Working Conditions

Doctors can feel like they are working in a French University hospital but situated in Vietnam. Medical meetings (“staffs” as they are called in French) are organised weekly in various specialties (Oncology, Internal Medicine, Accident & Emergency, Paediatrics) to discuss cases and decide treatment plans. Conferences and seminars are held in the 120-seat auditorium. Doctors are supported by the FV Hospital nursing staff which has received intensive training and are assisted by Medical Secretaries. They have the responsibility to arrange patients’ appointments, to prepare patients file, to translate French or English languages and to generally be the assistants of the doctors. Doctors have also access to a digitalised Medical Library where almost all medical journals in the world can be read in an unlimited way.

Vietnamese doctors have the opportunity to work alongside with well-known French, Belgian and Swiss specialists who come regularly at FVH. Therefore, working at FVH is working in a multi-cultural environment, one which affords access to the latest medical innovations and techniques in many fields.

Remuneration

There are several types of remuneration plans depending on the speciality. For most doctors FV Hospital proposes an attractive activity-based remuneration, with a minimum guaranteed salary, the usual benefits (13th month, payment of health and social insurance), medical insurance coverage for you and your close relatives (Vietnam Care), and medical malpractice insurance coverage. Also, FV Hospital doctors are authorized to conduct their own patient consultancies and treatments, outside of their business working hours at FV Hospital.

Doctors can be employed at FV Hospital on a full-time or a part-time basis. Also, through the FVH Partners Programme more and more Vietnamese doctors can treat their patients at FV Hospital, either as an External Doctor (a specialist who is not employed by FVH but can treat, operate and deliver his own patients at the FVH), or as an Associate Doctor (who is also granted the privilege to have a consultation at FVH).

Organization of FVH

FV Hospital has been conceived like a state-of-the-art French hospital adjusted to the Vietnamese environment.  It is organised in several departments under the authority of the Medical Director and the supervision of the Medical Advisory Board, which is composed of 10 elected doctors. Heads of Departments are either French or Vietnamese.

Schematically the hospital can be divided into:

• A Diagnosis Centre composed a various consultations, a 24h/24 Accident & Emergency department (with 2 French-manufactured, international standard mobile ICU ambulances), backed up by a very modern laboratory and a sophisticated imaging centre opened 24/24
• A Medical Centre: from GP to Internal Medicine, Pulmonology, Endocrinology, Gastro-Enterology
• A Paediatric Centre with all services including UNSC and NICU
• A Maternity & Gynaecology Centre
• A Surgical Centre: General Surgery, Orthopaedics and Hand Surgery, Urology, ENT, OPH, Maxillo-Facial Surgery, Plastic Surgery and Neuro-Surgery
• An Oncology Centre with dedicated CT scanner, high-tech dosimetry and linear accelerator staffed with especially-trained technicians and with a French-trained specialised Physicist