VietNamNet Bridge - Many problems found at the Hanoi Business & Technology University, called KinhCong by Hanoians and the Thai Nguyen Medical & Pharmacy University, have sparked worries about medical training quality in Vietnam.

 

The information that KinhCong, which has never been listed among big and prestigious schools in Vietnam, has a license to provide medical training despite doubts about staffing and facilities has caused public concern.

Local newspapers reported that 22 students following the training course jointly provided by the Thai Nguyen Medical & Pharmacy University and Hai Phong Medical University were prohibited from sitting finals, just days before the exam took place. 

"The loose management over medical training will kill people," (a reader)

Hundreds of other medical students have been found submitting counterfeit documents when registering to attend the training course.

“What would have happen if the students’ cheating had not been discovered? The incapable students would have passed the exams, become physicians and prescribed wrong remedies for patients,” Nguyen Hong Thuy wrote on an education forum.

“The loose management over medical training will kill people,” she commented.

“I cannot understand why the Ministry of Education and Training, which emphasizes that it always sets very strict requirements on medical training because this is a special training branch, has allowed KinhCong to produce physicians. I will reject KinhCong’s physicians,” wrote Hoang Mai Hoa on her Facebook page.

Regarding the 22 students who made false statements in their documents, Nguyen Van Son, Rector of the Thai Nguyen Medical & Pharmacy University, said the students have been prohibited from attending the last final exam and has been forced to suspend study for one year.

Dang Kim Vui, director of the Thai Nguyen University, of which the Thai Nguyen Medical & Pharmacy school is a member, affirmed that the university has strictly followed instructions released by the inspectors and placed the blame on relevant individuals and divisions.

However, what Thai Nguyen University promised to do still has eased public concern.

A lecturer of the Hanoi Medical University, one of the most prestigious medical schools in Vietnam, commented that the one-year suspension would be the right way to settle the existing problems.

“I personally feel worried about the current medical training in Vietnam. Even the Hanoi Medical University which has good staff and material facilities cannot expand training massively,” he said. 

“I know Vietnam lacks physicians and medical workers, but this must not be a reason for schools to become easier in providing training,” he said.

Problems have been found not only at Thai Nguyen Medical and Pharmacy University, but also at some other member schools of Thai Nguyen University. 


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