28th Feb. 2021

Development and spreading of the respiratory endoscopy in Vietnam mainly focusing on EBUS
●Bronchoscopy is one of the basic elements of respiratory clinical practice, but bronchoscopy technology such as EBUS-TBNA, which isimportant in clinical practice even in the world guidelines, has not been introduced in Vietnam. This project is being renewed for a single
year, and in 2017-2019, we succeeded in implementing EBUS on a demonstration machine in Vietnam, implementing about 100 cases at a
total of 8 hospitals, and a total of 45 doctors at 12 facilities. After training, some hospitals are beginning to purchase and introduce EBUS.
● EBUS and bronchoscopy are the world‘s leading fields in Japan. With the cooperation of the Olympus Vietnam Chapter, the NCGM
Department of Respiratory Medicine will be conducted mainly by a Japanese specialist (doctor) who can provide direct instruction inVietnamese. The Vietnamese Respiratory Society, which we cooperate with, will fairly recruit competent doctors from major hospitals
throughout Vietnam. Trainees will be trained at NCGM for 3 weeks. After returning to Vietnam, experts will visit the trainees' medical
institutions to give lectures and practical training. We will carry out early deployment of EBUS throughout Vietnam.
● The widespread use of the world-standard bronchoscopic procedure required for medical treatment will bring health benefits to theenormous number of patients throughout Vietnam. While aiming to incorporate it into medical insurance, it will be disseminated to core
hospitals throughout Vietnam within a few years. In the future, we will support core hospitals to be able to educate EBUS so that they canbe spread to the provincial hospital level within 10 years.
Oct.-Feb. NCGM 3-week training (3 doctors or assistant workers / term)Core hospitals throughout Vietnam playing a central
role in bronchoscopy in respiratory department,cancer, tuberculosis, etc.
Trainee recruitment

Purches medicalproducts (EBUS. etc)

Vietnam Respiratory Societies

Traveled fortechnical guidance,Acceptseminors. etc.
trainee

Cooperation
Request trainee recruitment
Olympus
Traveled for technical guidance

Dpt. Respiratory medicine
NCGM - Japan

Viet Nam
Cooperation

Lectures of bronchoscopic procedures, Hands-on (Hachioji), CT interpretation
for bronchoscope, basic confirmation of anatomy. etc.
Oct.-Feb. Technical assistance, on-site training
Practical training with demonstration machines at medical institutions with
NCGM training students, Introduction and assistance for stable implementation
at medical institutions that have purchased equipment, Lectures and guidance
related to bronchoscopes linked to the existing education system in Vietnam,
we respond to lectures and guidance requests for the introduction of EBUS andbronchoscopes from all over the country.
Remote alternative contents in Corona situation
Publication and distribution of the textbook being created, Remote technicalsupport upon request, Remote lectures, lectures at academic conferences,lectures by trainees, etc. While observing the situation, grasp the current
situation of bronchoscopes in Vietnam, maintain E-lerning, etc.
Give 2 or more lectures remotely. Increase the number of implementations to
50 or more under the guidance of facilities with equipment installed. Distributetextbooks to 100 medical institutions. We will increase the number of doctors
who can provide technical guidance at Bach Mai and Cho Ray, which are thecenters of domestic education. Aim to purchase actual EBUS machines at two
or more facilities. When the training is resumed, the goal is 3 for medical
facilities participating in domestic training and 5 times for on-site guidance.