UNIVERSITI TUNKU ABDUL RAHMAN
Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery
The Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery (M.B.,B.S) programme at UTAR aims at preparing its graduates to become caring, competent, and evidence-based doctors.
Duration
5 years (Minimum)
PROGRAMME LEARNING OUTCOMES (PLO)
The developement of Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery (M.B.,B.S) course curriculum is centered around the following nine (9) learning outcomes:
- PLO 1. Apply knowledge of basic sciences in their clinical practice
- PLO 2. Formulate appropriate diagnoses and patient management plans based on clinical findings
- PLO 3. Communicate and lead effectively
- PLO 4. Work independently and with others in a team
- PLO 5. Commit to professional, ethical and social responsibilities
- PLO 6. Engage in self-directed, life-long learning with skills in information and resource management
- PLO 7. Demonstrate entrepreneurial skills and critical thinking, in problem solving reseach and development, and management
- PLO 8. Commit to disease preventation and health promotion of the communities
- PLO 9. Explain the importance of family and communities in health care delivery
Core Subjects
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Clinical Posting
M.B.B.S. students will be exposed to clinical training at the end of preclinical stage in Year 2 in order to facilitate transfer of class room based knowledge into application. M.B.B.S. Year 3 through Year 5 are clinical years. At this stage, students are fully hospital based, posted in specialised clinical areas, mainly in Hospital Ampang, Hospital Kuala Lumpur and Klinik Kesihatan.
CAREERS PROSPECTS and POSTGRADUATE OPPORTUNITIES
Upon successful completion of the medical degree, graduates are provisionally registered with the Malaysian Medical Council and undergo a two-year compulsory internship as house-officers in accredited government hospitals.
On satisfactory completion of postings in the main specialties of medicine and their assessments, the house-officers would be eligible for full registration and undertake a compulsory service at any government / public university hospitals or medical centres as a medical officer.
After completing the compulsory service with the Nation, the medical doctors can either continue as medical officers in government service or go into private practice as a private practitioner. If they are interested to become a medical specialist, they can pursue a postgraduate degree, the clinical masters, which will take about 4 years. After that, they can further subspecialize into a particular clinical discipline with additional 3 years of sub specialty training. Alternatively, for those who are more interested in research, they can pursue a PhD or Doctorate of Medicine degree, after their clinical masters.
Clinical masters, subspecialty diplomas, PhD or Doctorate of Medicine can all be undertaken in Malaysia, except some uncommon subspecialty fields. Certain foreign advanced degrees such as the MRCP(UK), MRCPath (UK), FRCPA (Australasia) can also be pursued in part or totally in Malaysia.