DESCRIPTION OF CURRICULUM AND COURSES

UNIVERSITY PROGRAMS FRAMEWORK AND DETAILED OUTLINE OF MODULES

- Minimum Knowledge Requirement: 130 credits, not including Physical Education (3 credits) and National Defense and Security Education (165 hours).

- Training duration: 04 years

1. DISTRIBUTRION OF KNOWLEDGE LOAD OF LEARNING BLOCKS

 

KNOWLEDGE LOAD

Credits

1

Minimum General Education Knowledge (not including Physical Education and National Defense and Security Education)

26

 

2

Minimum Professional Education Knowledge: 

 

- Compulsory for all health science students

24

- Specialities (including specialized knowledge)

60

- Interdisciplinary (Optional)

11

- Graduation internship

4

- Graduation thesis or Graduation module

5

Total

130

2. LIST OF MODULES

2.1. General Education             26 credits (23 Lecture - 03 Practice)

 

Modules

Credits

Credits allocation

Lecture

Practice

Hospital Internship

Compulsory for all majors

1

Principles of Marxism and Leninism

3

3

0

0

2

Economy and Politics of Marxism and Leninism

2

2

0

0

3

Scientific communism

2

2

0

0

4

History of Vietnam Communist Party

2

2

0

0

5

Ho Chi Minh’s Ideology

2

2

0

0

6

State and Law

2

2

0

0

7

Specialized Foreign Language I

2

2

0

0

8

Specialized Foreign Language II

2

2

0

0

9

Physical education

3*

1*

2*

0

10

National defense and security education

165 hours

Compulsory for Public health students

11

Informatics and Biostatistics

2

1

1

0

12

Biology and Genetics

2

1

1

0

13

Scientific Methodology

3

2

1

0

14

Medical Psychology and Medical Ethics

2

2

0

0

Total

26

23

3

0

 

* Not including Physical Education; National Defense and Security Education.

 

2.2. Minimum Professional Education Knowledge               

2.2.1. Compulsory for all health science students    

24 credits (15 Lecture – 09 Practice)

 

Modules

Credits

Credits allocation

Lecture

Practice

Hospital Internship

1

Chemistry - Biochemistry

3

2

1

0

2

Anatomy - Biophysics

3

2

1

0

3

Pathophysiology – Immunology 

3

2

1

0

4

Microbiology

2

1

1

0

5

Parasitology

2

1

1

0

6

Basic Nursing - First aid

2

1

1

0

7

Internal - Pediatrics - Pathology

3

2

1

0

8

Surgery Pathology

3

2

1

0

9

Statistics in Public Health I

3

2

1

0

 

Total

24

15

9

0

 

2.2.2. Specialities              60 credits (38 Lecture – 13 Practice- 09 Hospital Internship)

 

Modules

Credits

Credits allocation

Lecture

Practice

Hospital Internship

1

Health management - health policies

3

3

0

0

2

Principles and skills - Health services management

3

3

0

0

3

Health Planning

3

2

1

0

4

Finance Management - Health Economics

2

2

0

0

5

Basic Epidemiology

2

2

0

0

6

Statistics in Public Health II

4

2

2

0

7

Disaster Prevention

2

2

0

0

8

Environmental Health

2

1

1

0

9

Global Health Security

2

2

0

0

10

Occupational Health

2

1

1

0

11

Health Promotion

3

2

1

0

12

Reproductive Health

2

2

0

0

13

Demography

2

2

0

0

14

Nutrition - Food Hygiene

3

2

1

0

15

Community- Based Social Rehabilitation

2

1

1

0

16

Medical Anthropology

2

2

0

0

17

Qualitative Methodology

2

1

1

0

18

Field practice I

2

0

0

2

19

Field practice II

2

0

0

2

20

Evaluation Methodology and Diet-related Prevention

2

1

1

0

21

School for Health

2

1

1

0

22

Advance Epidemiology

3

2

1

0

23

Health Education

3

2

1

0

24

Field practice III

5

0

0

5

Total

60

38

13

9