There is an urgent need for grass-roots general practitioners who understand both clinical and community public health to deal with the current situation. " Recalling the covid-19 outbreak of the new crown pneumonia, Wu Hao, the member of the CPPCC National Committee and Dean of the school of general practice and continuing education of Capital Medical University, said that there was a lack of general practitioners at the grassroots level and a lack of top public health personnel. This is a major weakness in the medical personnel team in China. In the past year, as a community prevention and control expert of the comprehensive group of joint prevention and control under the State Council, Wu Hao continued to go to the front line of the epidemic and successively participated in the anti epidemic in Shijiazhuang, Hebei, Ruili, Yunnan, Yingkou, Liaoning, Guangdong, Jiangsu, Fujian, Beijing and other places, Covid-19, covid-19, covid-19, et al. Organized and presided over the participation in writing the national "new crown pneumonia epidemic prevention and control manual", "new crown pneumonia isolation medical observation guide", "Beijing standardized epidemic prevention and control community (Village) work guidelines", "community (Village) new crown pneumonia epidemic prevention and control work guide" and other policy documents, which provide decision-making suggestions for community epidemic prevention and control. Wu Hao served as the director of Fangzhuang community health service center and the dean of the College of general medicine and continuing education of Capital Medical University. His position has changed and his mission remains unchanged. "I will continue to train undergraduate and doctoral students in Beijing." He said. During the visit and investigation, Wu Hao found that, on the one hand, there is a lack of application channels for general medicine research funds. According to the application classification of National Natural Science Foundation and various provincial and ministerial scientific research funds, general medicine is not included in it; On the other hand, compared with specialized medicine, grass-roots general practitioners have poor scientific research ability, weak scientific research consciousness and lack of scientific research platform. The establishment of the general medicine department in the general hospital is relatively short. Most general practitioners in the general hospital are transferred from the specialty. Although they have a master's degree or above and have a certain scientific research ability and desire, they can only continue the scientific research methods and direction of the specialty because there is no independent classification of scientific research applications. "The research of each specialty category is generally classified by disease, which has relatively unique scientific research characteristics, and the research fields and directions are divided accordingly. Although general medicine is closely related to each specialty, it is quite different from each specialty. It is more necessary to strengthen the adjustment of physical thinking, medical prevention integration and all-round and full-cycle health management services. It is inevitable that the scientific research mode of the specialty can not be copied." Wu Hao stressed. "It is suggested to add general medicine as a national key discipline and support the selected advantageous key general medicine disciplines." Wu Hao said that the scientific research of general medicine needs to explore its own characteristic scientific research mode according to its own characteristics, so as to be consistent with the comprehensive health and health service work focusing on the grass-roots level of general medicine. What is general practice? Wu Hao's understanding is that it emphasizes "people-oriented" comprehensive care and pays attention to the practice of "biological psychological social" medical model. It is a comprehensive medical discipline, integrating prevention, rehabilitation, humanities and clinical medicine, covering the prevention and treatment of diseases, long-term management and rehabilitation of chronic diseases. It is essential to strengthen the construction of general medicine to transform the biomedical model dominated by specialty and centered on disease into a modern medical model centered on health and life-cycle care. Wu Hao suggested that the specialty of general medicine should be added as a national key discipline, and the selected advantageous key general medicine disciplines should be given corresponding financial guarantee and policy support; At the same time, it is hoped that medical colleges and hospitals will attach great importance to it, actively cultivate prevention and treatment integrated general medicine talents urgently needed by "strengthening the grass-roots", promote the integration of biomedicine and humanistic medicine, and make contributions to improving the research level of general medicine in China and its impact on world-class disciplines. (outlook new era)