Faculty of Medicine, University of Malaya

The Faculty of Medicine, University of Malaya (commonly known as the UM Medical School, FoM UM, UM Medicine or Malaya Medicine) is one of the thirteen faculties of the University of Malaya (UM). It was officially established in September 1962 after the establishment of the university's Kuala Lumpur campus; it was the first medical school established in Malaysia.[3] The faculty is well-known for its medical education and research, especially in the discovery of the Nipah virus (1998–1999 Malaysia Nipah virus outbreak).[4][5] The faculty is widely regarded as the top medical school in Malaysia, being placed at No. 101–150 in medicine in the QS World University Rankings 2020; this makes it the highest ranked medical school in Malaysia and the third highest in Southeast Asia.[6]

Faculty of Medicine, University of Malaya
Former name
King Edward VII College of Medicine
TypePublic
Research university
Medical school
Established28 September 1905 (King Edward VII College of Medicine), September 1962 (Faculty of Medicine, University of Malaya)[1][2]
Parent institution
University of Malaya
DeanProfessor Dato' Dr Adeeba Kamarulzaman
Location
Kuala Lumpur
,
Lembah Pantai
,
Malaysia

3°07′15″N 101°39′23″E
Websitewww.medicine.um.edu.my

History

The Faculty of Medicine was first established in Singapore as the Straits Settlements and the Federated Malay States Government Medical School in 1905, which trained physicians from present day Singapore and Malaysia.[7][8] It was located within a former women's mental asylum at Sepoy Lines. The start of this medical school was significant in two ways. It trained local people to bring Western medicine to the population, and it was supported by merchants who took advantage of the tax exemptions to give generously to public causes. One notable donor was Tan Jiak Kim, a prominent Straits-born Chinese merchant. Another, Tan Chay Hoon, donated a building to the school in memory of his father, Tan Teck Guan. The Tan Teck Guan Building was built in 1911.[9]

In 1921, the school was renamed the King Edward VII College of Medicine (KECM), after a donation from the Edward VII Memorial Fund.[10] It was founded by Lim Boon Keng. In 1926, the College of Medicine Building was built to house the college in addition to the Tan Teck Guan Building. The dental school was founded shortly after.[11]

During World War II, the college operated during the Japanese occupation of Singapore, but some people were killed. The first casualty was a fourth-year medical student based at Tan Tock Seng Hospital who was fatally wounded during the Battle of Singapore. While his friends were burying him, they were spotted by Japanese soldiers and eleven were killed on the spot. The dead are commemorated by the SGH War Memorial.[12]

In 1949, the KECM merged with Raffles College to form the Singapore campus of UM.[13] The medical school became the Faculty of Medicine of UM, and students in Malaysia wishing to study medicine would have to go to the campus in Singapore. In 1962, UM split into UM (Kuala Lumpur) and the University of Singapore, with the medical school in Singapore coming under the University of Singapore, while the UM in Kuala Lumpur established the present faculty. The founder Dean of the Faculty was Tan Sri Emeritus Prof Dr. Thamboo John Danaraj. On 5 May 2005, T.J. Danaraj Medical Library was named in memory of the Dean.[14]

Silent Mentor

In affiliation with Taiwan's Tzu Chi University, the Faculty launched the first Silent Mentor program outside of Taiwan in 2012 . The program serves as the platform for the public to pledge and donate their bodies for medical education and research.The donors are addressed as "Silent Mentors" as they teach and educate medical students and professionals despite not speaking any words. After the week-long training workshop, the bodies of the "Silent Mentors" will be returned to the family members to be cremated. The program is largely different from the traditional cadaveric teaching in medical schools around the globe as most cadavers are unidentified bodies, however in this "Silent Mentor" program, the students are exposed to the life stories of each of the "Silent Mentors" and this is done with the aim to allow students learn Medicine in a humanistic approach.[15]

Admissions and programmes

The faculty provides several undergraduate and postgraduate degrees in the field of medical and health sciences. These include:

Teaching hospitals

Departments

The faculty is made up of the following departments:[19]

Research centres

The Faculty includes the following research centres:[20]

  1. Centre of Excellence for Research in AIDS (CERiA)
    • Established in 2007 and is currently the only HIV and infectious diseases research centre in Malaysia and one of a few in the region.
  2. Centre for Epidemiology and Evidence-Based Practice (CEBP)
  3. Centre for Population Health (CePH)
    • Officially launched by the Vice-Chancellor of the UM on 18 February 2009.
  4. National Orthopaedic Centre of Excellence for Research and Learning (NOCERAL)
    • Established in 2003, NOCERAL serves as a centre for education, research and a wide range of orthopaedic sub-specialty clinical services.[21]
    • The centre is supported by Yayasan Ortopedik, which was set up by Dato' Dr Mahmood Merican in 2007 with an initial fund of RM500,000.
  5. Shimadzu-UMMC Centre for Xenobiotic Studies (SUCXES)
  6. University of Malaya Centre for Proteomics Research (UMCPR)
  7. University of Malaya Eye Research Centre (UMERC)
  8. University of Malaya Research Imaging Centre (UMRIC)
  9. Tropical Infectious Disease Research and Education Centre (TIDREC)
    • Established in 2008, TIDREC serves as a focal point for national and international collaborative research on tropical infectious diseases as well as education that serves the health needs of global communities.
    • TIDREC is recognised as one of the Higher Institution Centre of Excellence (HICoE) by the Ministry of Higher Education (Malaysia), and it also houses the WHO Collaborating Centre for Arbovirus Reference & Research
    • First research centre in the Malaysia to install fully certified modular biosafety level 2 & 3 laboratories for research involving highly virulent pathogens. TIDREC is also the only centre currently operating a mock biosafety level 3 training facility.[22]

