Education

Dr. Manson Fok Honorary PhD Acceptance Speech Given at International University Cambodia on July 29, 2019. Rector Professor Sabo Ojano, Secretary of State, your Excellency Heng Sokkung, esteemed educators and guests, and to all of you fabulous students, I wish you a good morning. I’m honored to be here and …

Images and Article by Peace Post Staff The 48th Sino Luso International Medical Forum in Macao embodied the passion and power of globalised medical education at its finest this past week.  Held in cooperation with the 5th Sino Asia Pacific Medical Forum and inaugural launch of the Sino Phil Asia …

By Peace Post Staff/ Images: Peace Post “This is long overdue in Macao. I wish this well and luck so that you can truly change the paradigm,”  comments Dr. Jose Costa-Maia, Head of the Department of Surgery from Centro Hospitalar de Sao Joao in Porto, Portugal.  Dr. Costa-Maia is speaking …

By Christopher Cottrell/Images Peace Post With news of Macao’s first medical school announced for the Macau University of Science and Technology (MUST) last week, the 47th Sino-Luso International Medical Forum this past weekend set praxis in motion with workshops and lectures of international medical education experts.  Under the theme of …

By Christopher Cottrell/ Image: Peace Post Staff News this week that Macao will have its first medical school is energizing Greater Bay Area medical education circles. The Macau University of Science and Technology (MUST) will begin offering a  Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery commencing in the 2019/2020 academic …

By Christopher Cottrell Images: Christopher Cottrell The Davao Medical School Foundation tour was a game-changer for the delegates of the 4th Sino Asia Pacific International Medical Forum and the 46th Sino Luso International Medical Forum. Commented Dr. Manson Fok, President of the Sino Asia Pacific and Sino Luso International Medical …

By Peace Post Staff: Images: Christopher Cottrell  The 46th Sino-Luso International Medical Forum concluded yesterday after a week of exciting scientific exchanges in the Philippines and Macao. Beginning in Davao, Philippines on November 26 with tours of local hospitals, Davao Medical School Foundation, and Davao City Hall, the first leg …

By Christopher Cottrell// Images: Christopher Cottrell “Medicine feels like war…but the aim is peace,” says Professor Niv Patil, an acclaimed surgeon and medical educator at Hong Kong University. At this past weekend’s stellar scientific symposiums and workshops of the 42nd Sino-Luso International Medical Forum, Prof. Patil examined the state of …

By Christopher Cottrell/Images: Christopher Cottrell A swirl of nearly 4,000 medical educators at AMEE, or Association for Medical Education in Europe, have descended on Helsinki, Finland the past few days to raise the bar of how medicine is learned. One such panel with medical education touches from Macau, China stood out …

High tech medicine and training called for by 2030 By Christopher Cottrell / Photo Credits: Christopher Cottrell The time for a new era of advanced global medical training is now. That was the message at the 9th Global Conference on Health Promotion in Shanghai held in late November. Indeed, according …