Dr Kong Kalyan (fourth from left) with her classmates in Japan. PHOTO SUPPLIED
Roomchang Dental & Aesthetic Hospital dentist is alive on her PhD in dentistry at a arch Japanese university
Post: Could you amuse acquaint about yourself and your profession to our readers?
Kong: My name is Dr Kong Kalyan. I am currently a added year PhD apprentice at Tokyo Medical and Dental University in Japan.
How continued accept you been a dentist? When did you alpha alive with Roomchang Dental & Aesthetic Hospital?
I formed at a clandestine dispensary for one year afore I confused to Roomchang in April 2008. In April 2011, I acclimatized a scholarship to abide my apprenticeship in Japan. So, I was acclimatized to briefly append my assignment at Roomchang. I am still active at Roomchang, but am currently on leave.
Right now, you're one of several Cambodian dentists who has acclimatized a scholarship to abstraction dentistry in Japan. How did you get this scholarship? Who sponsors it?
One dentist has already acclimatized a PhD from Japan and there are four added dentists belief in Japan now. Two of us acclimatized the scholarship via applying through our university and four of us concluded up accepting our scholarships via the Japanese legation in Phnom Penh, through which we applied. Regardless of area we applied, everyone's scholarships are sponsored by the Ministry of Apprenticeship of Japan.
What's the capital focus of your studies? How continued will you be belief for this degree?
I abstraction at the Administration of Cariology and Operative Dentistry. The affair of my analysis is dental adhering and carving material. It takes four years to complete a PhD advance here. But I accept began alive as a analysis apprentice for an added year, so altogether I will absorb bristles years. I am now in the added division of my added year. I accept two years and three months added to go.
You accept formed and advised in abounding altered places. What are the differences amid belief in Japan and Cambodia?
I can say that I am actual advantageous to accept this befalling to abstraction in Japan. Here, the accessories are added than sufficient. We accept laboratories and equipment, a big library and online journals accessible – the university subscribes to those journals for us. In my antecedent experiences, my university in Cambodia did not accommodate that. So, we don't accept problems with accessing new information. Moreover, professors, accessory professors, abettor professors, advisers and seniors are abreast and actual helpful. The charge fees and amount of active actuality are both added big-ticket than in Cambodia, but I don't accept any problems in that regard, as I am on scholarship.
Could you amuse allotment some adventures about what it's like to alive and abstraction in Japan?
Living overseas is actual absorbing for sure. I accept an befalling to be apparent to altered cultures, as I am in my university's all-embracing department. I accept met abounding new accompany from countries including Poland, Jordan, Iran, China, Thailand, Bangladesh, Nepal and the Philippines.
Living in addition country opens our eyes to the world. Now I accept added about the role of the dental profession. We do not accept alone to amusement the patients, we additionally charge to brainwash them about the accent of articulate and dental health, to advice them accept what abstracts we are application and why we are application them. We additionally charge to do analysis to advance those abstracts and techniques so as to advance dentistry on the whole.
Life in Japan is actual arduous due to the ample citizenry and aerial educational standards. Moreover, to be an able researcher, I charge to assignment actual diligently.
What new adventures and surprises accept you encountered while active in Japan?
Well, it is actual algid for me now, as I am acclimatized to active in our hot country. However, I accept become added acclimatized to this weather. The affair that I like the best about Japan is the accessible transportation. It is actual safe and acceptable at all times and places. Good accessible assurance is additionally the affair that I consistently acknowledge the best actuality in Japan.
