Ministry of Public Health (MOPH)-Mahidol University's Collaborative Project to Increase Production of Rural Doctor (CPIRD) (Thai: โครงการร่วมผลิตแพทย์เพิ่มเพื่อชาวชนบท กระทรวงสาธารณสุข สถาบันสมทบมหาวิทยาลัยมหิดล), or previously named the Praboromarajchanok Institute until 2019, is the 13th medical program established in Thailand, and was founded in 1997. The project runs in the collaboration between Ministry of Public Health and Mahidol University which consists of a collection of Medical Education Centers (MEC) (Thai: ศูนย์แพทยศาสตรศึกษาชั้นคลินิก). The university approved 4 hospitals as teaching affiliates in this project, and offers only the Doctor of Medicine program (M.D.), which produces around 132 medical doctors annually. The old abbreviation of PI from Praboromarajchanok Institute