University of Medicine, Magway

University of Medicine, Magway
ဆေး တက္ကသိုလ် (မကွေး)
Motto ဥပဌာနံ အနုကမ္မာ ဒယာ
Established 2001
Type Public
Rector Prof. Dr. Win Myat Aye
Students about 2000-4000 (2009-2010)[1]
Location Magway, Magway Region, Myanmar
Affiliations Ministry of Health
Website www.ummg.edu.mm

The University of Medicine, Magway (Burmese: ဆေး တက္ကသိုလ် (မကွေး), pronounced [sʰé tɛʔkəθò (məɡwé)]) located in Magway, is one of five universities of medicine in Myanmar. The university offers an M.B.,B.S. degree program,[2] and master's degree programs in medical science. The Ministry of Health-administered university is one of the most selective in the country, and accepts each year approximately 600 undergraduate students outside of Yangon Region and Mandalay Region based on their college matriculation exam scores. As it is the only university of medicine in the country that accepts students from the rest of the country, the university is reputed to have the most economically, culturally and ethnically diverse student population among all Burmese universities of medicine.

Contents

Undergraduate curriculum

First Year M.B.,B.S.

  1. Burmese
  2. English
  3. Mathematics & statistics
  4. Physics
  5. Chemistry
  6. Botany
  7. Zoology

Second Year M.B.,B.S.

  1. Anatomy
  2. Biochemistry
  3. Physiology

Third Year M.B.,B.S.

  1. Pathology (General)
  2. Microbiology
  3. Pharmacology

Students are also posted for 18 weeks each to the medical and surgical wards for clinical training.

Final Part One M.B.,B.S.

  1. Pathology (Systemic)
  2. Preventive and Social Medicine
  3. Forensic Medicine

Final Part Two M.B.,B.S.

  1. Medicine
  2. Surgery
  3. Obstetrics & Gynaecology
  4. Pediatrics

Internship

  1. Medical Ward
  2. Surgery Ward (Including Orthopedic and Operation Theater)
  3. O and G Ward
  4. Pediatric Ward
  5. Field Research Department

All the government hospitals in Myanmar which have at least 4 specialties centers can be regarded as a field place for interns.

House officer training

All students, after a successful completion of Final Part II examination, are required to continue with hands-on training for a period of one year as house surgeons in state-recognized teaching hospitals in Yangon and/ r the State and Division Hospitals.[3] Training periods are:

Subject Duration
Child Health 2 ½ months
Community Medicine 2 weeks
Medicine (including Psychiatry) 3 months
Obstetrics & Gynaecology 3 months
Surgery(including Traumatology) 3 months

House Officers must take their training in one of the teaching hospitals in the following cities:

  1. Magway မေကြး
  2. Monywa မံုရြာ
  3. Mawlamyine ေမာ္လျမိဳင္
  4. Taunggyi ေတာင္ၾကီး
  5. Lashio လားရိွုး
  6. Kyaingtong က်ိဳင္းတံု
  7. Myitkyina ျမစ္ၾကီးနား
  8. Pha An ဘားအံ
  9. Dawei ထား၀ယ္
  10. Beik ျမိတ္
  11. Pathein ပုသိမ္
  12. Ma Eu Pin မအူပင္
  13. Pyay ျပည္
  14. Taungoo ေတာင္ငူ
  15. Sittwe စစ္ေတြ
  16. Meiktila မိတၳီလာ
  17. Pakokku ပခုကၠဴ
  18. Naypyitaw ေနျပည္ေတာ္

Core contents

Graduate curriculum

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Teaching hospitals

  1. Magway Divisional Hospital
  2. Minbu District Teaching Hospital
  3. University Teaching Hospital (New)

See also

References

  1. ^ "Enrollment at Institutes of Higher Education". Myanmar Central Statistical Organization. http://www.etrademyanmar.com/STATS/s1705.htm. Retrieved 2009-04-09. 
  2. ^ "Health Statistics". Ministry of Health, Myanmar. http://www.moh.gov.mm/file/Health%20Statistics.pdf. Retrieved 2008-11-29. 
  3. ^ http://universityofmedicine1yangon.wordpress.com/2009/04/18/first-year/

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