According to preliminary statistics, there are about 1 1.8 million practicing (assistant) pediatricians in medical institutions in China, while the total number of children is 226 million, with 0.53 pediatricians per thousand children, which is lower than the level of 0.85 to 1.3 pediatricians per thousand children in developed countries.
In order to cope with the shortage of pediatric medical resources, eight universities, including China Medical University and Chongqing Medical University, will offer undergraduate specialties in pediatrics, and it is planned to start enrolling students in 20 16. This means that China will resume the pediatric undergraduate major, and by 2020, at least one university in each province will offer the pediatric undergraduate major.
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Behind the "cold and cheerless" of pediatrics, it is because this discipline has low benefits, high risks, many intractable diseases, and it is laborious and thankless, which leads to daunting medical students. Restoring pediatric undergraduate enrollment is one of the solutions, but the fundamental solution lies in improving the treatment of doctors. Xia Huimin, director of Guangzhou Women and Children Medical Center, also said: "The key to retaining people in the industry is to raise the salary level and raise the service price of pediatricians."
In order to cultivate pediatric talents, from 2065438 to February 2006, Guangzhou issued an order-based training plan for pediatricians in colleges and universities, launched a special plan for the construction of medical and health talents in shortage such as pediatrics, stabilized and enriched the medical and health personnel of women and children, explored and established a bed-based special subsidy and compensation mechanism for pediatrics, and established a scientific performance appraisal system to ensure the treatment of personnel.
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People's Daily Online-Eight universities resumed offering pediatrics this year.
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People's Network-What can I do to save you, pediatrician?