Chương II Thông tư 22/2013/TT-BYT: Trách nhiệm, thời gian, hình thức, chương trình, tài liệu, giảng viên đào tạo liên tục cho cán bộ y tế

Chapter II

CONTINUOUS TRAINING

Article 4. Obligations of continuous training

1. Medical officers working in health facilities must have obligations to take part in the continuous training with the aim to meet requirements on professional operations which they are undertaking.

2. Implementation of the continuous training obligation is one of criterion for head of unit to assess the level of finishing tasks and course of occupational development of medical officers.

3. Medical officers, who practice in medical examination and treatment, fail to implement fully the training obligation in 2 consecutive years as prescribed in this Circular, are withdrawn certificate of practicing in accordance with law on medical examination and treatment.

4. Medical officers, who are participating in domestic and overseas long-term training courses related to their assigned professional operations, are not required to implement the continuous training obligation in accordance with this Circular.

5. Heads of medical establishments shall be responsible for facilitating for medical officers to participate in the continuous training courses.

Article 5. Duration of continuous training

1. The medical officers, who have been issued certificate of practice and are practicing in medical examination and treatment, have obligation to participate in continuous training courses of 48 periods of learning in 2 consecutive years minimally.

2. The medical officers, other than cases specified in Clause 1 of this Article, have obligation to participate in continuous training course of 120 periods of learning in 5 consecutive years minimally, in which it is 12 periods of learning for every year minimally.

3. Medical officers participating in various continuous training forms may accumulate periods to calculate duration for continuous training.

Article 6. Forms of continuous training and principles of converting

1. Participating in training, practicing courses, transferring techniques, re-training courses of professional operations for a short term domestically or abroad under form of concentrated or e-learning, and being granted certificates: Duration of participating in continuous training is calculated under reality of the training program.

2. Participating in domestic and overseas science seminars, conferences, or discussions in health sector and being certified by unit presiding over organization, basing on program of seminars, conferences, or discussions: Duration of participating in training calculated for the presiding or presenting person will be 8 periods of learning maximally, and for the participants, it will be 4 periods of learning maximally, for each seminar/conference/discussion.

3. Performing science researches; guiding dissertation, thesis; writing the science articles which are announced in accordance with regulations: The persons guiding thesis, presiding over/acting as secretary for themes at state level or ministerial level will be calculated 12 periods of learning maximally; persons guiding dissertation, or presiding over/acting as secretary for themes at grassroots will be calculated 8 periods of learning maximally (calculated from time of protecting successfully dissertation or when the themes are passed after examining and receiving).

4. Composing the professional curriculum will be calculated 08 periods maximally for 1 curriculum, depended on consideration of heads of units (calculated at time of publication); medical officers, who are not lecturers of educational facilities, are calculated under the actual teaching duration when participated in teaching related to their professional operations.

5. Form of continuous training specified in Clause 1 of this Article must have program and documents for training which are appraised and approved by the competent authorities.

Article 7. Programs and documents for continuous training

1. Programs and documents for continuous training formulated by training facilities must be appraised and promulgated in accordance with Article 8 of this Circular before carrying out the training.

2. Content of programs and documents for training must be updated continuously to ensure the science, conformity with the practice demand; within 5 years maximally, the content must be considered, revised and supplemented.

3. Programs of continuous training have the following items:

a) Name of course and general introduction about course;

b) Objective of course (about knowledge, attitude and skills);

c) Objects and input requirements applicable to learners;

d) Detailed programs (specified about name of lessons, periods);

dd) Name of documents for official teaching and learning, and reference documents;

e) Method of teaching – learning;

g) Standards of lecturers and assistant-lecturers;

h) Equipment, materials for course (including the clinical practice);

i) Guides, organization, and implementation of the program;

k) Assessment and grant of certificate of continuous training.

4. Documents for teaching and learning:

a) Based on the training programs which have been approved, the training facilities will formulate (or select) the suitable documents for teaching and learning.

b) Documents for teaching and learning are structured according to each lesson. Each lesson needs to have parts: Objective, content, evaluation. The practices need to clarify techniques, skills which are necessary to perform and requirements which are necessary to attain.

c) Documents for courses training lecturers: Apart from documents for learners, it is encouraged to add guides for lecturers.

d) When use documents published by the foreign and domestic prestige training facilities, heads of the continuous training facilities should consider and decide.

5. The continuous training facilities may formulate the training programs according to the following direction:

a) The continuous training programs with term of 3 months or more and intensive specialized content should be designed to be able to connect with post-graduation training programs such as specialized medicine I, II.

b) Formulating the e-training programs for the suitable training contents.

Article 8. Appraisal and promulgation of programs and documents for continuous training

Programs and documents for continuous training must be appraised and promulgated by the competent authorities before organizing the training, specified as follows:

1. Directors of Health Departments in provinces and central-affiliated cities shall promulgate decision on establishment of the provincial Appraisal Councils of continuous training programs and documents; and direct the chairpersons of Council, Councils' deputy chairpersons will be principals of universities, colleges, and medical secondary schools of provinces, Councils' secretaries will be officers in charge of continuous training of the provincial Health Departments.

Directors of the provincial Health Departments shall approve programs and documents of teaching and learning of the continuous training facilities under their management on the basis of requests of the Appraisal Council of programs and documents. Duration for appraisal does not exceed 30 days after receiving valid dossiers of units.

2. Heads of professional educational facilities/ medical vocational facilities; other educational facilities training branch code of health science branch group; and hospitals, institutes with hospital beds; research institutions with training center or assigned task of post-graduation training shall approve programs and documents of continuous training respectively with the training code already been assigned on the basis of appraisal conducted by a Council established by unit.

3. The Ministry of Health shall assign the Science, Technology and Training Department to approve programs and documents of continuous training facilities not stated in Clause 1 and Clause 2 of this Article, national target programs, domestic and foreign medical projects, professional associations and at the request of units on the basis of appraisal conducted by a specialized council at ministerial level or it may conduct decentralization to units to organize the appraisal and approval in necessary cases. Duration for finishing the appraisal does not exceed 30 days after receiving a valid dossier.

Article 9. Lecturers for continuous training

1. The continuous training courses must arrange full lecturers, assistant-lecturers to meet standards so as to ensure quality of training.

2. Lecturers for continuous training are persons with suitable qualification, experiences and professional knowledge, and being trained about method of teaching and learning in medicine.

3. Lecturers teaching in clinical field must be persons who have actual experience in medical examination and treatment, and have been trained the method to teach in clinical field.