Intensified Education of Myanmar Medical Specialists

After four years of Covid and military coup, we came back to Yangon, performed conjoint vascular and oncological surgeries with young colleagues at the General Hospital and relaunched our educational program with the neurosurgical department of the Medical University of Yangon.

With Dr. Mya Hla Kywe and Dr May Hsu Mon two young female neurosurgeons are finishing their fellowship in Switzerland and returning to the care of their patient in Yangon in November 2023. In January 2024, two promising neurosurgery residents - Dr. Wai Min Thet and Dr. Thein Htet Aung will begin their specialist training in Switzerland; followed in summer by another three female resident: Myat Mon Zin Thein (neurosurgeon), Dr. Hsu Lwin Lwin Thaw (neuro-anaesthetist) and Ms. Seinn Moh Moh (scrub nurse). Based on the success of this educational program an extension into reconstructive surgery, neurology and anaesthesia has started in 2023.