Second Medical Symposium
February 23, 2001
The Ho Chi Minh City University of Medicine and Pharmacology was the site of a medical symposium on Friday. An audience of up to 200 medical students, postgraduate trainers and university faculty peppered FPs on the panel with a wide range of questions, including inquiries about medical training, medical residencies, patient payment and how patients choose their physicians.
Future residency site
Some of the delegates visited the District Five Health Center in Ho Chi Minh City. This facility will be the site of the first family practice residency community-training center in Vietnam in September 2002, funded by a grant from Maine Medical Center in Brunswick, Maine.
While the symposium was taking place inside, outside in the steamy heat, Vietnamese medical students studied wherever they could find space.
After a tour of the facility, doctors gathered to say goodbye.
