32年前,永新县里田公社一批20岁左右的青年农民,被选拔到当时最时兴的赤脚医生学习班学习。这个学习班由江西医学院几位教师手把手地教,学习结束后,他们就是离土不离乡的乡村医生,和社员一样挣工分,故称为“赤脚医生”。时光荏苒,今年是新型农村合作医疗(简称“新农合”)在永新县实行的第二年,当年的赤脚 Thirty-two years ago, a group of 20-year-old young peasants in the Ritian Commune of Yongxin County were selected to study at the time the most popular barefoot doctors’ class. This class was taught by several teachers at the Jiangxi Medical College. After the completion of the study, they were rural doctors who had left their hometowns and earned the same points as the members of the community. Therefore, they were called “barefoot doctors.” This year is the second year of the new rural cooperative medical system (“new rural cooperative medical system”) implemented in Yongxin County.