Today on July 10, 2019, reading an article of a 5th-year medical student at Hanoi Medical University on the website VnExpress, I suddenly reconnected my memory back 40 years ago, at also a medical student like you.

Ha Trang is about to be my colleague. Currently I am a general specialist in internal medicine, graduated from Hue Medical University in 1979.

Before 1975, we studied medicine for 7 years, the first year we had to take a Foundation course, which included the basic sciences and also taught basic medicine. This preparatory class in Hue at that time was called preparatory medicine. In this class I must also take the test and pass in order to study. If you exceed the preparatory year, you will be admitted to the Medical School.

Regardless of any period, perhaps a medical student's mood is often the same, which dominates before, during, about and after graduation - that is the career of a person in the commune. Association, the career of a medical student, the career of a physician. Career is something ambiguous to everyone, but it is not vague for a medical student, because the goal of medical students is to graduate to become a doctor - a physician who saves people. A glorious and honorable career for yourself, your family, your friends, your society and your country. The profession of a physician is a noble, noble and sacred profession, because after all, everyone living in this world, including a physician, when having health problems, are equal under the hands of a physician. The patient's life is also determined by the physician. It is a sacred profession that no profession has. So learning to be a physician, first of all, must come from compassion for fellow people, sympathy for the pain of the patient. Since then, the medical student was passionate about it, enthusiastic about it, working day and night diligently at the time of his students as well as when he graduated from school, and sometimes his whole life was studying without talking about public work. Your plunge for anyone. The healer does not say they are making sacrifices for anyone, because sacrifice is an attribute of being a doctor. Their work is quiet, but their worthiness is always perminance hidden worth.

However, how to become a worthy physician is the most important thing, how can a doctor keep a pure soul and always possess medical wisdom, and always nurture love and generosity. and kindness? continue to contribute our efforts to humanity. In order to do that miracle, in addition to the medical student trying hard to work the book lamp, exhausting the sweat on the patient's bed, they also have to live and study in a standard medical education environment. ink. The standards from the chair and the table, from the tools to the infrastructure, the equipment, the standards from the practice place to the practice place. Standards from a standard teacher with a standard curriculum. Standards range from learning to technology to teach students. All connections unite under one standard and honest, transparent management will.

Ha Trang mentioned that the income of doctors in the United States, or other countries in ASEAN, is very high compared to that of our Vietnamese doctors. Did Ha Trang know? The per capita income of the United States is more than 10 times that of Vietnam and Singapore's 8 times more than that of Vietnam. The people's life is high, the patient is valued, the rights of the patient are fully realized, the professional work, including the medical ethics of the doctor's profession, has become legalized. The investment in medical education is very large to meet the standards and standards of serving patients. In that environment, the capacity and energy of medical students is very high, possibly much higher than our country's students, the study costs are also many times higher than our country. For example, the medical school of Singapore State Medical University is $ 30,000 SD, the partnership with the US School is $ 50,000 SD. As for the United States, the cost of studying medicine is very high, up to $ 80,000 to $ 90,000 depending on the university. Each year, the medical schools of the United States or Singapore have a fixed enrollment quota and do not increase by over 100 students per year to maintain the quality of their outcomes, while the need for doctors in the community is huge. The medical study period of the United States is longer than that of Vietnam, the general doctor program takes 8 years and takes 3 more years of residency and one year the practice certificate, the only cost is 11-12 years for a lifetime of general practitioners get real hands on sick people. Boarding exams in the United States or Singapore are also very difficult, not only in our country. After passing the boarding session, the boarding school was sponsored by one professor, but the professor could not sponsor many boarders at the same time. The social, economic, educational, medical, life, and legal structure is so high, so the training for physicians in these countries is very high. Of course, high school graduates' income is compatible with that society.

However, there is a small joy about the income of advanced water doctors compared to our country that in a developing country, on average, our income is higher. For example, a doctor who recently graduated from school and after 18 months has a practice certificate, is admitted to working in a private hospital the income can be equal to ½ bs of Singapore at the same time. This shows that Vietnamese doctors are still respected and favored by society. Because of culture, we still consider doctors as white-shirted angels.

I hope these small sharing can give you Ha Trang a more expectant view of her future. There is something I advise you to strive to be a good and qualified doctor, so that your family, friends, patients and society will always honor you. Then you do not worry about your normal needs in Maslow Tower.

Hope your concerns are shared to any part? I always look forward to the thoughts and sharing of medical students through the website of Phan Chau Trinh Medical University - an ideal medical school for standard doctors and for those Medical students have many concerns and thoughts in entrepreneurship like you.

Dr. Nguyen Huu Tung.
President of Medical University Phan Chau Trinh.

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