Employment status of graduate students of preventive medicine doctors in Hanoi Medical University from 2018 to 2020

Abstract

Objective: The study aims to describe the employment status of graduate students majoring in Preventive Medicine from 2018 to 2020. Methods: A cross-sectional descriptive study on 218 students who graduated from the Doctor of Preventive Medicine at Hanoi Medical University in 2018, 2019 and 2020. Results: The percentage of graduated students having jobs in 2018,2019, and 2020 was 82.9%, 80%, and 75.4% respectively. After graduating, there were 91.8% of graduated students who found a job less than 6 months, 56.1% of those worked in the right field of training, and 32.7% of those worked in the training industry. The self-employed rate accounted for 71.3%. The employment rate in the public sector was 52%. The percentage of graduated students who received starting salary (less than 5 million VND/month) accounted for 69.3%; 50.5% of graduated students received an average of less than 5 million VND per month. Conclusions: In 3 years, the proportion of students who had jobs (78.4%); The majority of students had jobs less than 6 months after graduating (91.8%); were self-employed (71.3%), and did the right field of training (56.1%). Starting salary and average monthly income of over 5 million students increased over 3 years. Keywords: Employment, Doctor of Preventive Medicine, Hanoi Medical University.

Stress among nursing students in Vietnam: Prevalence and associated factors

“…The proportion of students with severe and extremely severe stress in this study is relatively similar to the studies at Franciscan University and Thai Nguyen University of Medicine and Pharmacy (Beiter et al, 2015;Ly et al, 2021). However, the results of this study are different from previous research (Basu et al, 2016;Hanh et al, 2018;Nguyen & Nhi, 2019;Nhu, 2016). These studies used the DASS-21 scale; however, there were differences in culture, lifestyle, and learning pressure in the studies in different countries.…”

“…In addition, personal problems also increase the risk of stress. This result is similar to the studies among students at Tien Giang Medical College and Thang Long University (Dung, 2016;Hanh et al, 2018). The results indicated that all financial factors increased the risk of stress.…”

“…The results showed that overall 47.3% of nursing students were stressed. This result is similar to the rate of 47.6% of stressed students in the study at Tien Giang Medical College (Hanh et al, 2018). Compared with other studies, this rate is higher than that reported in some studies on stress among students in the United States, India, Nepal, Hong Kong, and Vietnam, with 38%, 32.56%, 27%, 20%, and 33.9%, respectively (Basu et al, 2016;Beiter et al, 2015;Cheung et al, 2016;Kunwar et al, 2016;Nguyen & Nhi, 2019).…”

“…In addition, for medical students, a great bulk of knowledge must be accumulated by students over the academic years which may lead to the highest extremely severe stress rate for seniors. This result is different from some studies in Saudi Arabia, Brazil, and Vietnam (Aedh et al, 2015;Cestari et al, 2017;Dung, 2016;Hanh et al, 2018). This may be due to the variation in training processes or the divergence in training time between university and college nursing students.…”

“…In Vietnam, according to a report at the Thai Nguyen University of Medicine and Pharmacy, 38.5% of students were stressed (Ly et al, 2021). The proportion of stress among students at the University of Medicine and Pharmacy in Ho Chi Minh City was 45.5% (Sang & Quynh, 2020), whereas the ratio of stress among students at Tien Giang Medical College was 47.6% (Hanh et al, 2018).…”