Do Rehabilitation Therapists Belong to the Service Workforce

Rehabilitation therapists are classified as service personnel.

I. Analysis

July 12, 2022, China's Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security issued the "Chinese People's **** and the State Classification of Occupations Dictionary (2022 Edition)" (public draft), the rehabilitation physician this occupation from the second category of professional and technical personnel in the transfer of the fourth category of social production services and life services personnel, became a rehabilitation Therapist.

With the release of this 2022 version of the public draft, the classification of occupations in the field of health in China has undergone considerable changes.

For example, there are new occupations such as medical caregiver, health care worker, respiratory therapist, birth defects prevention and control consultant, geriatric capacity evaluator, rehabilitation assistive technology consultant, etc., which collectively belong to the category of health, physical education, and recreation service personnel, and 'rehabilitation therapist', which has triggered a lot of hot debates, has been moved into it.

II. Definition

Rehabilitation therapists promote the restoration of health of patients through physical therapy, occupational therapy, speech therapy, rehabilitation engineering, traditional rehabilitation and other methods.

Responsible for receiving patients for rehabilitation consultation, functional examination and evaluation, arranging short-term rehabilitation training programs, recommending some patients with conditions to purchase and use intelligent rehabilitation equipment, performing long-term passive stretching exercises, preventing muscular atrophy, and promoting or maintaining patients' functional recovery and other related treatments.

Occupational Requirements:

1. Education and Training

Rehabilitation therapy technology majored in college and above. Currently the Ministry of Health and the Ministry of Human Resources issued by the Ministry of Health professional and technical "rehabilitation therapist", "rehabilitation therapist" qualification certificate.

2, work experience

Familiar with the knowledge of human anatomy, with a certain degree of basic medical knowledge, proficiency in a variety of rehabilitation treatment technology, the application of modern rehabilitation equipment, and can clarify the therapeutic role of the instrument, precautions, indications and contraindications; a high degree of responsibility, good professional ethics, enough patience and physical strength, strong comprehensive analysis ability, keen insight. insight.

Third, career development

Nationally, there are less than 20,000 rehabilitation technicians of various types, of which, there are only 5,000 rehabilitation therapists, most of them are transferred from neurology, nursing and Chinese medicine, and other disciplines after further training.

China trains only 700 rehabilitation therapists each year. The lack of rehabilitation talents is a "bottleneck" that restricts the development of China's rehabilitation medicine. It is estimated that by 2015, China will need at least 350,000 skilled rehabilitation personnel.