{"id":374,"date":"2010-06-30T12:15:13","date_gmt":"2010-06-30T16:15:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ghc\/?page_id=374"},"modified":"2011-10-31T15:21:52","modified_gmt":"2011-10-31T19:21:52","slug":"mededvietnam","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ghc\/where-we-work\/viet-nam-projects\/mededvietnam\/","title":{"rendered":"Primary Care and Medical Education in Central Vietnam"},"content":{"rendered":"<h6><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1017\" style=\"margin-right: 30px;\" src=\"\/ghc\/files\/2010\/05\/DSC00566-636x477.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"344\" height=\"257\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ghc\/files\/2010\/05\/DSC00566-636x477.jpg 636w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ghc\/files\/2010\/05\/DSC00566-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ghc\/files\/2010\/05\/DSC00566.JPG 1632w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 344px) 100vw, 344px\" \/>Improving the Primary Health Care System at the Rural Commune Level through the Development of an Innovative Medical Education Program in Central Vietnam<\/h6>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>Duration<\/strong>: 2006-2012<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>Location<\/strong>: Hue and Khanh Hoa Provinces, Vietnam<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>Donor<\/strong>: The Atlantic Philanthropies<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Partners<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Ministry of Health, Vietnam<\/li>\n<li>Hue College of Medicine and Pharmacy<\/li>\n<li>Khanh Hoa Provincial Health Authority<strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Overview:\u00a0<\/strong>The goal of this medical education program is to improve the primary health care system of Vietnam at the first encounter level:\u00a0Commune Health Centers.\u00a0The project includes a work\/study modular training program\u00a0that allows physicians to stay in practice while earning credits toward certification as 1<sup>st<\/sup> degree specialists in Family Medicine.<\/p>\n<p>Family Medicine-trained faculty at Hue Medical College (HMC) are working with the Provincial Secondary Medical College (PSMC) in Khanh Hoa Province to engage faculty\/trainers, design\u00a0a specialty curriculum, and implement the retraining of the CHC generalist physicians\u00a0in the\u00a0core curriculum of primary care. Training modules include\u00a0internal medicine, pediatrics, Ob\/Gyn, surgery, community\/public health and traditional medicine.<\/p>\n<p>The project\u00a0is creating\u00a0a sustainable and reproducible provincial training network focusing on the essential components of medical care, public health and traditional medicine that will survive beyond the project time frame and will be incorporated into the health plan of the country to encourage primary health care training and continuing medical education.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Objectives:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Assess provincial health care needs<\/li>\n<li>Develop training centers in the Hue Medical School and in the rural Khanh Hoa province<\/li>\n<li>Train Hue Medical School faculty members\u00a0to be\u00a0medical educators through faculty development courses<\/li>\n<li>Develop and implement\u00a0an innovative modular training curriculum based on part-time study<\/li>\n<li>Retrain all\u00a0CHC physicians working in the Khanh Hoa province<\/li>\n<li>Build a Family Medicine network to support the commune system in Khanh Hoa province<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Improving the Primary Health Care System at the Rural Commune Level through the Development of an Innovative Medical Education Program in Central Vietnam Duration: 2006-2012 Location: Hue and Khanh Hoa Provinces, Vietnam Donor: The Atlantic Philanthropies \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Partners: Ministry of Health, Vietnam Hue College of Medicine and Pharmacy Khanh Hoa Provincial Health Authority\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3329,"featured_media":0,"parent":168,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ghc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/374"}],"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\/3329"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ghc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=374"}],"version-history":[{"count":50,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ghc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/374\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":380,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ghc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/374\/revisions\/380"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ghc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ghc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}