?Cultural reflections on the lack of talents in traditional Chinese medicine

The call for shortage of clinical talents in traditional Chinese medicine has not stopped in recent years, and the reflection and discussion on it by the traditional Chinese medicine community, especially the traditional Chinese medicine education community, continues. What is the reason for the shortage of Chinese medicine talents? Most opinions believe that there is something wrong with the talent training model. Yes, the training model needs to be continuously reformed and improved with the changes of the times and needs. If it remains unchanged, it will affect the cultivation of talents. However, as the basic model for training TCM talents, it is impossible to change much. This is determined by the development laws of TCM itself. If it is forced to change, it will violate the laws of TCM education. So what went wrong with the training of TCM talents? Let us think from the perspective of university culture, and perhaps we can find some inspiration for solving the problem.

School spirit reflects the direction of talent cultivation

In university culture, school spirit is the most obvious representative element. You can know the cultural characteristics of a certain university through its school spirit. It can be said that what kind of school spirit there is, what kind of university culture there is. School spirit embodies the behavioral and moral significance accumulated by a university in the process of running a university. It is an ideological and behavioral trend that has great influence on the school and even in society and is generally recognized. School spirit ultimately reflects a university’s educational philosophy and educational ideas, and expresses the direction of talent cultivation. If a university’s educational philosophy and educational ideas are unclear, then its talent cultivation direction must also be vague.

The cultivation of TCM talents requires the nourishment of a specific culture. Medicine is a benevolent skill, and its core should enable the educated to always develop in the direction of becoming a qualified "benevolent doctor". Instead of advocating them to become a famous doctor or master from the beginning. Although it is said that a soldier who does not want to be a general is not a good soldier, a doctor who only wants to be a famous doctor may not necessarily become a good doctor. The University of Traditional Chinese Medicine is the cradle of producing famous doctors, but it is first and foremost a place to cultivate benevolent doctors. The University of Traditional Chinese Medicine should let students know that their future direction as soon as they enter the school is to become a benevolent doctor, a good doctor who can relieve patients' physical and mental pain wholeheartedly, rather than to become famous and have a family. Really famous masters of clinical medicine also started out as an excellent doctor.

What cannot be avoided is that due to the influence of certain social trends of thought, the trend of becoming famous and starting a family, and pursuing fame and fortune has seriously affected university campuses and even affected our educational policies. If a university of traditional Chinese medicine encourages students to become famous and start a family from the beginning, and it becomes a trend, it will inevitably affect the development direction of students. After all, there are only a few people who can become famous medical masters. Most of them want to be ordinary doctors. What should I do if I can't become a famous doctor? Can't you be an excellent general doctor?

Such misunderstandings often occur in the training of TCM talents. Famous medical masters are talents, but ordinary doctors are not talents; working in large hospitals is talents, but working in grassroots hospitals is not talents. This completely deviates from the historical tradition of Chinese medicine culture. The growth history of famous doctors in ancient times tells us that almost all famous doctors grew up among the people, came out of the countryside, and grew up in the practice of serving the working people at the bottom. What is a great doctor? Sun Simiao's "The Great Doctor's Sincerity" gives us an accurate answer. Great doctors value virtue first and then skills. Without noble medical ethics, you cannot become a great doctor, no matter how skilled you are. But the current understanding seems to be the other way around. Whether you are a famous doctor or not must be considered based on your medical skills first, regardless of whether the medical skills are true or false. As for the clinical level and social evaluation, it has become secondary. In such a distorted cultural atmosphere, students no longer prepare to become a qualified general doctor, but think about how to become famous as soon as possible after graduation and how to work in a large hospital. It seems that going to a grassroots hospital means failure. Some people would rather change careers than go to a grassroots hospital. There is a shortage of talents. First of all, there is a shortage of grassroots TCM personnel. If this continues, it will be difficult to solve the problem of lack of traditional Chinese medicine at the grassroots level.

Study style reflects the quality of talent training

In university culture, study style is equally important as school spirit. Study style is not only a learning atmosphere, but also a group behavior. Students are subtly influenced and infected by it, and internalized into an upward spiritual motivation, which affects students' thoughts and morals, values, behaviors, will and emotions, and even Profound impact on growth and career development. The study style can be divided into broad and narrow senses. In the narrow sense, the study style refers specifically to the students' learning atmosphere; in the broad sense, the study style includes the learning atmosphere, scholarship atmosphere and academic atmosphere. A good learning atmosphere is the basis for forming a good academic atmosphere and academic atmosphere, and the academic atmosphere and academic atmosphere will directly affect the formation of the learning atmosphere.

