Hoc Mãi the Australia-Vietnam Medical Foundation 2017 Annual Report Cover Photo by Sarah Serhal Hoc Mãi Mission Statement

Hoc Mãi The Australia-Vietnam Medical Foundation 2017 Annual Report Cover Photo by Sarah Serhal Hoc Mãi Mission Statement Who we are Our mission What we do Established in 2001, Học Mãi The Australia- The Học Mãi Foundation will improve We facilitate: Vietnam Medical Foundation is a not-for- health in Viêt Nam through the ongoing • Education and ‘Train-the-Trainer’ profit foundation aiming to improve health education and leadership development of programs in Viêt Namese outcomes through education and research in health professionals through exchange and hospitals and universities Vietnam. It is a not-for-profit organisation in-country support. of the University of Sydney that brings • Delegations travelling to Viêt Our activities support bilateral exchange of together the collective healthcare knowledge Nam to teach clinical skills students and health professionals between and experience of Australia and Vietnam in and knowledge within various Australia and Vietnam. We facilitate the an educational partnership. The Foundation specialities in a number of development of knowledge of Vietnamese has a distinguished Patron, Professor The hospitals in Viêt Nam doctors, nurses and other healthcare Honourable Dame Marie Bashir, AD. CVO, • Young health professionals from workers to improve healthcare delivery former Governor of New South Wales. Viêt Nam to come to Australia for among Vietnamese people. Parallel to this, advanced training we develop a strong network of Australian medical, nursing, technical and allied health • Medical, nursing, and health staff, who voluntarily provide continuous science students from University How we work support in training our Vietnamese of Sydney to undertake clinical colleagues. Additionally, we build research placements in Viêt Nam capacity among Vietnamese health • Vietnamese medical and nursing practitioners with the aim of using research students to broaden their hospital In its early years, Học Mãi relied on to improve care and health outcomes. experience in Australia the goodwill of Australian healthcare We also provide practical assistance with • Students in the Masters of professionals to host and train their preventive, diagnostic and management International Public Health from Vietnamese colleagues and acted as problems in hospitals in Viêt Nam and the University of Sydney to facilitators for Vietnamese and Australian contribute towards improving research skills undertake their praxis in medical personnel and health professionals in Viêt Nam with the aim of using research Viêt Nam to gain experience and understanding of to improve care. issues in the developing world. The growth • Support for medical research of our initiatives moved from solely relying and training on grants and donations to support our programs, to sustainable partnerships that allow continuous student and staff exchange. Annual Report 2017 1 Chairman’s Report Professor Bruce Robinson projects which I have been lucky to listen to students supported by the Advanced Medical last November – their research outcomes are Education and Research program. impressive and of quality. Australian students also travelled to Vietnam Medical Curriculum Reform at the end of last year – with five medical From the work done in 2016, Associate students, eight nursing students, three allied Professor Kirsty Foster and Professor health profession students (physiotherapy and Jonathan Morris continued working with occupational therapy), and 6 international World Health Organization Vietnam public health students. Of these 23 students, Country Representative Office, the thirteen were funded by the Endeavour Asia Ministry of Health of Vietnam and Postgraduate Mobility Grant through the The work of Học Mãi Australia-Vietnam medical universities across Vietnam in the Office for Global Health (Sydney Medical Medical Foundation has always aimed development of their medical curriculum. School). Three nursing students received to go with the direction and pace of the Through support from a World Bank loan, support from Seashells Foundation (Sydney considerable development in Vietnam in the A/Prof Foster and Prof Morris provided Nursing School). more recent years. 