REPORT

STUDENT TRAINING EXCHANGE

KHON KAEN UNIVERSITY

RAZMI WULAN DIASTUTI

20160350021

SCHOOL OF PHARMACY
FACULTY OF MEDICINE AND HEALTH SCIENCE
MUHAMMADIYAH UNIVERSITY OF YOGYAKARTA
2019
 TABLE OF CONTENTS

COVER ........................................................................................................................................................ 1
TABLE OF CONTENTS .............................................................................................................................. 2
CHAPTER I ................................................................................................................................................ 3
A. Background of Khon Kaen University.............................................................................................. 3
B. Accomodation ................................................................................................................................... 4
C. Meals ................................................................................................................................................. 5
D. Transportation ................................................................................................................................... 5
CHAPTER II ............................................................................................................................................... 7
A. Learning Experience ......................................................................................................................... 7
B. Extra-curricular Activities............................................................................................................... 11
ITINERARY.............................................................................................................................................. 12
CHAPTER III ........................................................................................................................................... 13
A. Conclusions and Suggestions .............................................................................................................. 13
DOCUMENTATION................................................................................................................................ 14

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 CHAPTER I

A. Background of Khon Kaen University

Khon Kaen University (KKU) was one of four regional universities established in
1964 as part of a decentralized development plan for higher education in Thailand. The
campus is in the Northwestern sector of Khon Kaen, just a few kilometers from the center
of the city. Situated in a most attractive park, the campus covers approximately 900
hectares. From small beginnings, KKU has grown enormously and is today home to
seventeen faculties, three academic support centers, 2 academic service centers, a hospital
and a research institute. In addition, several new institutes are currently in pipeline and
will, in time, open the University's door further to the public and increase its roles,
responsibilities and commitments to the region around. Currently the number of students
is approximately 17,000 (including 1,700 postgraduates and about 70 students from
overseas).
Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences KKU is one of faculty in Khon Kaen
University. Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences Khon Kaen University devide the
departement become 5 departments: Department of Pharmaceutical, Department of
Pharmaceutical Technology, Department of Pharmaceutical Toxicology, Department of
Administrative Pharmacy, and Department of Clinical Pharmacy. The vision of Faculty
of Pharmaceutical Sciences KKU is Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Khon Kaen
University is an institution and a leading pharmaceutical research Ranked 1 in 3 countries
and is international. The misson are :
1. The produce graduates with professional and high-quality research and increased
the proportion of graduate research focused expertise in pharmacy.
2. Promote research and build research and innovation that can take advantage of the
solutions developed by the delegation headed leadership pharmaceutical research
to guide the development of society.
3. The Outreach Using the professional expertise and research. For services to the
society and creating a network of learning and academic services to society.
4. The Arts and Culture The knowledge center Culture and traditional knowledge of
medicinal conservation. And Traditional Pharmacy Thailand.

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 5. The organization management is an organization that has a good management
system. Efficiency and good governance. Managing resources to generate revenue
for the budget, more self-reliant.

The Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences is one of the health sciences faculties of

Khon Kaen University (KKU). KKU is the major university of education and
technology in the Northeastern region of Thailand. This faculty was established in
December 1980 to meet the National Economic and Social Development Plan NO. 4
under the health development plan of the country.

The Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sclences of KKU is the oldest school of pharmacy

the Northeastern region of Thailand and is the only school of pharmacy in Thailand
that offers a bachelor’s degree in pharmacy in the English language. The Faculty's
mission is to produce graduates with professional and high-quality research partiolios
and to increase the proportion of graduate research-focused expertise in pharmacy. In
2019 our faculty received the honorary award of outstanding research management
within Khon Kaen University.

