The Great Barefoot Doctor China Village Doctor 2021 The Wawley-WuLien TehPrize is announced. Winner of the 2021 Award

Great barefoot doctor Chinese village doctor

The 2021 The Wakley-Wu Lien Teh Prize is announced.

The Story of the 2021 Winner of the Year: "The Village Sunken Underground", Winner: Dong Jiaxin, a fifth-year medical student at the Medical Department of Qingdao University, and an intern doctor in Qingdao Municipal Hospital. By writing about his grandfather, he paid tribute to the millions of village doctors in China, a group whose collective achievements in participating in the national health campaign have been written into the international medical social history and attracted the attention of the world.

Addendum: ¹The award aims to allow Chinese healthcare workers to share their medical stories with the world. The Lancet will be translated and published in English. It has been held for 3 sessions. ² The first winner of 2019 is Dr Tan Wenfei, anesthesiologist, and in 2020, Nanchang University and Queen Mary College jointly trained sophomore medical student Wei Qian. The theme of the 2020 call for papers is "The Experience of Chinese Health workers during the COVID-19 pandemic". Wei Qian's reason for the award: "Let every medical worker who has made sacrifices during the epidemic shine brightly, and at the same time perfectly reflect the meaning of the vows made by Chinese medical students when they begin medical education."

Barefoot doctor, is the middle of the "Cultural Revolution" in the 60s and 70s of the last century began to appear in the term, refers to the lack of fixed establishment, generally approved and assigned by the village or grass-roots government with certain medical knowledge and ability of medical personnel, directly led by the local township health center and medical guidance, their characteristics are: also farmers and doctors, farming when busy farming, practicing medicine when farmers are idle, or rural grass-roots part-time medical personnel who work in agriculture during the day and deliver medicines at night.

At that time, there were three main sources: one was a medical family; the other was a trainee who had undergone short-term training in the medical and nursing profession; and the third was a self-taught talent who was recognized as having certain medical and nursing capabilities. The emergence of barefoot doctors has solved or alleviated the problem of lack of medical care and medicine in the vast rural areas of the mainland, and has made great contributions to popularizing patriotic health knowledge, eliminating the "four pests" and eradicating schistosomiasis in the vast rural areas. Such as the representative figure Wang Guizhen. #Barefoot Doctor ##村医 #