University of Medicine, Taunggyi

University of Medicine, Taunggyi

ဆေးတက္ကသိုလ် (တောင်ကြီး)
Motto	ဥပဌာနံ အနုကမ္မာ ဒယာ (Pali: upaṭhānaṃ, anukammā, dayā)
Motto in English	Service, Sympathy, Humanity
Type	public
Established	3 October 2015; 9 years ago (2015-10-03)
Rector	Hla Win Myint[1]
Administrative staff	269
Students	625
Undergraduates	625
Location	Taunggyi, Shan State, Myanmar 20.7545079665428°N 97.06212765305375°E / 20.7545079665428; 97.06212765305375
Campus	18.6 ha (46 acres)
Nickname	UMTGI
Affiliations	Ministry of Health and Sports
Website	umtgi.edu.mm

The University of Medicine, Taunggyi (Burmese: ဆေးတက္ကသိုလ် (တောင်ကြီး)) located in Taunggyi, Shan State is one of the five universities of medicine in Myanmar. Founded in 2015, the university offers an M.B.,B.S. degree program.[2]

The university started its first enrollment in December 2015 and accepted 200 students from Shan State and Kayah State.[3]

Campus

University of Medicine, Taunggyi

The view of the lawn

Located about 3.4 km (2.1 mi) southeast of Taunggyi, the university consists of 22 buildings across a 18.6 ha (46-acre) campus. The main building is home to the departments for first year M.B., B.S. subjects (Burmese, English, Mathematics and Statistics, Chemistry, Physics, Botany, and Zoology). The main building is also home to the Department of Administration, Department of Finance & Accounting, Department of Student Affairs, Department of Foreign Relations, Department of Examination, Department of the Library, Department of Sports, Department of Computer Science and Department of Campus.

Undergraduate curriculum

The M.B., B.S. program lasts seven years.

Year	Duration
Foundation year	1 year
Medical year-1	1 year
Medical year-2	1 year
Medical year-3	1 year
Medical year-4	1 year
Medical year-5	1 year
House surgeon	1 year

Foundation Year

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

Hands-on practical exams are required in the latter four subjects.

Medical Year-1

1. Anatomy
2. Physiology
3. Biochemistry

Hands-on practical exams are required in all subjects.

Medical Year-2

1. General Pathology
2. Microbiology
3. Pharmacology

Medical Year-3

1. Forensic Medicine
2. Preventive and Social Medicine (includes three weeks of residential field training in rural areas)
3. Systemic Pathology and haematology

Medical Year-4

1. Child Health
2. Medicine
3. Obstetrics & Gynaecology
4. Surgery

Medical Year-5(Final year)

Student selected component (SSC)

House surgeon training

After passing the Final Year (Medical year-5) examination, students train for another year as house surgeons (residents) in one of the recognized teaching hospitals.

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

Department heads

• Department of Myanmar language - Nang Taung
• Department of English - Nang Kham Set
• Department of Mathematics - Mya Mya Min
• Department of Chemistry - Ohn Kyi
• Department of Physics - Mee Mee Cho
• Department of Botany - Than Than Aye
• Department of Zoology - Hla Hla Yee
• Department of Anatomy - Zaw Zaw Latt
• Department of Physiology - Thae Nu Htwe
• Department of Biochemistry - Sagawah phoo
• Department of Pathology - Cho Cho Myint
• Department of Microbiology - Tin Tin Myint
• Department of Pharmacology - Latt Latt Win
• Department of Preventive and Social Medicine Society - Cho Mar Kaung Myint
• Department of Forensic Medicine - Thaung Linn
• Department of Surgery - Tin Kyuu
• Department of Medicine - Aung Kyaw Thu

Teaching hospitals

1. Sao San Tun General Hospital, Taunggyi
2. Women's and Children's Hospital, Taunggyi[3]

See also

• List of universities in Myanmar
• Medical Universities (Myanmar)

References

1. "မြန်မာနိုင်ငံ၏၅ခုမြောက် ဆေးတက္ကသိုလ်". moi.gov.mm.
2. "တောင်ကြီးမြို့တွင်ကျင်းပသည့် မြန်မာနိုင်ငံ၏ ပဉ္စမမြောက်ဆေးတက္ကသိုလ်ဖွင့်ပွဲသို့ သမ္မတတက်ရောက်ဖွင့်လှစ်". 7Day Daily.
3. "Taunggyi gets first ever university of Medicine". president-office.gov.mm.