Does having a training certificate supplement practice scope of professional activities in Vietnam? What are procedures for reissuing practice certificates in Vietnam?

Does having a training certificate supplement practice scope of professional activities in Vietnam?

In Clause 2, Article 11 of Decree 155/2018/ND-CP, regulations on application documents for modification of practice certificates include:

1. An application for supplementation to the practice scope specified on the practice certificate shall contain:

a. An application form using form No. 05 in Appendix I hereto.

b. A valid copy of the issued practice certificate.

c. A valid of copy of a training qualification or a certificate issued by a legal training institution. The maximum training period is 6 months and must be conformable with the supplemented practice scope.

Thus, according to the above regulations in Vietnam, you are eligible according to regulations to be supplemented with the scope of expertise in Dermatology. However, you need to submit an application to supplement the scope of professional activities according to the regulations above

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What are procedures for reissuing practice certificates in Vietnam? 

In addition, Article 10 of Decree 109/2016/ND-CP stipulates procedures for issuance/reissuance and management of practice certificates as follows:

1. After receiving an application for issuance/reissuance of a practice certificate, the Ministry of Health or the Department of Health (hereinafter referred to as application-receiving authority) shall issue an application receipt note using the form specified in Annex II enclosed with this Decree. To be specific:

a) If the application is submitted directly at the application-receiving authority and satisfactory according to regulation, the application-receiving authority shall give the applicant an application receipt note;

b) If the application is sent by post, then within 02 days from the day on which the application is received (pursuant to the coming postmark), the application-receiving authority shall send the receipt note to the applicant;

2. Within 20 days from the date written on the Receipt note, the application-receiving authority shall conduct the inspection of the application and make an appraisal record).

3. If the application is satisfactory, within 10 working days from the day on which the appraisal record is issued, the application-receiving authority shall issue/reissue the practice certificate.

4. Regarding unsatisfactory applications:

a) Within 05 working days from the day on which the appraisal record is issued, the application-receiving authority shall send the applicant a written notification containing a request for completion of the application. Such notification must specify the documents subject to supplementation and those subject to modification.

b) After receiving the request for completion of the application, the applicant shall comply with the request and send the revised application to the application-receiving authority. The application-receiving authority shall send the Receipt note for the revised application to the applicant.

c) The application-receiving authority shall continue the procedures as prescribed in clauses 2 and 3 and point a clause 4 of this Article. If the revised application is still unsatisfactory, the application-receiving authority shall continue guiding the applicant on the completion of the application.

d) If the applicant fails to make supplementation or modification of the application within 60 days from the day on which the application-receiving authority’s request for completion of the application is received, the procedures for issuance/reissuance of the practice certificate shall be re-conducted.

5. Management of practice certificates:

a) The practice certificate shall be issued by the Minister of Health using the form No. 01 in Annex III and the Decision on supplementation of practice scope on the practice certificate shall be issued by the Minister of Health or the Director of the Department of Health using the form No. 03 in Annex III enclosed with this Decree. The code of the practice certificate shall be in accordance with the form No. 04 in Annex III enclosed with this Decree; the practice scope specified on the practice certificate shall be conformable to the guidance of the Minister of Health.

b) Application-receiving authorities shall themselves print the samples of practice certificates using the form specified in point a of this clause, ensure the continuity of numbers of the practice certificates during the issuance and ensure that each practitioner is issued with no more than one practice certificate.

c) Departments of Health shall use the samples of practice certificates issued by the Ministry of Health until December 31, 2016.

According to this Article, to supplement the scope of expertise of the Dermatology Department, it will be necessary to comply with the above regulations in Vietnam.

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