HCMC - The Government on Tuesday gave the go-ahead for Hoan My Medical Group to establish a private medical school in Vietnam, which will be the first private medical university in the country.
Hoan My Medical University, as the school is to be named, is expected to enroll students for its program in the fall of 2012 with the initial number of 100. The school will collaborate with some American medical schools in running 4-year curriculums.
Hoan My group, which currently operates several clinics of the same name, said the school will help students to do internships in American hospitals as well as support them to attend boarding-school programs or specialty-training programs stateside in the future.
The group said the school will cooperate with the Illinois medical school in Chicago, the Kansas medical school, and another medical school named Turfs, all in the United States.
To be enrolled in Hoan My Medical University, candidates must have obtained a bachelor’s degree in biology or equivalent. Besides, they must be fluent in English.
Hoan My group is preparing to kick off construction of the hospital-school complex on an area of six hectares in North-West Cu Chi urban area. It is calculated that the complex would be completed within five years.
While pending construction of the campus, students will study at the medical center of the group in downtown HCMC and practice in Saigon Hoan My Clinic at 60 Phan Xich Long Street in Phu Nhuan District. This hospital is to be inaugurated in the end of 2011.
Hoan My Group has not announced its investment capital in the hospital-school complex, but said the capital requirement for a hospital-model laboratory system, e-library and other auxiliary facilities alone will amount to some VND100 billion.
The group now operates two general hospitals, two medical clinic and a soon-opening hospital in HCMC alongside three hospitals in Can Tho, Ca Mau and Dalat.
By Dao Loan - The Saigon Times Daily
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