Responsibilities of relevant entities for issuance of general medical practice license in Vietnam

Circular No. 21/2020/TT-BYT of the Ministry of Health of Vietnam has stipulated a number of notable contents on contracts for medical practice, specifically as follows:

1. Responsibilities of practitioners

- Complying with regulations of practice instruction institutions.

- Complying with specialized regulations of practice facilities and instruction of practice instructors.

- Ensuring safety for patients during practice process and keeping secrets of patients and medical examination and treatment establishments during practice process.

- Executing obligations specified under contracts for medical practice. Fully submitting fees for medical practice according to contracts for medical practice with practice instruction institutions.

- Not signing prescriptions or treatment records. Not performing techniques without permission of practice instructors.

2. Responsibilities of practice instructors

- Complying with instruction assignment of heads of practice instruction institutions.

- Refusing practice instruction and reporting to heads of practice instruction institutions for cases which exceed specialized capacity or in case of other reasonable causes.

- Ensuring safety for patients during practice instruction. Holding responsibilities in case practitioners cause specialized errors during practice process which affect patients’ health as a result of practice instructors’ faults.  

- Monitoring, assessing and providing feedback on practice results of practitioners according to assigned contents and being responsible for their feedback.

3. Responsibilities of practice instruction institutions

- Developing practice instruction contents and practice instruction plans.

- Organizing practice instruction according to practice instruction contents and practice instruction plans.

- Practice instruction institutions shall issue certificates for medical practice for individuals who have completed the practice period according to feedback of practice instructors specified under Clause 4 Article 11 of Circular No. 21/2020/TT-BYT.

- Reporting annually on practice instruction of practice instruction institutions:

+ Practice instruction institutions affiliated to the Ministry of Health, practice instruction institutions affiliated to other ministries (other than Ministry of National Defense) shall report on practice instruction to the Ministry of Health (Vietnam Administration of Medical Services).

+ Practice instruction institutions affiliated to Departments of Health and practice instruction institutions which are private hospitals shall submit reports to Departments of Health where practice instruction institutions are based in.

View more details at the Circular No. 21/2020/TT-BYT of the Ministry of Health of Vietnam, effective from January 15, 2021.

Thuy Tram

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