Department of Critical Care and Anaesthesiology

Introduction
The Department of Emergency Medicine of the School of Medicine of the MNUMS was established in 2015 and currently has its teaching, research, and clinical activities with a staff of 6 lecturers. Priorities in the development of modern medicine and medical services are evolving in the form of acute illness and trauma care. Although relatively recent in development, we are committed to keeping pace with the international community and maintaining our leading position in medical education in Mongolia. The department organizes undergraduate, graduate and postgraduate courses in teaching and training load, prepares and develops specialists in the field of critical care. Besides been excellent lecturers and tutors, we are working hard to be leading specialists in our professional fields of clinical medicine, and leading researchers in the introduction of technology and innovation.
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History of the Department
The history of the Department of Emergency Care and Anesthesia is inextricably linked to the history of the Department of Surgery of MNUMS. The Department of General Surgery was established on August 1, 1944, by the order of the rector of the National University of Mongolia Dr. NF Berezkin, Between 1944 and 1953, there were many scientists and professors, including PV Ryzhov, VN Topolsky, and Karamerov, who were invited as consultants from the USSR, In the years of 1953 and 1960, T.Shagdarsuren, later an academician, was the first head of the department among national teachers. In 1961, the National Institute of Medicine was established and the Department of General Surgery and Facultative Surgery was established, headed by Professor T.Shagdarsuren and Professor V.Ichinkhorloo., From 1967 to 1994, Professor P. Dolgor appointed as the head of the Department of General and Surgery was worked extremely successfully made a serial study on echinococcus and abdominal surgery. In 1995, Professor B. Goosh was appointed as the head of the Department of Surgery I and Professor Ch.Puntsag was appointed as the head of the Department Surgery II. Since 2002, the Department of Surgery I and II have been merged and headed by Professor O.Sergelen, Doctor of Science. For many years the head of State Clinical Central Hospital G.Lkhagvajav (holder of honored and merited doctor of Mongolia) was led the teaching and training the undergraduate and postgraduate education in acute medicine at the Medical University, doctors N.Odsuren and L.Ganbold have been part-time lecturers and worked with Dr. G.Lkhagvajav together. In addition to his clinical work, G. Lhagvajav has been active in training students, nurses, and anesthesiologists, educating hundreds of students, translating and compiling dozens of books in Anaesthesiology and Critical Care, and contributing to the training of human resources in the field in Anesthesiology and Emergency Medicine. Since 1970th senior doctor G.Lhagvajav made a significant contribution to the successful development of hepato-biliary tract surgery with his colleagues Professor P.Dolgor, B.Goosh, N.Davaatseren, Surgeons of State Central Clinical Hospital G.Nyamkhuu and A.Otgondalai were awarded the State Prize of Mongolia in 1990. In 2015, the Department of Critical Care Medicine and Anesthesiology was established as an independent department and Prof. L.Ganbold was appointed as the head of this Department.
Mission
To deliver the knowledge and practice on emergency and critical care medicine for students and doctors of the MNUMS, to develop a didactics and the e-curriculum for undergraduate and postgraduate training, to work out the protocols, guidelines and policy documents in related medical fields, to be leaders in their professional activities, and consultants for JMTH routine services, to be active in implementing and rolling the national and international projects and programs to strengthening the research, training, and development in Emergency and Intensive care and Anesthesiological services in Mongolia.
Staff
Professor L.Gabold-Head of the department, PhD, Senior lecturer- U.Bilguun, MD, MS, Senior lecturer-M.Naranpurev PhD, Lecturer-O.Soyombo, MD, MS, Lecturer- S.Burmaa, MD, MS, Lecturer-S.Altanchimeg
Training, research, projects, professional activities
Undergraduate training: We are delivering the theoretical and practical knowledge and skills in initial emergency medicine according to the renewed curriculum for the 3rd and 4th block of the +4 program of the Mongolian University of Medical Sciences, and clinical internship in 6th course based on the largest hospitals in Ulaanbaatar. The initial emergency medicine is the inevitable and indispensable part of the undergraduate curriculum of the branch schools such as School of Mongolian Traditional Medicine, Biomedicine, Dentistry, Public health, and Nursing.
