China News Service, September 23. The General Office of the State Council recently issued the "Guiding Opinions on Accelerating the Innovative Development of Medical Education" (hereinafter referred to as the "Opinions").

The "Opinions" pointed out that it is necessary to vigorously develop higher vocational nursing education and increase the supply of nursing professionals.

It is necessary to increase the training of general medical personnel.

Accelerate the reform of the salary system for general practitioners and expand the career development prospects of general practitioners.

  The "Opinions" emphasized that in the prevention and control of the new crown pneumonia epidemic, medical workers trained in my country's medical education have played an important role.

But at the same time, facing the new challenges posed by the epidemic, the new tasks of implementing the healthy China strategy, and the new requirements of the world's medical development, my country's medical education still has problems such as the urgent need to optimize the talent training structure, the urgent need to improve the quality of training, and the improvement of medical innovation capabilities. .

  The "Opinions" require comprehensive optimization of the structure of medical personnel training.

  ——To improve the level of medical education.

Strictly control the enrollment scale of higher vocational (specialist) clinical medicine majors, vigorously develop higher vocational nursing education, and increase the supply of nursing professionals.

Steadily develop undergraduate clinical medicine and traditional Chinese medicine professional education, and reduce the enrollment plan of medical schools with excessively large clinical medicine and traditional Chinese medicine.

Appropriately expand the scale of postgraduate enrollment, adjust the postgraduate enrollment structure, and focus on newly-added enrollment plans to focus on talents in short supply.

Insist on recruiting according to needs, and reasonably determine the structure and scale of enrollment.

Colleges and universities should set up medical schools scientifically and reasonably in accordance with the needs of talents and the status of educational resources.

  ——Strengthen the construction of medical disciplines.

In the construction of first-class universities and first-class disciplines, increase the distribution and support of medical and related 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.

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 the 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.

  ——Increase the training of general medical personnel.

Enhance the professional attractiveness of the primary medical and health industry.

Gradually expand the scale of order-targeted free medical student training. The central government will continue to support the training of undergraduate targeted medical students for township hospitals in the central and western regions. All localities must train a group of higher vocational targeted medical students for village clinics and township hospitals in remote and impoverished areas based on actual conditions. Accelerate the training of general medicine talents in the combination of prevention and treatment of "small diseases, good knowledge of major diseases, good transformation of serious diseases, and good management of chronic diseases".

Systematically plan the general practice teaching system, promote the establishment of general practice teaching organizations in medical schools within three years, strengthen general practice education for all medical students, build about 100 national general practice teaching demonstration bases, and strengthen teacher training .

From 2021, we will start the recruitment and training of doctoral degree graduate students in clinical medicine (general medicine), and expand the enrollment scale of master degree graduate students in clinical medicine (general medicine).

Accelerate the reform of the salary system for general practitioners and expand the career development prospects of general practitioners.

  -Accelerate the construction of a high-level public health personnel training system.

Improve the positioning of public health education in the higher education system, and build a number of high-level public health colleges based on the layout of high-level universities.

Strengthen the construction of the training system, strengthen the training of the practical ability of preventive medicine undergraduate students, strengthen the medical education and research cooperation between medical schools, the Center for Disease Control and Prevention, and the infectious disease hospital, and build about 30 public health training demonstration bases within 3 years.

Take the master of public health professional degree training program as the main training program of public health graduate education, create and develop the professional doctor of public health degree education, and carry out the pilot reform of the training of high-level public health talents under the multidisciplinary background.

Increase the supply of high-level professional talents, include public health and preventive medicine related disciplines into the scope of support for the "Special Enrollment Plan for National Key Fields Urgently Needed for High-level Talent Training", increase the number of special graduate enrollment plans, and continue to expand during the "14th Five-Year Plan" period Cultivation scale.

  -Speed ​​up the training of high-level compound medical talents.

Improve the professional demand-oriented talent training system, set up cross disciplines, and promote the cross integration of medical engineering, medical science, and medical literature.

Promote the cultivation of compound and innovative top-notch talents with "medicine + X" multidisciplinary background; deepen the reform of basic medical talent training mode; promote the reform of integrated eight-year clinical medical education that integrates basic and clinical services, increase policy guarantees, and support the eight-year program Medical graduates enter the post-doctoral mobile station; deepen the reform of the training of high-level clinical pharmacy talents; expand the training scale of academic doctoral students in medicine, and carry out pilot reforms for the training of physicians and scientists.

In the "Basic Discipline Top-notch Student Training Program 2.0", the training of high-end basic medical talents and pharmacy talents is strengthened.

Strengthen exchanges and cooperation with international high-level universities and scientific research institutions, and cultivate high-level and top-notch innovative medical talents with international perspectives.