Ho Chi Minh City

Ho Chi Minh City

Ho Chi Minh City , formerly named Saigon is the largest city in Vietnam...

 Medicine and Pharmacy University is one of the most highly-ranked universities of medicine and pharmacy in Vietnam

Vietnam

Vietnam – sometimes spelled Viet Nam , officially the Socialist Republic of Vietnam – is the easternmost country on the Indochina Peninsula in Southeast Asia. It is bordered by China to the north, Laos to the northwest, Cambodia to the southwest, and the South China Sea –...

. The university offers graduate and postgraduate education in medicine

Medicine

Medicine is the science and art of healing. It encompasses a variety of health care practices evolved to maintain and restore health by the prevention and treatment of illness....

, pharmacy

Pharmacy

Pharmacy is the health profession that links the health sciences with the chemical sciences and it is charged with ensuring the safe and effective use of pharmaceutical drugs...

. The university has 7 faculties and one hospital

Hospital

A hospital is a health care institution providing patient treatment by specialized staff and equipment. Hospitals often, but not always, provide for inpatient care or longer-term patient stays....

:

• Faculty of Fundamental Sciences,
• Faculty of Medicine,
• Faculty of Pharmacy,
• Faculty of Traditional Medicine,
• Faculty of Community Health Care,
• Medicine Technique and Convalescent Faculty,
• Dentomaxillofacial Faculty,
• The university hospital.

History

The university with today's name was founded in 1976 but the University of Saigon, the precursor of today's university was founded in 1941 by French

France

The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...

 colonists in the period of French Indochina

French Indochina

French Indochina was part of the French colonial empire in southeast Asia. A federation of the three Vietnamese regions, Tonkin , Annam , and Cochinchina , as well as Cambodia, was formed in 1887....

. In 1961, the university was split into two: Medicine University of Saigon and University of Pharmacy of Saigon. In 1964, University of Dental Care of Saigon was founded from a division of Medicine University. In 1976, these two universities were merged into today's name university.