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Premier Li Keqiang at a meeting on Thursday called for efforts to improve the country's doctor training system, according to a report from Xinhua.
During the meeting, which was called to advance reforms in China's present training system for clinicians, Li issued a set of written instructions to the Ministry of Education, the National Health and Family Planning Commission and other concerned government agencies to intensify their efforts on reforming the training system and be more attentive to public demand.
In particular, the Chinese premier urged the concerned officials of these government agencies to explore more effective measures that will help medical colleges and hospitals complement each other better and in a manner that will speed up the implementation of medical personnel training in the country.
"The public needs more high-quality health guardians," Li told the convened officials.
Li said that coordinating resources and doing away with bureaucratic barriers between medical colleges and hospitals would make for a more effective way of training doctors.
In China, the administration of medical colleges and hospitals are presently overseen and attended to by different and separate agencies of government, making an inter-agency coordinated system especially important for ensuring quality and more efficient training for medical personnel.
Medical graduate internships, post-graduate rotation and clinical teacher deployment involve administrative assignment of both the medical colleges and the hospitals. An arrangement that will expedite smoother and faster exchanges of resources and information between the two sides has to be set up soonest in the interest of better service to the public.
China's medical education normally lasts for five to seven years. Students under the five-year bachelor's degree program are expected to acquire the knowledge of the basic medical sciences and preventive medicine as well as learn certain clinical skills.
Those under the seven-year combined bachelor's and master's degree program require a closer connection between studies in the medical basic sciences and clinical practice through a three-year preclinical medicine education and a four-year clinical medicine education.
After basic education, Chinese medical students are required to undertake internship at a hospital, usually one that is an affiliate of the medical school.