2017 was no exception expert advice to revitalise medical curriculum The past year has been a year of with various successes in the different areas in the country. In November, A/Prof Foster achievements. I would like to congratulate of work of Học Mãi. was also invited to speak during the National Medical Education Conference hosted by our colleagues who have contributed to our Australia Awards Fellowship Hanoi Medical University. work with Vietnamese partners including Program in two priority areas Professor Liz Elliot who published her Clinical Observer Program of the foundation research on cerebral palsy in Vietnam Now on its third year, the self-/institution- Through the University of Sydney, two through the development of a hospital-based funded clinical observer program hosted Australia Awards Fellowships (AAF) surveillance system. We are also proud of Ms sixteen health practitioners across Vietnam. programs were delivered in 2017 – Nguyen Thi Kim Phuong from Da Nang Participants were from Cho Ray Hospital, Advanced Medical Education and Research Hospital for Women and Children for her Thu Duc Hospital, and Military Hospital for Vietnam led by Professor Kerry Goulston published research articles. She is currently 175 from Ho Chi Minh City; Military and Professor Kim Oates; and Medical working with Professor Ben Marais on her Hospital 103, and Military Hospital 108 Research Capacity Building in Vietnam PhD. And lastly, I would like to congratulate in Hanoi. All participants of the clinical through Intensive Experiential Learning Trinh Quynh Mai for completing her PhD. observer program prepared return-to-work led by Associate Professor Kirsty Foster and Mai will return to work at the National project which they will implement in their Professor Jonathan Morris. Institute of Hygiene and Epidemiology in respective departments in the hospital. early 2018. The Advanced Medical Education In 2017, participants from Military Hospital and Research for Vietnam program In 2018, Học Mãi will be celebrating the 20th 175 also attended a 3-week introductory complemented the Medical English and year of collaboration of Sydney Medical research program where they worked on Immersion programs led and organised School with Hanoi Medical University. We specific research projects from their areas of by Học Mãi Deputy Chair Emeritus are excited for the continuous collaboration work in the hospital. The eight participants Professor Kerry Goulston. Fifteen of the with HMU and our continuously growing worked with A/Prof Foster, Dr Sean 19 participants in this year’s program partnerships across Vietnam. Seeho, Dr Jo Lander, A/Prof Jacqueline were funded by the Department of Foreign Bloomfield (Sydney Nursing School) and On behalf of Học Mãi Foundation, I would Affairs and Trade’s AAF and were in Sydney other colleagues from the University of like to extend our deep gratitude to everyone from 26 June until 14th of July 2017. The Sydney. Military Hospital 175 has been an who worked with us along the years. Thank course comprised of two weeks of tutorials active partner of Học Mãi and USyd in the you and congratulations to all our partners and one week of clinical observation. Apart development of capacities of their staff. from across Vietnam for the tireless work from the fellowship program, a second that you do to improve the health and health immersion program was organised in 9-27 Student Mobility outcomes of Vietnam and the people. I also October 2017 where we hosted 12 doctors, We met the 12 Vietnamese medical students would like to thank our volunteers - from the a nurse, 2 ophthalmologists, a radiologist, who were in Sydney last August. We are University of Sydney - including its clinical and a GP practitioner. impressed by the enthusiasm and optimism of schools and affiliated centres and institutes, the medical students who came from Hanoi, Through the building research capacity as well as colleagues from hospitals across Ho Chi Minh City, as well as from Hue. We program, the Medical Research Capacity New South Wales. I would like to extend our are continuously grateful for the donations, Building in Vietnam through Intensive gratitude to members of the foundation’s specifically to The Recny Stoke Family Experiential Learning brought 14 council and management committee, old Foundation who has kindly given a sum of Vietnamese researchers to Sydney for a and new, who have tirelessly devoted time donation towards support for Vietnamese 6-week intensive research program. Led and effort in giving direction to the affairs medical students to come to Australia for by Associate Professor Kirsty Foster and of the foundation. To the donors of the their 4 weeks of elective program. We would Professor Jonathan Morris, the researchers Học Mãi Foundation, we thank you for your like to thank Northern Clinical School and worked with Sydney-based clinical continuous generosity and for helping us Concord Clinical School and the supervisors researchers in specific areas of research achieve our aims of bringing about longer of the Vietnamese students for imparting specialisation. The Vietnamese fellows term health outcomes in Vietnam. We of your knowledge and skills to our visiting developed research protocols that they course are grateful for the collaboration and students. Four nursing students from HMUs implemented

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