Rehabilitation therapists are included in the National Occupational Classification Ceremony, and the therapist’s attribution and category are newly defined!

Source:Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security of the People’s Republic of China, Kangzhiliao< /p>

On July 14, 2022, the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security of the People’s Republic of China officially issued the “Occupational Classification Ceremony of the People’s Republic of China (2022 Edition)” (referred to as the National Occupational Classification Ceremony), The therapist is newly defined from the three dimensions of belonging, classification and work tasks. Since then, rehabilitation therapists have been officially included in the National Occupational Classification Ceremony!

It is reported that the “National Occupational Classification Encyclopedia (2022 Edition)” is based on the 2015 Edition “Encyclopedia”. Include new occupations that have been released in recent years, keep the main category system unchanged, add or cancel some middle categories, small categories and occupations (type of work). Occupations are divided into 8 major categories, 79 middle categories, 449 subcategories, 1636 subcategories (occupations), and 2967 types of work.

“National Occupational Classification (2022 Edition)” document shows that the Attribution, classification and work tasks, the details are adjusted as follows:

Rehabilitation therapist Rehabilitation and assistive technology consultants belong to the category of rehabilitation and correction service personnel; psychotherapists belong to the category of medical and health technicians; respiratory therapists belong to the category of medical auxiliary service personnel.

p>In terms of work tasks, rehabilitation therapists clearly use physical therapy, occupational therapy, Technical personnel engaged in the treatment and training of rehabilitation objects by means or methods such as speech therapy.

Mainly responsible for: strong>Inquire and examine patients, collect and organize patient information; analyze and evaluate patient examination results, and formulate rehabilitation treatment plans and programs; implement rehabilitation training; guide rehabilitation subjects to self-rehabilitation training; overall assess patients’ rehabilitation effects ; Provide technical advice and guidance on community rehabilitation work.

Job Tasks of Rehabilitation Assistive Technology Consultants and Auditory Oralists, See the image below for details:

relevant regulations should be revised in a timely manner , The 4 categories of “medicine, medicine, nursing, and technology” have been changed to 5 categories of “medicine, medicine, nursing, technology, and health”.

Previously, according to the 1986 Regulations on the Trial Implementation of the Posts of Health Technicians , divides health technical jobs into four categories: “medicine, medicine, nursing, and technology”. At that time, rehabilitation medicine was still in its infancy. Later, rehabilitation therapists were always classified as technicians. But in fact, the nature of the work of rehabilitation therapists and technicians was different of.

Coincidentally, the National People’s Congress, Zhou Yanfang, deputy general manager of Pacific Medical and Health Management Co., Ltd., also brought a proposal: Accelerate the inclusion of rehabilitation therapists in the National Occupational Classification Ceremony.

span> Representative Zhou Yanfang said that with the accelerated aging of the population and the increase in the number of chronically ill people, the state has paid more and more attention to the development of rehabilitation medical care. As an important livelihood project, rehabilitation medicine is the key content and strong guarantee of the strategy of building a healthy China.

But at present, rehabilitation therapists are not listed in the National Vocational Ceremony, and the occupational classification and cognition are vague. In the current 2015 edition of the “Occupational Classification of the People’s Republic of China”, there are only rehabilitation physicians and rehabilitation technicians, and there is no rehabilitation therapist as we often call it. The occupational catalog and classification of rehabilitation therapists at the national level are all unclear.

and internationally, the profession of rehabilitation medicine The composition of the classification system is quite complete. In the International Standard Occupational Classification ISCO-08 issued by the International Labour Organization (ILO), there are sub-fields of rehabilitation therapists: physical therapists, hearing and speech therapists. They belong to the same level of health care professionals as dentists, pharmacists, and nutritionists, and are parallel to general practitioners, nursing staff, etc.

Therefore, this time, rehabilitation therapists are officially included in the “National Occupational Classification (2022 Edition)”. At the level, the occupational catalog and classification of rehabilitation therapists are clarified.

Then while the rehabilitation therapist gets a unique name and detailed category , is also classified into the category of rehabilitation and correction service personnel, and the gains and losses between respiratory therapists classified into the category of medical auxiliary services personnel.

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