According to the development path of modern medicine and the development trend of society, in the next 20 or 30 years, medicine will undergo great changes.

Firstly, the task of medicine will gradually shift from preventing and treating diseases to maintaining and enhancing health and improving people’s quality of life. People see a doctor not only because of diseases treatment but also for health guidance. Accordingly, the allocation of the entire social health resources will be divided into two poles, the Community Medical Services and Medical Center. Considerable general practitioners with much bigger-scaled community nursing teams will be engaged in community services.

Secondly, informatics and bioinformatics will change the way medicine works. Medical records will be replaced by a card that can record all the medical information including a doctor’s change of condition, diagnosis and treatment, or even all image data. Advanced medical technologies as there are, face-to-face treatments between doctors and patients can’t be replaced.

Thirdly, the scope of medical work will expand from “birth to death” to “before and after death.” Doctors can give correct diagnosis of a certain disease and perform surgical treatment during the period of fetus, which is called Fetal Surgery, an emerging interdisciplinary subject - Fetal Subjects. Meanwhile, medical work will extend to the scope of posthumous organ utilization.