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词条 University of Community Health, Magway
释义

  1. History

  2. Academic departments

  3. Curriculum

     First year  Coursework with assignment  Coursework with or without assignment  Second year  Coursework with assignment  Coursework without assignment  Third year  Coursework with assignment  Coursework without assignment  Fourth year  Coursework with assignment  Affiliated teaching hospitals  Graduate Program 

  4. See also

  5. References

  6. External links

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Magway Division, Myanmar
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The University of Community Health, Magway (UCH) ({{lang-my|ကျန်းမာရေး တက္ကသိုလ် (မကွေး)}}, {{IPA-my|tɕáɴmàjé tɛʔkəθò (məɡwé)|pron}}) is a public health university under the Ministry of Health and Sports (Myanmar), and located in Magway, Myanmar. The university offers a four-year Bachelor of Community Health (B.Comm.H) degree program. They have to study how to do public health but they must take clinical subjects for rural population whom can't get primary health care. Formally, the graduates are allowed to practice as Health Assistants (HA) in Department of Public Health of Myanmar, many of whom are the main providers of primary health care in rural Myanmar where access to regular physicians is difficult.

First established as Health Assistant’s school in Yangon in 1951. Health Assistant’s school and Aung San Health Demonstration Unit (Field Department) were combined and emerged as School of Health Science for Basic Health Workers in December 1991 Upgraded to University of Community Health in 1996. Moved to Magway in 2000. Field Department was also moved to Tawsaint village, Salin Township in 2006.

Nowaday, most of the alumni are work in various department and areas such as NGOs, INGOs, UN, Department of Food and Drug Administration and Department of Public Health of Myanmar Government.

History

With the guidance and national health policy of U Nu's Government the Health Assistant Training School was established in 1951 in Yangon to provide health care to rural population where access to regular medical doctors are difficult. The main objective of that training school is to produce the health assistant within a short time (three years) while the medical doctors were trained for six year. Later, The school was moved a few kilometers north to Insein in 1963, and then to Hlegu in 1968. In 1989, the school came under the purview of the Ministry of Health. The school became the Institute of Community Health in 1991, and became a university in 1995 and began offering a four-year bachelor's degree program.The objective of the university of community health is also change and wide scope. In 1999, the military government moved the school out of Yangon Division to Upper Myanmar. UCH is located on a 41.4-hectare campus at Htonpauk, about 14.5 km north of Magway, and 3.2 km off the Magway-Natmauk Road.[1]

University of Community Health, Magway regularly accepts approximately 150 students (Male: Female = 70:30) who passed the matriculation examination. The required score for selection is approximately 450 for males and 470 for females.

Academic departments

  • Department of Biomedical Science
  • Department of Clinical Medicine
  • Department of Disease Control/Epidemiology
  • Department of Health Promotion/Health Education and Communication
  • Department of Environmental Health
  • Department of Community Health
  • Department of Educational Technology
  • Department of Myanmar
  • Department of English
  • Department of Botany
  • Department of Zoology
  • Department of Physics
  • Department of Chemistry
  • Department of Field Research (Salin Township, Taw Saint village)

Curriculum

Each school year lasts ten months from January to October. Students are required to take written, practical, field trip and oral exams at the end of each year.

First year

First year students are required to interact with the community by meeting the patients from nearby villages.

Coursework with assignment

  • Biomedical Science I
    1. Zoology
    2. Botany
    3. Biomedical Science II
    4. Chemistry
    5. Physics
    6. Communication science
    7. Burmese
    8. English
    9. Primary Medical Care
    10. Myanmar Traditional Medicine
    11. First Aid

Coursework with or without assignment

  • Total Person and Professional Development Program (TPPD)
  • Family Medicine
  • Structure and Function of Human Body/Human Anatomy and Physiology
  • Basic Computer Science

Second year

Coursework with assignment

  • Structure and Function of Human Body/Human Anatomy and Physiology
  • Vital Statistics
  • General Pathology and Pharmacology
  • Epidemiology

Coursework without assignment

  • Health Education

Third year

Third year students are required to make field trips to nearby villages and provide seminars on such health education topics as the natural history of diseases, environmental sanitation, the dangers of smoking/alcohol, rodent control, disaster management and global warming, etc. The seminars are organized by the departments of Health Education, Community Health and Environmental Health. The students then visit a local Rural Health Center (RHC) to learn the operations of an RHC.

Coursework with assignment

  • Disease Control
  • Health Education
  • Environmental Health
  • Educational Technology

Coursework without assignment

  • Medicine
  • Surgery
  • Community Health
  • Research Methodology

Fourth year

  • Fourth year students need to make research for protocol. For this we had to go to Rural Health Center, under Magway Region (from October to November).

Coursework with assignment

  • Community Health I
  • Community Health II Research Methodology
  • Medicine
  • Surgery
  • Research

Affiliated teaching hospitals

Students are required to study bedside lecture at the following UCH affiliated hospitals in the region for three months(May–July).

  • Pakokku General Hospital
  • Nyaung U General Hospital
  • Meiktila General Hospital
  • Field Trip (8 weeks) to rural health center (RHC) for research paper

Graduate Program

The university offers a range of Master of Community Health (M.Comm.H.) degree program in 2017.

See also

  • University of Public Health, Yangon
  • Ministry of Health

References

1. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.mrtv3.net.mm/open6/061009for.html|title=Community Health University (Magway): Source of proficient health assistants|work=mrtv3.net.mm|accessdate=2009-10-27}}

External links

  • [https://web.archive.org/web/20100201003017/http://extranet.who.int/hinari/en/browse_institutions.php?cntry=76 List of Universities registered under WHO]
  • http://www.uch.gov.mm
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