Feldsher

A feldsher (German: Feldscher, Polish: Felczer, Czech: Felčar, Hungarian: Felcser, Russian: фельдшер, Swedish: Fältskär, Finnish: Välskäri) is a health care professional who provides various medical services limited to emergency treatment and ambulance practice.

The International Standard Classification of Occupations, 2008 revision, collectively groups such workers under the category paramedical practitioners.

Today, Feldshers do not exist in Germany anymore, but the term was exported with Prussian officers and nobles to Russia.

[7] The Feldsher system of rural primary care provided some of the inspiration for China's barefoot doctors.

[9] The training program typically includes basic pre-clinical sciences: anatomy, physiology, pharmacology, microbiology, laboratory subjects, etc.