Rapid Clinical Promotion Model of Standardized Training for Public Health Physicians in China

BACKGROUND: Public health is an important part of the national public safety system, and the establishment of a high-quality public health team with clinical knowledge and skills is increasingly valued, especially during pandemics of infectious diseases. PURPOSE: Rapid clinical promotion model of standardized training for public health physicians would be created for reference by other institutions or organizations. DATA AND METHODS: The data related to the standardized training of public health physicians of Grade 2019 in Shanghai were collected and sorted out, which were summarized and analyzed by interview method, field investigation method, inductive reasoning, analogy reasoning and extreme reasoning method. RESULTS: The rapid clinical promotion mode mainly included the following: the establishment of the management core, the definition of training objectives and implementation plans, the preparatory work in the early stage, the implementation of training missions for public health physicians, the building mechanism of tracking and feedback for clinical training, continuous follow-up and optimization of the clinical standardized training system, and the solution of key issues in clinical standardized training for public health physicians. CONCLUSION: The core of the model is the vertical management of a inter-disciplinary talent to plan and implement the affairs of standardized training for public health physicians comprehensively, as well as the timely intervention of key matters.