Expert introduction
Wang Yuling, director, professor, and doctor of the Department of Rehabilitation Medicine at the Sixth Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University, chairman of the China Rehabilitation Therapy International Education Physical Therapy Expert Committee, chairman of the China Physical Therapist Qualification Certification and Assessment Expert Committee, China Rehabilitation Vice chairman of the Rehabilitation Therapy Professional Committee of the Medical Association, leader of the physical therapy group, president of the physical therapist branch of the Guangdong Provincial Association of Rehabilitation Medicine, etc.
The current situation of my country’s physical therapist team
Currently, there is no such profession as physical therapist in the classification of the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Resources and the Professional Canon. During the more than 30 years of development of rehabilitation medicine in my country, physical therapy has been particularly important, so such a group has been established for the job and has formed a highly professional team. Physical therapy is based on the core technologies of exercise, manipulation, and physical factor therapy. It is a core medical profession built by clinical knowledge and clinical thinking.
With the construction of my country's tertiary rehabilitation network, physical therapy is equipped in large domestic tertiary hospitals, some secondary hospitals and individual communities. Physical therapy is an important profession under the framework of rehabilitation medicine. Of course, it is a holistic concept in terms of overall thinking.
According to the current employment situation of physical therapists in my country, it is preliminary estimated from the number of people that there are about 30,000 practitioners in the country. From the perspective of knowledge structure and educational background, undergraduates and junior colleges are the main subjects. The number of undergraduate students accounts for about 40%, with relatively more junior college students. There are relatively few people with master's and doctoral degrees working in the physical therapy profession, but there is a growing trend. When comparing the knowledge structure and educational background of physical therapist practitioners with developed countries and regions, we still have a lot of work to do.
Physical therapy education in the United States, like clinical medicine, adopts postgraduate education. There is no special physical therapy major at the undergraduate level. Students must first complete undergraduate education in other related majors at the university before they can apply for a postgraduate degree in physical therapy. There were originally two forms of PT academic education in the United States, one was the Doctorate of Physical Therapy (DPT), and the other was the Master of Physical Therapy (MPT) or the Master of Science in Physical Therapy (MSPT).
With the continuous development of physical therapy, the requirements for the professional quality of physical therapists are also getting higher and higher. Starting from 2015, all physical therapy master's programs in the United States will no longer enroll students and will all be converted to doctoral (DPT) education, which is intended to strengthen students' knowledge mastery, clinical logical analysis ability, scientific research ability, clinical auxiliary diagnosis application ability and other qualities. Strengthen the collaboration between physical therapy and other medical departments. It can be seen that there is still a long way to go in the professional construction of physical therapy discipline in my country.
Physical therapist qualification certification work
With the increase in the demand for rehabilitation department staff in my country, the training of physical therapists is no longer just based on the number and quality. Some issues need to be considered at the national and academic levels. From a national level, for example, many countries currently have specialized physical therapists in their national occupational classifications, so we are also actively striving for it, hoping that the profession of physical therapists can be included in our country's occupational classifications as soon as possible.
From the academic level, the national physical therapist qualification certification work is currently underway. Professor Li Jian'an is the chairman of the expert committee, and we strive to have physical therapists currently engaged in physical therapy recognized. This is the follow-up work. When the country really takes physical therapist as a legal professional title, it will be like registered nurses and registered medical practitioners. We also have registered practicing physiotherapists in the future. In this way, there will be more and more optimism in the construction of the talent team of physical therapists, from education to practice certification.
As the chairman of the China Physical Therapist Certification and Assessment Expert Committee, we have promoted the work of physical therapist qualification certification and reached a certain consensus after doing a lot of preliminary work and holding many meetings. China’s physiotherapist qualification certification and assessment management methods have been determined, and the standards for nuclear bases have also been determined.
has determined the Guangdong Provincial Work Injury Rehabilitation Hospital as the first pilot assessment base through inspections by experts. We will strive to conduct the first batch of exams in the first half of the year, and the questions are in the review stage. During this process, we referred to examination certificates and related information from the United States and Taiwan. Strive to establish an examination suitable for the education situation of physical therapist practitioners in my country.
