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; 6 years ago
Rector	Hla Win Myint
Administrative staff	269
Students	625
Undergraduates	625
Location	Taunggyi, Shan State, Myanmar; 20°45′16″N 97°03′44″E / 20.7545079665428°N 97.06212765305375°E
Campus	18.6 ha (46 acres)
Nickname	UMTGI
Affiliations	Ministry of Health and Sports
Website	umtgi.edu.mm

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The University of Medicine, Taunggyi (Burmese: ဆေးတက္ကသိုလ် (တောင်ကြီး), pronounced [sʰé tɛʔkəθò (tàʊɴdʑí)]) located in Taunggyi, Shan State is one of the 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[]

UMTGI Main Building

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
First M.B.,B.S.	1 year
Second M.B.,B.S.	1½year
Third M.B.,B.S.	1 year
Final M.B.,B.S. Part I	1 year
Final M.B.,B.S. Part II	1½year
House Surgeon	1 year
Total	7 years

First Year M.B.,B.S.[]

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

Second Year M.B.,B.S.[]

Hands-on practical exams are required in all subjects.

Third Year M.B.,B.S.[]

General Pathology
Microbiology
Pharmacology

Final year (Part 1)[]

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

Final year (Part 2)[]

House surgeon training[]

After passing the Final Year Part II 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 - Su Su Chit
Department of Zoology - Hla Hla Yee
Department of Anatomy - Khin Thanda
Department of Physiology - Phyu Phyu Khin
Department of Biochemistry - Moe Moe Khine
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 - Si Si Htun

Teaching hospitals[]

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References[]

[1] "မြန်မာနိုင်ငံ၏၅ခုမြောက် ဆေးတက္ကသိုလ်". moi.gov.mm.

[2] "တောင်ကြီးမြို့တွင်ကျင်းပသည့် မြန်မာနိုင်ငံ၏ ပဉ္စမမြောက်ဆေးတက္ကသိုလ်ဖွင့်ပွဲသို့ သမ္မတတက်ရောက်ဖွင့်လှစ်". 7Day Daily.

[president-office.gov.mm-3] "Taunggyi gets first ever university of Medicine". president-office.gov.mm.

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