Faculty of Medicine Ramathibodi Hospital, Mahidol University
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The Faculty of Medicine Ramathibodi Hospital ( = Ramathibodi Hospital Faculty of Medicine, if grammatically directly translated), commonly called Rama, of Mahidol University
is one of the most famous medical schools in Thailand
and Southeast Asia. Although it is not very old, Ramathibodi Hospital Faculty of Medicine has such a high reputation and potential in medical care. It includes a university hospital (Ramathibodi Hospital
), 2 medical centers, a medical school, and a nursing school. Ramathibodi Hospital Faculty of Medicine is generally known as one of the most high-technology healthcare institute in Thailand. It is equipped with CyberKnife
, 320-slice CT scanner, 3-Tesla MRI scanner, PET-CT scanner, and many mores. Rama is the medical school focused on American style study due to the help of Rockefeller Foundation
during its founding period. Thus Rama medical students are often assertive, and make rational debate. That makes Ramathibodi medical students different from others.
To provide high quality of medical care with modern facilities and technology to the public.
To be the research center for medical innovations and public healthcare services.
graciously conferred upon the name of this new medical school “Ramathibodi” and laid the foundation stone for the building on December 30, 1965. Four years later, the King came to open the new faculty on May 3, 1969. Apart from the government’s fund, the Faculty was financially and academically supported by the Rockefeller Foundation
from the United States of America. Since then the Faculty of Medicine Ramathibodi Hospital has been fully equipped and has provided medical education and services as well as research facilities to the public.
The Faculty of Medicine Ramathibodi Hospital has three principal buildings to serve more than 5,000 out-patients per day. The main building, Building 1, provides more than 1,000 beds for the tertiary care of complicated and severely ill patients in various specializing departments and units. The second building, Sirikit Building, hosts Queen Sirikit Medical Center (QSMC), serving as a center for advanced projects and centers, e.g., bone marrow transplantation project, Advanced Diagnostic Imaging and Imaging-guided Minimal Invasive Therapy Center (AIMC), and Cardiovascular and Metabolic Center (CVMC). It also houses modern operating rooms and intensive care units.
A new large building at the intersection corner of Rajavitee road and Rama 6 road, Somdech Phra Debaratana Building (royally opened by Somdech Phra Debaratana on August 14, 2011) serves as the most excellent service complex for thousands of out-patients of all types of healthcare coverages per day. The building houses Somdech Phra Debaratana Medical Center (SDMC) hosting well-equipped facilities to perform high standards of healthcare in the Southeast Asian region. It provides 350 beds, 16 operating rooms, 14 Intensive Care Units, and comprehensive state-of-the-art service centers such as Stem Cell Transplantation Center, Minimal Invasive Endoscopic Surgery Center, Elderly Care Unit Center, Child Development Center, and Complicated Diseases Services by specialized doctors.
One of the Logos of the Ramathibodi Hospital Faculty of Medicine is the shape of ร (called ror-reu).
's birthday. The project approximately costs 6 billion Baht.
Details
1. The Faculty of Medicine Ramathibodi Hospital has provided medical support, education and research for more than 40 years, and it has a potential to develop and succeed its challenging mission. Dramatically, the numbers of patients and students have increased, but there are so many restrictions such as limited space, learning-teaching resource shortage, dormitory and space for various activities deficiency. Most importantly, there is no space for primary and secondary care practicing and teaching.
2. With the supports of the Royal Office of His Majesty's Principal Private Secretary in Samut Prakan province, the Faculty of Medicine had an opportunity to have an additional medical campus in Samut Prakan province. Actually, in Samut Prakan province and the eastern part of Thailand which have very big metropolitan and industry area, people are living densely with environmental and occupational health problems. However, there is no excellent medical center in the area. There are only primary care units and medium-sized hospitals which may not be able to adequately serve them. Thus the Faculty of Medicine Ramathibodi Hospital has offered a campaign to found a hospital in this area, which is still associated with main Ramathibodi Hospital for higher patient care quality.
3. The project is located in a 291-1-63-Rai Raja Patsadu area at 119 Soi Sukapibal, Bangplee, Samut Prakan province to fulfill the following objectives and missions:
3.1 To the Faculty of Medicine (education mission). There are adequate facilities for teaching medical students, nursing students, graduate students, communication disorder science students, and other related field students. Thus the faculty can produce more students to meet the needs of the country.
3.2 To host a 400-bed hospital with very high health care and public health standards. It will provide medical care for patients at all levels from primary, secondary, and tertiary, including health promotion, rehabilitation, and preventive medicine, occupational health rehabilitation for older patients, and end-stage patients. Moreover, the education and research in family medicine will be emphasized.
3.3 To be a model for a patient-centered treatment focused on network settings. The faculty will promote and teach about the collaboration among hospitals, public health district, as well as private hospitals in serving patients. Knowledge transferring in order to enhance the health of people in the East region will be accentuated. This will be a model for maintaining the complete health care for Thai people.
