ASIA-link program gets started
Published: Monday, April 16, 2007
Recently the EU subsidised “The Asia-Europe Clinical Epidemiology & Evidence Based Medicine Program” was approved. The program aims to increase knowledge about clinical epidemiology and evidence based medicine for doctors and researchers in in Malaysia and Indonesia.
The program is a joint effort of five institutions. The Julius Center, the UMC Utrecht, the Centre for Evidence based Medicine from the University of Oxford, the department of Preventive and Social Medicine from the University of Malaysia and the Cipto Mangunkusumo hospital in Jakarta join hands.
The program lasts for three years and is aimed at medical students and doctors conducting clinical epidemiological research. Also 12 PhD students are allowed to participate in the Dutch Master program, they will conduct their research in both the Netherlands or the UK and Indonesia and Malaysia.
Also, the program facilitates building a unit clinical epidemiological and evidence based medicine in Jakarta and Kuala Lumpur. This provides both countries with an infrastructure to capitalize upon the newly gained know-how and stimulates the transfer of this knowledge to local doctors and researchers.
Friday March 30 the cooperation was formally approved (pictures of the ceremony, with Hans Stoof from the UMC Utrecht attending).
More information: Prof.Dr. Y.van der Graaf, Julius Center, 030-2509351, email (Y.vanderGraaf@umcutrecht.nl)