Type public Administrative staff 256 (2009) Phone +95 9 972 392520 Affiliation Ministry of Health Rector Dr.Htin Zaw Soe (2015) | Established 1995 Affiliations Ministry of Health Founded 1995 Academic staff 102 (2009) | |
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Location MagwayMagway Division, Myanmar Similar University of Public Health - Y, University of Pharmac, University of Nursing - Mandalay, University of Pharmac, University of Medical Technolo | ||
The University of Community Health, Magway (UCH) (Burmese: ကျန်းမာရေး တက္ကသိုလ် (မကွေး), [tɕáɴmàjé tɛʔkəθò (məɡwé)]) is a public health university under the Ministry of Health and Sport, and located in Magway, Myanmar. The university offers a four-year Bachelor of Community Health (B.Comm.H.) degree program. They have to study how to do public health but they must take clinical subjects for rural population whom can't get primary health care. Formally, the graduates are allowed to practice as Health Assistants in Department of Public Health of Myanmar, many of whom are the main providers of primary health care in rural Myanmar where access to regular physicians is difficult. Nowaday, most of the alumni are work in various department and areas such as NGOs, INGOs, UN, Department of Food and Drug Administration and Department of Prison of Myanmar Government.
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History
With the guidance and national health policy of U Nu's Government the Health Assistant Training School was established in 1951 in Yangon to provide health care to rural population where access to regular medical doctors are difficult. The main objective of that training school is to produce the health assistant within a short time (three years) while the medical doctors were trained for six year. Later, The school was moved a few kilometers north to Insein in 1963, and then to Hlegu in 1968. In 1989, the school came under the purview of the Ministry of Health. The school became the Institute of Community Health in 1991, and became a university in 1995 and began offering a four-year bachelor's degree program.The objective of the university of community health is also change and wide scope. In 1999, the military government moved the school out of Yangon Division to Upper Myanmar. UCH is located on a 41.4-hectare campus at Htonpauk, about 14.5 km north of Magway, and 3.2 km off the Magway-Natmauk Road.
University of Community Health, Magway regularly accepts approximately 150 students (Male: Female = 70:30) who passed the matriculation examination. The required score for selection is approximately 450 for males and 470 for females.
Academic departments
Curriculum
Each school year lasts ten months from January to October. Students are required to take written,practical, field trip and oral exams at the end of each year.
First year
First year students are required to interact with the community by meeting the patients from nearby villages.
Coursework with assignment
- Myanmar Traditional Medicine
- First Aid
Coursework with or without assignment
Coursework with assignment
Coursework without assignment
Third year
Third year students are required to make field trips to nearby villages and provide seminars on such health education topics as the natural history of diseases, environmental sanitation, the dangers of smoking/alcohol, rodent control, disaster management and global warming, etc. The seminars are organized by the departments of Health Education, Community Health and Environmental Health. The students then visit a local Rural Health Center (RHC) to learn the operations of an RHC.
Coursework with assignment
Coursework without assignment
Fourth year
Coursework with assignment
Affiliated teaching hospitals
Students are required to make field trips to the following UCH affiliated hospitals in the region for three months(May–July).