3.4 To be the centers of medical education, continuing medical education, and medical consultation for general public (consisting of medical centers and the network of medical services, as well as the centers of excellence in education and research). Finally, It will be a learning, living, and park community complex model.
4. Total project duration: 5 years (year 2011 to 2015).
Mahidol University
Mahidol University is a public research university in Bangkok, Thailand. Established back in 1888 as School of Medical Practitioners, Siriraj Hospital and reorganized in 1943 as University of Medical Sciences . The university originally focused on Health Sciences but also expanded to other...
is one of the most famous medical schools in Thailand
Thailand
Thailand , officially the Kingdom of Thailand , formerly known as Siam , is a country located at the centre of the Indochina peninsula and Southeast Asia. It is bordered to the north by Burma and Laos, to the east by Laos and Cambodia, to the south by the Gulf of Thailand and Malaysia, and to the...
and Southeast Asia. Although it is not very old, Ramathibodi Hospital Faculty of Medicine has such a high reputation and potential in medical care. It includes a university hospital (Ramathibodi Hospital
Ramathibodi Hospital
Ramathibodi Hospital is a university hospital of the ' or Ramathibodi Hospital Faculty of Medicine which is a faculty within Mahidol University and the fourth oldest medical school in Thailand...
), 2 medical centers, a medical school, and a nursing school. Ramathibodi Hospital Faculty of Medicine is generally known as one of the most high-technology healthcare institute in Thailand. It is equipped with CyberKnife
Cyberknife
The CyberKnife is a frameless robotic radiosurgery system used for treating benign tumors, malignant tumors and other medical conditions. The system was invented by John R. Adler, a Stanford University Professor of Neurosurgery and Radiation Oncology, and Peter and Russell Schonberg of Schonberg...
, 320-slice CT scanner, 3-Tesla MRI scanner, PET-CT scanner, and many mores. Rama is the medical school focused on American style study due to the help of Rockefeller Foundation
Rockefeller Foundation
The Rockefeller Foundation is a prominent philanthropic organization and private foundation based at 420 Fifth Avenue, New York City. The preeminent institution established by the six-generation Rockefeller family, it was founded by John D. Rockefeller , along with his son John D. Rockefeller, Jr...
during its founding period. Thus Rama medical students are often assertive, and make rational debate. That makes Ramathibodi medical students different from others.
Mission
To educate and generate medical graduates and specialists to meet high international standards.To provide high quality of medical care with modern facilities and technology to the public.
To be the research center for medical innovations and public healthcare services.
History
Following the Second National Economic and Social Development Plan (1964–1966), the Thai government aimed to increase the number of doctors and nurses in order to meet the needs of the country. In August 1964, the government cabinet approved the plan of setting up a new medical school which would be located around the Phyathai area, opposite the Ministry of Industry. HM King Bhumibol AdulyadejBhumibol Adulyadej
Bhumibol Adulyadej is the current King of Thailand. He is known as Rama IX...
graciously conferred upon the name of this new medical school “Ramathibodi” and laid the foundation stone for the building on December 30, 1965. Four years later, the King came to open the new faculty on May 3, 1969. Apart from the government’s fund, the Faculty was financially and academically supported by the Rockefeller Foundation
Rockefeller Foundation
The Rockefeller Foundation is a prominent philanthropic organization and private foundation based at 420 Fifth Avenue, New York City. The preeminent institution established by the six-generation Rockefeller family, it was founded by John D. Rockefeller , along with his son John D. Rockefeller, Jr...
from the United States of America. Since then the Faculty of Medicine Ramathibodi Hospital has been fully equipped and has provided medical education and services as well as research facilities to the public.
The Faculty of Medicine Ramathibodi Hospital has three principal buildings to serve more than 5,000 out-patients per day. The main building, Building 1, provides more than 1,000 beds for the tertiary care of complicated and severely ill patients in various specializing departments and units. The second building, Sirikit Building, hosts Queen Sirikit Medical Center (QSMC), serving as a center for advanced projects and centers, e.g., bone marrow transplantation project, Advanced Diagnostic Imaging and Imaging-guided Minimal Invasive Therapy Center (AIMC), and Cardiovascular and Metabolic Center (CVMC). It also houses modern operating rooms and intensive care units.
A new large building at the intersection corner of Rajavitee road and Rama 6 road, Somdech Phra Debaratana Building (royally opened by Somdech Phra Debaratana on August 14, 2011) serves as the most excellent service complex for thousands of out-patients of all types of healthcare coverages per day. The building houses Somdech Phra Debaratana Medical Center (SDMC) hosting well-equipped facilities to perform high standards of healthcare in the Southeast Asian region. It provides 350 beds, 16 operating rooms, 14 Intensive Care Units, and comprehensive state-of-the-art service centers such as Stem Cell Transplantation Center, Minimal Invasive Endoscopic Surgery Center, Elderly Care Unit Center, Child Development Center, and Complicated Diseases Services by specialized doctors.
One of the Logos of the Ramathibodi Hospital Faculty of Medicine is the shape of ร (called ror-reu).
