Thailand comes to Salford to improve country’s nursing education
Friday 7 July 2017
A GROUP of directors from Thailand’s nursing colleges are visiting the University of Salford to help improve the country’s education system.
The 16 public
health directors, representing regional colleges from across the South East
Asian country, are spending nine days at the University to develop ideas about
improving teaching methods, boosting the quality of graduates and reforming
primary healthcare.
Members of the
delegation will be given tours of teaching facilities such as the University’s
state of the art nursing simulation suite, which features rooms built to look
exactly like hospital wards, containing high tech electronic manikins operated
by technicians, enabling students to respond to a wide range of medical
scenarios.
They will also
be visiting the University’s MediaCityUK campus to find out about how digital
media is being used to teach nurses and midwives.
The Thais will
also visit Salford Royal and Manchester Royal Infirmary, learn about the Devo
Manc agenda to integrate health and social care across Greater Manchester, and
find out how the University of Salford works with the NHS to make sure its nursing
and public health education adapts in response to changes in the health sector.
The directors
are from the Praboromarachanok Institute, part of Thailand’s Ministry of Public
Health, which runs dozens of public colleges across the country taking in 5,000
students each year, along with nearly 100 hospitals and nearly 10,000 smaller
health centres.
The visit is
taking place after Margaret Rowe, Dean of the University’s school of Nursing,
Midwifery, Social Work and Social Science, met senior members of the Ministry
during a recent University visit to South East Asia.
Brian Boag,
Associate Dean of the School, said: “The University of Salford is one of the
largest trainers of nurses, midwives and allied health professionals in the
North West and we are at the heart of the Devo Manc agenda. We also, as this
visit demonstrates, also have an excellent international reputation with many
important connections across the world.
“This visit is
a great opportunity for us not only to explain the innovative work we do here
and pass on our expertise, but for Salford to become a model which is adopted
across one of South East Asia’s most important countries.”
Dr Saengchom
Tanomsingh, from the Thai institute, said: “We’re looking at how to develop our
teaching and improve the quality of our students, and we’re hoping to improve
our leadership development and the way we share knowledge and experience
between different institutions.
“Also it’s good
to see the primary care system in the UK so when we get back we will have some
suggestions about how we can reform our own system.”
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