Pediatric training program for grassroots doctors kicks off
The first pediatric training program for medical staff in the grassroots led by the National Health Commission kicked off in Shanghai on Sunday.
Special training materials and courses will be offered to doctors at neighborhood health centers and other grassroots facilities to improve their work.
This effort is to encourage more grassroots facilities to provide pediatric clinical service, improve medical skills in the community and encourage children and parents to go to nearby facilities instead of crowded leading hospitals.
“The program plans to train 20,000 medical staff in the grassroots in the coming five years and help shape a medical system consisting of grassroots hospitals, comprehensive hospitals and pediatric hospitals for better use of medical resources and guide patients to visit different levels of hospitals in line with the condition,” said Dr Huang Guoying, president of Children’s Hospital of Fudan University, a leading facility in the program.
He said training for medical staff in Shanghai’s neighborhood health centers has started.
Officials announced the kickoff of a national pediatric training program for grassroots medical staff in Shanghai on Sunday.
