Siriraj Smoke Free

 

According to the Notification of the Ministry of Public Health, volume 135 special part 239 D (Issued Date: November 5, 2018), Every healthcare facility has been announced as the smoke-free area. Faculty of Medicine Siriraj Hospital, Mahidol University, has realized the importance of creating a healthy environment. Therefore, the committee of Siriraj Smoke-Free project has brought the smoke-free healthcare standard under the healthcare professional network in controlling the tobacco consumption, Medical Association of Thailand, as the guideline to follow.

The duration of the project is all year round and implemented to all areas of the hospital and nearby community. The project run by the committee of Siriraj Smoke-free project, Faculty of Nursing, Faculty of Medical Technology, Faculty of Physical Therapy, Mahidol University, and nearby community. The objective of the project is to be certified as the national standard smoke-free healthcare facility. The main target for the project is the hospital personnel, medical students, patients, and local people.

The project implemented as the following detail,

  • 1) Leading Organization: The executive members issue the related policy, appoint the working committee for making the policy into motion, and set the operational plan for coordinating
  • 2) Communication and Public Relations: Setting up “the World No Tobacco Day” activity, the area for smoking, and punishment measures for violation of smoking, Setting up the health education activity to help those who’re trying to quit smoking and other activities that create the understanding inside the organization along with promoting the information to the service receiver, a nearby community, network, and local people
  • 3) Personnel Development: Hospital provides its personnel development with various methods for better work efficiency such as educational discussion within the organization. Sending the hospital personnel to join the academic conference to improve their potential and supporting the research
  • 4) Searching and Treating the smokers: Creating the Service Pathway to connect the treatment system for smoking patients in IPD and OPD.
  • 5) Management for Smoking Cessation Clinic: Establishing Fah-Sai Siriraj Clinic to increase the normal triage and treatment without medicine and connecting the service with the smoking cessation clinic which is focused on treatment with medicine and coordinating with the network for the patients who try to quit smoking without any expenses
  • 6) Making the hospital as the smoke-free area: Making the non-smoking sign and channel for complaints when people see anyone violating the rules.
  • 7) Supporting the smoke-free community: Adding the point about working execution in the health development plan for the community such as smoke-free school, smoke-free market, and smoke-free temple.
  • 8) Analysis and Evaluation: evaluating the working output with empirical data such as surveying the smoking behavior of the hospital personnel and medical students. Building the database for patients who try to quit smoking as concrete evidence.

By now, overall participants have participated in the event of this project as the following,

  • “World No Tobacco Day” Activity: 500 people per year
  • “Hospital Personnel Stop Smoking” Activity: 30 – 50 people per year
  • “Quit Smoking” service for patients: 100 people (in the data collecting process)

The outcome of the project can be listed below,

  • Hospital personnel and medical students who smoke can change their behaviors
  • Hospital personnel and medical students who don’t smoke will not be a new smoker
  • The nearby community has the standard in the tobacco consumption controlling in the area
  • Smoking patients receive the treatment, prevent any complications, and decrease the death rate due to the smoking
  • The faculty has been certified as the national standard smoke-free healthcare facility

Siriraj Channel: COVID-19 Quarantine Guideline

Siriraj Channel broadcasts daily around the hospital to educate visitors, patients, as well as Siriraj personnel via interesting media and shows. The channel has been operated since 2016.

In the time of the COVID-19 outbreak, Siriraj Channel produced one of the episodes on COVID-19 Quarantine Guideline to raise awareness and to provide the guideline for people who might be at risk on the COVID-19 infection when staying at home with their families.

Mahidol United for Community

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Mahidol United for Community is the project set up during January 25th – 26th, 2021 to promote healthcare learning for health science students to develop their learning capability and bring the knowledge to apply and further in their daily work routine as well as on their healthcare mobile unit for the disadvantaged people.

