Thailand

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Locations :
Site: Mahidol University

Affiliation: Siriraj Hospital

Location: Salaya, Nakhonpathom, Thailand 73170

Site Director: Dr Chirayu Udomsakdi-Auewarakul

Background: The collaboration between Duke University and Mahidol University began shortly after a visit to Thailand by Dr Corey in 1985. This collaboration was consolidated when Dr Chirayu Udomsakdi-Auewarakul returned home after finishing her training at Duke and Harvard. She is now a professor of hematology and the Dean of the school of medicine at Mahidol University. In addition, collaborative efforts have been established between Duke, the Oxford and Wellcome group headed by Nick White, Nick Daye, and Sharon Peacock. These investigators head one of the premier tropical medicine units in the world and have been kind enough to collaborate with the Department of Medicine at Duke University on several occasions.

Clinical Opportunities: Siririj Hospital is a 2000 bed hospital in the middle of an enormous complex of Mahidol University Medical Center. Patients are admitted with an wide variety of medical illnesses. Duke Residents work with Thai residents in seeing and evaluating patients.

In addition, opportunities to work in other units such as the Wellcome unit at Mae Sot, and in collaborating hospitals in Cheng Mai or Cheng Rai are also available.

Research: To date only one research project has been undertaken in Thailand between Duke Residents and Mahidol University. However, next year a third year student will work on a project looking at staph aureus bacteremia in patients in Northern Thailand in collaboration with the Oxford Unit. Future efforts in assisting with these research collaborations is inevitable.

Field Stories from Thailand:

Notes from Thailand - January 2007 By Krupal Shah