Ho Chi Minh City Medicine and Pharmacy University

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University of Medicine and Pharmacy at Ho Chi Minh City

Đại học Y Dược Thành phố Hồ Chí Minh
Type	Public
Established	1947
Rector	A. Prof. Trần Diệp Tuấn MD, Ph.D[1]
Location	Ho Chi Minh City ,  Vietnam
Website	yds.edu.vn ump.edu.vn

University of Medicine and Pharmacy at Ho Chi Minh City is one of the most highly ranked universities of medicine and pharmacy in Vietnam. It offers graduate and postgraduate education in medicine, pharmacy. The university has seven faculties and one hospital:

• Faculty of Fundamental Sciences
• Faculty of Medicine
• Faculty of Pharmacy
• Faculty of Traditional Medicine
• Faculty of Public Health
• Faculty of Nursing and Medical Technology
• Faculty of Odonto-Stomatology
• University Medical Center

History[]

Originally, University of Medicine and Pharmacy at Ho Chi Minh City was a medical school that belonged to the University of Saigon, which was founded in 1947 by French colonists in the period of French Indochina. Professor C. Massias was the principal. It was at 28 Testard/Tran Quy Cap Street, District 3, Ho Chi Minh City (Vo Van Tan Street today). On 31 August 1961, under the authority of the government of the Republic of Vietnam the school was split into two: and . In 1964 was founded from a division of the medical school.

In 1976 after the Vietnam War, the three schools were merged with a new name — Ho Chi Minh City University of Medicine and Pharmacy — by an authority from the Communist Party of Vietnam. The first head office had two floors for offices, library, meeting room for lectures, and three side-by-side houses for studying.

The practice areas for fundamental sciences and basic medicine were around Ho Chi Minh City such as Pasteur Institute (used to learn about parasitic, micro-organism), Human Body Institute (for anatomy), Saigon Hospital (for chemistry). The Installation of Human Body Institute was used to learn about histology, physiology, illness, anatomy. Students of Medicine and Pharmacy studied at the main installation until 1961. The Faculty of Pharmacy was moved to Nam Ki Khoi Nghia Street.

November 16, 1966 the school was moved to Medicine Learning Center (Hong Bang Street, District 5) with well-equipped system, facility and students of Medicine and Dentistry have studied here up to date. It has the Main auditorium for 500 seats, three auditoriums with 300 seats each, library and labs.

On 27 October 1976, the government re-organised schools in Saigon University Institute. There were eight schools left including Collective University, Institute of Technology, University of Technical Education of Ho Chi Minh City, University of Medicine and Pharmacy at Ho Chi Minh City, University of Economics, University of Architecture, University of Agriculture, University of Pedagogy. Although the new name does not reflect a fact that the dental school is a branch of the university system, it has been officially used until today.

In 1990, there was a decision from the school and Ministry of Health to build four more faculties and one hospital:

• 1994: Faculty of Fundamental Sciences
• 1998: Faculty of Traditional Medicine and Medicine Technique and Convalescent Faculty
• 1999: Faculty of Public Health
• 2000: The university hospital

Managing board[]

• Chairman: Associate Professor Trần Diệp Tuấn MD, Ph.D.
• Vice Rector, President of the University Medical Center: Associate Professor Nguyễn Hoàng Bắc MD, Ph.D

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• Official website

Coordinates: 10°45′20″N 106°39′46″E / 10.7556°N 106.6629°E / 10.7556; 106.6629