{"id":168,"date":"2010-05-19T13:36:24","date_gmt":"2010-05-19T17:36:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ghc\/?page_id=168"},"modified":"2019-02-05T10:24:05","modified_gmt":"2019-02-05T15:24:05","slug":"viet-nam-projects","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ghc\/where-we-work\/viet-nam-projects\/","title":{"rendered":"Socialist Republic of Vietnam"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a> Background<\/a><\/h3>\n

Goal<\/a><\/h3>\n

Past Projects<\/a><\/h3>\n

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<\/a>Background<\/h3>\n

Since\u00a0the 1950s, the Ministry of Health (MOH) in the Socialist Republic of Vietnam has developed a network of 10,000 Commune Health Center (CHC) facilities across the country. CHC health care teams consist of generalist physicians, assistant physicians, midwives,\u00a0and nurses.\u00a0By 2004, 50% of Vietnam’s CHCs had\u00a0generalist physician coverage.<\/p>\n

In 1995, the MOH\u00a0partnered with\u00a0international experts\u00a0to evaluate Vietnam’s primary health care delivery and education systems. Faculty members from the Collaborative\u00a0embarked upon a four-year needs assessment. Vietnamese doctors are graduates of six-year medical schools. They rarely receive any post-medical school graduate training and often enter practice with no training in ambulatory medicine.\u00a0Throughout their careers, these doctors have no access to organized continuing medical education.\u00a0These findings and the resulting recommendations\u00a0convinced the MOH to choose a new system of health care delivery with an emphasis on Family Medicine.<\/p>\n

In March 2000, the\u00a0Minister of Health, declared the creation of\u00a0a Family Medicine specialty\u00a0in Vietnam. In 2001, the Collaborative began its\u00a0first official project, the\u00a0Vietnam Family Medicine Project<\/a>, which focused on\u00a0the development of a curriculum framework and the establishment of a national coordinating body to supervise the ongoing work, and training of family doctors. The project started in Hanoi and expanded to Ho Chi Minh City, resulting in partnerships between the Ministry of Health, the Hanoi Medical College, Ho Chi Minh City School of Medicine and Pharmacology, Thai\u00a0Nguyen Medical School\u00a0and the World Organization of Family Doctors (WONCA). Since 2001, six Vietnamese medical schools have established Family Medicine as a discipline, including Hue Medical College and Can Tho Medical University. The Collaborative continues to\u00a0expand its efforts in Vietnam,\u00a0embarking on\u00a0hospital nutrition and faculty development projects.<\/p>\n

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<\/a>Goal<\/h3>\n

The overall goal of our projects in Vietnam is to assist in the development, implementation and evaluation of curriculum, faculty and training sites for a national Family Medicine program. Our collaborative projects aim to create\u00a0sustainable training programs that will develop the Family Medicine Model as the cornerstone for the delivery of primary health care to the people of Vietnam.<\/p>\n

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<\/a>Past Projects<\/h3>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
\"\"<\/a>Primary Care Medical Education in Central Vietnam<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\"\"<\/a>National Center for Faculty Development<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/a>\"AFINS<\/a>AFINS Hospital Nutrition Project<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\"\"<\/a>Vietnam Family Medicine\u00a0Development\u00a0Project<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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\"\"<\/a> Vietnam Education Foundation<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\"Hai<\/a>Clinical Teaching Workshops in Hai Phong<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\"\"Evaluation of Family Medicine Specialty Training<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\"\"<\/a>Family Medicine Development in the Mekong Delta<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\"\"<\/a>Medical Equipment for Family Medicine Training Centers<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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Background Goal Past Projects Background Since\u00a0the 1950s, the Ministry of Health (MOH) in the Socialist Republic of Vietnam has developed a network of 10,000 Commune Health Center (CHC) facilities across the country. CHC health care teams consist of generalist physicians, assistant physicians, midwives,\u00a0and nurses.\u00a0By 2004, 50% of Vietnam’s CHCs had\u00a0generalist physician coverage. In 1995, the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2247,"featured_media":0,"parent":15,"menu_order":5,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ghc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/168"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ghc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ghc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ghc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2247"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ghc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=168"}],"version-history":[{"count":50,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ghc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/168\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2465,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ghc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/168\/revisions\/2465"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ghc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/15"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ghc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}