BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//jEvents 2.0 for Joomla//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Asia/Kuching BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20180307T080000 RDATE:20380119T111407 TZOFFSETFROM:+0800 TZOFFSETTO:+0800 TZNAME:Asia/Kuching +08 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:e59ae9683156bfca472d23d4c458d05d CATEGORIES:In The Media CREATED:20190308T144921 SUMMARY:UNIMAS signs MoU with Kurume University for education and research DESCRIPTION:
KOTA SAMARAHAN, 8t h March 2019: Universiti Malays ia Sarawak (UNIMAS) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Kurume University, Japan at th e Staff Lounge, University House, UNIMAS, this morning.
UNIMAS Deputy Vice Chancellor (Research and Innovation), Professor Dr Wan Hashim Wan Ibrahim and President Kurume Univ ersity, Mr Kensei Nagata were the signatories on behalf of their respective entities.
In his welcoming speech, Professor Dr Wan Hashim said UNIMAS have adopted various strategies for ed ucation and training in medicine and developing innovative approaches to ed ucating doctors such as community based learning and problem solving.
He said, as medical education have undergone many changes and challenges over the last decade, traditiona lly education is about transmitting large amounts of technical and increasi ngly complicated knowledge to young minds.
“But mastering the reality of today does not prepa re students for the challenges of tomorrow. Education of medical educators is critical to produce health professionals that meet global and national h ealth challenges. The training must reflect the growing concerns of the inf luence lifestyle and the environment health as well to adept to the health care delivery systems in different regions and to meet people needs and exp ectations.
Wit nessing the MoU were UNIMAS Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences Dean, P rofessor Dr. Ahmad Hata Rasit and Special Advisor to the President for Inte rnational Relations and Regional Partnership, Professor Eiji Ohyano.
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