教育部:我國將恢復兒科本科招生
China plans to restore the admission of pediatric undergraduates in universities to cater to the increasingly urgent demand for pediatricians after the country's only-child policy was loosened.
我國計劃恢復高校兒科學本科招生，以應對全面二孩政策出臺後國家日益急需兒科醫師的現狀。The National Health and Family Planning Commission announced on its website on Thursday that it "will join hands with the Ministry of Education to resume the admission of undergraduates in the pediatrics departments in universities" in 2016.
國家衛生和計劃生育委員會上週四在其官網表示，2016年將會與教育部攜手恢復大學兒科本科招生。A total of 8 universities, including China Medical University and Chongqing Medical University, will take the lead in enrolling pediatric undergraduates this summer. China aims to have at least one higher learning institute in each provincial-level region offering undergraduate pediatric courses by 2020, according to the Ministry of Education (MOE).
中國醫科大學、重慶醫科大學等8所高校將於今夏率先開始招收兒科學本科生。教育部表示，力爭到2020年每省(區、市)至少有1所高校舉辦兒科學本科層次專業教育。
In 1998, the Ministry of Education closed all undergraduate pediatrics departments in the country's universities in order to adopt a more general medical education system. The decision greatly reduced the number of pediatric graduates.
在1998年，教育部爲了採用通科的醫學教育體系，關停了全國高校的所有本科兒科學院。這一決定大大減少了兒科專業畢業生的數量According to the 2015 China Health Statistics Yearbook, there are only 43 pediatricians for every 100,000 children, compared with around 160 doctors for every 100,000 children in the US. And an investigation by the National Association of Pediatricians showed that China lacked 200,000 pediatricians, but only 5,000 pediatricians can be trained and begin practicing in the coming five years.
根據2015年中國衛生統計年鑑統計顯示，每十萬名兒童只能對應43名兒科醫生，而美國則是每十萬名兒童對應160名醫生。而且根據全國兒科醫師協會的調查顯示，中國目前缺少二十萬名兒科醫生，但是在接下來的5年內，只有5000名兒科醫生可以接受訓練並開始實習。Long working hours and low pay are also blamed for medical students being unwilling to choose pediatrics – reports show that working hours for pediatricians in China are 1.48 times longer than the average working day for other physicians, but they only earn 46 percent the average salary for doctors.
工作時間長、薪酬待遇低也被認爲是醫科學生不願意選擇兒科專業的原因。有報告顯示，中國兒科醫生的工作時間是其他醫生平均工作時間的1.48倍，但是他們只能掙到醫生平均工資的46%。As the government relaxed the national family planning policy this year, 90 million Chinese women will be allowed to have a second child, and an expected baby boom in coming years greatly increases the need for child care professionals.
隨着我國政府今年全面放開計劃生育國策，將有九千萬名中國女性會被允許生二胎。預計未來幾年的嬰兒潮將大大增加對兒童保健專業人士的需求。
