Medtronic Vietnam and UMC Ho Chi Minh sign new MoU to enhance medical training

Medtronic Vietnam and University Medical Center Ho Chi Minh City (UMC) signed their fourth MoU

This latest agreement builds on a long-standing partnership between Medtronic, a global leader in healthcare technology, and UMC, Vietnam’s largest university medical centre. The MoU outlines 23 comprehensive training and education courses, encompassing key areas such as cardiovascular, neuroscience, and medical surgical specialities for healthcare professionals.

Through this partnership, UMC is reinforcing its pioneering vision to adopt and bring innovative therapies closer to the patients. This includes the first successful treatment of an epilepsy patient with deep brain stimulation, and training courses, both locally and internationally, to implement the leadless pacemaker therapy. Comprehensive continuing medical education programmes are also available to accelerate the learning curve for surgeons, enabling them to adopt advanced procedures efficiently and improve surgical outcomes on the latest minimally invasive surgery in spine, gastrointestinal and hernia surgeries.

Additionally, Medtronic is honoured to partner with UMC in qualifying the hospital as the second solo proctor for the transcatheter aortic valve implantation technique in Vietnam. Besides CME initiatives, Medtronic acts as a trusted partner with the hospital in improving stroke and aortic stenosis management via patient awareness initiatives. These advancements mark significant milestones in Vietnam’s healthcare landscape.

Paul Verhulst, vice president of Medtronic Southeast Asia, at the signing ceremony

On the occasion, Paul Verhulst, vice president of Medtronic Southeast Asia, said, "This MoU with UMC builds on a longstanding partnership dedicated to advancing healthcare across multiple dimensions, with the potential to further enhance healthcare delivery, education, and infrastructure in Vietnam. This is our fourth MoU with UMC and as this collaboration continues to evolve, it is set to bring even greater transformative changes, positively impacting patients, communities, and healthcare professionals here in Vietnam."

Assoc. Prof. Nguyen Hoang Bac, director of UMC, highlighted the importance of the collaboration, saying, "Medtronic Vietnam has accompanied our hospital in implementing many meaningful activities. We believe that this partnership will result in in-depth training and education courses and connection with international experts, thereby improving treatment outcomes and realising the hospital's goal of building a training centre of excellence with many specialised departments."

Assoc. Prof. Nguyen Hoang Bac, director of UMC

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