Is it necessary to take the chronic disease manager exam?

There is really no one-size-fits-all answer to this question. It all depends on your current career plan and actual needs - it is neither the universal golden key that "can earn over 10,000 yuan a month after passing the exam" spread online, nor is it a worthless "IQ tax waste paper".

When I was working on public health projects at a community health service center, I met Xiao Zhou, a nurse who was responsible for follow-up of chronic diseases. In the past two years, she was very worried. Every time she came to visit elderly people with high blood pressure and diabetes for follow-up, all the health advice given to the elderly ignored her. Instead, she trusted the "experts" who sold health products in the health class at the entrance of the community. She even tried to persuade her by saying, "What do you, a little nurse, know?" Later, she used her free time to take the chronic disease management certificate. When she came to the house again, she took out the certificate and showed it to the old man. She said, "Auntie, I have taken the chronic disease management certificate. How to take your antihypertensive medicine, how much salt to eat every day, and how many steps to walk are all given to you according to the national guidelines." Forget it, it’s definitely more reliable than those selling health care products.” With such a small certificate, the elderly’s compliance suddenly improved. Last year, she was rated as the most advanced public health service in the district based on her skills in chronic disease management. For her, this certificate is particularly worthwhile.

Now many health management companies, nursing homes, and physical examination centers are recruiting people, and they will add the sentence "Chronic disease management certification is preferred" in the recruitment requirements. If you originally want to develop in these fields, or are already doing related work such as grassroots public health or family physician assistant, getting the certification is not only an extra line on your resume. The knowledge of chronic disease intervention, nutritional matching, follow-up management, and complication monitoring that you have systematically learned during the preparation process can be directly used in your daily work, and it can help you improve your professional capabilities.

However, if your original job and health service cannot be matched, and you have no intention of switching to a related position, and you are only interested in taking the exam because you heard the training institution said that "you can be affiliated and receive thousands of subsidies," then I advise you to give up this idea as soon as possible. A while ago, an administrative netizen came to me to complain, saying that he spent more than 3,000 to sign up for a so-called "guaranteed class". After passing the certificate examination, he found that no one wanted to apply for it, and there was no corresponding skill subsidy in the local area. Now the certificate is just sitting in a drawer at home gathering dust. Isn't this a waste of money? Not to mention that there is a mixed bag of chronic disease management certificates on the market. Many of them are printed by training institutions themselves. They are not skill level certificates registered by the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security at all. They are not recognized by the industry after taking the exam. They are purely IQ taxes.

Of course, many people in the industry think that this certificate is not necessary to take, saying that it is far less valuable than admission certificates such as practicing physician and nurse certificates. After all, not having this certificate does not hinder you from doing work related to chronic diseases. Many old doctors and veterans who have been working in chronic disease management for more than ten years Nurses can still clearly manage the health of patients without this certificate. This is indeed true. In the final analysis, the certificate is an endorsement of skills. If you really want to gain a foothold in this industry, you must rely on solid service capabilities. You cannot just expect to get high in one step just by taking the certificate.

To put it bluntly, whether you want to take the exam or not, you just have to figure out two things first: first, whether you plan to delve into the service field related to chronic diseases in the future, and second, whether the certificate you want to take the exam is formally filed. If you understand these two points, you don’t have to worry.