Phan Chu Trinh Medical University, an ideal model for a medical school

Phan Chu Trinh University has been licensed by the Ministry of Education and Training to open a medical department for 6-year general doctor training. The first course will open in the fall, September of this year (2018). Doctor Nguyen Huu Tung, Founder / Chairman of the Board of Directors (BOD), said the training directions are as follows:

- The curriculum is in accordance with the framework of the Ministry of Education and Training so that students are allowed to practice doctors upon graduation, but the curriculum will be updated with medical schools, North America, the United States, so students Must learn in English from the first year, gradually increase to the ability to read English study materials and communicate with international instructors, most of them in the United States. Currently, the Teaching Board for the first year has 5 American Professors, PhDs, and Vietnamese lecturers. University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Ho Chi Minh City or Hue Medicine and Pharmacy, Hanoi.

One corner of the laboratory of PCTU

- The strength of PCTU is that there are 4 internship hospitals, so students can go for clinical internships right from the first year. Students practice in the hospital 70% to 80% of the time 6 years. That is the advantage of PCTU compared to other private medical schools that do not have a private practice hospital for their students.

Tam Tri Da Nang General Hospital - Where students practice

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At the same time, the motto of PCTU is to train in parallel with scientific research, so right after the founding of the medical department, the school board has chosen the concept of GTS - Genome to Society policy, which is to study the relationship between medicine. Molecular Medicine with Clinical Medicine of Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, a most prestigious medical school in the United States. The University established the Center of Research and Application of Gene in Bio-medicine (CRAGB) right in 2018, to serve the purpose of teaching and research and diagnosis. clinical diagnosis and application. Students (SV) are encouraged to practice research from the first years.

- Control the number of students in a course: The first course recruits only 50 students and not more than 100 students for the following courses. That is a paramount factor for the quality of training. The famous medical schools in America such as Harvard, Johns Hopkins, Stanford all respect the standard of 100 for each course. The clinical teaching in the hospital will keep the ratio of 1/4 (a lecturer only instructs four students, because studying Medicine is like learning the lute, the teacher has to hold hands to shape each student).

- Test PCTU students to gradually improve the equivalent of American Medical students by exams equivalent to USMLE (United States Medical Licensing Examination). American Medical students or foreign doctors must pass these exams in order to obtain a US Medical Doctor (MD) degree. American instructors will train students in this plan. At the same time during the 6 years of study, each student has the opportunity to practice clinical (clerkship) at US or Canadian hospitals that Phan Trinh School cooperates with.

PCT is continuing to build training programs after graduation. In which Doctor graduated from PCTU can continue to study Postdoctoral Residency (postgraduate) courses right at PCTU. Currently, Next Generation University International University (website: www.NextGenU.org) has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to support the above programs of PCTU and issue accredited international certificates to the trainees. .

- The school has policies to help students borrow money to pay tuition fees with preferential interest rates (With the support of Asia Commercial Bank - ACB).

- The Board of Directors includes Chairman of the Board of Directors: Dr. Nguyen Huu Tung, Principal: Dr. Pham Hung Van, Dean: Prof. Dr. Bui Duy Tam. PCTU's strength is that all three leaders are Medical Doctors with experience in managing and teaching:

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Dr. Nguyen Huu Tung, Founder / Chairman of the Board of Directors has had the first and largest private hospital system in Vietnam, with 10 hospitals, 2,000 staff, nearly 400 doctors, stretching from Hue to Ca Mau. His Hoan My hospital puts quality above the price, good care policy, has a gentle culture, always mind "the patient is not at fault", so they will pay the fee worth the service. His work force was not enriching himself but altruism towards the sick. He founded BV. Hoan My - Cuu Long is due to his dream: to help 30% of the population in the Mekong River Delta from having to go to Saigon for medical examination. He has many creative passions. Building the hospital on Long Tho hill, Da Lat is a romantic investment that poses many financial risks, but Hoan My Dalat Hospital has become an architectural masterpiece and voted by Further Art magazine as the work has Asia's most beautiful hospital architecture in 2006.

His dream has been for many years to establish a Medical University to train a specialist medical class, follow international curriculum and re-realize the meaning of the profession. Learning to be a doctor is not to make money, but to save people. "The healer" must first learn to be a human and then learn to be a physician.

Dr. Nguyen Huu Tung is giving charity medical examination at the School

So he did not hesitate to cede Hoan My to Fortis International and enter the M&A system. He shared: “I enlightened, all the assets in this world are the property of society. When Hoan My develops to a certain extent beyond my capacity, I need to share in order to resonate more new power, Hoan My will grow stronger and also to mind free to focus on digging. create generations of ideal healers for society. "

About Business career, BS. Nguyen Huu Tung reached the top when he was honored by The Japan Times as one of the 100 Best CEOs in Asia in 2012, "100 Next Era CEOs in Asia".

Here comes BS. Nguyen Huu Tung will reach another peak in the career of Medical Education when PCTU becomes the ideal model for a medical school in Vietnam.