It is obvious that there have been too many cases of academic corruption in universities in recent years. This cannot but say that it is time for serious reflection on the scholarly ethos and academic atmosphere of our universities. Improper academic atmosphere not only leads to academic fraud and scientific research fictitiousness, but more seriously leads to the corruption of academic ethics and affects the quality of talent training.

Why academic misconduct incidents occur frequently has something to do with our educational orientation. Teachers originally took teaching as their bounden duty. I don’t know since when, scientific research has become an important task of the school, and whether there are scientific research results has also become an important indicator for evaluating teachers’ level. Therefore, teachers focus mainly on conducting scientific research and publishing papers. However, opportunities and success are always limited, so some people choose to take risks.

Not only that, in the process of competing for scientific research projects and awarding awards, university teachers finally gave up on being noble and polite, and used their scheming and unscrupulous means to achieve their goals. Even schools regard people who are capable and accomplished in this area as talents and role models for learning.

It is conceivable what impact these phenomena have on students. Teachers are the executors of school running ideas and educational policies. While teachers "preach, teach, and resolve doubts" for students, their way of thinking, academic attitude, and code of conduct all directly affect students' moral character, words, deeds, and accumulation of knowledge. and growth in talent. The teaching style has the most direct influence on the learning style and has a clear guiding nature. Under the influence of the current environment, some teachers have lost their mental balance, their awareness of educating people has weakened, and their professional ethics have declined. They are busy with their own future and cannot concentrate on teaching, and students have become impetuous. I haven't laid a solid foundation for my studies yet, and I'm starting to think about where I will go after graduation and my future prospects.

The impetuous academic style driven by the desire for quick success has a direct impact on the quality of talents. In recent years, society has criticized the students trained by universities of traditional Chinese medicine. Some traditional Chinese medicine hospitals even prefer students who graduated from Western medical schools to graduates from universities of traditional Chinese medicine when recruiting. This is probably not only a matter of prejudice, but also low clinical ability. is an important factor. Medicine is a highly practical subject. It is difficult to go into clinical practice independently after reading the books without practicing seriously. During the important stage of internship, if you are busy preparing for the postgraduate entrance examination and looking for an ideal job, your clinical ability will definitely not be recognized by society.

The life of traditional Chinese medicine lies in clinical practice. If the clinical level of traditional Chinese medicine cannot be guaranteed, social recognition will not be high. If students trained in TCM schools can demonstrate better clinical and service capabilities as soon as they arrive in society, the problem of shortage of TCM talents will no longer be a problem.

A university of traditional Chinese medicine must have its own culture

The culture of a university of traditional Chinese medicine should highlight the characteristics of traditional Chinese medicine, highlight social needs, and highlight the rules for training talents in traditional Chinese medicine. Without the culture of TCM itself, it would be difficult to cultivate TCM talents that the society really needs. This is a question that senior managers of universities of traditional Chinese medicine need to think about and clarify. The president of a university is the organizer and leader of the school, but first and foremost an educator. He knows what kind of talents his school should cultivate for society, knows what kind of ideas to use to guide education, and then forms his own school spirit under his organization and leadership. In a sense, what kind of principal will have what kind of school spirit.

It is not surprising that a school produces one or two masters. If a school can cultivate a large number of capable clinicians for the society, its contribution and significance will be far greater than the former. University education is about embodying the extraordinary in the ordinary.

Grasping the society’s demand for TCM talents is fundamental for TCM universities to establish the direction of talent training. Don't talk about talents, you must refer to famous medical masters. The shortage of TCM talents includes the decrease of famous medical masters, but more refers to the lack of ordinary talents with strong ability and good service. The mission of universities is to teach students basic professional theories and basic skills, and to cultivate moral character, thinking methods, and innovative abilities. Generally speaking, it is still basic education. Therefore, what universities of traditional Chinese medicine cultivate and deliver to society are first of all ordinary talents with better social medical service capabilities. The cultivation of famous medical masters requires long-term social practice and tempering after entering the society. These should be highlighted in the culture of TCM universities.

University culture is built around the goal of talent training. It should form a strong atmosphere and turn into an invisible force, urging every student to work hard towards a common goal. effort. The spirit of "Great Doctors' Sincerity" is not only the core of traditional Chinese medicine culture, but also the cultural core of the University of Traditional Chinese Medicine. The thoughts in it should be turned into our school motto, infiltrated into the hearts of every student, and turned into a kind of cultural consciousness. Without cultural consciousness, there will be no cultural spirit, no cultural power, no cultural self-discipline. And it also needs the support of a certain social and cultural atmosphere. Without the cooperation of the social environment, the formation of cultural consciousness will be very difficult.