Abstract: Objective To investigate the structure of the visiting technicians in Physiotherapy Department of Beijing Bo'ai Hospital, China Rehabilitation Center in the past 8 years. Methods 923 technicians visiting Physiotherapy Department from 2007 to 2014 were classified in the terms of provinces from, genders, ages, academic degrees, registers of practices and levels of hospital. Results Technicians visiting Physiotherapy Department came from 28 provinces (municipalities or municipality cities), (115.38 ± 5.30) persons per year, mainly aged 25-34 years (60.78%). The majority of the technicians (51.14%) accepted junior college education, and 46.37% did not registered for rehabilitation related practices. The visiting technicians were more and more year by year, especially rehabilitation technicians. Genders, ages and academic degrees influenced on the proportion of rehabilitation technicians. Conclusion Institutes sending the visiting technician need to balance the genders, ages and registers of practice, to meet the good practice.

Key words: training in job, physiotherapy, rehabilitation education