What is the shortest period of Medical Continuing Professional Development (CDP) in Vietnam?

What is the shortest period of Medical Continuing Professional Development (CDP) in Vietnam?

In Article 3 of Circular 32/2023/TT-BYT, there are regulations on CPD hour requirements as follows:

CPD hour requirements

1. Medical practitioners are obliged to undertake at least 120 credit hours of medical CPD for 5 consecutive years (1 credit hour for a short-term training and refresher course is equivalent to 1 class period).

2. Medical practitioners who undertake any of the medical CPD activities outlined in Articles 4, 5, 6, and 7 of this Circular can earn credit hours. These credit hours will be totaled to calculate the practitioner's overall medical CPD hours.

Thus, the CPD hour is at least 120 credit hours for 5 consecutive years.

What are the forms of medical CPD in Vietnam?

Clause 2, Article 3 of Circular 32/2023/TT-BYT stipulates the medical CPD activities as follows:

CPD hour requirements

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2. Medical practitioners who undertake any of the medical CPD activities outlined in Articles 4, 5, 6, and 7 of this Circular can earn credit hours. These credit hours will be totaled to calculate the practitioner's overall medical CPD hours.

Thus, there are four forms of continuously updating medical knowledge:

(1) Medical CPD by undertaking short-term training and refresher courses, conferences, and seminars related to medicine appropriate to the scope of practice

(2) Medical CPD by development of medical textbooks and teaching materials, and medical documents

(3) Medical CPD by conducting scientific research and teaching medicine within the scope of practice

(4) Medical CPD by self-directed medical CPD and other forms.

Note: Medical examination and treatment practitioners who participate in one of the above forms of continuously updating medical knowledge, after converting to credit hours, will have the forms added to calculate the total time to update knowledge. medical continuity.

What is the shortest period of Medical Continuing Professional Development (CDP) in Vietnam? (Image from the Internet)

In Vietnam, what do the responsibilities of the medical CPD provider include?

Article 9 of Circular 32/2023/TT-BYT stipulates the responsibilities of facilities to continuously update medical knowledge as follows:

- Enable practitioners to undertake medical CPD; monitor and manage; confirm and calculate credit hours for practitioners who undertake medical CPD they provide.

- Assign staff to be in charge and manage the provider's CPD activities.

- Organize medical CPD activities in accordance with this Circular and be responsible for the quality of their CPD activities.

- Manage and keep records, programs, and documents of short-term training courses, conferences and seminars of the medical CPD provider; manage the certification for practitioners who have completed medical CPD in accordance with this Circular.

- For medical CPD providers that provide short-term training and refresher courses:

Before providing a training or refresher course, the medical CPD provider under the management of the Ministry of Health shall send a relevant notice specified in Appendix No. IV of this Circular to the Administration of Science Technology and Training affiliated to the Ministry of Health and the medical CPD provider under the management of the Department of Health shall send relevant notices to both Ministry of Health and Department of Health.

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