The project took place at The Municipal School 2 Chantharam Temple, Lopburi, and participated by many civilians in the Chantharam Temple area. The healthcare professional project consists of the medical students and Applied Thai Traditional Medicine from Siriraj and Ramathibodi hospitals, Dentistry, Nursing, and Anatomy students from Mahidol University, lecturers, and staff from Department of Preventive and Social Medicine and Department of Pharmacology. The objectives are to provide the basic public health and healthcare services to the disadvantaged people in the area, to exchange the knowledge in holistic healthcare between the different healthcare professionals as well as building friendships between students, and to develop their own healthcare professional and further their skill in the future. The implementation started by launching the healthcare mobile unit as well as providing a healthcare information center to the people in the area.

The outcome of the project was over 200 people in the Chantharam area participated in the project. All of them received basic healthcare they need and were educated with basic health education and how to take care of themselves. The project allowed students in many specialties to develop and practice their knowledge with the people in the area as well as exchange new knowledge with their friends from different faculties.

 

Siriraj Center of Applied Thai Traditional Medicine Designated as WHOCC

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Congratulations to the Center of Applied Thai Traditional Medicine (CATTM), Faculty of Medicine Siriraj Hospital, Mahidol University on the designation as the World Health Organization Collaborating Center (WHOCC). Siriraj CATTM is now working together with WHO to support WHO Traditional Medicine Strategy 2014 – 2023 in organizing collaborative inter-regional or regional meetings/workshops once a year guided by WHO Regional Office.

The designation has been set for four years starting from February 8th, 2018. The CATTM agreed to work together with WHO by agreeing on 3 agendas as the following;

  1. Follow the WHO-CC-TM road map
  2. Set up at least one international conference on Applied Thai Traditional Medicine
  3. Encourage Applied Thai Traditional Medicine Research, Manual, as well as WHO WHO Benchmark for the Practice in Nuad Thai และ WHO terminology in Thai Traditional Medicine

The Outcomes of the Project

  1. Thai Traditional Medicine will be well recognized in the International Level
  2. Promotion of the Faculty of Medicine Siriraj Hospital to be well recognized as the World Health Organization Collaborating Center and Professional in Applied Thai Traditional Medicine in the International Level
  3. Continuously being a Collaborating Center for Thai Traditional Medicine
  4. Promotion of Collaboration between Thailand, WHO, SEARO, etc.

Peace, Justice And Strong Institution #1

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ASEAN Medical Deans’ Summit

Faculty of Medicine Siriraj Hospital, Mahidol University, arranged “The First ASEAN Deans’ Summit: Connecting ASEAN Medical Schools Towards One Community” during September 17 – 19, 2012 at the Faculty of Medicine Siriraj Hospital, Bangkok, Thailand. The ASEAN Deans’ Summit was arranged with the objectives to promote the collaboration among leading medical schools in the ASEAN region, to leverage medical education and health system towards international excellence and prepared to work as one community in 2015.

The ASEAN Deans’ Summit is the first time in the history of ASEAN whereby the medical education leaders (Deans and Rectors) from 10 nations, Thailand, Laos, Myanmar, Vietnam, Cambodia, Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, and Brunei convened at Siriraj to share their visions and ideas on how to collaborate among one another for the benefits of 600 million ASEAN people. Moreover, 12 medical schools in ASEAN (PAPRSB Institute of Health Sciences, Universiti Brunei Darussalam; Faculty of Medicine, University of Health Sciences, Cambodia; International University, Cambodia; Faculty of Medicine, Universitas Indonesia; Faculty of Medicine, University of Health Sciences, Lao PDR; Faculty of Medicine, University of Malaya, Malaysia; University of Medicine 1, Yangon, Myanmar; University of Medicine, Mandalay, Myanmar; University of Philippines College of Medicine; Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore; Hanoi Medical University, Vietnam) attended such historic summit at Siriraj. The structure of the ASEAN Medical Schools Network consists of four working groups:

A Chronological Order of ASEAN Deans’ Summit

2012: 1st ASEAN Deans’ Summit @ Faculty of Medicine Siriraj Hospital

2013: 2nd ASEAN Deans Summit @ Faculty of Medicine, University of Malaya

2014: 3rd ASEAN Deans’ Summit @ National University of Singapore

2015: 4th ASEAN Deans’ Summit @ University of Philippines College of Medicine

2016: 5th ASEAN Deans’ Summit @ Faculty of Medicine, Universitas Indonesia

2017: 6th ASEAN Deans’ Summit @ University of Medicine, Mandalay, Myanmar

2018: 7th ASEAN Deans’ Summit @ Hanoi Medical University, Vietnam

2019: 8th ASEAN Deans’ Summit @ PAPRSB Institute of Health Sciences, Brunei Darussalam

2020: 9th ASEAN Deans’ Summit @ Faculty of Medicine Siriraj Hospital (Teleconference)

Reduce Inequalities #1

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Volunteer Doctors for Community Development Project

The 9th Volunteer Doctors for Community Development has been made possible by the group of medical students with volunteer hearts. They devoted to helping those in need by themselves with their initiative thoughts, inspiration, and ambitiousness. This will be a good opportunity for medical students to learn and manage the project and its limited resources efficiently. They will get to coordinate and work alongside medical personnel from the Healthcare department, community leader, volunteer, and all the local people.

Project Duration: February 8th – 10th, 2020

Venue: Ban Phu Phlu Health Promoting Hospital / Nong Ya Plong Hospital

Related Department / Stakeholders: 

1) Medical students from Faculty of Medicine Siriraj Hospital, Mahidol University

2) Lecturers and staff from the Department of Social and Preventive Medicine, Faculty of Medicine  Siriraj Hospital

3) Nong Ya Plong Wittaya School

4) Ban Phu Phlu Health Promoting Hospital

5) Nong Ya Plong Hospital

Objectives : 

1) To increase experiences in medical knowledge, professional skill, critical thinking and management skill in medical students

2) To inspire and motivate the medical students to be a good doctor in the future

3) To let the medical students participate in volunteer activities

4) To create a good perception of medical doctors and medical personnel in public healthcare to the community. This also helps the community to see a better perspective of this project as well through the medical students

5) To educate the medical students of how to work as a team and to create good perception between the multidisciplinary and learning within the local hospital

6) To be a part of the research study about the experiences and skills gaining during the project from both medical students and doctors from the Faculty of Medicine Siriraj Hospital, Mahidol University

Project Implementation Plan:

– Offering the health checkup to local people in the community by working with local staff within the community

– Visiting all patients with chronic diseases in the community and promoting this project

– Studying the work operation and local hospital management system

– Raising the campaign about community health-promoting

– Raising the volunteer activity for community development

– Exchanging ideas and work experiences through alternative medicine activity

Target Group:

The community near Ban Phu Phlu Health Promoting Hospital  and Nong Ya Plong Hospital

Total participants: 

160 medical students

200  People who receive the treatment

Outcome of the Project: 

  1. Medical students have the appropriate characteristics and more profession knowledge
  2. Medical students are aware of applying the knowledge in an actual situation in the community
  3. Medical students practice and work with medical personnel and local people
  4. Medical students can respond and follow Prince Mahidol’s philosophy
  5. People inside the community have more opportunities to receive basic medical treatment and promoting more healthcare system in the community
  6. The community knows more of the common diseases, how to prevent the often found diseases inside the community and how to treat the diseases properly once you contracted it

 

 

Bangkok Noi Model

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Faculty of Medicine Siriraj Hospital set up the objectives to promote well-being and health promotion to the society by using the knowledge from all Departments and Units and implement it into the neighboring community called “Bangkok Noi” which is the district rich in history.

The faculty set up the project in collaboration with allied networks to develop the role model of the semi-urban community which is in the transition of an aged society to improve the health quality of people in Bangkok Noi district.