Departments
- Department of Pediatrics, peds.mahidol.ac.th
- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, ObGyn.mahidol.ac.th
- Department of Ophthalmology, eye.mahidol.ac.th
- Department of Otolaryngology, ENT.mahidol.ac.th
- Department of Psychiatry, psychiatry.mahidol.ac.th
- Department of Orthopedics, ortho.mahidol.ac.th
- School of Nursing, nursing.mahidol.ac.th
- Department of Medicine, IntMed.mahidol.ac.th
- Department of Pathology, patho.mahidol.ac.th
- Division of Emergency Medicine, ER.mahidol.ac.th
- Department of Diagnostic and Therapeutic Radiology, radiology.mahidol.ac.th
- Department of Anesthesiology, anesthesia.mahidol.ac.th
- Department of Communication Science and Disorders, CommDis.mahidol.ac.th
- Department of Family Medicine, FamMed.mahidol.ac.th
- Department of Community Medicine, ComMed.mahidol.ac.th
- Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, RehabMed.mahidol.ac.th
- Department of Surgery, surgery.mahidol.ac.th
- Research Center
- Clinical Research Center
- Section for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics
- Medical Education, MedEd.mahidol.ac.th
A New Project and Expansion
In 2010, the Faculty of Medicine Ramathibodi Hospital launched a new project to ensure of being an excellent medical center in Asia to cerebrate the 84th Anniversary of King Bhumibol AdulyadejBhumibol Adulyadej
Bhumibol Adulyadej is the current King of Thailand. He is known as Rama IX...
's birthday. The project approximately costs 6 billion Baht.
Details
1. The Faculty of Medicine Ramathibodi Hospital has provided medical support, education and research for more than 40 years, and it has a potential to develop and succeed its challenging mission. Dramatically, the numbers of patients and students have increased, but there are so many restrictions such as limited space, learning-teaching resource shortage, dormitory and space for various activities deficiency. Most importantly, there is no space for primary and secondary care practicing and teaching.
2. With the supports of the Royal Office of His Majesty's Principal Private Secretary in Samut Prakan province, the Faculty of Medicine had an opportunity to have an additional medical campus in Samut Prakan province. Actually, in Samut Prakan province and the eastern part of Thailand which have very big metropolitan and industry area, people are living densely with environmental and occupational health problems. However, there is no excellent medical center in the area. There are only primary care units and medium-sized hospitals which may not be able to adequately serve them. Thus the Faculty of Medicine Ramathibodi Hospital has offered a campaign to found a hospital in this area, which is still associated with main Ramathibodi Hospital for higher patient care quality.
3. The project is located in a 291-1-63-Rai Raja Patsadu area at 119 Soi Sukapibal, Bangplee, Samut Prakan province to fulfill the following objectives and missions:
3.1 To the Faculty of Medicine (education mission). There are adequate facilities for teaching medical students, nursing students, graduate students, communication disorder science students, and other related field students. Thus the faculty can produce more students to meet the needs of the country.
3.2 To host a 400-bed hospital with very high health care and public health standards. It will provide medical care for patients at all levels from primary, secondary, and tertiary, including health promotion, rehabilitation, and preventive medicine, occupational health rehabilitation for older patients, and end-stage patients. Moreover, the education and research in family medicine will be emphasized.
3.3 To be a model for a patient-centered treatment focused on network settings. The faculty will promote and teach about the collaboration among hospitals, public health district, as well as private hospitals in serving patients. Knowledge transferring in order to enhance the health of people in the East region will be accentuated. This will be a model for maintaining the complete health care for Thai people.
3.4 To be the centers of medical education, continuing medical education, and medical consultation for general public (consisting of medical centers and the network of medical services, as well as the centers of excellence in education and research). Finally, It will be a learning, living, and park community complex model.
4. Total project duration: 5 years (year 2011 to 2015).
External links
- Ramathibodi Hospital Faculty of Medicine official website: medicine.mahidol.ac.th
- Ramathibodi School of Nursing official website: nursing.mahidol.ac.th
- Ramathibodi Hospital and Clinics website: RamaClinic.mahidol.ac.th
- Queen Sirikit Medical Center website: QSMC.mahidol.ac.th
- Somdech Phra Debaratana Medical Center (SDMC)
- Ramathibodi Foundation under the patronage of HRH princess Mahachakri Siridhorn
- Advanced Diagnostic Imaging and Imaging-guided Minimal Invasive Therapy Center (AIMC) website: AIMC.mahidol.ac.th
- Cardiovascular and Metabolic Center (CVMC) website: CVMC.mahidol.ac.th
- Thai Brain Mapping Project website: TBM.mahidol.ac.th
- Free Opensource HIS Project website: RamaVistA.mahidol.ac.th
- Ramathibodi Alumni Association website: RamaAlumni.mahidol.ac.th
- The faculty of medicine services for the Ramathibodis and alumni website: PostRama.mahidol.ac.th
- The faculty of medicine services for Ramathibodi recent medical graduates website: RamaConnect.mahidol.ac.th
- Faculty of Medicine Siriraj Hospital, the older sister medical school of Mahidol University