Source: Zhongshan School of Medicine
Written by: Liu Xiaoxiao
Translated by: Chen Su
Edited by: Wang Dongmei

To promote international academic exchange and enhance the educational, cultural and scientific cooperation in Southeast Asia, Dr. Li Mengfeng, Vice President of Sun Yat-sen University and Dean of Zhongshan School of Medicine, and Dr. Pisake Lumbiganon, Dean of Faculty of Medicine, Khon Kaen University, signed a formal agreement for academic exchange and cooperation recently. Dr. Wu Zhongdao, Deputy Dean of Zhongshan School of Medicine, Chen Shengping, Secretary of School of Marine Sciences (former Deputy Dean of Zhongshan School of Medicine), led a delegation to visit Khon Kaen University and exchanged the agreement on May 11, 2013.
According to the agreement, the two sides will jointly establish the Southeast Asian Tropical Medicine Research Center to focus on Tropical Diseases control (such as food-borne diseases and vector-borne diseases) and personnel training; jointly set up Southeast Asian Medical Education Research Center to conduct collaborative research on medical education, personnel training and student exchange, MBBS program enrollment publicity, curriculum system construction and quality assessment; both sides agreed to further explore the mutual recognition of credits and student exchange programs between the two institutions; jointly convene research and academic cooperation symposium; jointly organize medical, educational, cultural training and exchange programs for students.

The signing of the cooperation agreement marks that Zhongshan School of Medicine has further deepened cooperation and exchange with Southeast Asian institutions, which will contribute to promoting the development of talent cultivation, academic research and international exchange in the long term.

Background Introduction:

Founded in 1964, Khon Kaen University ranks top five and is one of the most renowned public universities in Thailand. Covering an area of 10,000 acres, with nearly 40,000 students in school, it is the largest and most authoritative leading education and research institution in the northeastern part of Thailand. The university has 21 colleges and more than 300 majors and disciplines, and was named the top university in Thailand in 2006-2007. The Faculty of Medicine, Khon Kaen University is also the first medical school with affiliated hospitals in the northeast area of Thailand. There are 392 faculty members, more than 2,000 students in school and more than 1,900 medical staff. The faculty has 8 basic disciplines, 13 clinical disciplines, 11 doctoral programs, 10 master’s degree programs, 20 resident physicians training programs. And its medical discipline ranks top 200 out of the world's universities.