Chinanews Client Beijing, September 24th (Reporter Zhang Ni) Recently, the General Office of the State Council issued the "Guiding Opinions on Accelerating the Innovative Development of Medical Education".

Significantly expand the scale of enrollment for postgraduate students in anesthesia and pediatrics, include traditional Chinese medicine as a compulsory course for clinical medicine majors, and make medical ethics and style a compulsory course for medical staff... These major changes will occur in medical education in the future!

Data map: Dr. Drunk at work Photo by Fan Lifang

——Significantly expand the enrollment scale of postgraduate students in anesthesia and pediatrics

  In recent years, the serious shortage of doctors in some departments has been highly concerned by the society.

  Regarding this issue, the "Guiding Opinions" issued this time specifically mentions the need to fully optimize the structure of medical personnel training, including efforts to strengthen the construction of medical disciplines.

  The document proposes to increase the distribution and support of medicine and related disciplines in the construction of first-class universities and first-class disciplines.

In 2020, the authorized units of the doctoral degree of clinical medicine must set up departments of anesthesia, infection, critical illness, and pediatrics, and greatly expand the enrollment of anesthesia, infection, critical illness, and pediatric graduate students.

  In addition, the document emphasizes that it is necessary to optimize the discipline structure, complete the compilation and adjustment of the medical secondary discipline catalog in 2021, incorporate anesthesia, infection, and critical illness into the clinical medicine instructive secondary discipline catalog and increase construction efforts.

Coordinate and study the setting of medical-related first-level disciplines.

Revise the training program for doctors and masters in clinical medicine, strengthen the construction of postgraduate courses in anesthesia, infection, and critical illness subjects, and strengthen the cultivation of practical ability and scientific thinking ability.

A number of key laboratories of the Ministry of Education will be established in the medical field.

  In addition, the "Guiding Opinions" also emphasized the need to actively take measures to attract high-quality students to apply for the medical profession.

Colleges and universities under the central government that conduct medical education must tap their potential, focus on improving training capabilities, and actively expand the enrollment scale of undergraduate medical majors.

In the pilot work for the reform of enrollment of basic disciplines, we will increase support for the training of medical personnel, and include basic medicine and other medical disciplines into the pilot reform.

The study will include nursing (science) specialty into the national control distribution specialty.

Data map: Researchers are demonstrating the experimental process of the new coronavirus mRNA vaccine development.

Photo by Tang Yanjun

——Establishing a "medicine + X" multidisciplinary cross-integration platform to strengthen vaccine research

  It is worth noting that keywords such as "drug innovation" and "vaccine research" have also been written into the "Guiding Opinions" issued this time.

  The "Guiding Opinions" particularly emphasized the need to accelerate the establishment of a base for basic medical research and innovation.

  The document proposes that it is necessary to give play to the comprehensive advantages of a comprehensive university and establish a platform and mechanism for the integration of "medicine + X" multidisciplinary.

Focusing on the fields of life and health, clinical diagnosis and treatment, biosafety, drug innovation, vaccine research, etc., build a high degree of integration of clinical diagnosis and treatment, life sciences, and drug research and development, medicine and artificial intelligence, materials and other engineering, and biology, chemistry and other sciences. Innovation and basic research A world-class medical basic research innovation base with Chinese characteristics supporting clinical diagnosis and treatment innovation.

Data map: A pharmacist in a Chinese medicine hospital dispenses medicine in a pharmacy.

Photo by Zheng Jiayu

——Include traditional Chinese medicine courses as compulsory courses for clinical medicine majors

  Regarding the topic of traditional Chinese medicine that has received high attention in recent years, the "Guiding Opinions" clearly stated that it is necessary to strengthen the education of public health and preventive medicine, and the knowledge of infectious disease prevention and control for medical students, organize the compilation of excellent medical textbooks such as infectious diseases, and Chinese medicine courses are included in the compulsory courses of clinical medicine.

  In addition, in terms of inheritance, innovation and development of traditional Chinese medicine education, the document emphasizes that it is necessary to strengthen the dominant position of traditional Chinese medicine in traditional Chinese medicine colleges and universities, and concentrate superior resources to expand and strengthen the backbone of traditional Chinese medicine.

  The document proposes that it is necessary to support TCM colleges and universities to strengthen the selection and training of outstanding students who have profound knowledge of traditional Chinese medicine and love TCM.

Strengthen the inheritance, focus on the training of traditional Chinese medicine classics, increase the proportion of traditional Chinese medicine professional courses, integrate traditional Chinese medicine into basic and clinical courses of Chinese medicine, and strengthen the cultivation of students' thinking in Chinese medicine.

Establish a system of early follow-up with teachers and early clinical learning to integrate teacher-to-education through the whole process of clinical practice teaching.

Support the compilation of a batch of core curriculum materials that conform to the law of Chinese medicine education.

  In addition, it is necessary to focus on innovation, carry out a nine-year integrated traditional Chinese and Western medicine education on a pilot basis, cultivate fewer but sophisticated, high-level and high-level integrated traditional Chinese and Western medicine talents; explore the cultivation of multidisciplinary and innovative Chinese medicine talents.

Data map: An ordinary nursing practice course at Guilin Medical College. The topic of the course is oral care.

The teacher is checking the "patient"'s mouth for foreign objects with a flashlight.

Photo by Pei Lei

—— Make medical ethics and style a compulsory course for medical staff

  In the "Guiding Opinions", the construction of medical ethics and style is also listed as an important content.

  For example, the document clearly states that it is necessary to strengthen the professional quality education of medical students, strengthen medical ethics, scientific research integrity education, give full play to the ideological and political role of the curriculum, and focus on cultivating the spirit of life-saving and healing of medical students.

  In addition, public health knowledge and skills such as medical ethics, laws and regulations, emergency and critical care, infection and self-protection, as well as infectious disease prevention and control, and health education should be compulsory courses for medical staff.

  In addition, in the evaluation of professional titles of health professionals, it emphasizes character, ability, and performance orientation, emphasizes clinical practice and other professional work capabilities, and eliminates the tendency of only papers.

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