title: [Cooperation between the Department of Cardiovascular Surgery in University of Tsukuba and Cho-Ray Hospital, Ho-Chi-Minh City, Vietnam--for an attractive collaboration in international medical education].
abstract: The Department of Cardiac Surgery in Cho-Ray Hospital, Ho-Chi-Minh city stands for a representative high volume center in the south of Vietnam. In the department about 1,200 cases of open-heart surgery are performed in a year. In next era, they wish to improve their surgical quality, focusing on complex and low-weight congenital cases, mitral repair, maze operation and off-pump CABG. Since 2008, University of Tsukuba has started to collaborate with many departments in Cho-Ray Hospital as a project of international medical educations in Global 30, and has been establishing meaningful activities in the Department of Cardiac Surgery as well. We keep providing opportunities for education, research and training for young Vietnamese doctors and investigators as much as possible both in Cho-Ray Hospital and University of Tsukuba with some financial support. We believe that our steady collaboration with Cho-Ray Hospital will bring certain developments not only for Vietnamese but for ourselves.
authors.affiliation: Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, University of Tsukuba, Japan.
authors.forename: Haruhiko
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Sugimori
authors.forename: Yuji
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Hiramatsu
authors.forename: Yuzuru
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Sakakibara
mesh_terms: D006761:Hospitals; D007393:International Educational Exchange; D007564:Japan; D012577:Schools, Medical; D013903:Thoracic Surgery / Q000193:education*; D014744:Vietnam