Ensuring the quality of human resources in the medical and legal sectors

The "blooming" of university training institutions related to medicine and law is requiring a review of the entire training process, from admission to output standards, to ensure that graduates truly meet professional standards.

Choosing a residency major at Hanoi Medical University in 2025. Photo: HMU.

Statistics show that the country currently has 111 law training institutions, accounting for about half of the total number of universities. Of these, 90 have law faculties.

Many people are interested in this story because medicine and law are fields directly related to the health, life, rights and justice of the people. The quality of human resource training will not only affect each individual practitioner but also affect the trust of the whole society.

Supporting the policy of tightening training in specialized and specific fields, including medicine, Professor Tran Diep Tuan - Chairman of the Council of Ho Chi Minh City University of Medicine and Pharmacy acknowledged that currently, opening major codes is relatively easy, and the standards for opening major codes are used for all fields. This is not suitable for the medical field. In addition, the accreditation standards are also not suitable for the medical doctor training program.

“In the past, the opening of medical training codes, especially for medical doctors, has not been really tight and strict. Many schools have been established without ensuring the quality of training” – Professor Tuan said and proposed that there should be a separate set of standards for medical doctor training programs.

Associate Professor Dr. Do Van Dung - former Principal of Ho Chi Minh City University of Technical Education pointed out the fact that the schools are now multidisciplinary. Before, when opening majors, the schools had fully met the standards of lecturers, facilities and had the ability to coordinate interdisciplinary to provide richer and more diverse training. If training is banned later, what will happen to these schools? They also met the requirements to open majors, so if it is banned, why is it banned?

Associate Professor Dr. Do Thanh Nho - University of New South Wales (Australia) also emphasized that in the current trend, many problems in medicine need interdisciplinary coordination to solve. He gave an example in the research on soft artificial hearts that he and his colleagues are implementing, which requires interdisciplinary coordination with robotics, imaging, medicine... to successfully develop this technology as well as aim for reasonable costs so that the majority of people can use it.

However, with the goal of improving the training quality of specific majors in particular and the quality of university education in general, it is necessary to continue to improve the facilities and teaching staff, especially permanent lecturers. Having enough standard practice hospitals or laboratories for medical training facilities should be raised to increase clinical practice opportunities for students. Similarly, for law students, it is also necessary to increase practice opportunities for students, increase connections with judicial agencies so that students can soon access the practice of trial, execution of judgments, notarization or dispute resolution, thereby having the right orientation in studying, training, meeting the requirements of the labor market.

Many opinions also proposed to take a professional certification exam after graduation so that all students, regardless of which school they study in, whether in the domestic or international training system, who want to practice their profession, must meet the professional standards. Experience in many developed countries is that professional associations will organize this exam and recognize qualified practitioners. At that time, the quality will be guaranteed and schools will also automatically change to meet the requirements of the professional certification exam.

Mr. Pham Thai Son - Director of Admissions of Ho Chi Minh City University of Industry and Trade also proposed the most reasonable solution at present, which is that the Medicine and Law majors that have been opened will continue to be trained; the Ministry will issue a new set of standards, higher and more specific; schools that do not meet the requirements within 3-5 years will be forced to convert, cooperate in training or stop enrolling. New licenses for these two majors are almost only for schools with specialized capacity.

Speaking at the group discussion session on investment policy for the National Target Program on Modernization and Improvement of Education Quality for the 2026-2035 period on November 25, Permanent Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Hoa Binh said that the Government will tighten conditions for opening majors in specific fields such as medicine and law. Institutions that do not meet the criteria on teaching staff, professional capacity and practice facilities will not be allowed to train in these two majors.

Lam Nhi

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