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YOUR QUESTION:

Let me ask you now that you have a practicing certificate (CCHN) in pediatrics but want to change to dermatology, you need to practice again for 18 months to get internal CCHN before going to dermatology or is there another way to expand CCHN to change skin willow?

ANSWER:

Hello, thank you for sending a question to MEDLAW, based on the information you provided, MEDLAW advises as follows:

If you want to change your specialty from Pediatrics to Dermatology, you don't have to practice again for 18 months to get a practicing certificate in Internal Medicine.

Based on the information you provide, MEDLAW understands that you have been granted a practicing certificate with the scope of professional activities to be specialized in pediatric medical examination and treatment. If you want to change to a dermatology specialty, you need a certificate or certificate of training from 6 months or more for a dermatology specialty (including a certificate of specialty orientation that starts training before September 9). /7/2019) you will be able to add that specialization to the scope of professional activities for the major of the same system you have been granted.

Accordingly, pediatrics and dermatology are specialties under the internal medicine system, so when you have a certificate, training certificate of 6 months or more for dermatology and a certificate of specialty orientation, start. If you train before July 9, 2019, you will be supplemented with professional activities in dermatology according to section 2.2 of Official Dispatch 787/BYT-KCB.

Specifically, the legal basis for your case is as follows:

According to Section 2.2 of Official Letter 787/BYT-KCB on the implementation of additional granting of professional activities for medical practitioners:

For doctors who have been granted practice certificates with the scope of professional activities being specialized medical examination and treatment (except for odontologists, doctors of preventive medicine), upon obtaining additional certificates, certifications: training for 6 months or more depending on each specialty (including a certificate of specialty orientation, starting before July 9, 2019 is the date of issuance of Official Letter No. 3928/BYT-K2ĐT of the Ministry of Health on if they do not have specialized-oriented training), they may add that specialty to the scope of their professional activities and only be granted an additional scope of specialized activities in the same system as the one already granted.