Lao Medical university fails to meet standard
Medical university struggling to make the grade
The University of Health Sciences requires more qualified teachers, teaching and learning materials, and better practical training to bring students up to the required level.
University Vice President, Associate Professor Dr Sing Menorath, told Vientiane Times yesterday the university needs at least 100 teachers for about 4,000 students in seven faculties.
“The shortage of teachers affects the standard of teaching and learning for both students and teachers,” he said.
To address the shortage of instructors, the university will train more than 20 high achieving final year students to become teachers in the near future.
The university has about 300 teachers, including part-time instructors who also work at Mahosot, Mittaphab, Setthathirath and Mother and Child Health hospitals in Vientiane.
In addition to a lack of teachers, many of the existing staff have not updated their skills and knowledge recently and need to take courses to improve their teaching standards.
The university also needs more laboratories and practical learning areas for final year students.
While the number of students at the university continues to rise, the number of areas in hospitals where they can undertake internships has remained unchanged in recent years.
As a result the university has sent about 80 final year students for work experience at hospitals in Vientiane, Savannakhet, Luang Prabang and Champassak provinces.
Gaining practical work experience is an essential aspect of preparing final year medical and nursing students for entering the workforce and ensuring high quality doctors and nurses.
The university also needs more classrooms, modern teaching equipment, laboratories and seminar rooms.
By Xayxana Leukai
Vientianetimes
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Laos government should ask for help,send the student to learn in another country not Vietnam.
They sent students to Vietnam to learn?
They should ask western nations (Canada/USA)for help. Canada has all kind of charities and organizations; they can lend hand in this sort of problems. Just ask, and you'll get it.
That's definitely true. Laos, too much, sticking to the help of the brother, misses many opportunities available in the west. Apart from teaching and learning qualities, Lao educational institute, particularly Medical University, should take into consideration teaching and learning ethics which exist as a basic step toward the standard nome.
That's what U & I R thinking my man. From the Lao leaders, they R not thinking that way. Every aspect has to go thru Vietnam,no matter what.
Education, Economy, Military & Politic ,all of the above.....
If VN moves too slow, Lao has to move slow too, can't go pass them.
That is many of fact that affect the quality of teaching. By the mean time University of Health Sciences(UHS) still need more support for teaching and up grade the skill of teachers, especially basic science and basic pratice in the lab to upgrade skill of student. Right now, the university have many of student and otherhand we have small number of teacher and lecturer who qualified for teaching. I would be great if there are kindness proffesor from abroad provide the trainning for staff and teacher at the UHS. Also, teaching materials are needed for practice in the basic lab.
Accord with the report seem we have lot number of teacher, but in reallity we have only about 70 teachers who provide whole year lecture, but for the left are norminy teacher some of them have only 1 hourse a year for the UHS lecture, some never give lecture at UHS. The reason because, we don't have University hospital that is very diffecult for UHS in cooperate.
I hope that this blog will be read by many of interrested in improve the quality of Laos medical student, not just blame people in Laos and the sistem that we do.
We, staff from UHS welcome most of kindly proffessor who concern about Medical education in Lao to cooperated with.
Teacher from UHS
Explain a bit about situation in UHS
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I don't really understand laos to much all i know is Money is pass around from its own people to people. Money usually from overseas family (USA) does nothing but make them lazy.
My point, education in laos to succeed u you must go learn in vietnam. Also u need money to learn (I talk to 2 well educated people in laos, vientiane $4-6,000 yr good WTF). When I can finish school in 2yrs and make my $50k+ a year, my goal to make a business for poor lao people to work and DONATE MONEY for people that can't afford to go to school (whats that about $100-200 a semester?) Maybe I help a school in the future.