Sending a question to the Ministry of Health, reader N.T.D.C said: "I am a doctor, sent to study long-term at the CK1 (2 years) concentrated program, but I still return to work when I have no school schedule (3 sessions/week). May I ask, according to Decree No. 56/2011/ND-CP, am I entitled to preferential allowances? ".
Regarding this issue, the Ministry of Health responded as follows:
Article 3 of Joint Circular No. 02/2012/TTLT-BNV-BYT dated January 19, 2012 on guiding the implementation of Decree No. 56/2011/ND-CP stipulates the period not included in preferential allowances according to the medical profession:
"1. Time spent working, working, studying abroad receives 40% of salary as prescribed in Clause 4, Article 8 of Decree No. 204/2004/ND-CP;
2. Continuous study time in the country of over 3 months, not directly doing medical professional work according to the assigned tasks for civil servants and public employees;
3. Continuous unpaid leave for 1 month or more;
4. Time off work to receive social insurance according to the provisions of the law on social insurance;
5. The period of detention, temporary detention, temporary suspension of work or suspension of medical practice is 1 month or more.
6. The period of time to be mobilized by a competent authority to work or work without directly doing continuous medical practice for 1 month or more".
Thus, the time sent to a long-term centralized school according to the decision of the competent authority, not regularly, continuously working in healthcare according to the assigned tasks for civil servants at the competent level will not be counted for preferential allowances according to the health profession.
