To explore the research and teaching ability of rehabilitation in medical institutions at different levels in Zhejiang province, for better guiding and promoting of rehabilitation medicine.

90 public hospitals in Zhejiang province were surveyed by Zhejiang Rehabilitation Center from May to August during 2019, to collect information of the research papers, research project applications, patents and monographs of each rehabilitation medicine department in the past five years, as well as the teaching and training activities in 2018.

Among the 90 hospitals surveyed, 86 hospitals had rehabilitation medicine departments. In the past five years, 86 hospitals published 636 papers in core journals, 120 SCI/EI papers, and applied for 19 national projects, 40 provincial projects, and 204 bureau level projects, and applied for 25 invention patents and 40 utility model patents, and edited 19 monographs. The average research capacity of rehabilitation including research paper, research project application, patent invention and monograph preparation in tertiary hospitals was significantly better than that of secondary general hospitals in recent 5 years. No SCI/EI papers have been published in the secondary hospital in the past 5 years, and no national project has been awarded. The proportion of SCI/EI papers published by tertiary hospitals was 92.5% (111/120). More teaching work was conducted by tertiary hospitals.

The research and teaching ability of rehabilitation in public hospitals of Zhejiang province has reached a certain scale, but there is still a long way to go with other subjects. It is suggested that we should take the opportunity of development of great health and great rehabilitation, different levels of rehabilitation institutions should take their advantages to carry out scientific research and teaching training at different levels. Combined with the three-level rehabilitation network, a number of rehabilitation development measures such as linkage between the upper and the lower levels, mutual assistance in scientific research and integration in teaching should be implemented.

Rehabilitation medicine; Scientific research; Teaching ability; Zhejiang Province