Patients at the Viet Duc Hospital in Hanoi. (Photo: VNA)HCM
City (VNA) – A new training programme to improve the quality of
will be set up by the in collaboration with the Ministry of Education and Training and Ministry of Labour, Invalids
and Social Affairs.
Deputy
Minister of Health said that laws on education, higher
education, and health exams and treatment would be amended to meet the real
needs of training, including more emphasis on practical application.
Cuong,
who spoke at a recent conference on training healthcare staff by Hong Bang International
University in HCM City, said that it was also important to audit the training
programme.
Dr
Tran Diep Tuan, rector of the HCM City University of Medicine and Pharmacy,
said that by 2020 medical training establishments that do not have audits of
quality would not be allowed to be on the list of the World Federation for
Medical Education.
Salaries
for doctors who study for six years would be raised, according to Cuong.
The
Ministry of Health will also create new standards for human resources capacity
in the sector, he said, adding that medical doctors who want to practise will
have to take tests from a national medical council as other countries do.
According
to Nguyen Minh Loi of the Science, Technology and Training Department under the
Ministry of Health, the country has 196 universities, colleges and vocational
schools that provide training in healthcare.
Their
enrollment quotas are around 16,500, which will meet demand for human resources
in this sector until 2020.
Tuan
said that hospitals and other facilities had not closely worked with training
facilities.
Many
training facilities offering healthcare majors were teaching outdated medical
knowledge, he said.
New
training programmes would be needed to meet the challenges to provide quality
healthcare services in the 21th century.-VNA
Source: VietnamPlus
