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Allianze University College of Medical Sciences (AUCMS) kini bertapak teguh di utara kota London dengan perasmian pejabat ACMS Trent Park Limited oleh bekas Perdana Menteri, Tun Abdullah Ahmad Badawi pada Jumaat.

ACMS Trent Park Limited yang pada diwujudkan 31 Jan 2013 dengan modal berbayar 100,000 pound sterling adalah syarikat yang diwujudkan bagi menguruskan kampus AUCMS London selain menguruskan pembelian bangunan yang kini menjadi kampus kolej universiti itu.

Menurut siaran media AUCMS hari ini, Raja Muda Perlis Tuanku Syed Faizuddin Putra Jamalullail dan Raja Puan Muda Perlis Tuanku Hajah Lailatul Shahreen Akashah Khalil turut berangkat ke majlis perasmian pejabat ACMS Trent Park di London.

Sebelum menjadi kampus AUCMS London, kira-kira 20 bangunan yang terletak di kawasan seluas 21 hektar itu digunakan oleh Middlesex Polytechnic sebelum dinaik taraf sebagai Middlesex University dalam tahun 1992.

Universiti itu kemudiannya berpindah ke kampus baharunya di Hendon dalam tahun 2012 dan hartanah bernilai kira-kira 50 juta pound sterling itu dibeli oleh ACMS Trent Park pada Julai 2013.

Pada Julai tahun ini, ACMS Trent Park mengambil alih Trent Park Campus di bahagian Utara London daripada Middlesex University, yang merupakan kampus luar pesisir pertama untuk AUCMS yang beribu pejabat di Kepala Batas, Pulau Pinang.

Sementara itu Presiden AUCMS Prof Datuk Dr Zainudin Wazir berkata, dalam tempoh terdekat pihaknya merancang untuk melaksanakan program MD-AUCMS di kampus AUCMS London bagi membolehkan para pelajar perubatannya mendapat pendedahan dan pengalaman di luar negara.

Melalui program itu, para pelajar tahun pertama dan dua akan menjalani pengajian praklinikal selama empat bulan manakala pengajian klinikal untuk pelajar tahun tiga hingga lima selama dua bulan di kampus London itu.

Dr Zainuddin juga berkata, perancangan masa depannya ialah untuk menawarkan program-program United Kingdom pada peringkat sarjana muda dan sarjana khususnya dalam jurusan Kewangan Islam, perubatan, pergigian dan pengurusan perniagaan.

Selain itu program penyelidikan dan pembangunan serta perkhidmatan akan turut dilaksanakan supaya para graduannya kelak mudah mendapat pekerjaan dalam pasaran global.

Turut hadir pada majlis perasmian itu ialah isteri Abdullah, Tun Jeanne Abdullah dan Pesuruhjaya Tinggi Malaysia ke United Kingdom Datuk Seri Zakaria Sulong.

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For Future Doctors: The Standards of Medical Education in Malaysia

For Future Doctors: The Standards of Medical Education in Malaysia and Its Acceptability by David Quek

November 17, 2011 by Pagalavan Letchumanan

 Since I started blogging in January 2010, I brought up various issues regarding the standards of medical education, commercialisation of medical educations and oversupply of doctors by 2015. Many did not believe what I had said and some even accused me of being selfish, trying to save my rice bowl and preventing people from becoming doctors. The aim of my blog is to educate the public and budding doctors regarding what being a doctor is all about as well as the current and future prospects of doing medicine. You should never do medicine for wrong reasons.
2 days ago, my blog was quoted by a writer in Malaysiakini (http://pagalavan.com/2011/11/15/malaysiakini-storm-is-coming-for-our-medical-profession/) who even borrowed my title. Today, I was quoted again by Dr. David Quek who had given an excellent speech at the Medico-Legal conference in KL http://myhealth-matters.blogspot.com/2011/11/standards-of-medical-education-in.html. I was actually invited to attend this conference but due to work commitments, I could not attend. Dr David Quek is a MMC council member and immediate past president of MMA. He is the best person to tell us  all, that what I have been saying all this while is coming soon………………. Please see the highlighted paragraphs
ON 22/11/2011, I will be interviewed by Astro regarding the prospect in doing medicine in this country. It will be in Tamil to educate the Indian population in this country. It may be hired on air somewhere early next year. Malaysian Nanban will also be writing an article on medical education by quoting my blog.

The Standards of Medical Education in Malaysia and Its Acceptability

 

The Standards of Medical Education in Malaysia and Its Acceptability

Dr. David KL Quek,

MBBS, MRCP, FRCP, FAMM, FCCP, FASCC, FAPSC, FNHAM, FACC, FAFPM (Hon.)

