Unifying the direction of bringing residency training into the national education system

Deputy Minister of Health Nguyen Tri Thuc speaks at the discussion session (Photo: Hong Phong).

This content is mentioned in the report sent by the Ministry of Health to the National Assembly delegates to receive and explain the opinions of the National Assembly Standing Committee; the review opinions of the Committee on Culture and Social Affairs, and the opinions of the National Assembly delegates on the Draft Resolution of the National Assembly on a number of breakthrough mechanisms and policies for the work of protecting, caring for, and improving people's health.

This content was discussed at the National Assembly in the working session on the morning of December 2, and was also reported and broadcast live for voters and people nationwide to follow.

Specialized training in the health sector was also a controversial topic during the discussion session of the revised Law on Higher Education on November 20.

Deputy Minister of Health Nguyen Tri Thuc emphasized, "The resident force is the elite of the elite in the medical industry. If we consider this as training for a practice certificate, it is completely incorrect."

Mr. Thuc proposed to add the regulation that "The Ministry of Health is the focal agency responsible to the Government for implementing the contents and tasks of State management of specialized postgraduate training in the national education system in the field of health sciences".

Delegate Tran Khanh Thu (Hung Yen) also said that the failure to recognize postgraduate training degrees in the health sector in the national training degree system is something that makes medical staff very concerned and is also unfair.

Faced with the reality that the training degrees for resident physicians and specialist doctors I and II are not yet part of the national education system, the female delegate proposed adding postgraduate training degrees in the health field to the national diploma system so that more than 40,000 medical staff have sufficient legal basis for recognition of their trained degrees and move towards international standards.

The Standing Committee of the Culture and Social Affairs Committee proposed not to stipulate the content of specialized training in the health sector in the draft Resolution and suggested that the Ministry of Health coordinate with the Ministry of Education and Training to study appropriate and unified regulations in the draft Law on Higher Education (amended).

The orientation emphasized by the Committee is to identify specialized training and advanced training as a specific type of training in the health sector in accordance with the spirit of Resolution No. 72.

During the process of drafting the Law amending and supplementing a number of articles of the Law on Education and the Law on Higher Education (amended), the Ministry of Health sent many documents with comments to the Ministry of Education and Training (the drafting agency) requesting to add regulations on specialized training at the postgraduate level in the health sector managed by the Ministry of Health, but these have not been considered or received.

The Ministry of Health said that this time, the above content has been unanimously accepted by the units in the direction: Training of specific specialties in the health field is recognized in the national education system, postgraduate level, not master's and doctoral training and is managed by the Ministry of Health.

Unifying the direction of bringing residency training into the national education system

Medical staff work at the Emergency Department of a public hospital in Ho Chi Minh City (Photo: Hoang Le).

During the group discussion session on the draft resolution on a number of breakthrough mechanisms and policies for the protection, care and improvement of people's health, there was a proposal to recognize specialized degrees equivalent to postgraduate, master's and doctoral degrees in the health sector managed by the Ministry of Health, because currently, resident doctors, specialists I and specialists II are not recognized in the national degree system, causing difficulties in salary arrangement, promotion and development of high-tech human resources.

The Ministry of Health said that this agency is actively coordinating with the Ministry of Education and Training to revise and incorporate specialized training content at the postgraduate level in the national education system in the health sector managed by the Ministry of Health into draft laws related to education.

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