Học Mãi Australia Vietnam Medical Foundation

Học Mãi (the Australian Vietnam Medical Foundation) is a not-for-profit organisation that fosters medical education between Australia and Vietnam.

In 1998, the University of Sydney established a medical exchange program with the Hanoi Medical University in Vietnam.

The Học Mãi Foundation was launched at Government House, Sydney in August 2001 and brings together the collective medical knowledge and experience of Australia and Vietnam in an educational partnership.

The Foundation fosters medical education and improves health care in Vietnam through strategies that include:

• Supporting a bilateral exchange of medical students and health professionals between Australia and Vietnam
• Assisting with teaching of doctors and nurses in Vietnam with a Train the Trainer program
• Increasing medical research skills in Vietnam

Học Mãi programs are supported solely by external fundraising or through grants and donations. We hope that the recipients of medical student scholarships will contribute to this fundraising effort.

Outgoing University of Sydney elective students

Applications are invited from ‘Med 3’ students from all clinical schools within the University of Sydney, for a number of scholarships to undertake elective term projects in Vietnam. (The number of scholarships is determined by Học Mãi funding and will vary from year to year. We are not able to indicate the exact number of placements available at this time).

Each clinical placement opportunity will be determined in consultation with the successful candidate and the Học Mãi coordinators.

This may include an opportunity of an elective placement at:

• TuDu Hospital, Ho Chi Minh City (Obs and Gynae)
• Viet Duc Hospital, Hanoi (Surgical)
• Bach Mai Hospital, Hanoi (Medical)
• National Hospital for Paediatrics, Hanoi
• K Hospital (Cancer)
• DaNang Hospital

Please note that the application process for this exchange is slightly different to others on this website due to the requirements of the Học Mãi Foundation Board.

Scholarship applications

Each application must include these three items:

• Curriculum Vitae, including a photograph of the applicant
• 2000 word proposal summarizing the aims and objectives of the 3rd year project
• Evidence of immunization as per the Faculty of Medicine's Immunisation policy

Scholarship allowance includes:

• Return airfare
• Accommodation
• Living away from home allowance

Closing date: 22 April 2008

The application package must be emailed to

All applications will be short listed and an interview process will occur.

The interview panel will consist of Professor Kerry Goulston and a representative from both the Học Mãi Foundation and the Northern Clinical School.