Immediate Past President, Malaysian Medical Association (MMA)

 

(Lecture presented at the Medico-Legal Society of Malaysia Conference, Royale Chulan Hotel, Kuala Lumpur, on 16 November 2011)

Glut of Medical Graduates—Too Many, Too Soon…

The past 5 to 10 years have been a watershed period for medical education in the country. During this time, Malaysia has embarked on an ambitious if misguided (in my opinion) approach to rapidly attaining ‘self-sufficiency’ in health care providers for the nation’s perceived needs and demands. For doctors, it was finally announced that there is now a directed plan by the government to try and achieve a doctor-population ratio of 1:400 from the current (2010) 1:903.

 

To achieve this, some 34 medical schools have been now licensed by the Ministry of Higher Education (MOHE), with almost 50 medical programmes (these include public medical schools teaming up with other foreign or local medical schools to form for-profit private joint medical programmes). The objective is to generate the requisite medical graduates to quickly fill in the projected and computed vacancies for the various public sector health facilities. The ultimate goal is to become a country with the so-called ‘recognised’ developed status doctor-population ratio of under 1:400. And we aim to do this in a short span of under 10 years—by 2020!

By comparison, the United Kingdom has some 32 medical schools for a population of 63 million, producing some 7,500 medical graduates per year. It is good to remember that the UK has had a long hallowed tradition of excellent medical services and education for centuries, with an extensive cohort of ready-made clinical teachers, professors and academicians. We are just about 45 years since we began our first medical programme at the University of Malaya, in 1965.

 

In UK, the annual output of medical graduates is around 7,500 and they are trained in 140 hospitals; in Australia 3,400 graduates are trained in 60 hospitals; in Hong Kong, 350 graduates in 13 hospitals; and in Singapore 150 graduates in 4 hospitals. In Malaysia, 2008, there were 2,274 graduates undergoing training in 38 hospitals and, since then, the number has increased tremendously, so much so that the Ministry of Health has had to increase the number of accredited hospitals for housemanship training, barely scraping by with sometimes just a single clinical specialist for each discipline, at more remote district hospitals.

 

 

And the truth is that we really don’t have a happy history of strong medical educational expertise and consistency of academicians; most of our senior and experienced medical specialists and professionals are in the private sector, or they would have migrated overseas. (It is estimated that as many as 40-50% of Singapore’s health service personnel are manned by Malaysian medical graduates!)

 

A few dedicated senior doctors are in our medical schools, but most are driven and run by relatively ‘young’ post-graduates or even specialist in training, whose ability to impart and inculcate ethical healthcare values and inspiration for compassionate care may be untutored, wanting or uninspired.

 

(I would at this juncture like to apologise to our younger colleagues out there, that this is not a disparaging remark to belittle their efforts at medical education or their skills—age and seniority are not requisites for medical excellence, for sure. Indeed when we are young, hungry, and foolish even, we tend to have the best and most aggressive approach to learning and hopefully teaching special skills—“see one, do one, teach one”.<!–[if !supportFootnotes]–>[1]<!–[endif]–> I began as a lecturer at the age of 29 years, and I fully recognise that we can all be good dedicated teachers, when we choose to become one—yet there is no denying that experience and seniority helps create a sense of stability and perhaps more importantly, ethical balance and professional equipoise, particularly in the field of medical education and the hugely important responsibility and privilege of training medical professionals!)

 

Yet by 2020, we are targeted to produce some 5000 medical graduates every year for our projected population of 35 million, excluding those others who might be returning from foreign medical colleges. This is by any measure a humongous number of new medical graduates, which any middle-income country can ill afford to sustain or worse to develop a sensible program at accommodating the requisite progressive training of young interns or even to provide a quality health service!

 

 

Table 2.4.: Number of Annual Practicing Certificates Issued

According to State and Sector, 2007 to 2009.

STATE	2007		2008		2009
	Public Sector	Private Sector	Public Sector	Private Sector	Public Sector	Private Sector
KUALA LUMPUR	2,239	1,762	2,590	1,881	2,797	1,952
LABUAN	18	16	12	17	12	17
PUTRAJAYA	254	9	257	10	294	10
JOHOR	612	981	752	1,041	933	1,072
KEDAH	446	458	484	483	580	482
KELANTAN	637	209	784	207	926	218
MELAKA	306	378	322	363	374	406
NEGERI SEMBILAN	354	341	401	401	532	372
PAHANG	340	355	440	378	489	385
PULAU PINANG	514	874	559	938	683	960
PERAK	662	803	759	835	924	854
PERLIS	95	28	120	28	139	38
SELANGOR	1,198	2,337	1,393	2,508	1,692	2,624
TERENGGANU	260	166	266	182	335	193
SABAH	462	342	592	358	696	379
SARAWAK	471	357	543	378	605	382
TOTAL	8,868	9,416	10,274	10,008	12,011	10,344
GRAND TOTAL	18,284		20,282		22,355

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Malaysian Medical Council—Annual Report 2009

 

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Academic medicine must deal with the clash of business and professional values.

