DEPARTMENT OF PREVENTIVE MEDICINE
Simply put, PREVENTIVE MEDICINE involves PREDICTION and DISEASE PREVENTION. The field of Preventive Medicine is an intersection between public health and clinical medicine, spanning a continuous 6-year training curriculum.
Preventive Medicine trains Doctors of Preventive Medicine who specialize in detecting, diagnosing, and providing solutions for public health issues such as nutritional health and food safety and hygiene; health issues related to exogenous and endogenous factors, including genetics and lifestyle; infectious and non-infectious epidemics; age-specific epidemics; prevention and control of social diseases; management of medical service programs; health communication and education, and more. It can be said that Preventive Medicine is a diverse and versatile field. Your patient is not just an individual, but the entire community. As the old saying goes: "One person worries for a hundred," which roughly means that Preventive Medicine serves as the "caretaker" of the healthcare sector.
The primary objective of Preventive Medicine is to health promotion, prevent and control epidemics, halt the development of pathogenic viruses, and control diseases for individuals, families, and the entire community.
Preventive medicine reduces the likelihood of epidemics, lowers incidence rates, ensures early disease detection, and implements timely interventions to halt disease progression. This is precisely what Doctors of Preventive Medicine do every day alongside Vietnam's healthcare system to curb and repel the COVID-19 pandemic.
WHERE DO DOCTORS OF PREVENTIVE MEDICINE WORK UPON GRADUATION?Preventive medicine is a diverse and versatile field, and consequently, the career paths of a Doctor of Preventive Medicine are equally varied. There are numerous future pathways for a Doctor of Preventive Medicine.
Working in state agenciesAT:
Primary healthcare facilities: Commune-Ward Health Stations, District Health Centres.
Primary healthcare facilities: Commune-Ward Health Stations, District Health Centres. Hospitals: Departments of Infection Control, Hospital Quality Management Departments, General Planning Departments, Line-directed Guidance Departments, International Cooperation Departments, Social Work Departments, Nutrition Departments, Family Medicine. Institutes affiliated with the Ministry of Health (12 institutes): such as the Pasteur Institute, Institutes of Public Health, Institutes of Malariology, Parasitology and Entomology, and the National Institute of Hygiene and Epidemiology. These institutes feature departments such as Nutrition, Epidemiology, Food Safety, Environmental Health, Parasitology, Entomology, Disease Prevention and Control, HIV/AIDS, and Expanded Programme on Immunization (EPI). Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDCs)
Private healthcare sector units (Hospitals, Universities, Occupational Health units in agencies and enterprises, insurance companies, etc.) Employment opportunities within NGOs (Health-related such as: FIT, Woolcock, OUCRU, and non-health-related or related organizations such as CSDS, CSAGA, etc.) International organizations: WHO, UNDP, UNICEF, etc.Source: https://www.facebook.com/YoungPreventiveMedicineinVietnam