- Faculty of Medicine Siriraj Hospital, Mahidol University
Infobox_University
name = Faculty of Medicine Siriraj Hospital Mahidol University
established =1890
type = Public
dean = Clin.Prof. Teerawat Kulthanan, MD
enrollment = 1,662
staff = 9,315
location =Bangkok ,Thailand
campus = Urban
colors = Green
website = [http://www.si.mahidol.ac.th/eng/ Faculty of Medicine Siriraj Hospital, Mahidol University]Faculty of Medicine Siriraj Hospital, Mahidol University is the oldest, largest hospital and medical school in
Thailand . The hospital was founded byKing Chulalongkorn in 1888, two years after a worldwidecholera outbreak. It is named after the king's 18-month old son, Prince Siriraj Kakuttaphan, who had died fromdysentery a year before the opening of the hospital. The medical school was established two years later in 1890. It is now the Faculty of Medicine ofMahidol University .Under the patronage of Prince
Mahidol Adulyadej and support from theRockefeller Foundation , Siriraj became one of the most advanced medical services and research centers in Thailand andSoutheast Asia .The hospital is located in on the west bank of
Chao Phraya River , oppositeThammasat University 's Tha Phrachan campus. With the capacity of more than 3,000 beds and more than one million outpatient visits per year, Siriraj is one of the largest, most-congested medical centers in Thailand. The medical school accepts about 250 medical students and more than 100 for postgraduate residency training each year.The logo of the Siriraj Hospital and Medical School is the Naga curled into a shape of "ศ" (pronounce as "Sor-Sala"), the first Thai alphabet of the hospital name with the Prakeaw on top of the Naga.
Medical museum
Siriraj Hospital has a number of exhibits in a medical museum that is open from 9 am to 4 pm Monday to Saturday. The bulk of the exhibits are located on the second floor in the hospital's Adulayadejvikrom Building. They include a forensic medicine museum, displaying objects from homicide, suicide and accident cases, such as skulls, bones, skeletons, preserved body parts and organs, including the entire preserved body of a convicted murder. The skeleton of Dr. Songkran Niyomsane, who founded the forensic museum is displayed as well. The exhibit also contains the autopsy instruments that were used in the case of King
Ananda Mahidol 's assassination.Other exhibitions are devoted to Thai traditional medicine, anatomy, prehistoric artifacts, rare diseases and parasitic organisms.For more information visit [http://www.si.mahidol.ac.th/museums/en/index.htm the museums website]
Teaching Hospital
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Siriraj Hospital ee also
*List of Medical Schools in Thailand
External links
* [http://www.si.mahidol.ac.th/eng/ Faculty of Medicine Siriraj Hospital, Mahidol University Website]
*Mahidol University [http://www.mahidol.ac.th]
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