Academic medicine must deal with the clash of business and professional values.

Authors

Swick HM.

Journal

Acad Med. 1998 Jul;73(7):751-5.

Affiliation

Abstract

Academic medicine faces unprecedented challenges, especially the impact of the changing and more business-oriented health care system on medical education. There is an inherent clash of values between business and medicine: among key business values are profit and competition, while among the traditional values of the medical profession are service, advocacy, and altruism. Business interests have already gained a central place in medicine, so the challenge has become how to utilize the positive elements of the entrepreneurial spirit to enhance professional values and advance academic medicine's central enterprise. The author maintains that to achieve that synthesis, the leaders of academic medicine must continue to engage in a dialogue with the broader academic community, the government, the public, and the health care industry. The dialogue must emphasize
(1) managing change rather than resisting it (such as focusing on the positive aspects of change, keeping sight of the fundamental professional values of medicine and medical education, and maintaining cool, rational judgment in the face of challenges);

(2) making academic medicine's case with many constituencies, such as the health care industry, government, and the public; and

(3) fostering professionalism by increasing medical schools' emphasis on this task, by ensuring that schools keep an appropriate balance between the science and the art of medicine, and by having faculty model appropriate professional values for their students. The author concludes that while change inevitably brings challenge and a sense of loss, it also brings the opportunity to help reshape medical education to meet the needs of society.

PMID

9679463 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

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Leadership for medicine's promising future.

Leadership for medicine's promising future.

Authors

Cohen JJ.

Journal

Acad Med. 1998 Feb;73(2):132-7.

Affiliation

Abstract

Leadership in improving the education of doctors, while impressive, is not happening fast enough. While there are many obstacles, there is no time to waste in restructuring medical education to repair its present deficiencies, for otherwise outside forces could overwhelm today's education leaders with imperatives to make improvements on their own terms.

The first step in addressing present shortcomings is to establish measurable objectives for the education of doctors that are aligned with the legitimate expectations of society and the enduring precepts of the medical profession. To provide guidance in establishing these objectives, the AAMC launched the Medical School Objectives Project (MSOP) two years ago.

 This project is now close to completing its initial phase, which is to define the knowledge, skills, attitudes, and values every medical student must demonstrate before graduating. Phase Two will be concerned with implementation (e.g., establishing assessment methods; improving faculty development; etc.).

As for aligning the outcomes of medical education with the precepts of the profession, nothing is more important: if doctors do not have high standards of professionalism--altruism, respect, compassion, honesty, integrity, and others--medicine's very survival is threatened. Medical educators must insist that their graduates demonstrate these attributes, through more careful admission criteria, more attention to medical professionalism in the curriculum and in the evaluation of students, more community service for students, and improved role modeling by faculty.

Leadership for the changes that are needed will not come from a once-in-a-lifetime leader of heroic proportions but from everyone within academic medicine leading the profession to its promising future through quality education.

PMID

9484185 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

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Allianze University @ AUCMS Mission

We strive to expand the possibilities of medical exploration through our mission of developing ideas beyond science in

Medicine 

through both conventional and modern chemistry,our drive to achieve breakthroughs in this field is encouraged from all parties who work together with us including our students, meducators, partners, vendors and the community in which we operate. 

Education 

knowledge improves lives and create more opportunities for creative ideas. We equip our people with expandable quality education and make sure we share our expertise with everyone who need it, thus sparking a catalyst for change.

Professionalism 

With integrity and ethics, we serve the world and the environment with creative ideas without compromising on our responsibilities.We intend to groom future medical professionals to heal lives through compassionate human touch

Zainuddin Wazir : The Future Leader Of Medical Education

Our founder is Dato' Zainuddin Wazir , a professional Cardiothoracic surgeon who is renowned in his field. He has contributed significantly to the medical industry , including setting up a modern heart center in the Penang General Hospital.

AUCMS was established in 2002 as the premier meducationist in Malaysia. We have journeyed through milestones and challenges with our philosophies in medicine , education and professionalism , to bring improvement to lives with ideas beyond science.Our founder is Dato' Zainuddin Wazir , a professional Cardiothoracic surgeon who is renowned in his field. He has contributed significantly to the medical industry , including setting up a modern heart center in the Penang General Hospital.

Together with Dato' Zainuddin Wazir , various professional doctors who are current practitioners in the fields of medicine and science have also given their support to the growth and expansion of AUCMS. As a team , they are dedicated to the progress of AUCMS new medical city campus. With belief and involvement of the medical community , we look towards building another chapter of history for ideas and their conception.

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