeded 85 million, accounting for about 6.09% of the country’s total population that year, and only 10% of the disabled were able to receive rehabilitation services.
The "China Medical Reform Joint Research Report" issued by the former National Health and Family Planning Commission and other departments in 2016 pointed out that the number of chronic diseases in my country reached 300 million, and only 4.66% of the people have chronic disease prevention literacy; among 12.42 million stroke patients, there are Three out of four have varying degrees of disability and require rehabilitation.
How to carry out effective functional treatment and how to have the ability to carry out severe rehabilitation has become an international rehabilitation hotspot.
In an interview with a reporter from China Youth Daily and China Youth Daily, Professor Wan Chunxiao said that although in recent years, with the country’s support for rehabilitation and the development of rehabilitation education, more and more colleges and universities have established rehabilitation programs, but new rehabilitation programs are added every year. The number of graduates is far from meeting the huge demand for rehabilitation and medical care.
Therefore, increasing the number of professionals in rehabilitation, strengthening the training of professionals in rehabilitation medicine, and supporting the development of the rehabilitation industry are of great practical significance.
Opportunities and challenges coexist in the training of rehabilitation talents in my country
Professor Wan Chunxiao believes that the country's increasing emphasis on the rehabilitation industry and the gradual introduction of some supporting policies are an important opportunity for the development of the rehabilitation industry and the training of rehabilitation talents.
She said that there are many key points closely related to rehabilitation medicine in the new medical reform plan, such as: emphasizing prevention, treatment, and rehabilitation at the same time, confirming the status of rehabilitation medicine; confirming that medicine is separated, and rehabilitation medicine is a project characterized by medical skills services. Its economic value will also be highlighted; starting doctors' multi-point practice exploration will help solve the plight of the shortage of high-level talents in rehabilitation medicine.
Wan Chunxiao introduced that under the care of the State Council, more than 20 rehabilitation medical projects have been included in the scope of medical insurance settlement, which has greatly promoted the development of rehabilitation medical work in various regions, and will also benefit tens of millions of disabled and dysfunctional patients.
She told reporters that the National Health Commission has basically completed the investigation of the rehabilitation medicine department and rehabilitation specialist hospitals of general hospitals.
Its goal is to determine the status quo of rehabilitation medicine work in general hospitals across the country and formulate guidelines, policies and methods for strengthening the capacity building of rehabilitation medicine.
Wan Chunxiao told a reporter from China Youth Daily and China Youth Daily that the new medical model brought about by the Internet has also contributed to the development of rehabilitation medicine.
She said that the traditional medical service model is based on queuing and registration services. Under the background of "Internet +", medical services have become more diversified, such as online appointment registration, online medical consultation, remote surgical guidance and other new service methods.
She took her own Tianjin Medical University General Hospital as an example to introduce that the rehabilitation department of the hospital is currently carrying out this new type of medical service, and patients have received rave reviews for enjoying the same rehabilitation services without leaving home.
In recent years, with the rapid development of medical technology, more and more critically ill patients are able to survive, but the remaining problems of critically ill patients have led to a decline in the quality of life of patients, and complications and mortality after discharge from the hospital are relatively high.
Wan Chunxiao said that how to take effective measures to help discharged patients from ICU to maximize their function, how to better carry out critically ill rehabilitation, and what is the best technology and process in critically ill rehabilitation are all hotspots of international research and practice.
"Critical illness rehabilitation treatment is like a fertile ground that needs to be developed urgently. It is necessary to increase the importance of young talents to critical illness rehabilitation."
Opportunities and challenges coexist, which is also true for the development of the rehabilitation medical industry.
Professor Wan Chunxiao believes that the development of my country’s rehabilitation industry faces four major challenges: First, people’s awareness of rehabilitation medicine is relatively weak, and people’s understanding of the concept and importance of rehabilitation is too superficial. This means that it is necessary to strengthen the general publicity of rehabilitation medicine. Adaptability.
Second, the hospital's emphasis on the rehabilitation department needs to be improved. The development of the rehabilitation medicine department in various hospitals still takes time, and the total proportion in the hospital is difficult to perform well in the short term.
Third, there is a relative shortage of rehabilitation service institutions. Rehabilitation medical services will be mainly undertaken by primary medical institutions. However, my country’s primary medical institutions have a huge gap in software and hardware for rehabilitation. The existing primary medical institutions cannot meet the needs of occupational therapy in terms of structure. .
Fourth, the service content is simple, the investment is insufficient, and the equipment is backward. There is still a long way to go in terms of the discovery of applicable diseases, the refinement of treatment methods, and the introduction of sophisticated equipment.
Rehabilitation therapist: a promising career
With the continuous improvement of the socio-economic level, the increasing advancement of medical technology, and the decline of the population’s fertility rate, my country is facing the challenge of increasing population aging and a huge burden of chronic diseases, which will not only continue to have a profound impact on the society, but also cause a huge impact on the family. Economic pressure.
The Chinese government attaches great importance to this. The "Healthy China 2030 Planning Outline" (hereinafter referred to as the "Outline") points out that prevention and rehabilitation should be combined to achieve "health management of chronic diseases for the entire population and life cycle."
In addition, the "Outline" also expressed concerns about mental health and the health of the disabled, and pointed out that it is necessary to provide rehabilitation services for patients with mental illness and the disabled through the strategies of "promoting community rehabilitation services for mental disorders" and "precise rehabilitation" respectively.
Wan Chunxiao believes that rehabilitation medicine occupies an important position in the long-term planning of a healthy China.
In the overall domestic medical development environment, the demand for rehabilitation is gradually expanding, and the importance of rehabilitation therapists is also reflected. Therefore, the employment prospects of rehabilitation therapists are very optimistic.
She said that due to the different levels of rehabilitation development in various cities, hospitals at all levels need to meet different qualifications for rehabilitation talents, and there are also differences in the types of diseases treated by rehabilitation departments, the classification of therapists, and the work mode. Therefore, rehabilitation therapists can be based on their own Find a suitable hospital for your academic background, research direction, professional skills and career development plan.
"The establishment of the rehabilitation treatment technology major and the training of rehabilitation therapists are precisely to meet the needs of the public’s health and meet people’s demands for faster recovery from illnesses. They have a broad and profound social foundation, and there will be more and more room for development. Rehabilitation therapists We will also go further and further along this road with the tide."
China Youth Daily·China Youth Daily reporter Xia Jin Source: China Youth Daily