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HPET Project Makes Significant Gains in Vietnam
Building on BU GHC’s affiliated training programs with Vietnamese institutions and the resulting 1000+ first degree Family Medicine specialist physicians, additional thousands of FM-trained undergraduate medical students, and hundreds of 3-month short-course general and subspecialist physicians trained in FM, the World Bank has reported a breakthrough in scale-up of training numbers through the Health Professions […]
WONCA President Meets BU GHC Partners in Vietnam
On his recent trip to Vietnam, WONCA President Michael Kidd met with the Vietnam Association of Family Physicians as well as the members of our BU GHC team, who are leaders from Vietnam’s academic departments. They include Nguyen Minh Tam from Hue University of Medicine & Pharmacy, Nguyen Phuong Hoa from Hanoi Medical University, and Pham Le […]
Student to Present at Conference on Medical Student Education in Cambodia
Madeline Haas, a third year medical student at Albany Medical College in New York, traveled in the summer of 2014 to teach fellow medical students in Cambodia as part of our Family Medicine program there. Haas will be presenting her poster, Peer-assisted clinical skills instruction at Cambodia University of Health Sciences, at the Society of Teachers in […]
FMSTP Becomes Accredited as the First Post-Graduate Medical Training Program In Lesotho
After Lesotho’s Council on Higher Education (CHE) thoroughly reviewed the Lesotho Boston Health Alliance (LeBoHA) Family Medicine Specialty Training Programme (FMSTP), the CHE announced that the program has been granted full accreditation. The news of full accreditation was officially announced on January 18 after the CHE issued the report on their findings in September of last […]
Vietnam’s Ministry of Health Recognizes BUSM for Building Capacity in Hospital Nutrition
Former GHC Deputy Director Liz Henry and Dr. Carine Lenders were recognized for their work in Vietnam on hospital nutrition. Read the whole story here.
Article published on teaching students in Cambodia
Madeline Haas, a third year medical student at Albany Medical College in New York, traveled in the summer of 2014 to teach fellow medical students in Cambodia as part of our Family Medicine program there. Her article recounting her experiences was recently published in Family Doctor: A Journal of the New York State Academy of Family Physicians and […]
Bach Mai Hospital opens the first Clinical Nutrition Center of Vietnam.
On the 9th of September, Bach Mai Hospital opened the first Clinical Nutrition Center of Vietnam. This center will meet the nutrition demands of patients. The Clinical Nutrition Center of Bach Mai hospital is established from the Nutrition Department of the hospital. This is an activity under the project “Partnerships to improve clinical nutrition” of […]
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The Collaborative and Partners Inaugurate the Abbott Fund Institute of Nutrition Science at Bach Mai Hospital, Vietnam
Hanoi, Vietnam — The Abbott Fund, the philanthropic arm of the global health care company Abbott, and the Boston University Family Health Global Health Collaborative (formerly known as the Global Health Primary Care Initiative at the Boston University School of Medicine) joined Bach Mai Hospital, the National Institute of Nutrition (NIN) and Hanoi Medical University today […]