Medical licensing

My curiosity forced me to look up FMG and I found a site that was specifically for medical acronyms.   The results in the Urban Dictionary were mostly nasty.     I am assuming that you mean Foreign Medical Graduate.  Again just curious but did you mean in the sense of a degree foreign to Vietnam?   Or by chance, is your own degree foreign to the US where you are now? 

In any case, you should have no insurmountable obstacles to practicing in Vietnam.  I don't expect that you would be obligated to serve as a state paid physician in a hospital as most local doctors must.

Unless one pops up after I post this, it seems that there are currently no doctors on this forum who can help you.  The closest thing we have is OceanBeach92107 who served as an Army medic in Da Nang during the war.    Good luck in your endeavor though.  If you find information elsewhere, please return with a note to let us know.   Several of the persons on this site are rather geriatric and are potential patients for a bi-lingual doctor. 

@THIGV Several of the persons on this site are rather geriatric and are potential patients for a bi-lingual doctor. 

Obviously not schooled in England where we were taught to respect our older geriatric's, you gen "xyz" types have no manners I tell ya. 

You make a good point We should have a counter somewhere that shows the average age of people on the forum haha.

Andybris2020 wrote:

@THIGV Several of the persons on this site are rather geriatric and are potential patients for a bi-lingual doctor. 

Obviously not schooled in England where we were taught to respect our older geriatric's, you gen "xyz" types have no manners I tell ya. 

You make a good point We should have a counter somewhere that shows the average age of people on the forum haha.

Mental or physical ages 🤔

Thanks for all of the replies. Haha I didn't realize fmg has another meaning. FMG is foreign medical graduate, since US graduate would be considered foreign to VN. My specialty is Family Medicine so geriatrics is part of my practice, cradle to grave as we refer to it ourselves. Open a free clinic in a VN countryside is on my bucket list so reimbursement isn't my concern. Having said that I wouldn't turn down a few chicken or bucket of veggies here and there as a payment :-).

THIGV wrote:

Unless one pops up after I post this, it seems that there are currently no doctors on this forum who can help you.  The closest thing we have is OceanBeach92107 who served as an Army medic in Da Nang during the war. 

I thought I had previously corrected this misconception.

I didn't retrain as a Field Medic 91B and then as a Clinical Specialist 91C until after my return to CONUS from Việt Nam.

I later became a Registered Nurse in California and a Licensed Massage Therapist & Certified Neuromuscular Massage Therapist in Tennessee.

I'm thinking GOBOT's wife might be able to provide pertinent information, if she's so inclined.

OceanBeach92107 wrote:

I thought I had previously corrected this misconception.

I didn't retrain as a Field Medic 91B and then as a Clinical Specialist 91C until after my return to CONUS from Việt Nam.

Sorry for the mistake.   You have to excuse those of us who are geriatrically challenged.   

CHN90 wrote:

Open a free clinic in a VN countryside is on my bucket list so reimbursement isn't my concern. Having said that I wouldn't turn down a few chicken or bucket of veggies here and there as a payment :-).

Do you know what part of the country your family came from?  A lot of people moved around during the war so it is possible that where you lived as a youth was not your family's original home.

My Dad was an South VN Army physician during the war. He was stationed at different parts of South VN with the troop. I can remember one town that he was stationed at called Vĩnh Bình (no longer there due to being merged by another province). Our family last VN home was in Saigon prior coming to US. One fond memory I have of his practice was getting live chickens from his old Vĩnh Bình patients.

Contact the Ministry of Health or get in touch with the Chief of Medicine at one of the major hospitals. Contact information is available online. Raffles has a lot of foreign trained doctors, HCMC and Hanoi. Good luck and I salute your intentions.

Hello CHN90: now that VN is opening soon to everyone, please do carry out your exemplary mission in some village, which will bless those folks. And do please keep us posted where eventually your dream materialised. This is so that we can send you some live or frozen chick's for your work.. you will be richly blessed!.

Haha, it's going to be a couple more years before my plan can come to fruition. I have to put in a couple more years to get the full benefits from my employer's TRS (Teacher Retirement System). It will cover both pension and health insurance. By then I should be practicing medicine for fun and not for a living.

would anyone be able to tell me what the side effect of the medicine. after taking the medicine and it gives you a fever and weak. what kind of medicine is that