B. Accomodation
On September 21, 2018, we flew together to Bangkok at 09.00 AM. In Bangkok
we went to the malls and several tourist attractions in Bangkok. On the 22nd we left
Bangkok and went to Khon Kaen at 9.30 PM. We arrived at Khon Kaen at 6:00 in the
morning.
University accomodation is good. We stayed at Sorrento Hotel and Residence
which is located in Nai Mueang, Mueang Khon Kaen District, Khon Kaen 40000,
Thailand. We stayed there for 3 weeks. The rooms has television, refrigerator, air
conditioner, and water heater. 1 room is occupied by 2 students. The rooms in Sorrento
Hotel and Residence are quite good, clean, and comfortable. The distance Sorrento Hotel
and Residence with Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences quite near, a distance of about 1.5
km. We just walk to the KKU bus stop and then we take the bus to get to campus. For the
information, KKU’s bus is free.
Our residence is very strategic, besides being close to the faculty, our residence is
close to mini market, and several eating places. We just walk a few minutes to get there.

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C. Meals
The food in Khon Kaen city is very diverse. However, we’re rarely find restaurants
with halal logo. Everyday, we ate in a halal canteen which lay on the Pharmacy Faculty.
Sometimes, we also eat in some restaurants that only sell chicken. Although there is no
halal logo. There is no choice because it is very difficult to find a restaurant that has a
halal logo. The only food we ate there was chicken. At night, we sometimes buy sweet
martabak near the residence, and the seller is a Muslim. The School of Pharmacy UMY
bought us a rice cooker. We use it for cook rice for our dinner. So, we made a picket
schedule for cooking rice. We also brought some noodles and dried food to supplyiur dish
while we were there.

D. Transportation
Our journey begins using a bus from Yogyakarta to Jakarta for 13 hours. We arrived
in Jakarta at 05:00 WIB, then we headed to Bangkok using an Asian Air plane from Jakarta
to Don Muang Internasional Airport. We arrived in Bangkok in the afternoon. In the
evening we went to SIAM Center and MBK by using the BTS (Bangkok Sky Train). In
the next day, we toured Bangkok. We went around the Chao Praya river and boarded the
ferry. After that, we went to the Grand Palace which was the residence of the king as well
as the administrative building of the government. After that, we walked to Wat Pho, Wat
Pho is one of the oldest temples in Bangkok. Wat Pho Temple is believed to be the first
school or university to teach knowledge about religion, science and literature. But now it
is better known as a massage center and traditional medicine. In the afternoon, we went
to the Chatuchak market by grab van. Chatuchak Market is one of the biggest markets in
the world. This market is estimated to be visited by around 400 thousand people every
weekend (2 days). Chatuchak Market is only open on Saturdays and Sundays which start
around 08:00 until around 06:00 in the afternoon. In the evening at 09:30, we went to
Khon Kaen using a bus that departed from Mochit station. On the way to Khon Kaen, we
got into trouble because the final dispute from the bus we ordered was wrong. However,

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we got anothe bus to continue the journey to Khon Kaen. We arrived at Khon Kaen at
6.00 am and we were picked up by Phi Eve at 7:00.
Every morning, we walked to the KKU bus stop, after that we boarded the bus to
get to campus. We boarded the bus with the yellow line. The bus in KKU has many kinds
of lines namely red, blue, purple, orange, and yellow. Our lodging and pharmacy faculty
are on the yellow line, so we only need to take the yellow bus. When we go back to
residence, we often walking. We did not take the bus, because the bus is surrounded the
KKU campus and it would take 30 minutes. So, we often walk to return to the residence.
In occasion, we also use the van of Pharmacy Faculty to go to some of the places that we
will visit. If we want to go to somewhere else, we usually take a grab car. the price is quite
cheap and also the locations we are going to are not so far away.

