Tight control of medical human resource training

The recent announcement by the Ministry of Education and Training and the Ministry of Health to temporarily suspend the consideration of opening 4 health human resource training majors at multidisciplinary schools not in the medical and pharmaceutical sector has received the agreement of many people. However, many opinions still request the 2 Ministries to organize inspections and reviews of health human resource training activities.

Many schools recruit randomly.

Such a proposal is made because in the recent period, the Ministry of Education and Training allowed schools to open in large numbers, but management was not strict, so the training quality did not meet requirements, especially in multidisciplinary schools that were not in the medical and pharmaceutical sector.

A practice hour of students from Hanoi Medical University at the National Children's Hospital.

Agreeing with the temporary suspension of consideration of opening General Medicine, Dentistry, Traditional Medicine, and Pharmacy majors at non-medical schools, Associate Professor, Dr. Truong Viet Binh - Director of the Vietnam Academy of Traditional Medicine said: "Due to the scarcity of human resources in the medical field, non-specialized training schools recruit indiscriminately, which will certainly result in poor training quality."

Can't relax

Also agreeing with the decision of the two ministries, Associate Professor Nguyen Huu Tu - Vice President of Hanoi Medical University said that training doctors needs careful preparation, ensuring practice facilities, teaching staff, especially specific subjects that require long-term training to have good teachers. Not to mention, practice facilities are hospitals that must also meet standards so that students can apply them after graduation. With strict requirements in training, if non-specialized schools do not have enough time to prepare and have experience, it will certainly affect the quality of training. Therefore, there must be high and strict requirements in terms of assessment. "The two ministries should focus on investing in specialized medical training schools to enhance capacity as well as scale and scope, which is the best way" - Mr. Tu proposed.

However, many medical training experts suggest that, in addition to temporarily suspending the consideration of opening training majors, the Ministry of Education and Training and the Ministry of Health must closely inspect and supervise schools that have opened majors in the past. Regarding the planning of medical and pharmaceutical training schools, it is not advisable because according to the Law on Higher Education, universities that meet all the conditions will be allowed to open majors. Moreover, when "a hundred flowers bloom, a hundred schools compete", it will be a way of healthy competition in vocational training. Regarding the consideration of conditions for each school to open majors or the inspection and supervision of training activities, there needs to be the participation of the functional agencies of the two ministries, instead of just the Ministry of Education and Training as at present.

Furthermore, some people think that in principle, the suspension of consideration of opening majors is correct, but the Ministry of Education and Training should announce a specific time. The two ministries need to come up with unified criteria on conditions for opening majors, not easily allowing them, then "closing" them when they find them unreasonable. As National Assembly delegate Bui Thi An of Hanoi said, there needs to be flexibility in suspending the opening of majors, because it will affect places with real conditions, otherwise a whole batch of students will be missed.

According to KTĐT