Hue University of Medicine and Pharmacy
By: Karin Forslund, International Student Coordinator, Education Support Office
During my last weeks in Hue I will be at one of Hue University’s member universities Hue University of Medicine and Pharmacy. The university was established in 1957, and today it consists of 7 faculties.
Hue Institute for Community Health Research (ICHR) is a research institute situated at the Faculty of Public Health, where I have been able to jobshadow staff and carry out interviews. The mission of ICHR is “to improve quality of scientific community health research, to apply research findings to the community healthcare practice, to provide training and technical support for improving research capability and evaluation of community health services among 5 provinces in Central and Highland area of Vietnam” (source). There is so much interesting collaboration and ongoing research projects at ICHR!
I was also invited to participate in the preparatory Master’s class in Biostatistics, a course held in English. 10 already graduated students were able to prepare possible research topics, which will be presented and defended at a “jury meeting” later this week. Today’s class was to prepare them for the “real” meeting, so together with the fellow students, I had to comment on their presentations and give feedback. The students who do the best both topicwise and with a well-prepared presentation will later be offered the possibility of participating in the two-year long Master’s programme, where part of the programme is spent in Hue and the other in Sassari, Italy. // Karin
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