In the 2015-17 school year, two classrooms were established and equipped as emergency skill training facilities at the initiative of teachers which were further expanded to become an in Critical Care Training Excellence Center. The introduction of virtual patient-based e-learning existent as the innovative part of the current curriculum and the key approaches for further development of CME for rural and remote hospitals primary doctors and nurses on emergency care courses and workshops.
Graduate training: Currently, we have worked out the doctorate and master’s degree programs on Anaesthesiology and Emergency and Intensive Care Medicine. In the Department of Critical care and Anaesthesiology, there are 4 doctorates and 6 masters degree students on the training and research.
Postgraduate training: Within the framework of the postgraduate and vocational training, the Department of Critical Care and Anaesthesiology has been developed in each of the areas of Anesthesia, Emergency Care and Intensive Care, approved by the relevant authorities, and 20 up to 30 residents are recruited and trained annually in these areas. In the 2015-2018 academic year, 4 types of credit training plans and programs in the field of emergency care and anesthesia were developed and approved by the relevant organizations. Plans and curricula have also been developed for emergency electives in residency training.
Research and studies
Within the framework of the WHO Emergency and Essential Surgical Care Capacity Building Program (EESC), we are working with lecturers of the Department of Surgery on the progress and strengthening of availability, human resources and quality of surgery, anesthesia and emergency care in rural hospitals. In addition to surveying Soum and Inter-soum hospitals in the country, the study was conducted in comparison with other primary hospitals in Laos and is being implemented as part of an international joint project. Prof. L.Ganbold participated in a study organized by the Lancet Global Surgery Commission to identify trends in surgical development in the era of sustainable development and co-authored the article “Global Surgery 2030: evidence and solutions for achieving health, welfare, and economic development” published in The Lancet in 2015. Dr. M.Naranpurev, and Kh.Bayalagmaa has defended her Ph.D. research on important topics in critical care and analgesia.
Foreign relations and international cooperation
Within a few years of the establishment of the Department of Emergency Care and Anesthesiology, we have signed cooperation agreements with several organizations, build up the foundation for cooperation and set a goal to further strengthen them. In 2015, we were signed a Memorandum of Understanding that was signed between the Australian College of Emergency Medicine and the Academy of Mongolian National University of Medical Sciences (Department of Emergency Medicine and Anesthesiology). Within the framework of this agreement, the doctors and specialists of the above-named college came to Mongolia and organized a training on “Rural Hospital Initial Emergency Care” for the doctors working in the Soum and Inter-Soum Hospitals. Emergency training for rural hospitals is currently being provided to more than 160 Soum’s doctors in 10 Aimags. As a result of a cooperation agreement with the Australian Association of Anesthesiologists in 2016, the Australian anesthetists come to Mongolia every year to organize joint workshops. In addition to Ulaanbaatar’s practitioners, anesthesiologists working in rural hospitals are invited to participate in the conference. In collaboration with the Department of Intensive Care Medicine of the Chinese University of Hong Kong, a training course on “Basics of Intensive Medicine” was organized for intensive care physicians in rural and Ulaanbaatar general hospitals. The lecturers of the Critical Care and Anaesthesiology Department have translated the textbook “Basic Assessment and Support Seriously Ill Patients in Developing Health Care Systems ” and using it as a basic textbook for the training the undergraduate students.
Contact information:
Dr. Ganbold L., ganbold@mnumus.edu.mn
Dr. Bilguun U., bilguun@mnumus.edu.mn
Dr. Soyombo О., soyombo@mnumus.edu.mn
Dr. Burmaa S., burmaa.s@mnumus.edu.mn
Dr. Naranpurev M., naranpurev@mnums.edu.mn
Dr. Altanchimeg S., altanchimeg@mnums.edu.mn