The 27th Graduation Ceremony of Defence Services Institute of Nursing and Paramedical Sciences was held yesterday afternoon in Yangon Region. The ceremony was held at the Institute convocation hall in Mingaladon Township, and the commandant of the institute Brig-Gen Win Bo, and feculty members attended.
According to the programme, the commandant and faculty members of the institute entered the graduation hall. They took their seats, and the Myanmar orchestra opened the graduation ceremony by playing the national anthem.
Afterwards, the graduates took the oath of education and were brought to the rector according to the programme. Next, the rector awarded the degree certificates. The commandant then allowed the graduates to wear the insignia appropriate to their degree and signed the graduation record book. Then, the commandant gave the graduation speech, and the ceremony ended.
The Defence Services Institute of Nursing and Paramedical Sciences has held graduation ceremonies since 2003.
The faculty members of the institute were sent to foreign courses to obtain international-level skills. In 1998, 1999 and 2001, they were sent to La Trobe University in Australia for a doctorate in nursing and a master's degree. In 2022, they were sent to Burapha University in Thailand to study for doctorate degrees in nursing.
Similarly, senior nurses were sent to the People’s Republic of China for practical nursing training and to the National University Hospital of Singapore for intensive care cardiology training.
They were also invited to work for the Master of Science in Nursing and Master of Science in Medicine courses at Chiang Mai University and Mahidol University in Thailand and to the Master of Science in Nursing at the University of Airlangga Mulyorejo Surabaya in Indonesia. — MNA/KZL
