Abstract: Objective To investigate the current situation of Traditional Chinese Medicine(TCM)service providing by rural doctors in Yantai City, Shandong Province, China and to provide support for the grass-roots medical and health system improving. Methods A multistage stratified random sampling method was used to select 3 sample counties in Yantai City of Shandong Province to conduct a questionnaire survey among 129 rural doctors, and a descriptive statistical analysis was conducted using SPSS 20.0 software. Results The survey found 108 rural doctors could provide TCM services, accounting for 83.7%. The number of appropriate TCM techniques mastered by 56.5% of the rural doctors is less than or equal to 3. The highest proportion of TCM services rural doctors providing was cupping, counting 71.3%, followed by massage(57.4%). Sixty-eight point five percent of rural doctors did not prescribe Chinese herbal medicine, 56.5% of village clinics were not equipped with Chinese herbal medicine slices, 34.3% were equipped with 50-100 kinds of Chinese herbal medicine slices, and 82.4% of rural doctors participated in the TCM health management project in public health services. Conclusion The number of appropriate TCM techniques mastered by village doctors in Yantai City is small, the types of Chinese Herbal Pieces in village health rooms are limited, and there are few TCM health 山 东 大 学 学 报 (医 学 版)57卷3期 -黄小敏,等.乡村医生中医药服务提供现状——以山东省烟台市为例 \=-management projects for children.

Key words: Rural doctors, Appropriate techniques of TCM, Chinese Herbal Pieces, TCM health management, Present situation