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WELCOME TO FACULY OF MEDICINE,

UNIVERSITI MALAYA

Congratulations! Your acceptance into one of our undergraduate
programmes at the Faculty of Medicine, Universiti Malaya is a

culmination of many years of hard work. You have been selected
amongst several hundred applicants who have vied to enter into our

prestigious Faculty. Universiti Malaya, Faculty of Medicine is
recognised as a national leader in medicine and the health sciences

with many distinguished academic staff that are nationally and

internationally renowned.
The Faculty in recent years has striven to make all of our programs

exciting and relevant to prepare you for the challenges of a career
in the medical sciences in this new era of rapid changes in health,
technology and information. You will find that your university
education will be vastly different from what you have experienced
at school. Unlike in school, you will be expected to undertake more
self-directed and independent learning with support from
dedicated and experienced Faculty members. All of this is to
prepare you to enter into the workforce where attributes such as
critical and analytical thinking, independence and creativity are
sought after.

The courses that you will undertake in the next 4-5 years will
prepare you for a career to enter into the healthcare profession,
whether as a doctor, nurse or pharmacist, providing direct patient
care or essential behind the scenes support. The lectures, tutorials
and the practicals that you will be attending in the course of the
next few years are however but a foundation and a stepping stone
to what we hope will prepare you for a life-long learning experience. In the words of
perhaps one of the most accomplished and greatest physicians in recent times, Sir William
Osler,
"The hardest conviction to get into the mind of a beginner is that the education upon which he
is engaged is not a college course, not a medical course, but a life course, for which the work of
a few years under teachers is but a preparation."
We hope that you will take the opportunity to engage productively, not just with your
academic lecturers and mentors, but also with your fellow students, some of whom have
come from different parts of the world. We also sincerely hope that your campus life will
not be restricted to the pursuit of an academic qualification alone, but that you will use
this opportunity to enrich your minds in other worthy pursuit whether it is community
service, sports or music and culture.

I wish you all well in your pursuits of an academic degree in the medical sciences and
hope that you will emerge from your time at the Faculty of Medicine Universiti Malaya as
a life-long learner with a passion and commitment for your chosen vocation.

PROFESSOR DATO’ DR. YANG FARIDAH ABDUL AZIZ
Dean
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