Dogsnout said:
I am wondering on how the quality of medical education is over in vietnam. I'm guessing that the focus is more on clinical aspect of medicine vs a balance between basic sciences and clinical medicine. In the US model of the medical school curriculum, for example, in Pathology, the Robbins book is considered the "bible" of pathology and almost every medical school uses that book as well as have PHD's who have alot of background in the pathology field as well as teaching it. Most students have the necessary materials to read up and learn on their own as well as lectures, but I'm wondering over in VN, what kind of textbooks are used, what kind of professors are teaching the course, and how much emphasis is placed on the basic sciences? Since it is a 3rd world country, I wonder how much a student can learn with such limited resources?
Hi Dogsnout,
Yes, Việt Nam is a 3rd country. And we dont have much resources as most students in the USA or the European countries. The focus of our trainning in the Uni is praticians, may be mot a clinician or a physician. There a bit different of these words ? It means we are the community doctor, after graduation, we come back to work in the community, in the public medical point of a small area. We dont have right to open a private clinical, or harly applying for a job in a hospital. If you want to work in the provine's hospital you must study the post-graduated degree.
We study basic sciences in the first two years, and practice at the Uni's labors. The textbook for these basic sciences is written by the Professor of the Uni. , but we are encourage to research in the foreign language if we can, for example, the A.C. Guyton's text book of Physiology, the ANderson's textbook of Pathology.. In Việt Nam, its easy to find foreign textbooks but they r very expensive, so we can make a photo of them from the Uni's library.
We started clinical practice in the 3rd year, and everyday, we must go to the hospital to practice with the patients. We have right to talk, to exam the patients, and do some small procedures in the patients for example injection, spinal ponction...In the last year, we can note in the profile, give the orders in the profile (under the check of the doctors, of course
). We also can participate in a operation when we practice the Sugery suject.
In Việt NAm, there r two big medical Uni, one in H? Nội, the capital, one in Hồ Ch? Minh city, mine. Each Uni writes their own textbook for the teaching. But the students in this Uni can use text of the other Uni. Its Okay, no objection from the teachers. In internal medicine, most the students read the Harrison's and Cecil's Textbook, we also read the Washington's for the therapeutic. We can read it in the Uni library, a few students can buy them
. I think you also use these book.
And we can find more resource in Internet, for exam I often browse the New England Journal of Medicine (
http://www.nejm.org )and the Britist Journal of Medicine(
http://www.bmj.com/ ). These site give the Việtnamese the sposor, and we access for free.
Ofcourse the quality of madical trainning int ViệtNam is lower in the USA and the Europe, but I think not much, especial in the residency training, we have much clinical experients, i think so. But, the disadvantages of us is foreign languages. WE r trying to improve it.
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I will tell you more about my study in VN.
Regards.
