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Siriraj hospital, Siriraj Hospital is the oldest and largest hospital in Thailand, located in Bangkok on the west bank of the Chao Phraya River. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siriraj_Hospital which you could learn more about it follow the link from wikipedia that you saw a second ago. Siriraj nursing faculty is one of the nursing faculties that belongs to Mahidol university,Siriraj Hospital (now Siriraj Medical School) and reorganized in 1943 as University of Medical Sciences (Thai: มหาวิทยาลัยแพทยศาสตร์).[1] The university originally focused on Health Sciences but also expanded to other fields in recent decades. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahidol_University.
I am pretty sure you all must notice that all of the girls in the picture above are in uniform with the dark blue bow tie at the collar of them. No doubt I needed to wear it as well when I was in the university but only for the first year. In fact only a few weeks when you first got into the university. I was allowed to take it off after I finished the traditional activity that was arranged by your senior or your professors. All of us which means every students in any faculties need to have bow tie for the girls and neck tie for the boy no matter where you are if you are in uniform, bow tie or neck tie is the must!
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Mahidol University was established simultaneously with Siriraj Hospital in 1888 by His Majesty King Chulalongkorn (Rama V). It is the oldest institution of higher learning in Thailand, granting its first medical degree in 1893. They have since developed into one of the most prestigious universities in Thailand, internationally known and recognized for the high caliber of research and teaching by its faculty, and its outstanding achievements in teaching, research, international academic collaboration and professional services.
This diversified institution now offers top quality programs in numerous social and cultural disciplines, including the most doctoral programs of any institution in Thailand, yet has maintained its traditional excellence in medicine and the sciences.
This diversified institution now offers top quality programs in numerous social and cultural disciplines, including the most doctoral programs of any institution in Thailand, yet has maintained its traditional excellence in medicine and the sciences.
Mahidol University has many many campuses because it is not only a university but it is a medical schools which most of the students need to have a tons of hands-on classes before graduated. So we all will be together only the first year at Salaya campus where everybody has the most remarkable part of the life about it.
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Not only the student uniform in general that all of the students need to wear but the nursing and midwifery student like me also have one unique and pretty cute one. In Thailand, RN will wear scrubs only the RNs in the operation rooms but that was a dress not top and pants like USA. But that was when I was young and fresh grad which I have no idea if they have changed to wear something else or not. I had a lot of hands-on classes to practice and I wore the nursing uniform just like the practical RNs but the differences between me or my friends with them was the black band on the nursing cap.
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Believe it or not I almost have no picture of myself in the nursing uniform either when I was a student nor when I was graduated. I first started my practical nursing with operation room and emergency room at Trauma unit where I had so much fun and learned a lot about the real nursing world. The building itself by that time was not the most beautiful building in the hospital and not even mention about being attractive for any reasons. But we all worked hard and also with HEART for every patient no matter you have money in your wallet or nothing at all even to identify yourself.
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I think I perhaps have gone to far even I only started about the faculty and my university. It is such a big story to talk about with my education with Siriraj hospital, Mahidol university where I am beyond proud to be a student over there for 4 years. Please continue next blog about the student life which I would go back to that period time of my life again if I could.
