Abstract—Since the Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) has became increasing popular in mainland China, how to improve the TCM practitioners medical service became a research subject. To develop a competency model would benefit the TCM practitioners and help the management of TCM hospitals or TCM sections in general hospitals. We generated 27 items to form questionnaire and 908 valid responses were identified. After data processing, we notify that professional ethics, self-progress, professional basis, TCM knowledge/skills and modern medical knowledge/skills are the key factors for TCM practitioners’ competency. This competency model is on count of mainland China’s TCM practitioners, it could have reference value for countries and regions other than China, but it would not be complete application outside China. However, our competency model has many practical implications, it would be helpful for the hospital administrators to use this model to develop the adjustment managing measures.
Index Terms—Competency model, TCM practitioner. cross-section.
Yilin Chen is with Westside Christian High Schoo 8200 SW Pfaffle St. Tigard, Oregon 97223, USA (e-mail: cjh681211@sina.com).
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Cite: Yilin Chen, "A Competency Model for Traditional Chinese Medicine Practitioners: A Cross-Sectional Study in China," International Journal of Modeling and Optimization vol. 9, no. 4, pp. 205-208, 2019.