Academic profile
Year Rank Valuer
2018301–400Times Higher Education World University Rankings
2018151–200QS World University Rankings
2019251–300Times Higher Education World University Rankings
2019101–150QS World University Rankings
2020176–200Times Higher Education World University Rankings
2020101–150QS World University Rankings

Publications

Journals
  1. Journal of University of Malaya Medical Centre (JUMMEC)
  2. Biomedical Imaging and Intervention Journal (BIIJ)

Organisations
  1. University of Malaya Students' Union (UMSU) - Faculty of Medicine
  2. University of Malaya Medical Society (UM MedSoc)
    • The UM MedSoc has its roots to the Medical Society (Medsoc) that was first formed in 1949 at the University of Malaya in Singapore, headed by Mr Goon Sek Mun. Subsequently after the separation of Singapore from Malaysia, the present-day Faculty of Medicine was set up in the Kuala Lumpur campus of University of Malaya and a separate Medical Society was set up. It remains as the oldest medical student organisation and society in the medical fraternity in Malaysia. Till this date, the UM MedSoc has frequently collaborated with the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine's Medical Society to organise events for its members across Malaysia and Singapore, namely the MUNUS Games and most recently, MUUINUS in 2020, which was an online e-gaming competition held between the two medical schools, with an addition of University of Indonesia.
  3. University of Malaya Medical Alumni Association

Notable alumni

King Edward VIII College of Medicine (1925–49)

Faculty of Medicine, University of Malaya (1962–present)
  • Professor Datuk Dr. Awang Bulgiba Bin Awang Mahmud - First Malaysian doctor to gain a PhD in Health Informatics
  • Tan Sri Professor Dr. Mohd. Amin bin Jalaludin - The 10th Dean of FoM, 15th Vice-Chancellor of the University of Malaya
  • Datuk Dr. Christopher Lee - Ex-Deputy Director-General of Health (Research & Technical Support), Ministry of Health (Malaysia)
  • Dato' Dr. Chong Chee Keong - Deputy Director-General of Health (Public Health), Ministry of Health (Malaysia)
  • Dr. Norhayati Rusli - Director of Disease Control Division, Ministry of Health (Malaysia)
  • Dr. Milton Lum - Past President of the Federation of Private Medical Practitioners' Associations Malaysia (FPMPAM), past President of the Malaysian Medical Association (MMA)
  • Dr. Chua Soi Lek - Former Minister of Health
  • Dr. Lee Boon Chye - Former Deputy Minister of Health
  • Dr. Chua Kaw Beng - Discovered the Nipah virus

Notable academics

Achievements
  • The Merdeka Award: Nipah Virus Encephalitis Investigation Team from the Faculty of Medicine, University of Malaya[27]
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See also

References
  1. "Our History". www.um.edu.my. Retrieved 25 September 2017.
  2. "University of Malaya – The oldest university in Malaysia". Malaysia Central. 6 June 2008. Retrieved 25 September 2017.
  3. Lim, Victor K. E. (3 July 2009). "Medical education in Malaysia". Medical Teacher. 30 (2): 119–123. doi:10.1080/01421590801942102.
  4. "A Taste For Pork Helped A Deadly Virus Jump To Humans". NPR.org.
  5. "Nipah virus at 20". www.virology.ws.
  6. "QS Ranking".
  7. "History of FoM". FoM, UM.
  8. Manderson, Lenore (2002). Sickness and the State: Health and Illness in Colonial Malaya, 1870-1940. Cambridge University Press. p. 15. ISBN 9780521524483.
  9. "Tan Teck Guan Building | Infopedia". eresources.nlb.gov.sg.
  10. Heritage Places of Singapore. Marshall Cavendish International. 2011. p. 165. ISBN 9789814312950.
  11. "Milestones of the Medical School and Medical Progress of Singapore over the past 100 years" (PDF). Annals Academy of Medicine.
  12. Teo, E. S. (2005, July). History of the College of Medicine and Tan Teck Guan buildings. Annals of the Academy of Medicine, Singapore, 34(6), 61C–71C, p. 67C. Retrieved from Academy of Medicine Singapore website: http://www.annals.edu.sg/pdf/34VolNo6200506/V34N6p61C.pdf
  13. "Welcome to FACULTY OF MEDICINE". medicine.um.edu.my. Retrieved 2020-06-08.
  14. "T.J Danaraj Library |". umlib.um.edu.my. Retrieved 2020-06-08.
  15. "Silent Mentor".
  16. "Welcome to FACULTY OF MEDICINE". medicine.um.edu.my.
  17. "UMMP Entry Requirement" (PDF).
  18. "Faculty of Pharmacy, UM History".
  19. "Departments of FoM".
  20. "Research Office, FoM".
  21. "NOCERAL Introduction".
  22. "TIDREC Introduction".
  23. "Professor Dato' Dr Goh Merdeka Award".
  24. "Merdeka Awards - RECIPIENT / PROFILE - Professor Datuk Dr Looi Lai Meng". Merdeka Award Secretariat.
  25. "EcoWorld - Professor Dr Woo Yin Ling". www.facebook.com.
  26. "MASPORE".
  27. "Merdeka Awards - Health, Science & Technology". Merdeka Award Secretariat.
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