AMSN Webinar Series by Siriraj Faculty

On June 10th, 2021, Assoc.Prof. Tripop Lertbunnaphong, Assistant Dean of Postgraduate Education, Faculty of Medicine Siriraj Hospital, Mahidol University, joined the webinar series hosted by the ASEAN Medical Schools Network on the theme of “Innovation in Online Learning”. On this webinar, Assoc.Prof. Tripop has delivered a lecture on the topic “New Pedagogy Style in Pandemic Era: Experience at Siriraj Hospital”, and Assoc. Prof. Alfred Kow Wei Chieh, Assistant Dean (Education), Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine,  National University of Singapore, also delivered a lecture on the topic “Technology-Enhanced Medical Education: COVID-19 Pandemic as a Catalyst”.

You can access the past webinars for this series at http://bit.ly/amsn-classroom

Siriraj Setting Up Vaccination Units Outside Siriraj

June 7th, 2021, is the starting day for Thailand to vigorously strike back the Coronavirus, with the Thai Government’s policy to vaccinate as many Thai people as possible across the country. Given that the Faculty of Medicine Siriraj Hospital, Mahidol University, is obliged to public well-being, we participate in the public vaccination program against the Covid-19 at two stations outside Siriraj’s compound, the ICONSIAM department store and the True Digital Park. Within just a few hours of the first day, Siriraj reached higher beyond the target in COVID-19 vaccination (+117% at ICONSIAM and +112% at TRUE Digital Park). Siriraj is still striving to set new records every day!

Siriraj Scholarship for ASEAN and Developing Countries

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Welcome! Dr. Carl Vinzon De La Bajan from Palawan Medical Mission Group, the Philippines, to undertake a short training program of Siriraj Scholarship for ASEAN and Developing Countries between June 7th – 30th, 2021 under the supervision of the faculties of the Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Faculty of Medicine Siriraj Hospital, Mahidol University.

Erasmus+: Gateway to European Scholarships

Under the campaign ‘Erasmus+: Gateway to European Scholarships and Capacity Building Projects’, virtual talks and discussions on Erasmus+ with a series of 6 topics will be held from June 16th, 2021 – August 25th, 2021.

For anyone who is interested in joining the information sessions, please complete your information in the registration form at https://bit.ly/3gcrI9Z. The Erasmus+ will share the Zoom meeting links to the information sessions, post-event evaluations, and updates on the Erasmus+ programme to your e-mail address.

For inquiries, please contact erasmusplusthailand@gmail.com.

NUS-Priority Research In Medical Education

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NUS-Priority Research In Medical Education (NUS-PRIME) serves as a monthly platform for staff involved in medical and health professions educational projects to:

  • Present their research findings to a wider community, including educators and researchers, and receive feedback on results interpretation and other matters
  • Share their research ideas/proposals and receive pedagogical as well as methodological advice to develop the project.

It is a monthly session, usually on the first Monday of each month from 12:30 pm – 1:30 pm (unless specified otherwise), with lunch provided between 12:00 pm – 12:30 pm. There are usually two presentations per session, each 30mins inclusive of 10mins Q&A.

For further information and registration, please visit NUS-PRIME

Banting Postdoctoral Fellowships Program 2021

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The Government of Canada recently announced the following opportunity which might interest postdoctoral fellows. The Banting Postdoctoral Fellowships Program’s 2021-2022 competition is now open to Canadian and international researchers who have recently completed a Ph.D., Ph.D.-equivalent, or health professional degree.

  • • Program name: Banting Postdoctoral Fellowships
    • Funding organization: Government of Canada
    • Target audiences: Canadian citizens, permanent residents of Canada, and foreign citizens
    • Duration: 2 years (non-renewable)
    • Value: CAD 70,000 per year
    • Number of fellowships: up to 70
    • Deadline: September 22th, 2021 (20:00 EDT)

For more information, please visit: https://banting.fellowships-bourses.gc.ca/en/home-accueil.html

Call for Application: 2021 Virtual Summer Course

Universitas Gadjah Mada. Indonesia would like to invite Mahidol University’s students to join in the 2021 Virtual Summer Course on Interprofessional Healthcare – Complementary Healthcare and Functional Food, which will be held on November 1st – 12th, 2021.