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 CHAPTER II

A. Learning Experience
There are some activities that we do at KKU's pharmacy faculty
1. Attend class
When we attending classes, we attendt the 5th year student classes. We
follow the subject delivered by the lecturer and we also discuss with students in
the class. The lecturer who teaches us is very good at explaining, the subject that
she taught is very universal so we have no trouble understanding the subject. In
there, we see all students have a tab as a learning medium. They don't write in
books or paper, instead they write in their own tabs and also they already have the
subject that will they learn. Students said that this is a learning method used at
KKU to save paper and be more efficient for learning.
2. Go to the lab
We visited several laboratories. In some laboratories, we make products.
We make handwash products and make inhalers. We also visited the spa lab, this
lab is a spa learning place in the Pharmacy Faculty. We were taught to make a
spa tools, look around the room, and also smell some aromas from some oils. Then,
we also visited The Center for Research and Development of Herbal Health
Products, this lab is a lab that examines various kinds of discoveries. We met the
UMY pharmacy lecturer Mrs. Rima, who was continuing her PhD study at the
KKU Faculty of Pharmacy. We visited a lab that contained TLC, HPLC,
Chromatography, etc too. The tools that available at KKU's Pharmacy Faculty are
numerous and also complete. The lab that we visited also had good safety. If we
want to enter the lab, the door must be fingerprinted with the lecturer.
3. Attend lecture
We attended several lectures while we were at KKU
• Lecture entitled “Health Care System Service and Pharmacy Education in
Thailand”. This lecture was delivered by Aj. TT. We were introduced to
the pharmaceutical lecture system in Thailand, the health system in
Thailand.

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 • Lectures entitled “Health Policy For Self-Reliance Health System”. This
lecture was delivered by Aj. TT this material is a connection from the
material previously submitted by Aj.TT. The lecturer explained how health
policy is in Thailand.
• Lectures entitled “Evaluation of Antidepressants” delivered by Aj.
Charinya. The lecturer explained how the herbal compounds are useful as
antidepressants.
• Lecture entitled “Development of Herbal Health Products” delivered by
Aj.Sarunya. The lecturer explained how the processes of herbal products
were made in Thailand, how the regulations were made, how they were
loaded, how they were tested.
• Lecture entitled “The Principles of Photoprotection and Sunscreen
Application” submitted by Aj. Lucy. The lecturer explained the structure
of the skin that would affect the use of sunscreen, explained the difference
between UV A and UV B, explained how to use sunscreen properly. In this
lecture I am very excited, because I like this topic. Aj Lucy delivered the
material well and easy to understand
• Lecture entitled “Hospital Pharmacist and Their Role In Patient Care” by
Aj. Suthan. The lecturer explains how a pharmacist in the clinical
department carries out his duties.
• Lecture entitled “Thai Traditional Medicine” delivered by Aj. Tanit. In this
lecture we join exchange students from Cambodia. The lecturer explained
the various herbal plants that are usually used in herbal medicine in
Thailand. The lecturer also compares with herbal plants in Indonesia.

4. Go to Hospital, Drugstore, and Primary Care

- Srinagarind Hospital

KKU is strategically located because it is adjacent to three hospitals, namely

Srinagarind Hospital, Bangkok Hospital and Queen Sirikit Heart Center. One of
the hospitals we visited was Srinagarind hospital. There is very good treatment
management, ranging from inpatients and outpatients. Doctors do not write
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prescriptions directly, but recipes are inputted properly through a computer system
and directly connected to the pharmaceutical department. Medications are given as
ODD. For taking narcotics, psychotropic substances, special semi-automatic
devices are used. So that only pharmacists are authorized to take it. For
chemotherapy drugs are placed in special containers. Storage of stock of medicines
is also placed in a special room. Medicines that are approaching expiration are
separated in certain cupboards.

- Khon Kaen Hospital

Khon Kaen Hospital is in the heart of the city. Khon Kaen Hospital has
developed structural herbal medicine. There are doctors, pharmacists, and
specialists who specialize in these skills. Patients are given the authority to choose
their own treatment (western medicine or Thai traditional medicine).

We visited the spa, acupuncture and herbal therapies. We also explained some
treatments in Thailand that used herbal plants, cannabis plants which were
legalized in Thailand as medicine. In Thailand, herbal treatments are very popular,
So it's not surprising that herbal products in Thailand are very good. In Thailand,
doctors and pharmacists can take special courses to become herbal doctors and
herbal pharmacists as well.

- Community Pharmacy

On this occasion, we visited a drugstore owned by KKU Pharmacy Faculty. In

this drugstore there are 2 pharmacists. This drugstore not has much different from
drugstore in Indonesia, It's just that drugstore in KKU provide facilities to stop
smoking, this is the diferences between drugstore in Indonesia . This service has
been funded by the Thailand government. If someone wants to stop smoking, they
can go to the drugstore and talk to the pharmacist. Furthermore, in this drugstore
there is a SPA. For the information, the Thailand government has added SPA to
their employee insurance. So, every government worker has got insurance to get
SPA services every month.

