Investigation on post training requirements of rural health professionals in Zhejiang

Objective: Trying to know the basic situation of rural health professionals, which include their structure of knowledge, and training requirements in order to provide references for formulating the policy and plan of rural health professionals’ training. Method: Using Access to build up a database and treat it statistically by SPSS 10.0 to investigate rural health professional in Zhejiang Province at random. Result: Of rural health professional, 2.8%, 28.8%, 43.4% holds undergraduate, junior college, and technical secondary school education background respectively; the remaining workers have no regular educational background. 11.8% hold the title of attending physician and above, 29.6% are fellows, 37.0% are residents, the others have no titles. 83.9% had attended one–year training during their work. 86% tend to participate continuing medical education. Conclusion: The rural health professionals in Zhejiang Province have little educational background and out-of-date knowledge during their long working experience. They need to have continuing training for newer knowledge to improve practical ability.