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Training doctors for primary care in China: Transformation of general practice education
China is known for developing a cadre of “Barefoot Doctors” to address her rural healthcare needs in past. The tradition of barefoot doctors has inspired similar developments in several other countries across world. Recently China has embarked upon an ambitious new mission to create a primary care w...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4943113/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27453834 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/2249-4863.184614 |
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description | China is known for developing a cadre of “Barefoot Doctors” to address her rural healthcare needs in past. The tradition of barefoot doctors has inspired similar developments in several other countries across world. Recently China has embarked upon an ambitious new mission to create a primary care workforce consisting of trained general practitioners having international standard skillsets. This editorial provides an insight into the current status of policy deliberations with regards to training of primary care doctors and a new surge in general practice education in China. |
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spelling | pubmed-49431132016-07-22 Training doctors for primary care in China: Transformation of general practice education Li, Donald J Family Med Prim Care Invited Editorial China is known for developing a cadre of “Barefoot Doctors” to address her rural healthcare needs in past. The tradition of barefoot doctors has inspired similar developments in several other countries across world. Recently China has embarked upon an ambitious new mission to create a primary care workforce consisting of trained general practitioners having international standard skillsets. This editorial provides an insight into the current status of policy deliberations with regards to training of primary care doctors and a new surge in general practice education in China. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2016 /pmc/articles/PMC4943113/ /pubmed/27453834 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/2249-4863.184614 Text en Copyright: © Journal of Family Medicine and Primary Care http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as the author is credited and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms. |
spellingShingle | Invited Editorial Li, Donald Training doctors for primary care in China: Transformation of general practice education |
title | Training doctors for primary care in China: Transformation of general practice education |
title_full | Training doctors for primary care in China: Transformation of general practice education |
title_fullStr | Training doctors for primary care in China: Transformation of general practice education |
title_full_unstemmed | Training doctors for primary care in China: Transformation of general practice education |
title_short | Training doctors for primary care in China: Transformation of general practice education |
title_sort | training doctors for primary care in china: transformation of general practice education |
topic | Invited Editorial |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4943113/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27453834 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/2249-4863.184614 |
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