Concerns about the quality of admissions

NEED TO BASE ON FACTORS OF CAREER INTEREST

According to Professor Le Ngoc Thanh, Principal of the University of Medicine and Pharmacy (Hanoi National University), in medical recruitment, there is a very important factor that all schools want to achieve: recruiting candidates who have a true love for medicine, because this is a profession that requires elaborate, long-term training, and the learning process (as well as future work) is very arduous.

If students do not love their profession, they will soon get bored with studying, leading to poor academic results, or even dropping out of school. It is not unreasonable that in countries with developed medical training (except France and a few countries influenced by French medical training), medical admission requires that PhDs have completed a bachelor's degree. Because only then will students have a certain maturity, and truly know whether they have the ability, want to pursue and stick with the medical profession or not.

Input quality is the most important factor when recruiting students in health-related fields.

For 12th grade students, there are not many who are truly aware of their profession. Therefore, when recruiting this group of students, the fact that students focus on studying well in group B when taking the medical exam is a temporary sign that can be trusted that they love medicine and want to take the medical exam. The results of the group B exam show how far they can realize their wishes. Therefore, the use of "strange" combinations to recruit medical students by some schools shows that these schools ignore the factor of students' love for the profession when recruiting. That is not to mention how the training quality will be affected when the input is evaluated on "unrelated" bases, or not core in medical recruitment.

"Somewhere people still say that to have quality, the important thing is the training process, and the input only needs high school graduates. But I affirm that, for medical training in particular, the input is very important, greatly affecting the quality of training, so we must be very careful in enrollment," Professor Le Ngoc Thanh shared.

COMPREHENSIVE ASSESSMENT, BUT CANNOT MISS THE CORE

Associate Professor Le Cu Linh, Deputy Director of the Institute of Health Sciences (VinUni University), said that VinUni will consider admission by combining interviews to assess the candidate's ability, not just based on the results of the subjects of the doctoral program. The school's admission process will take place in the following order: screening the application, based on many factors, of which the academic results are only one factor; after the application screening step, the admissions board will select a list of candidates who are worthy of being interviewed; the next step is the interview, assessing personal ability, this process will include an interview between the doctor and the lecturer, lasting 45 minutes and may include some other activities.

Medical practice values ​​humanity

The school considers the combination of math - natural science - literature for the medical field. The natural science exam already includes 3 subjects: physics, chemistry, and biology. Therefore, this combination still ensures the core and stable knowledge requirements in the traditional combination of medical subjects. At the same time, this new combination is also suitable for the graduation exam and the new general education program being implemented. The school adds (specifically literature) but does not remove (specifically biology), so the combination of math - natural science - literature is suitable.

Literature is added to the admission subject group because of the practice of the medical profession, which values ​​humanity, compassion, sympathy, sharing and the ability to withstand pressure in the process of treating patients. Therefore, students need to have a solid knowledge of literature to do well in the above tasks.

Dr. VO THANH HAI (Vice Principal of Duy Tan University)

H.Anh (written)

For candidates applying for health care, in the screening process, the candidate is evaluated through their academic records, in which the selection board always looks at the three most important subjects: math, chemistry, and biology.

"Of course, we do not only look at the academic scores of the above 3 subjects, but also look more broadly to evaluate the overall capacity of the PhD. However, the 3 core subjects are the basis for us to see whether the PhD has the capacity to study the knowledge of the health training program or not. As for other important factors for medical candidates, such as communication skills, empathy, etc., we filter through a number of tools, importantly through the direct interview round conducted by professors," Associate Professor Linh shared.

Most of the schools training in health sector now recruit students with group B.

N BLOCK B RECRUITMENT SOURCE IS CURRENTLY ABUNDANT

According to Dr. Nguyen Quoc Dat, Head of Training Department (Vinh Medical University), with the method based on high school graduation exam results, the most reliable measure of input quality is still the exam results of three subjects: math, chemistry, and biology. Because it shows the knowledge that students have accumulated during high school, this knowledge is closely related to the content of the training program that medical students will later study at university.

"Some schools may require additional abilities from candidates, such as foreign languages, computer skills, etc., so they can ask for more. But in my opinion, to ensure the quality of medical entrance, we should first keep the core requirements of math, chemistry, and biology. Other requirements are only to supplement and cannot replace those three subjects," said Dr. Dat.

A good literature major is essential for this job.

This year the school uses the new combination D12 (literature, chemistry, English). This combination of the school's admission is both in accordance with legal regulations and meets the necessary and sufficient conditions of this field of study.

The school has expanded the literature and foreign language subjects in this admission combination to meet the new requirements of society for students in this field. Today's society requires doctors to not only be good at their profession but also have a good attitude, listening skills, psychology, and the ability to share with patients and the community. The qualities of people who are good at literature are essential for this job.

The necessary condition is the regulation to ensure input quality. The Ministry of Education and Training requires that candidates applying for this major must have good academic performance in grade 12 or high school graduation score from

8.0 or higher. In addition, candidates must also achieve the admission score according to the school's regulations to be admitted and undergo a 6-year training process at the school.

Dr. NGUYEN HUNG VI (Dean of Medicine, Van Lang University)

H.Anh (written)

According to Mr. Dat, every year the source of group B students is always abundant. For example, Vinh Medical University, last year the quota was only 910 for all majors, while there were more than 3,000 wishes. Therefore, although the Ministry of Education and Training only required a minimum score of 22 for the medical major, Vinh Medical University set the standard score for the medical major at 24.75. That means there is a very large source of PhDs who, although reaching the minimum score or higher, still failed to pass the medical major at Vinh Medical University.

Based on the national B block score distribution, it can be seen that not only in the Central region but also in other regions, there are a large number of students who achieve the floor score or are 1-2 points higher than the floor score of B block but still fail to pass any medical wishes. Therefore, the source of quality-assured B block (as required by the Ministry of Education and Training) is very large, Vinh Medical University shows that there is absolutely no need to expand the admission combination to have more sources of admission.

"Students who dream of studying medicine usually prepare early for the B block exam, or those who are capable of studying medicine are those who are good at math, chemistry, and biology. Expanding the admission combinations makes the admission picture more confusing and complicated, and makes it difficult for doctors. Those who dream of taking the medical exam are determined to do well in the B block, some of them may also try their luck in the A block with some schools that recruit A blocks. Now that medical and pharmaceutical schools expand their admission combinations, it will cause difficulties for students, make them confused, and feel that the competition is unfair," Dr. Dat commented.

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