Recruitment of general practitioners in China: a scoping review of strategies and challenges.

Background: China is rapidly expanding its general practitioner (GP) workforce as part of recent healthcare reform, with an extra 400,000 GPs by 2030. This scoping review identifies the published strategies for GP recruitment that are being implemented and the challenges encountered.

Methods: We searched six English and three Chinese databases from 2015 to April 2022, following Arksey and O'Malley's framework and the PRISMA ScR reporting guidelines.

Comparison of general practice residents' attitudes and perceptions about training in two programmes in China: a mixed methods survey.

Objective: To understand general practice (GP) residents' attitudes about their residency training in China.

Design: Mixed methods survey administered cross-sectionally.

Setting: Two GP training programmes similar in most regards according to current GP training policy of 5 years' undergraduate degree in medicine and 3 years of postgraduate GP residency training-but differing as the Beijing programme has adopted educational innovations beyond the nationally prescribed standard curriculum used by the second Shenzhen programme.

Prevalence and Risk Factors of White Matter Lesions in Tibetan Patients Without Acute Stroke.

Background and Purpose- Studies on the prevalence and risk factors of white matter lesions (WMLs) in Tibetans living at high altitudes are scarce. We conducted this study to determine the prevalence and risks of WMLs in Tibetan patients without or with nonacute stroke. Methods- We undertook a retrospective analysis of medical records of patients treated at the People's Hospital of Tibetan Autonomous Region and identified a total of 301 Tibetan patients without acute stroke.

First-year medical student attitudes about general practice in China: a comparison between Chinese and international students.

Introduction: Chinese policy increasingly emphasizes growth of general practice (GP). The purpose of this research was to understand attitudes toward GP among first-year Chinese and international medical students studying in China.

Methods: Based on a cross-sectional survey using a 5-point Likert scale of medical students at Peking University Health Science Center regarding attitudes toward specialty choice, practice setting, care of patient age groups, care types, and GP, we compared responses of Chinese and international medical students.

Training Pathways to Working as a General Practitioner in China.

Background And Objectives: To achieve the goal of 300,000 general practitioners by 2020-an increase of 215,200 in a decade-China is utilizing multiple training pathways. To comprehensively illustrate general practitioner training strategies in China, this article introduces and describes these pathways.

Methods: We used descriptive policy analysis.