- Thanyarak Hospital

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 This hospital is a special rehabilitation hospital for drug and alcohol addicts. In
here, we get a lot of new information about how the rehabilitation process of
patients with drug and alcohol addiction.
- Nong Waeng Primary Care

This is primary care in Khon Kaen. Nong Waeng primary care is a branch of
Khon Kaen Hospital. This primary treatment for people who are close to this
primary care. If the patient's condition getting worst, the patient will be referred to
Khon Kaen Hospital.

5. Pant Tissue Culture

This department handled by KKU Pharmacy. This fungtions to support the

discovery and development of new plant-based medicines. In vitro culture labs can be
used to modify DNA / genetic engineering to obtain active substances according to the
nature and specifications they need. Cultivated plants are usually taken from the area
around the campus, then examined. The study was conducted by taking cells / parts of
roots, stems and leaves.

6. Campus tour

We went around the campus using KKU's bus by Phi Eve. We visited the Natural
History museum. We can find examples of skeletons of dinosaurs, reptiles, amphibians
and various other animals. Dinosaurs have been made mascot Khon Kaen, said to be
the location of dinosaur fossil discoveries. Not only that, we can learn a lot about the
life cycle of mosquitoes, butterflies, and learn the shape and types of bacteria / viruses.
Unfortunately the information presented is mostly still written in local languages so it
is difficult for foreign tourists to understand. And also we wnt tu Jubilee Hall. This
was a big place like Sportorium UMY. The function of this Hall is for graduate
ceremony in KKU.

7. Pharmaceutical Factory

KKU has its own factory to make preparations, medicines and cosmetics. The room
is very sterile, in and out are required to use shoes and special suits to avoid

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 contaminants from the outside. So far there are 4 workers there. The lower floor is
used for the manufacture of medicinal preparations and in 2nd floor for cosmetic
manufacture, in which there is a special room according to specifications, starting from
the material deviation warehouse, weighing, curing, tablet printing, blister and press
and other tests. Anyone has the opportunity to order products there with a minimum
limit of 50 orders per batch.

B. Extra-curricular Activities

1. Central Plaza Khon Kaen

Central Plaza Khon Kaen , Central Plaza Khon Kaen is a shopping mall in Khon
Kaen, Thailand. In Central Plaza, we only hanged out and bought Thai Tea. Because
it’s a mall, and the price s quite expensive. There are many brands in here like,
UNIQLO, FILA, H&M, and also there are many restaurant too.

2. Ton Tann Green Market

Ton Tann Green Market Is a cheap market that is usually open from 18.00-22.00.
Lots of food stalls found both halal and non-halal. There are lots of cheap souvenirs,
especially shoes, bags, clothes.

3. Night Market Khon Kaen

In there, many sellers sell handbags, T-shirts, postcards, picture frames and other
handmade products. Dancers, musicians and other buskers work strategic corners, and
the whole place is festooned with Chinese-style lanterns, adding to the festive
atmosphere.

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 ITINERARY
For Exchange Students from School of Pharmacy,
University Muhammadiyah Yogyakarta, INDONESIA

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 CHAPTER III

A. Conclusions and Suggestions

1. Conclusions
- Student Training Exchange teaches that we are accustomed to speaking in
English. We learned a lot about herbal plants in Thailand.
- Extraordinary experience gained is very valuable, both regarding lectures,
traditions, culture in Thailand.
2. Suggestions
In my opinion, if possible, it should be considered for internships to be held in
several hospitals in order to support a better understanding of students about the
problems that often occur.

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1. Campus tour

2. Pharmacy Community

3. Khon Kaen Hospital

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4. Laboratorium

5. Lecture

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6. Natural Museum

7. Nong Wang Primary Care

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8. Srinangkrid Hospital

9. Ton Tan Green Market

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10. Sorrento Hotel and Residence

11. Jubilee Convention Hall

12. KKU BUS

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13. Other

14. Thailand

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