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The Ministry of Health proposed that the Government consider supporting full tuition fees and living expenses for medical students as it does for pedagogical students.
In a report at the Ministry of Health’s conference on implementing health work in 2025 on December 24, the ministry hopes the Government will direct research so that medical and pharmaceutical students will receive state support for tuition fees equal to the fees charged by training institutions, and will be provided with living expenses during their studies. This is to attract human resources, when the medical sector is lacking in both quantity and quality.
According to the report, the country has 214 health personnel training facilities, including 66 universities, 139 vocational training facilities, and 9 research institutes (doctoral training). The Ministry of Health manages 22 schools and institutes.
The number of doctors graduating last year nationwide was nearly 11,300, pharmacists nearly 8,500, and nurses about 18,200.
Vietnam's health workforce has increased by 2.33% over the past 10 years. This figure is insignificant, according to the ministry's assessment. The total number of health workers is currently about 431,700, much lower than the 632,500 in the Health Human Resource Development Plan for the 2011-2020 period.
Currently, tuition fees for medical and pharmaceutical majors are around 27-200 million VND/year, depending on the school. For autonomous public schools, the highest fee is over 88 million VND, belonging to the medical and dental majors of Ho Chi Minh City University of Medicine and Pharmacy (except for international joint programs).
The Ministry of Health's proposal is similar to the support policy for teacher training students. According to Decree 116, from 2021, teacher training students will receive 100% state support for tuition fees and 3.63 million VND per month for living expenses. This funding comes from the budgets of localities, ministries, and branches, through the form of orders.
However, students must pay compensation if they do not work in the field for enough time (6-8 years), change to another field, drop out, do not complete the program or are forced to leave school.
The Ministry of Education and Training assessed that the policy has had a positive impact in attracting excellent students to study pedagogy. Over the past three years, the benchmark scores for teacher training programs have been among the highest in the country. However, the support for living expenses has encountered many difficulties, causing hundreds of thousands of students to regularly "owe" money.
TB (summary)