Regulations on the administration of rural doctors' practice.

The purpose of these Regulations is to improve the professional ethics and quality of rural doctors, strengthen the management of rural doctors’ practice, protect the legitimate rights and interests of rural doctors, and ensure the villagers to access to primary health care services. The Regulations consist of 49 Articles divided into 6 Chapters: General Provisions; Registration of Practitioners; Rules of practitioner; Training and assessment; Legal liabilities; Supplementary Provisions.
Chapter 2 provides for the conditions, procedures and requirements to be satisfied for registration of practitioners. Chapter 3 copes with the rural doctors’ rights and obligations in their practice activities. Regarding to the training and assessment, the People's Governments at provincial level shall develop rural doctors training plans, and ensure rural doctors to be trained at least every 2 years; and the assessment of rural doctors shall be made once every 2 years.