"barefoot doctor" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: barefoot doctors [plural]
Etymology: Derived from the practice of farmers in southern China working barefoot in rice paddies. Head templates: {{en-noun}} barefoot doctor (plural barefoot doctors)
  1. A farmer or rural resident with basic medical training who worked as a doctor in rural areas of the People's Republic of China from the mid-1960s until the 1980s, generally under a government-sponsored program. Wikipedia link: barefoot doctor Categories (topical): Healthcare occupations Categories (place): China Translations (farmer with basic medical training): 赤腳醫生 (Chinese Mandarin), 赤脚医生 (chìjiǎo yīshēng) (Chinese Mandarin), nudpieda kuracisto (Esperanto), paljasjalkalääkäri (Finnish), médecin aux pieds nus [masculine] (French), Barfußarzt [masculine] (German), Barfußärztin [feminine] (German), barfotlege [masculine] (Norwegian), médico de pés descalços [masculine] (Portuguese), médica de pés descalços [feminine] (Portuguese), medic desculț [masculine] (Romanian), doctor desculț [masculine] (Romanian), босоногий доктор (bosonogij doktor) [masculine] (Russian), médico descalzo [masculine] (Spanish), médica descalza [feminine] (Spanish), barfotaläkare [common-gender] (Swedish), སྨན་པ་རྐང་རྗེན་མ (sman pa rkang rjen ma) (Tibetan), སྨན་པ་རྐང་རྗེན (sman pa rkang rjen) (Tibetan), nüdafutasanan (Volapük)

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      "sense": "farmer with basic medical training",
      "word": "སྨན་པ་རྐང་རྗེན་མ"
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