Criteria for the title of senior doctor in Vietnam

Criteria for the title of senior doctor (Internet image)

1. Criteria for professional ethics of senior doctors in Vietnam

Criteria for professional ethics are specified in Article 3 of the Joint Circular 10/2015/TTLT-BYT-BNV, specifically as follows:

- Being dedicated to serving the career of care, protection and improvement of people’s health.

- Understanding and complying well with the code of conduct of officials of health sector.

- Practicing profession in accordance with regulation and procedures for technical profession and other regulations of law.

- Constantly studying to improve level and professional qualification.

- Respecting patient’s right.

- Being honest, objective, fair, responsible, solidarity, respectful, and collaborative with colleagues in professional practice.

2. Criteria for training and refresher training level in Vietnam

Criteria for training and refresher training level:

- Being a doctor of specialist II or doctor of medicine (except for preventive medicine specialty); doctor of specialist II or doctor of Teeth-Jaw-Face

- Having certificate of refresher training according to criteria for title of doctor or medical practice certificate (doctor titles).

(Clause 2, Article 4 of the Joint Circular 10/2015/TTLT-BYT-BNV, and amended by Clause 1, Article 1 of the Circular 03/2022/TT-BYT)

3. Criteria for qualifications of senior doctors in Vietnam

Criteria for qualifications:

- Understanding the viewpoint and policies and laws of Party and State on protection, care and improvement of people’s health; grasping the orientation of specialized technical professional development in the country and the world.

- Having knowledge and competence in applying the advanced and highly technical methods in diagnosis, treatment and care of patients within specialized area;

- Having competence of assessing procedures and techniques within specialized area and recommend solutions; assess the result of eveidence-based intervention measures.

- Having competence of doing research and summarizing reality and recommending solutions or taking part in development of development strategies, policies and plan of sector and area;

- Being the chairman or secretary or main participant (50% of time or more) of scientific research subject at ministerial level or equivament or chairman of 02 scientific research subject at basic level or specialized scientific invention with satisfactory acceptance.

- The official receiving an in-grade promotion from the title of primary doctor (grade II) to the title of senior doctor (grade I) must have the time to hold the title of primary doctor (grade II) or equivalent of at least 06 years, in which the most recent period of holding the title of primary doctor (grade II) is 02 years.

(Clause 3, Article 4 of the Joint Circular 10/2015/TTLT-BYT-BNV, and amended by Clause 2, Article 1 of the Circular 03/2022/TT-BYT)

4. Duties of Senior Doctor in Vietnam

Specifically, in Clause 1, Article 4 of the Joint Circular 10/2015/TTLT-BYT-BNV, senior doctors must ensure to perform the following duties:

- Health examination and treatment:

+ Taking charge of organization, health examination and treatment;

+ Taking charge of management and emergency within specialty and in case of transfer from lower level of hospital;

+ Taking charge of professional consultation in the assigned field;

+ Taking charge of monitoring, inspection, assessment and improvement of quality of health examination and treatment within the assigned professional scope.

+ Developing the system of detection and report on technical and professional errors within the assigned professional scope.

- Information, communication and education of health:

+ Taking charge of planning, implementing, assessing and adjusting the plan for consultation, communication and education of health based on the objectives and practical needs.

+ Developing and taking charge of developing the contents of information, communication and education of health.

- Taking charge of providing consultation for patients or patient’s family in selecting appropriate medical services;

- Taking charge of medical examination, forensic examination or psychiatric forensic examination within relevant specialty or area under regulations of law;

- Taking charge of professional and technical medical guidelines and implementation of disease and social disease prevention upon assignment;

- Taking responsibility for management and instructions on use of medical equipment for diagnosis, intervention of treatment and emergency within assigned professional scope;

- Providing the training and doing medical scientific research:

+ Taking charge of developing professional materials, formulate technical regulations and procedures within assigned scope;

+ Organizing or directly providing the training or re-training and taking professional and technical responsibility for professional officials within assigned scope and learners and students;

+ Taking part in postgraduate instructions and training or improvement of professional and technical level upon requirement;

+ Taking charge or participating in implementation of scientific research subjects;

+ Studying and recommending or taking part in formulating strategies, policies and plan for development of carem protection and improvement of people’s health of sectors and localities.

Thanh Rin

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