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FACULTY OF MEDICINE, UNIVERSITI MALAYA

http://medicine.um.edu.my

DEAN’S

MESSAGE

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 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,

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