Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, Siriraj Hospital now provides “International Visiting Rehabilitation Program” for medical doctors. Our program includes the opportunity to attend in all rehabilitation aspects such as
Clinical Assistant Professor Dennis J. Janisse from Medical College of Wisconsin, USA has been working as the Visiting Professor at Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, Faculty of Medicine Siriraj Hospital, Mahidol University, between November 27 – December 8, 2017.
On January 2, 2018, Assistant Professor Witsanu Kumthornthip, Chairman of Department of Rehabilitation Medicine welcomed Dr. Khin Palae Swe from Mandalay General Hospital, Department of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation to attend the short training course under Siriraj Scholarship for Doctors from ASEAN and Developing Countries at Department of Rehabilitation Medicine from 2 January – 28 February 2018.
Department of Rehabilitation Medicine was officially established on September 15th, 1993 as the 19thdepartment in the Faculty of Medicine , Siriraj Hospital. Currently, the office is on the 9th floor of Srisangwan Building, Siriraj Hospital. Since then, the Department of Rehabilitation Medicine has continually generated and developed services from 1949 until now. On February 4, 2004, the Department of Rehabilitation Medicine opened the 11th-floor inpatient rehabilitation ward at Chalermprakiat Building. The service included the intensive rehabilitation treatment of the patients over 15 years old such as paralytic patients and amputees.
Continuously, the Department of Rehabilitation Medicine provides rehabilitation service as holistic care to the patient by multidisciplinary team, as one of the core leader to direct Thai society in healthcare and physical capability recovering that enhance people’s quality of life. All department members attempt to conduct excellent research and develop new knowledge to be benefit to people’s health within the department vision. To serve the vision, the department set objectives to produce worldwide standard doctors, specialist doctor in rehabilitation– who would be able to effectively and properly generate advantages to public, also continuously develop themselves. The most important is that they must have morality and social responsibility and always treat others well following the phrase which means to be concern of other’s feeling.