Universitas Gadjah Mada has routinely conducted a summer course on Interprofessional Health Care, involving multi-discipline participants such as medicine, dentistry, pharmacy, nutrition, nursing, etc. and due to the pandemic of COVID-19, this year UGM conducted the event fully online. Every year more than 50 students from varying disciplines have participated in this event.

Traditional communities have a dependence on various plants as a source of food, medicine, and for traditional ceremonies. Local knowledge about existing plants is developed based on experiences that have been tested over centuries and adapted to local cultural and environmental conditions. This knowledge is known as local wisdom.

Local wisdom is more than just a concept. This local wisdom is a powerful tool that has the potential to be used throughout Asia and the world in the world of Health, both in health services and in maintaining fitness. Some of the local wisdom practices in the world of health include the use of herbs as medicine to maintain fitness and also cure diseases, the use of various kinds of spices and healthy cooking methods to maintain health, massage for musculoskeletal disorders. Even some local wisdom practices have been scientifically proven to have benefits for health

The dominance of western medicine is one of the challenges in implementing local wisdom in the world of health. Today’s conventional medicine is very much oriented towards modern medicine. This is because the pattern of education in the health sector uses the basis of many western countries. In addition, scientific evidence that supports western medicine also strengthens the dominance of western medicine in the world of health. This has increasingly made future generations forget about their local wisdom, instead of pursuing and applying it in the health sector. Therefore, this summer course has the theme of local wisdom in healthcare and wellness to reintroduce local wisdom in the health sector to the younger generation. In this course, it will be conveyed about the implementation of local wisdom in the health sector in Indonesia and several other countries such as South Korea, Thailand, and China. Participants will also be invited to find out about regulations related to the implementation of local wisdom in the health sector, the challenges and opportunities that exist. After participating in this summer course, participants are expected to realize that in addition to local wisdom it has the potential to be implemented in the health sector

This activity seeks to support innovation and integration of interdisciplinary flagship programs in providing advocacy as well as implementation, knowledge provision related to the development of health service technology in the industrial revolution era 4.0. Hopefully, this program is able to open participants’ insights about various developments in digitizing health services, so that they are more responsive and adaptive and hold ethical health services

We welcome groups of students as well as individual students who will be made very welcome at this event. If the students are interested, please register at http://ugm.id/summercourse2021

The Launch Meeting of Lancet Commission on RMNCAH

The Launch Meeting of Lancet Commission on RMNCAH in China and ‘2021 International Forum on Maternal and Child Health’ will be held online during May 28th -29th, 2021. The meeting was co-organized by Peking University, Chinese Academy of Engineering, National Clinical Research Center for Obstetrical and Gynecological Diseases, Peking University Third Hospital National Office for Maternal and Child Health Surveillance, and The Lancet. Many top international experts from Peking University, National Health Commission, and Sichuan University, collaborating with many institutions and universities around the world, including Harvard University, Johns Hopkins University, University of Washington, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, University of Melbourne, Fudan University, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, National Health and Development Research Center, China Maternal and Child Health Association will attend the Launch Meeting to make an in-depth interpretation of the report and deliver a series of speeches on the theme of “A Century’s Journey of Maternal and Child Health: from Surviving to Thriving”. This meeting will discuss the achievements and future sustainable development path in the field of China’s maternal, child and adolescent health, and promote the global development of maternal and child health by strengthening exchanges and close cooperation between China and the rest of the world. China.org.cn will broadcast the launch meeting live online. Please scan the QR Code to get the website of this virtual event.

 

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