On May 15, the Vietnam Academy of Traditional Medicine and Pharmacy organized an International Conference with the theme: "Contributing opinions on the List of core professional issues and building a Test Blueprint to assess the practicing capacity of medical examination and treatment for traditional medicine doctors".
The workshop aims to exchange expertise, refer to international experience, and agree on the direction for building a set of tools to assess practicing capacity for medical examination and treatment for traditional medicine doctors, serving the competency assessment period from 2027.
Speaking at the program, Assoc. Prof. Dr. Nguyen Quoc Huy - Director of the Vietnam Academy of Traditional Medicine and Pharmacy - said that according to the provisions of the Law on Medical Examination and Treatment 2023, from January 1, 2027, competency assessment will be implemented before practicing medical examination and treatment with four titles of doctors, including traditional medicine doctors.
The Academy is assigned by the National Medical Council to be the professional focal point for building a set of tools to assess practicing capacity for medical examination and treatment for traditional medicine doctors.
Affirming that this is an important and very honorable, proud and also challenging task, Assoc. Prof. Dr. Nguyen Quoc Huy said that in the past time, the academy has implemented many activities together with the Sub-committee on Traditional Medicine to build a set of questions to assess the capacity to practice traditional medical examination and treatment.
In which, the immediate key task is to build a list of "core professional issues". These are professional topics describing the most important and core competencies... reflecting the knowledge and skills that traditional medicine doctors need to achieve when practicing at the time of graduation.
To build these lists, the academy has implemented many tasks such as: Statistics, comparison of training programs at traditional medicine schools at the university level; reviewing the standard description of traditional medicine doctors' competencies; reviewing regulations on the scope of practice and technical lists of traditional medicine doctors; comparing international documents on the examination for practicing certificates for doctors of similar countries....
From the above activities, the Traditional Medicine Sub-committee of the National Medical Council has preliminarily described a list of 129 core professional issues. To move towards identifying this list, it is necessary to submit it to the National Medical Council for promulgation, which is an official document, officially used to implement the next steps in the process of building a set of competency assessment questions; and also a document for learners to have a clearer perspective in the process of preparing for the exam.
At the workshop, experts, scientists, and lecturers from home and abroad exchanged and shared contents such as: The process of building a question bank, organizing exams in professional competency assessment; designing and implementing a comprehensive exam to assess students' competencies in each stage at universities; guiding the development of test blueprints to serve the assessment of medical practice capacity; compiling a set of MCQs questions to assess medical practice capacity for traditional medicine doctors at medical facilities in Vietnam in the coming time.
