The Law on Medical Examination and Treatment No. 15/2023/QH15 of the National Assembly, effective from January 1, 2024, stipulates training and fostering of practitioners in Article 105.
Accordingly, medical examination and treatment facilities are responsible for organizing and creating conditions for practitioners to participate in training, continuously update medical knowledge, and improve technical expertise and professional ethics.
The State has the following policy on scholarships:
Granting scholarships to encourage learning for students majoring in psychiatry, pathology, forensic medicine, forensic psychiatry, infectious diseases and emergency resuscitation with academic and training results that meet the conditions for granting scholarships at training institutions in the State health sector;
Granting policy scholarships to students majoring in psychiatry, pathology, forensic medicine, forensic psychiatry, infectious diseases and emergency resuscitation who are working at medical examination and treatment facilities in areas with difficult socio-economic conditions and areas with especially difficult socio-economic conditions.
Full tuition support if studying at a training facility in the State health sector
The State supports students majoring in psychiatry, pathology, forensic medicine, forensic psychiatry, infectious diseases and emergency resuscitation as follows:
a) Full tuition and living expenses support for the entire course if studying at a training facility in the State health sector;
b) Support for tuition fees and living expenses during the entire course corresponding to the level specified in (a) above if studying at a private health training institution.
The State encourages organizations and individuals to grant scholarships or subsidies to learners.
Compared to the current regulations in Clause 2, Article 83 of the Law on Medical Examination and Treatment, the subjects eligible for 100% tuition support have been expanded to include students majoring in psychiatry, infectious diseases and emergency resuscitation (Currently, it only applies to students majoring in pathology, forensic examination and forensic psychiatry).