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T. Paul Tran, M.D., had a dream.<\/p>\n

UNMC’s emergency department research director was going to go back to his native Vietnam and teach the U.S. approach to graduate medical education. He was going to help improve patient care in the region where he was born. He was going to make a difference.<\/p>\n

This, he told his friend Michael Wadman, M.D., was what he had always wanted to do at this point in his career.<\/p>\n


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Now, nearly a year after Dr. Tran died with his project still unfinished, his friends and colleagues in the department of emergency medicine are bringing his dream to life.<\/p>\n

In April, Dr. Wadman and his colleagues received notice that they had been granted a Vietnam Education Foundation\/U.S. Faculty Scholar Program grant – the very grant that Dr. Tran had received and which had to be withdrawn following his death.<\/p>\n

“We reworked the grant and submitted it early this year,” Dr. Wadman said. “We are now making plans for two trips to Vietnam in the late summer and fall of 2013.”<\/p>\n

The project is essentially what Dr. Tran had envisioned. In addition to the two trips, UNMC faculty will participate in teleconferences with emergency physicians from Thai Bin Medical University, the Vietnamese partnering institution, between the visits and on an ongoing basis after the project is completed.<\/p>\n

“We may even learn some things that will help us here in our program, especially since we train residents who end up practicing in rural EDs without much back up,” he added.<\/p>\n

“This was a well-thought-out project by Paul,” Dr. Wadman said. “It’s definitely a worthwhile project – but more than that, it was Paul’s dream.”<\/p>\n

After Dr. Tran became ill, Dr. Wadman promised his friend that the department Dr. Tran had helped found was going to carry out the project.<\/p>\n

“We talked a lot about this,” Dr. Wadman said. “We had to change some things – you can’t replace Paul – but it is entirely based on Paul’s idea.”<\/p>\n

Dr. Tran wanted the people from his region of Vietnam to benefit from what he had learned in his career and at UNMC, Dr. Wadman said.<\/p>\n

“We are all very motivated to do this,” Dr. Wadman said. “It meant a lot to Paul – and it means a lot to the department.”<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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