The purpose of human resources in the construction of urban community health service teams in Xinjiang is to supplement the team numbers, optimize the team structure, and lay the foundation for community health service institutions to assume corresponding responsibilities. Given the current shortage of community health workers, efforts should be intensified to deploy a wide range of community health workers, particularly by strengthening the provision of community nurses. Additionally, community health service centers conducting medicine/national medical rehabilitation or stations should increase the preparation of medicine/ethnic groups. It is necessary to strengthen the training of general practitioners and community nurses to improve and enhance the overall quality of community health services. Currently, staff engaged in community health services in Xinjiang are mostly redirected from hospitals or clinics, and there is a significant gap in understanding the concept, nature, work content, and personnel quality requirements of community health services. Therefore, training and retraining of general practitioners and community nurses is an important guarantee for effective community health services. It is recommended that all levels of government increase support for general medical training and practice bases, comprehensively train minority instructors, and publish Uighur-language general practitioner textbooks according to local conditions and individual needs.
In recent years, urban community health services have developed rapidly, but during this process, there has not been a proportional introduction of highly educated, high-grade professionals, and even non-professionals account for a certain percentage. Government and health administrative departments should develop a forward-looking system, limit those unsuited to community health services from entering such institutions, strictly adhere to personnel qualification standards, and ensure the high-quality and efficient operation of community health services.
Emphasis should also be placed on discipline construction. From the perspective of subject building, continuously improving general medical education is essential. Almost all foreign medical schools have a general medicine teaching department responsible for creating General Practice courses for medical students, as well as organizing general medicine residency training programs under guidance and teaching. The aim is to make all medical students aware of the concepts, principles, and core knowledge and skills of general medicine and community health services, fostering interest in general medicine, and encouraging them to pursue it as a lifelong career after graduation. Currently, the majority of domestic institutions have also established General Practice Departments, making the Introduction to General Practice a compulsory course in all medical professions. Similar measures are recommended for medical schools in our region to provide quality-qualified personnel for the construction of community health teams.
In short, the development of qualified personnel is fundamental to the sustainable development of community health services. Great efforts should be made towards standardizing the education and training of general practitioners, attaching great importance to funding input and preferential policies. Considering regional sentiments, teacher training should be intensified, and talents for multi-level services in the community should be cultivated.