Project Rationale

  • Thailand is now entering into the aged society, posed a necessity to create the masterplan to respond effectively
  • Thai society needs Information Technology to solve the root cause of the problem by having enough information gathered from the area
  • The Faculty aimed to be beyond a medical school, and the adherence of the philosophy – “True success is not in the learning, but in its application to the benefit of mankind”.

Project Timeline: 4 years 6 months starting from October 1st, 2015 – March 31st, 2020

Location: Bangkok Noi District, Bangkok Province

Alliances and Stakeholders: 

  1. Thai Health Organization
  2. Bangkok Noi District Bureau
  3. Faculty of Nursing, Mahidol University
  4. Royal Thai Navy
  5. 6-secondary school in Bangkok Noi District
  6. 42 communities in Bangkok Noi District
  7. Office of the Basic Education Commission
  8. Mahidol University International College
  9. 22-primary school in Bangkok Noi District

Objectives

  1. To develop a health database that can be utilized in the healthcare system and health promotion in the community.
  2. To enhance health care system management in the community as well as the primary care.
  3. To develop a healthcare network and learning process by having healthcare alliances and stakeholders participated in the project working together simultaneously
  4. To enhance the knowledge in parallel with the process of health promotion to cover all aspects of healthcare indicator in every age, especially to raise public awareness in the elderly
  5. To create a co-learning process by having a healthcare database to bring about a healthy community in 42 communities in Bangkok Noi and in the Faculty of Medicine Siriraj Hospital

Phase 1: Establishment of an information gathering system to further healthcare solution

Phase 2: Strengthen the cooperation and learning process in the communities

Phase 3: Promote and persuade all departments in the Faculty to launch the project or research which focus on the healthy community of Bangkok Noi district in order to make the communities are able to take care of themselves

Target group: people in 42 communities in Bangkok Noi District and Siriraj communities

Total of participants: 28,003 people

The Outcome of the Project: 

  1. Approach to the development of IT for gathering information, management, and report by having a database of 28,003 people in Bangkok Noi District with the information of health, financial status, social behavior, environment, and security
  2. Approach to network management, using integrated communication as the followings,
    • Separating the relationship between the head of communities into three groups
    • Creating the coordinator in the communities (1 coordinator per 4-5 communities)
    • Creating the teacher coordinator network
    (1 coordinator: 2 secondary schools & 1 coordinator: all primary schools)
  3. Visiting semi-urban community by the following processes
    • Community Coordination: Meeting with the head of communities
    • Preparation: Set up the orientation for the volunteers to analyze the communities
    • Gathering Information: Set up the mentors in the appointed zone for giving advice, walk into the community as a team, record, conclude, and solve immediate problems in the communities
  4. Establish the Projects by using the information gathered from the visitation of the communities

Ten projects were established from the database communities as the followings,

  1. The Workshop for CPR Volunteer Training Project in Bangkok Noi Communities by Department of Emergency Medicine
  2. Basic CPR for High School Teenager by Private Patient Division, Department of Nursing
  3. Research Project on CPR Volunteer by Motorcycle Taxi to Help the Healthcare Professional and People to Communities in Bangkok Noi to Receive CPR before the Emergency Health Service Arrive by the Department of Emergency Medicine
  4. Research Project on Enhancing the Physical Health in the Elderly by Siriraj Health Policy Unit
  5. CSR with CBR (Community – Based Rehabilitation) by the Department of Rehabilitation Medicine
  6. Bangkok Noi Place and People by Mahidol University International College
  7. Bangkok Noi Challenge for Well-being of the Elderly by Siriraj Health Policy Unit and Siriraj Research Network
  8. Project on Self-Management for Non-Chronic Disease Elderly Patients in Bangkok Noi Communities by Faculty of Nursing, Mahidol University
  9. New Generation of Sex Educator by the Department of Pediatrics, Faculty of Nursing, Mahidol University
  10. Project on the Result of Building Motivation and Self Control for Avoiding Alcohol among the Labour Population in Bangkok Noi by the Department of Internal Medicine, Faculty of Nursing, Mahidol University

 

Decent Work and Economic Growth #1

Activities coming soon.