VietNamNet Bridge – The poor material facilities cited by
medical schools is not the only reason behind the low training quality of the
schools. Experts believe that the most important reason lies in the teaching
method.
Medical schools only accept the
students who obtain very high marks from the university entrance exams. This
means that only brilliant students can be enrolled in the schools. Therefore,
it’s enigmatic why the brilliant students can become average or bad physicians
after they finish the schools.
Medical schools choose wrong students?
B, a fifth year student of a
medical student, who was in the internship period at the People’s Hospital 115
in HCM City, said she registered to study at the medical school because the
career allows to earn much money, while physicians are respectful in the
society. Meanwhile, B admitted that she chose the major not because she loved
the career.
A lecturer of the Pham Ngoc Thach
Medical School said the school conducts annual surveys about why students
choose to become physicians, and the common answers are the family’s tradition
and the expected high income.
Do Hong Ngoc from the Pham Ngoc
Thach Medical School thinks that the current method of enrolling students for
medical school shows problem, because this does not allow to find out the real
comprehensive capability of students.
Currently, in order to study at
medical schools, students have to pass the B-group university entrance exam,
which means that they have to attend the mathematics, chemistry and biology
exams.
However, Ngoc thinks that
students still need to attend a foreign language exam as well and write an
essay about why they choose to become doctors. They should also undergo the
interviews where interviewers can find out if the students can become good
doctors later.
Ngoc said that 50 years ago,
students had to attend four exams and answer 20 questions to show their
socio-economic knowledge,
“A good physician needs to have
deep knowledge about culture, history, geography, music and literature, who has
sympathy with patients. If not, they would be simply the workers who treat
diseases or carry out operations,” he said.
Nguyen Minh Tri Vien from the HCM
City Cardiology Institute also thinks that there should be the specific
requirements for medical students.
Wrong investment strategy
The overloading at hospitals and
the lack of physicians in HCM City is believed to be the result of the wrong
human resource development strategy. Experts believe that it is necessary to
strengthen healthcare establishments at the grassroots level, so that people
can have their diseases treated at the establishments and they do not have to
go to central hospitals.
Meanwhile, Vietnam has been
following the opposite direction. Over the last decades, excellent graduates of
the Pham Ngoc Thach School have been sent to central hospitals, while the
graduates with lower grades have to work at smaller healthcare establishments.
However, most of the physicians
working at the establishments give up the jobs just after a short period of
working because of the low income which is not enough to cover their basic
needs. That explains why Vietnam has always been lacking healthcare officers.
While students do not feel
enjoyable in studying, lecturers also feel tired of the jobs because they
cannot live with the career.
A lecturer of the HCM City
Medical and Pharmaceutical University who has doctorate, said that he receives
3 million dong a month for this job as the lecturer. Meanwhile, if he works for
a hospital, his fixed salary would be double.
Therefore, a lot of lecturers
have to take extra jobs to earn extra money, or they would not be able to
continue working as lecturers. In general, they would carry out operations to
the orders by hospitals, or work as collaborators for pharmacy firms.
Compiled by Kim Chi
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