Together with the Editor of the Medical Education journal, NUS is pleased to announce the NUS-PRIME Special Edition series.

Register for the first session on February 22 here

For those interested to submit an abstract of their work and receiving advice from the journal editors (if shortlisted), kindly do so here

During October 21^st – 22^nd, 2021, the founding members of the China-ASEAN University Consortium on Medicine and Health: ASEAN-China Centre, Peking University Health Science Center, and Faculty of Medicine Siriraj Hospital, Mahidol University, co-hosted the international conference “2021 China-ASEAN Conference on Partnership in Medicine and Health”. The panel includes the annual meeting of the alliance, the council, and three sub-forums: “Prevention and Control Technology and Policy of Emerging Infectious Diseases”, “Critical Care Technology of Emerging Infectious Diseases”, and “Epidemic Information Analysis and Prevention and Control Strategy”. On this two-day event, Prof. Prasit Watanapa, Dean of Faculty of Medicine Siriraj Hospital, Mahidol University, along with his administrative team members: Prof. Thawatchai Akaraviputh, Deputy Dean for Administration, Assoc. Prof. Prapat Wanitpongpan, Deputy Dean for International Relations, and two Assistant Dean for International Relations: Assoc. Prof. Sith Sathornsumetee, and Asst. Prof. Warut Pongsapich attended the conference on behalf of the Faculty of Medicine Siriraj Hospital, Mahidol University.

The China-ASEAN Conference on Partnership on Medicine and Health is a high-level exchange and cooperation platform for China-ASEAN medical schools, which will help improve the “regional joint prevention and control the health emergency response capacity”, “promote the construction of regional infectious disease treatment network and cooperation mechanism”, and “promote regional joint prevention and control cooperation of infectious diseases”. It will also inject new vitality into the cooperation between China and ASEAN in the field of health.

Between September 3^rd  – 4^th, 2021, the International University, Cambodia hosted the “10^th ASEAN Medical Deans’ Summit” via the zoom platform due to the heavy pandemic of the COVID-19. The details of the Summit are shown as follows:

On September 3rd, 2021, the ASEAN Medical Deans’ Summit Day 1 start with an opening remark by the President of ASEAN Medical School Network, Prof. Chong Yap Seng, Dean of NUS Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, Singapore, and the discussions on 4 themes: “Protection of IP for Online Materials”, “Social Media Navigation/Fake News from Educators’ Perspective”, “Volunteerism Practices Being Adapted in Response to Pandemic”, and “Student Mobility”.

On September 4^th, 2021, start with the China-ASEAN Medical Deans’ Summit Day 2, the discussions are on the themes: “Continual Training of Medical Students in the Midst of COVID Measures”, “COVID Research That Each Institution Has Developed”.

The next session is the ASEAN Medical Schools Network Board Meeting, and the discussions continued on 7 agendas as follows:
Agenda 1: ASEAN Medical School Network Webinar Series
Agenda 2: Global Classroom Initiative
Agenda 3: ASEAN Medical School Network Research Collaborative Funds Initiative
Agenda 4: ASEAN Medical Deans’ Summit 2022
Agenda 5: Nomination of the ASEAN Medical School Network President-Elect
Agenda 6: New member nomination
Agenda 7: ASEAN Medical Students Dialogue Brainstorming: Benefit and challenges of an ASEAN Medical School Network Student Chapter:
– Brainstorming: The future of student collaboration in ASEAN
– Present to ASEAN Medical School Network Board Meeting

The ASEAN Medical Schools Network (AMSN) has operated its online lecture series called “Global Classroom” through the website of CenMED Scholar – A Learning Content Management System empowered by the Centre of Medical Education, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore.

The Faculty of Medicine Siriraj Hospital, Mahidol University, as a founding member of the ASEAN Medical Schools Network, also joined this “Global Classroom” program by providing 7 online lecture classes (more classes will be available soon) through CenMED Scholar – A Learning Content Management System. If anyone interest to take these online classes, please follow our instructions as follows:

How to enroll in CenMED Scholar Courses?

All courses offered by CenMED will have to be registered online.

If you are a new user, you will have to register for a new account.

If you have an existing account, you may log in to this system and choose your desired courses.

After you successfully finished the register and login, please select “Global Classroom Initiative” and select “Faculty of Medicine Siriraj Hospital, Mahidol University” on the Courses menu. Please note that each Faculty of Medicine Siriraj Hospital’s class needs an individual “access code” before starting your learning; please e-mail to irsiriraj@gmail.com for your access code.

* Important: Each “access code” only authorizes for “single account” to attend “1 specific class”! If you need to attend another “class”, you need another “access code”!

The Medical Grand Challenge (MGC), which was launched in 2016 by the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, is a student-led medical innovation program. It encourages medical students to identify unmet healthcare needs and to work collaboratively with students from other faculties to form interdisciplinary teams to explore creative and out-of-the-box solutions to meet these needs. It is an out-of-classroom experiential learning experience which could be transformational. The team projects will be evaluated and scored for business strategy, creativity, design quality, and health-care impact by a VIP panel of judges.

Join the Medical Grand Challenge (MGC) Finale 2021 via Zoom Webinar:

Register here by August 1^st, 2021.