The Ministry of Public Health announced that it was pulling out all the stops to ensure that Thai nurses could communicate with foreigners…
The Ministry of Public Health announced that it was pulling out all the stops to ensure that Thai nurses could communicate with foreigners, with intensive English languages courses and training in Australia and New Zealand for final year nursing students.
Stressing Thailand`s importance as a regional healthcare hub, Deputy Public Health Minister Sirikorn Maneerin said that the ministry would provide more effective English language training for nurses at its 31 training schools.
This year state nursing colleges will train a total of 4,300 students, well up on the 1,000 trained in previous years. The ministry will introduce a new English language curriculum, both at bachelor`s degree level and for shorter training courses.
Mrs. Sirikorn said that the nursing schools would hire more foreign language instructors, and would send final year student for three months of intensive training in Australia and New Zealand in order to familiarize them with an international nursing environment.
Already Thailand, which has gained widespread recognition as a regional healthcare centre and as a popular destination for health tourism, has 11 universities which offer English-language nursing degrees. The courses are particularly popular with Chinese students.
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