I/ Fist of all, I want to introduce about Hue College of Medicine and Pharmacy.
+ About the history of the college and faculty:
- The college was founded in 1959 with the original name- Hue College of Medicine, just educating medicinal fields.
- From 2004, Hue college cooperating with Ha Noi College of Pharmacy opened Faculty of Pharmacy as an urgent requirement for pharmacists in central Vietnam. From then on, the Hue college has been one of the three most qualified centers of training pharmacists across the country.
- 3 years later, in 2007 its name was officially changed into Hue college of Medicine and Pharmacy
- As a result of it, The College consists of 5 existing faculties including Basic faculty, Medicine faculty, Nursing faculty, faculty of Public health Medicine , Ear- Nose- Throat faculty and a new faculty- faculty of pharmacy.
- With its short history of establishment and development, 10 years, faculty of Pharmacy is still young.
+ About human resources: the staff consists of only 12 lecturers and 11 assistants with 3 Doctors and 10 Masters. Most of them are young people who are very dynamic, enthusiastic but lack experiences in training and management.
Some lecturers from other faculties of the college also assist in teaching and training in faculty of pharmacy.
+ About the management structure of Pharmacy faculty:
The faculty comprises the following sections:
Dean office: Doctor Kinh
Administration affairs: Master Nguyet
Scientific affairs: Doctor Hoai
Postgraduate studies: Doctor Duc
Accounts: Ms Dao
+ About professional structure:
Pharmacy faculty contains 3 major divisions:
The first division concluding: Pharmaceutics, Pharmaceutical Industry, Pharmaceutical Economy- Pharmaceutical Legislation.
The second division concluding: Medicinal Plants- Pharmacognosy- Traditional Medicine- Clinical pharmacy
The third division: including Pharmaceutical Chemistry- Chemico-physics in Pharmacy- Toxicology-Drug Quality Control
+ About facilities:
At present, the faculty has occupied the fifth floor of the building of the college with only 20 rooms:
5 Labs, 2 rooms for storing chemicals and equipments, a lecture room, 5 rooms of staff and administration. Therefore, Spaces for studying and researching are narrow and cramped.
In the near future, the faculty is going to move to the new, large building separating from the college.
+ Advantages:
With the small number of students, staff almost know quite well each students, manage closely students' education, students can contact easily with the lecturers, so it can say that the entire faculty- staff, students- seems to be a family.
II/ Management of students, QA in teaching at 6 universities in Vietnam
- We trained 3 generations of graduates with the average number of 30.
- The total current number of pharmacy students is about 400, including 5 classes from 60 to 100 students each class.
a/ About the academic program:
- The academic program lasts 5 years with 10 semesters, concluding 261 theoretical units, and 67 practical units- A unit is equivalent to 11, 25 hours.
- During the 2 first semesters, students study mainly basic subjects such as maths, inorganic chemicals, organic chemicals, medicinal plans, statistics, english, Biology, Informatics and so on.
- Students continue to study specific subjects such as Pharmaceutical Chemistry, Pharmaceutics, Pharmacognosy, Clinical Pharmacy and so on in the 6 following semesters.
- In the 2 final semesters, studenst participate in 2 clerkships with the total length of 8 weeks at local pharmaceutical centers in Hue: comprising
The pharmaceutical manufacture company
Centers of distribution and sale drugs
Hospital
Drug quality control center
Local center of medicine management ( So y te- em ko biet dich the nay co dung ko).
This clerkship is very benefit for students to accumulate experiences, and help students obtain the overview of a broad field, Enhance students' awareness of many aspects of the
Professions. After finishing this internship, students can understand of the structure of pharmacy system, the role and responsibilities of the community, hospital and industrial pharmacists., the application of Laws and regulations that govern the practice of pharmacy and so on.
B/ About the way of teaching and training:
- The theoretical subjects are performed at lecture theaters with major teaching methods- lecture, sometimes by case studies, discussion, seminar, but rarely.
- In a typical class lesson, a lecturer make a long speech, supported by slide show or writing, sometimes students can put questions to get further information.
- Sometimes, lecture divided class into many small groups to discuss and combat with each other. However, method of discussion was restricted because of the overcrowding in classes.
- Scattering during 5 years of studying, students have a chance to teach about 10 thematic subjects that cover useful and up-to-date knowledge.
C/ About the way of evaluation:
- Students are evaluated by 5-10 minute tests after every unit, the lecturers will base on the studying attitude and these mark to produce the processing mark, counting for 30 per cent of the total mark.
- The 70 per cent of the total mark depends on the mark of the final test on the subject.
- The tests are mainly the multi-choice questions..., doing
Through sef-study,
- For practical subjects, the evaluation is based on the way of conducting / carrying out the scientific experiments, the ability of explanation and applying theoretical knowledge into practice, the way of reporting by writing and oral presentation.
- At the end of course, some selective students with GPA above 8.0 will have an advantage to conduct the scientific projects under the guidance of a professor. The rest of students have to take the final exam testing on 5 basic subjects and 10 specific subjects. III/ Plans for management course in VN. Intercollegial assessments
A/ Some backdraws in the academic program:
- The inappropriate rate between theoretical and practical workload in the curriculum is the major backdraw in training program. This leading students to inactive and lack confident when facing the professional problems in real.
- The content of subjects still separate from each other. Parts of the subjects are actually more descriptive than analytical, merely give massive information. So, students are still troubled in synthesizing and applying knowledge into practice.
- Especially, students are inactive in searching for information to support the studying.
- Lack of skills of design scientific project, independent thinking, and team working.
- The fixed program hasn't met the individual's interests.
B/ Main tasks and solutions for the incoming academic year 2009-2010:
- Promote the active role of students in class by some solutions like that: give students a topic in advance, encourage students to find information and present and discuss with the whole class, the lecturers only give guide the class following the chosen topics. This method requires students practicing skill of searching information, english proficiency.
- Provide a wide range of options on subjects for students to choose, build the credit-based program. Hence, students are oriented towards specific careers: hospital pharmacists or community ones or industrial ones.
- Increase in the lab time. The lad time consists of activities designed to enhance the knowledge presented in the lecturers. Tighten the relationship between theoretical knowledge and practical skills.
- Organize more internship at local centers in order to improve students in working independently and working groups.
- Diversify in training methods, Innovate the way of evaluation: combination of writing and oral presentation, testing the knowledge as well as clinical skills, capacity of understanding, remembering, applying and creative thinking.
- Strengthen the cooperation with other colleges and overseas organizations of pharmacy to share experiences, and upgrade the curriculum. The knowledge and skills learned from this will be utilized heavily in real.
- Reform the way of teaching: promote the active role of students in class, seft- taught capacity, seft- research capacity, problem-solving skills by case studies
- Promote the practice in community and institutional pharmacy to
- The effective communication between pharmacists, patients, and other healthcare providers.
- Build/design the perfect curricula providing the basic and in-depth knowledge.
- Design many assignments for students to search for information, data analysis, and use biostatistics and evidence-base medicine to make clinical dicisions.
- Increase in the time of practice in the community and institutional pharmacy Realizing international cooperation projects .
