Healthcare

By Christopher Cottrell/Image: Christopher Cottrell On the sidelines of the AMEE 2017 conference in Helsinki, esteemed doctors and medical educators Ronald Harden and Pat Lilley spoke with the Peace Post about their insights into training future doctors and healthcare experts. A pioneer of the Objective Structured Clinical Examination (OSCE), Dr. …

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 …

By Christopher Cottrell/ Images: Christopher Cottrell From treating cancer with new oral medicine to harnessing nano-technology for safer doctor garb, the 38th Sino Luso International Medical Forum held this past weekend was a medical milestone moment for Macau science. Themed “Recent Advances in Biotechnology and Applications,” the two days of seminars …

By Christopher Cottrell/ Images: Christopher Cottrell “We’re training more Chinese community groups,” comments Dr. Billy Chan, Director for the Center of Medical Excellence at the Faculty of Health Sciences at the Macau University of Science and Technology (MUST). Outside, a tropical thunderstorm is lashing across the Pearl Delta. Inside the …

By Christopher Cottrell/ Images: Christopher Cottrell A doctor and a gentleman, Professor Nivritti Gajana Patil is one of Asia’s finest surgeons and medical education experts. From esteemed English medical wards to the witch-doctor jungles of Papua New Guinea, he has sharpened his surgical knives and intellectual wit with one main …

By Christopher Cottrell/ Images: Christopher Cottrell The inaugural meetings of the Regional Healthcare Outreach (One Belt, One Road) held in Phnom Penh, Cambodia witnessed several high level medical exchanges between China and Cambodia this past weekend. Founded by Prof. Manson Fok, Dean of the Faculty of Health Sciences at the …

By Christopher Cottrell/ Images: Christopher Cottrell Cambodia’s Deputy Prime Minister, his Excellency Yim Chhay Ly, welcomed a large delegation of Chinese and Cambodian doctors today to applaud medical training in the One Belt, One Road Initiative. Led by Dr. Billy Chan, Co-Chair of the newly launched Regional Healthcare Outreach (One …

By Christopher Cottrell/ Images: Christopher Cottrell “We’re developing the people to people point on the One Belt, One Road Initiative,” says the Honorable Hun Many, a member of the Cambodia Parliament and President of the Doctor Alliance of Union Youth Federation of Cambodia (DA-UYFC), to a delegation of healthcare professionals …

PRESS RELEASE June 7, 2017 “Regional Healthcare Outreach (One Belt, One Road) launches between, Macau, China and Cambodia.” On June 15, a new Asia based medical cooperation initiative will launch called the Regional Healthcare Outreach (One Belt, One Road). This vibrant new medical initiative is being organized by the Faculty …

By Peace Post Staff/ Images: Christopher Cottrell Hong Kong’s young doctors are cutting out new paths in medicine—and expanding their understanding of resources in the Greater Pearl Bay Area, such as Macau medicine and Shenzhen 3D printing. Indeed, over the weekend the Younger Fellows Chapter of the Hong Kong College …