Page 3 - Bachelor of Biomedical Sciences

Message from the Dean
Welcome to the Faculty 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 biomedical scientist, 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 DR. APRIL CAMILLA ROSLANI
Dean

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