* Dr. Pham Hung Van, Principal in charge of Medicine Department

During 35 years of teaching medical microbiology at the School of Medicine and Pharmacy, Ho Chi Minh City, he has many classes of medical students as well as graduate students that he imparts basic knowledge as well as specialized and modern. of microbiology applied in medicine. He is a pioneer in connecting training and scientific research, especially in the field he undertakes, because to him: “Knowing is not enough, we must apply; willing is not enough, we must do ”. Many new research projects have also been implemented by him at the University of Medicine and Pharmacy as well as supporting many other research centers in the country. He has studied in the Netherlands, the United States, and South Korea, and together with researchers from host countries, he collaborates in research on Molecular Biology, Clinical Immunology and drug resistance. antibiotic.

He founded and developed the molecular biology laboratory for the College of Medicine and Pharmacy to become the most useful biomedical laboratory in the school's diagnosis and research at that time.

Aiming at the wider dissemination of the applications and products that he researched in many hospitals and diagnostic centers, he and some of the co-founders of NK-BIOTEK and today has become the best known and most trusted biomedical research center and company. He has also participated in many domestic and international research organizations, in particular: In 1999, he was a Key Member of ANSORP (Asian Network for Surveillance of Resistant pathogens) and APFID (Asian Pacific Foundation for Infectiuos Diseases). In 2008, he became a member of the Asia Pacific Advisory Council on the pneumococcal conjugate vaccine and H. Influenzae's protein D in his research on the removal of pneumococcal infection causing agents. In 2009 he was the President of the Vietnam Medical Molecular Biology Association of the Vietnam Medical Biochemistry Association, and in 2013 he was the President of the HCMC Clinical Microbiology Association. Ho Chi Minh. Many domestic and foreign awards have been awarded to him, including a lifetime achievement award awarded by the San Francisco-HCMC Association to honor people who have dedicated their lives to science.

Before being invited to the position of Principal and Dean of the Faculty of Medicine at Phan Chau Trinh University, Quang Nam - his hometown. TS. BS. Pham Hung Van used to lead a private Southern Medical School with the position of Acting Dean. Recently, he was appointed as Director of the Institute of International IGY (newly established).

He is most passionate about medicine is Microbiology. He said: "A microbiological test takes a few days to know the results, so it is very nervous and romantic to expect as a lover. Moreover, microorganisms have children that cause most diseases, infectious diseases and even cancer like H. pylori in the stomach But in contrast to have children who protect the environment like microbes in the gut In medicine the line between good and bad, between life and death is so fragile that the physician must strive to think right daring, to avoid harmful mistakes for life. "

Hence, TS.BS. Pham Hung Van is not only an intelligent scientist but also a Doctor who knows Nhan Nghia Le Tri Tin, deserves to be a Leader, a respected Master of PCTU.

* Professor. Bui Duy Tam: Head of Department of Medicine

I accepted the position of administering the PCTU Department of Medicine for 2 reasons:

- I am passionate about training good and good Physicians, but PCTU is a promising environment to an Ideal Medical School.

- I love my two old friends, BS. Nguyen Huu Tung and BS. Pham Hung Van. These two are very good and have the same aspirations as I have about medical education.

With the knowledge of a Dean at UCSF (University of California in San Francisco), a top medical school in the United States and with relationships with American Medical Sciences during more than 40 years of MD practice in California, I together with my American colleagues, I will bring American Medicine to the PCTU Department of Medicine.

With the experience of a senior professor who has led and taught many public and private medical schools in the country, I will personally take care of students who are interested in learning effectively, in a liberal university spirit. but still keep the curse of the Vietnamese intellectuals, in the disciplined spirit of a martial arts school, but still able to live the immenseness of youth.

At the end of this article to introduce PCTU Faculty of Medicine, I must say a few respectful words about:

*Doctor. Nguyen Do Ngoc Linh, Head of Training Department.

As a runner-up in the 2005 university exam, she was awarded a Bachelor of Arts class sponsored by Agence Universitaire Francophonie (AUF). During her studies, she trained in French, finished 6 years of study, successfully defended her graduate thesis in French, won an AUF scholarship to study Master in Microbiology at the University. Paris 7 (Master 1) and Paris 11 (Master 2), France. After graduating from Master's degree, she continued to receive a scholarship from the French Embassy in Vietnam (Bourse d'Excellence) to work as a doctoral student in Microbiology at Pasteur Institute, Lille 2 University, Lille city, France . After graduating with her PhD, she returned to Vietnam to work.

BS. Linh was an excellent student, student, doctor, master, doctor in the examination process. About research BS. Linh has many scientific papers published in the journal of CNRS (Center National de la Recherche Scientifique), which is one of the world-class research institutes in science. Through discussions about school work, I noticed BS. Linh is a woman who circulates, quickly executes, adapts to circumstances, and handles work gracefully. It is reassuring to have an assistant on-site like BS. Linh to communicate with students, parents and related agencies.

Now PCTU is ready to welcome candidates entering the first course of the PCTU Faculty of Medicine.

We look forward to welcoming you, the future doctors of Phan Chu Trinh University!

GS.TS.BS. Bui Duy Tam MD.PhD.
Head of Faculty of Medicine, University of Phan Chu Trinh, Quang Nam, Vietnam