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 feld 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 feld of training (56.1%). Starting salary and average monthly income of over 5 million students increased over 3 years