The Faculty of Dentistry at UP recently hosted a special workshop for dentalstudents from the five local dental schools by a highly respected Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeon from Australia, Dr. Paul Duke. Dr. Duke is in Cambodia as an examiner for the Masters in OMF Surgery course at IU, but offered to present some lectures for UP dental students while he was here.
The workshop was titled ”Tips and Tricks for Oral Surgery” and was held from 9 AM – 12 AM in Hall B, UP. More than 180 students had registered for this session, and a tea break and certificate was provided. In his lectures, Dr. Duke shared his wealth of knowledge and experience with the students.
He covered a wide range of topics, including the basics of oral surgery, common procedures, and tips and tricks for success. The students were eager to learn from Dr. Duke and they asked many questions.
After the lecture, students were invited to tour the new UP Health Center and the students were impressed by the new UP Health Center. They said that the facilities were state-of-the-art and that they would be proud to work in such a setting.
The workshop was a valuable learning experience for the students and it will help them to become better dentists. It is also a testament to UPs commitment to providing its students with the best possible education.
On behalf of the Student Services team, we’re delighted to inform you about our Student Senate Executive boards and representatives for 2023 mandate which are being placed on the board Wall of Fame now.
The Student Senate acts as a crucial channel of communication between students and UP as well as a voice for the student body. UP student senate plays an important role to bring any suggestions in order to develop our UP community. Students who serve in their elected positions for two years notice of improvement in their self-assurance, public speaking skills, project planning, and time management ability, among other significant Leadership outcome.
Mr. NGET Vannak. On behalf of the UP-student senate president, I am proud of myself that I can be a person who can deliver UPers’ voice as a student senate president in order to develop our UP community. I am hoping to bring creativities, and positivity to UP students and our administrator. I’ll use my ability and my experiences to improve our UP to create positive impacts. Although I am running this position at the University of Puthisastra, I want to encourage everyone here to inspire with me, running with me to be whatever we want and be who we want to be.
On August 24, 2023, the Pharma-career Club, with the participation of the distinguished speaker, Ms Eng Poliny, the manager of the University of Puthisastra Pharmacy, shared experiences for the members club under the topic “Preparation for the Launch of the Community Pharmacy” held at Hall H, Building H, University of Puthisastra from 13:00 to 14:00.
For the fourth week of the Pharma-Career Club, Ms. Eng Poliny, the manager of the University of Puthisastra Pharmacy, shared some experiences about
• Principles for opening a pharmacy
• How to control stock
• Location selection
• There are various processes in opening a pharmacy.
The UP Dental Hospital would like to welcome Dr Ea Khemey and Dr Magnus Wilson who are joining our UP Dental Hospital team. Dr Khemey is a graduate of IU, with several years of experience in both private and university dental clinics. She will be working alongside Dr Leng Eav, our existing Hospital Manager, and has a strong desire to see our hospital become better and better over time. She is looking forward to meeting all the students as they return to the hospital from their exams.
We are also pleased to have Dr Magnus Wilson back from the US again. He is now registered with the Cambodian Dental Council and will be spending at least 3 days per week at UP, primarily in the dental hospital where his main focus will be on developing a service for Special Needs patients. In the US many of his patients were Special Needs and he hopes to develop, among other things, a sedation service. Dr Magnus brings with him many good ideas about how we can improve and grow our dental services, including those which extend to the community to help disadvantaged groups most in need.
On September 11, 2023, second-year students of Medical Laboratory Technology, the Faculty of Health Sciences and Biotechnology, University of Puthisastra began their clerkship during vacation at partner medical laboratory of the Biomedic Diagnostic Center, BioBykhin Medical laboratory, Biotrust Diagnostics, Samiki Medical laboratory, VS Medical laboratory and University of Puthisastra. The clerkship will last for one month which started from September 11, 2023, to October 06, 2023.
For more information about the program:
Please contact us via the telegram group ADL Information UP (https://t.me/+3elkZJiyV-BmOTZl)
Year 3 students finished their semester with an OSCE exam with 10 stations. At each station they had to perform an exercise such as CPD, reading a radiograph, putting of rubber dam, mixing GIC, assembling and placing a matrix band, taking a radiograph, putting on and taking on PPE, showing scaling technique, cutting a cavity and demonstrating how to extract a tooth. The students were assessed at each station by staff or senior dental students who were trained how to score the students.
Most of the students passed with flying colours – a few need to repeat one or two stations before being allowed to start seeing ;real; patients. Thanks for the course leader, Dr Horn Rithvitou, and his team for organizing this exercise.
On September 7th and 8th 2023, the annual conference of the Cambodian Orthodontic Association was held at Sokha Hotel. The conference was a big success with over 400 registrations of dentists and students from all over Cambodia. The opening address was given by HE Dr Oeun Borarorth, Secretary of State at the MOH. There was a large number of conference exhibition booths featuring the latest dental products available in Cambodia.Several UP students and faculty joined the event, including our five Master of Orthodontics
postgraduate students. The COA conference featured a number of distinguished foreign speakers from countries such as Argentina, South Korea and Taiwan.
Prof. Anand Marya the UP head of orthodontics was invited as a keynote speaker and delivered a lecture on the management of class III malocclusions using the Damon system. UP has been an active participant in most major conferences throughout the year and we look forward to continuing this trend in the coming months.
After years of efforts by UP faculty and staff, we finally received approval from the Ministry of Health to start the first Masters in Orthodontics program at UP with the first batch of 5 students who were selected on the basis of an entrance exam and an interview with a carefully chosen panel from UP.
The Masters program is being run by the UP Program Director of Orthodontics, Prof. Anand Marya with help from many distinguished and well recognized local and foreign lecturers from countries such as the US, Korea, and Malaysia.
The residents will be treating patients in the new Post Graduate Clinic at the UP Health Center, as well as at the AndDoung Hospital (including patients with jaw deformities) and the National Pediatric Hospital (children with cleft lip and palate). The residents are providing high quality orthodontic treatment at very competitive rates (approximately $500) while using the highest quality of materials available in Cambodia. For an appointment to see the orthodontist please
call +855 12 414 563 or +855 98 414 563 or you can book an appointment
athttps://healthcenter.puthisastra.edu.kh/book-appointment
UP’s Faculty of Pharmacy held the 10th Professional Development for Pharmacists, at the University of Puthisastra (via Zoom) on September 9, 2023 with 60 participants from all provinces in Cambodia. Successful participants will receive 5 CPD point for this training. The training topic is about General understanding of drugs, trained by Mr. Nget Monino.
