South Korea’s Inje University held the 11th Leading University Project for International Cooperation (LAIN-LUPIC) workshop in Vientiane from 8 to 10 July, seven years of nursing education cooperation with Laos.
About 30 faculty members from the Faculty of Nursing Sciences at the University of Health Sciences (UHS) attended the three-day event, themed “Strengthening Quality in Nursing Education: Integrating Teaching, Assessment, and Research.”
The workshop is the latest in a series held under a partnership between the two institutions that began in 2020.
On the first day, Inje University Vice President for Medical and Pharmaceutical Affairs Professor Byoungdoo Rhee spoke on developing nursing faculty competencies at UHS, outlining directions for improving the quality of education. Researcher Donghwi Kim, from Inje University Paik Hospital’s Simulation Center, followed with a session on interprofessional education, drawing on operational cases to explain the importance and strategies of collaborative training among healthcare professionals.
On the second day, LAIN-LUPIC Project Manager Professor Jina Oh addressed the philosophical values and professional identity underpinning nursing education.
Faculty then took part in an expert feedback session on 35 application-type multiple-choice questions developed by Lao instructors, covering seven subjects on the Lao National Nursing Licensing Examination.
Rhee and Oh gave guidance on improving the questions’ validity and reliability and shared methods for writing items that test clinical problem-solving skills, reviewing progress made on exam development to date.
On the final day, visiting professors Eunsil Won and Seohyun Won led sessions on research design and analysis, covering variable selection, appropriate statistical methods, and how to interpret research result tables, aimed at helping faculty translate accumulated teaching experience into research output.
Organizers expressed the workshop linked faculty development, assessment systems, exam quality, and research capacity into a single integrated framework for nursing education in Laos, adding that it also strengthened Lao faculty members’ practical capacity to manage educational quality.
“The 11th LAIN-LUPIC workshop served as an opportunity to further solidify the foundation for improving the quality of nursing education in Laos by linking teaching, assessment, and research into a single system,” Oh said.
She added that the partnership would continue, building on Inje University’s educational expertise to help UHS achieve sustainable innovation and train nursing professionals in Laos.
