Enrollment and Training of Doctors in the United States

Most of the Universities in the United States have many faculties known as the School - School in the School. Faculty of Medicine / School of Medicine is one of the faculties / schools of a University. The American doctor training program is mostly 4 years medical program, there are some states that have 6 years medical program like Indiana State University. . For the 4-year program, candidates wishing to enter this program must meet the following requirements:

Completion of a bachelor's degree (4 years), bachelor's degree from many different disciplines can also apply for the exam in medical school, including bachelor of music, bachelor of community school ..., but the average score of Bachelor's degree must be 3.2 or higher.
Pass the MCAT exam (Medical College Admission Test). That is the entrance exam. The content of this test includes basic scientific knowledge such as math, physics, chemistry, biology, optics, geology, history, geography ... and basic medical knowledge. The score must also be at least 3.2.
If you pass the MCAT exam, candidates choose the school to apply to the Doctor of University in the state that they want or feel confident. Here candidates have to do an essay of about 5000 words by the school. Through the essay, the school knows the intentions, the doctor's motivation, the general knowledge as well as knows the English skills, learning capacity and potential abilities of the candidate to continue the path of medical medicine. science or not.
In addition, candidates need to further prove their community work such as: charity work, social work, helping the sick, helping the poor, the disadvantaged, taking care of patients in hospital and other community-based jobs.
Referee: Usually a person with reputable reputation in the medical industry or social prestige, known with respect by many people in society.

6. If all of the above steps are successful, candidates enter the final round: direct interview with the Admissions Committee - they are experienced in interviewing candidates for medical school. The objective of the interview is to know a part of the candidate's foreign language skills (to be precise), to find the candidate's motivation to study medicine. They are willing to rule out dishonest candidates through interviews to find candidates who love the profession and dream of studying a real doctor. Through the interview, they can know that candidates have the ability to develop professional ethics. Just like we call on doctors to have ethics, but people question ethics before going to medical school.
   English score: English score is proven by English proficiency of English test center.
   In the United States, many medical schools have a long history of hundreds of years but the annual enrollment is very low, usually only between 100 and 120 students. There are many schools that only recruit less than 50 students / year.

   After entering medical school, students study for another 4 years and graduate with an MD (Medical Doctor) degree, just like a general doctor degree in Vietnam. Here the students have 8 years of university, including 4 years for a bachelor's degree and 4 years for medicine. In 4 years of medicine, divided into the first 2 years of studying basic medicine, in nursing and preclinical. At the end of the second year, students must take the USLME-1 (United States Licensing Medical Examination). In the 3rd & 4th years going to clinics, approaching patients, students have to go to rotating clinicals for the departments of the hospital such as: Internal medicine, surgery, obstetrics, pediatrics, department, anesthesia. In the 4th year, choose a major specialty designated by the teacher called a core clinical. At the end of the 4th year, students take the USLME-2 diploma and pass the USLME-2 to graduate and get the MD (Medical doctor). After obtaining the USLME-1 & 2 degree, students are given boarding lessons for 2 to 3 years and at the end of the exam get the USLME-3 degree. During the inpatient period, doctors had a salary allowance because they were seen as semi-professional doctors. Upon obtaining the USLME-3 degree, the doctor can choose his or her direction: one is research, the second is to continue to study specialty. For example, specializing in surgery, he will study for another 5 years; neurosurgery specialist also from 5 to 7 years. Or just want to study family doctor, it only takes 1 to 2 years.

   (USLME is the national exam for any doctor wishing to practice medicine in the United States).

   Thus, it takes 11 to 17 years for a doctor in the United States to reach a true patient from university to college. The cost of studying for a doctor in the US is therefore very expensive compared to other disciplines. For example, the medical tuition at John Hopkin University is $ 84,000 USD / year, at Harvard Medical School is $ 82,000 USD / year, at Stanford Medical School is $ 86,000 USD / year. That is just tuition fees, there are other costs, so students will have to pay other expenses.

   Faculty of Medicine - Phan Chau Trinh University wishes to implement the strategy of incubating the health of the home country with standard quality. Therefore, the school's model of building and developing medical science must be similar to that of advanced countries from the very beginning.

   Doctor Nguyen Huu Tung
   President of University Phan Chau Trinh