Health Check-up Department on Demand
Overview
Most people only see a doctor when their condition becomes severe, overlooking earlier warning signs of illness. This mindset forces us to confront serious diseases or health issues that could have been detected and cured at an early stage.
For example, cardiovascular diseases, diabetes, and certain cancers, if detected early, can be treated with higher success rates. It is indeed accurate to say “Investing in health is a super‑profitable investment”. Only with good health can you confidently and comfortably do what you want.
The Health Check-up Department on Demand – University Medical and Pharmacy Hospital of Ho Chi Minh City is a specialized unit providing comprehensive examination, counseling, and health screening services with high quality and personalization, meeting the demand for proactive health care in modern life. Here, patients are accompanied by an experienced team of physicians and healthcare staff with deep expertise, offering counseling and continuous health monitoring throughout the examination and screening process.
In particular, the Department utilizes electronic medical records, modern diagnostic equipment, and automated laboratory systems, enabling early disease detection and delivering rapid, accurate results via online applications. The examination process is scientifically organized and integrated across stages, reducing waiting time and providing a convenient, private, and comfortable experience.
Individuals or groups can easily choose from a variety of general examination packages, specialized check-ups, and cancer screening packages designed to suit age, needs, and health status; they will also receive timely counseling, guidance, and referral to relevant specialties when health issues or diseases are detected.
With the advantage of being a multi‑specialty hospital, the University Medical and Pharmacy Hospital of Ho Chi Minh City in general, and the Health Check-up Department on Demand in particular, are reliable destinations for proactive and long‑term health protection and care.
Strength
Currently, the Requested Health Examination Department - University of Medicine and Pharmacy Hospital in Ho Chi Minh City is offering the following services:
Periodic health screening and consultation for individual customers, agencies, and enterprises with needs (under contract).
Screening and consulting for deep specialty diseases, cancer screening for customers in need, as well as providing specialized treatment advice for patients.
- Examination and issuance of health certificates for subjects: examinations according to Circular 32/2023/TT-BTY, foreigners living and working in Vietnam.
- Health examinations for visa applications to countries: Japan, South Korea, China, …
- Consultation on medical services before and after health examinations.
- Consultation on health topics as well as common diseases.
Currently, the Department is offering General examination packages for individual customers, including Standard, Advanced, and Premium packages; disease-specific examination and screening packages (thyroid, stroke, chronic hepatitis, bronchial asthma, pulmonary tuberculosis, …) and early cancer screening packages (lung cancer, stomach cancer, liver cancer, colorectal cancer, breast cancer, risk assessment and screening for throat, cervical, and ovarian cancers, …). These packages have also attracted a considerable number of individual customers to register and undergo them.
In addition, the Department has developed a specialized consultation clinic to provide high-level specialist medical services for customers who have a referral and need.
The Genetic Consultation Clinic was established at the Requested Health Examination Department to provide genetic testing and counseling services for patients, and has received acceptance and positive feedback from individual customers (non-contract) and group customers (contract).
The Requested Health Examination Department applies information technology in professional management through electronic medical records and other application software. In addition, the medical doctors continuously inspect and closely monitor procedures to ensure a highly effective examination process.
Training & Research
The medical staff working at the Requested Health Examination Department are both physicians providing medical care and lecturers at the University of Medicine and Pharmacy in Ho Chi Minh City. Therefore, the doctors continuously participate in training, scientific research, attend conferences, and collaborate with colleagues at many major hospitals worldwide to enhance their knowledge and professional expertise.
Doctors continuously participate in training, scientific research, attend conferences, and collaborate with colleagues at many major hospitals worldwide to enhance their knowledge and professional expertise.
The Requested Health Examination Department regularly organizes training sessions and professional exchanges for staff through numerous programs covering the following topics:
Techniques and methods of diagnosis and treatment that the hospital is implementing.
New clinical and preclinical techniques applied in examinations and health screenings.
Communication skills, customer care.
Negotiation and persuasion skills with customers.
Technological applications for department management.
Doctors also regularly conduct scientific research and apply scientific findings to support examinations and health screenings based on age or disease prevalence. Some doctors also participate in writing articles, editing communication materials, training documents, …
The Department also regularly summarizes and evaluates the health status of units and individual customers examined over many consecutive years. In addition, cooperative activities for experience exchange with domestic and foreign medical institutions are also being intensified.
Equipments
Not only does the Requested Health Examination Department - University of Medicine and Pharmacy Hospital in Ho Chi Minh City have a highly professional team, it is also equipped with a modern, comprehensive system of equipment for each specialty, meeting the needs of examination and treatment from basic to advanced levels.
Biochemistry, immunology, urine, hematology, molecular biology testing systems.
Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) system: 1.5 Tesla and 3.0 Tesla
Computed Tomography (CT scan) system
Mammography X-ray machine
Digital X-ray machine
Other equipment includes ultrasound machines, electrocardiographs, gastrointestinal endoscopes, ENT endoscopes, respiratory gas measurement devices, audiometers... In addition, the department is equipped with a modern mobile examination vehicle to serve units and agencies requiring on-site health examinations.
Furthermore, the department also applies technological advances in health examinations and screenings, such as reading X-ray and ultrasound results without film, storing image results on the PACS system, and delivering X-ray and test results via the online UMC Care application.
Staff
As one of the central-level hospitals, every day the University of Medicine and Pharmacy Hospital in Ho Chi Minh City receives more than 8,000 visits for examination. Each patient will have different disease symptoms. This also requires the Requested Health Examination Department to meet two conditions: manpower and capability.
Regarding manpower, the number of staff currently working at the Requested Health Examination Department is 55 personnel, with 70 personnel serving in dual roles. In addition, the department receives enthusiastic support from doctors and medical staff throughout the system.
Regarding capability, the team of Professors, Associate Professors, Doctors, Masters, CKII Physicians, Heads and Deputy Heads of departments, ... working in the Department are all leading experts, deeply knowledgeable about diseases and have many years of experience in treatment and research.