The work of the Physical Therapist Branch of the Guangdong Rehabilitation Medicine Association
On April 15, 2016, the Physical Therapist Branch of the Guangdong Rehabilitation Medicine Association was established. This is the first association dominated by physical therapists among the national provincial secondary societies. organize. As the president of the Guangdong Provincial Society of Physical Medicine, I have to do substantive work. How to look at problems from the perspective of medical practitioners, how to strengthen the quality of existing personnel, and how to improve the level of medical services are what a member of the Society of Physical Therapists has to do.
Due to the different education levels of physical therapists, they are far from being able to achieve the quality of a clinical person if they start working immediately in schools and centralized internships. Based on this situation, we drafted a standardized training plan for physical therapists in Guangdong Province, which draws on the standardized training of physicians currently promoted by the country. There are still some differences in the training of physical therapists and doctors, but the overall concepts involved and the similarities that can be applied are relatively high.
is currently designing a two-year standardized training program. This standardized training program will allow physical therapists to enter the two-year process of standardized training after graduation, including neurological physical therapy, orthopedic physical therapy, bone and joint muscle system physical therapy, and cardiopulmonary physics. therapy, children's physical therapy, and other physical therapy. After
has undergone "regular training", each module will be strictly assessed. At the same time, in addition to rotating teaching training in the rehabilitation medicine department and physical therapy department, each module should also send physical therapists to relevant departments for training. For example, in bone and joint muscle system rehabilitation, physical therapists can learn directly from orthopedic surgeons, such as total knee replacement surgery. Physical therapists need to understand the surgical process, what considerations does an orthopedic surgeon have during the surgery, and what are the stability and fixation methods? What, these are closely related to the patient's future physical therapy plan.
If a physical therapist undergoes two or more years of standardized training, his clinical ability, clinical maturity, and thinking construction will be greatly improved after he enters the workplace.
The next thing to do is still around continuing education. Continuing education refers to the post-graduation education of physical therapy students who engage in physical therapy after graduation. After reaching a certain level of qualifications through specialized training, cardiopulmonary physical therapists, for example, will strengthen their training in this module and establish a training system similar to certificates. In addition to this extensive graduate training program in the future, we also very much look forward to training specialist physiotherapists. For example, after the intermediate level, he can be trained as a cardiopulmonary physical therapist. Even five years later, he became a cardiopulmonary physiotherapy specialist after obtaining a senior professional title.
The first two chunks of the work we have done are from the perspective of the physical therapist branch. Another mission is to make physical therapists love their work first and have a sense of professional glory. Where does this sense of glory come from? Then our branch should promote the clinical treatment of physical therapists and form a healthy talent competition mechanism.
The stage for talent success in the future is to train talents well and make good use of them. Employers must respect talents, and talents must love the company. We have formed such a situation regardless of the size. One of the big aspects we want to form is that physical therapists become a profession with high visibility and public recognition in society, with independent professional capabilities, and relative clinical thinking and evaluation and diagnosis. and treatment.
In this way, we can slowly see the development of rehabilitation medicine in China. Rehabilitation doctors have standardized training, physical therapists have standardized training, and OT and ST will also promote some work in the future. This is the way we want to go.
In order to strengthen the discipline construction, we have led the online courses for physical therapists, and WCPT has provided learning slides and learning resources. There are 18 test stations across the country. The test papers are set, translated, and escorted by WCPT. No candidate has touched any link. It can be seen that the online courses for physical therapists are very strict and formal, and are graded in the same country. WCPT hopes that through online courses, physical therapists can realize the true essence of physical therapy, correctly understand the discipline of physical therapy, the professional scope of physical therapists and the most basic clinical abilities that must be possessed. Certified Physical Therapist, WCPT.
80% of people passed this exam, and 4% of people got excellent results. The results have begun to be announced. After receiving the unified notification, the exam can be logged in by entering the ID number and password on the learning website for query. This course training is jointly coordinated by the Chinese Association of Rehabilitation Medicine, the Rehabilitation Medicine Education Expert Committee and the China Rehabilitation Therapy Education Physiotherapist Expert Committee. It also plays a very important role at the national society level, so I think this matter is a very important part in the construction of the physical therapy discipline and the professional development process of physical therapists.
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