Faculty of Medicine, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan, ROC.
Med Teach. 2012;34(2):103-7. doi: 10.3109/0142159X.2011.613499.
Vietnam is one of the most populous countries in Southeast Asia, yet it displays an unsettling lack of doctors.
Medical education is an important factor contributing to this issue, yet little is known about the system currently in place in Vietnam.
Through an extensive literary search of medical schools' and Ministry of Health's data, we have examined the current medical education system in Vietnam.
At present, there are 12 medical universities, and the general curriculum at each university follows a national framework but tends to vary from university to university. Medical training lasts either 4 or 6 years, with competitive graduates attending residency programs following graduation. While examinations are required to graduate, the lack of a national licensing exam makes it difficult to ensure that a nation-wide standard of quality exists, both at the medical universities themselves as well as amongst the doctors graduating from them.
The development and institution of a national exam would introduce a standard of training throughout Vietnam's medical education system. Further, a substantial portion of a doctor's education is in subjects that are loosely related to medicine. When looking forward it will be important to evaluate whether or not these non-medical subjects detract from the quality of medical training.
越南是东南亚人口最多的国家之一，但却明显缺乏医生。
医学教育是造成这一问题的重要因素之一，但目前对于越南现行医学教育体系知之甚少。
通过对医学院校和卫生部数据的广泛文献检索，我们考察了越南目前的医学教育体系。
目前有 12 所医科大学，每所大学的基础课程都遵循国家框架，但往往因校而异。医学培训时长为 4 年或 6 年，有竞争力的毕业生在毕业后参加住院医师培训计划。虽然毕业需要考试，但由于没有全国性的执照考试，很难确保全国范围内的质量标准既存在于各所医科大学本身，也存在于从这些大学毕业的医生之中。
建立全国性考试将为越南医学教育体系引入培训标准。此外，医生教育的很大一部分是与医学关系不大的科目。展望未来，重要的是要评估这些非医学科目是否会降低医学培训的质量。
