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. This was the first medical school established in Malaysia.[3]

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 Dr. April Camilla Roslani
Location
Kuala Lumpur
,
Lembah Pantai
,
Malaysia

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

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. 145 in the world in the subject of medicine in the QS World University Subject Rankings 2021, making it the highest-ranked medical school in Malaysia and the third-highest in Southeast Asia.[6]

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 May 5, 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 a 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 to allow students to learn medicine with a humanistic approach.[15]

Teaching hospitals
  • University of Malaya Medical Centre (UMMC)
    • The 1,617-bed UMMC is the first and largest teaching hospital as well as the second largest hospital in Malaysia. It serves as the primary teaching hospital for FoM and is one of the main tertiary hospitals in the Klang Valley, receiving over a million outpatients every year. It also serves as a referral center for hospitals throughout the region.
  • Tengku Ampuan Rahimah Hospital, Klang

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
2021176–200Times Higher Education World University Rankings
2021145QS 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 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.
  2. University of Malaya Students' Union (UMSU) - Faculty of Medicine
  3. University of Malaya Medical Alumni Association

Notable alumni

Straits Settlements and Federated Malay States Government Medical School (1905-1921)
  • Abdul Latiff bin Abdul Razak (1919), the first Malay to be a qualified physician[16]
  • Chen Su Lan(1910), social reformer and anti-opium activist

King Edward VIII College of Medicine (1925–49)

Faculty of Medicine, University of Malaya (1962–present)

Notable academics

Deans of the Faculty[20]
  1. Tan Sri Emeritus Professor Thamboo John Danaraj (The Founder Dean) - February 1963 ~ March 1975
  2. Professor Datuk Dr. Lau Kam Seng - March 1975 ~ May 1976
  3. Professor Dato' Dr. Khairuddin Yusof - May 1976 ~ July 1977
  4. Professor Datuk Dr. K Somasundaram July 1977 ~ 28 February 1981
  5. Professor Dr. T.A. Sinnathuray 1 March 1981 ~ 13 May 1985
  6. Professor Dato' Dr. Khairuddin Yusof - 13 May 1985 ~ 15 April 1986
  7. Professor Dr. Anuar Zaini Mohd. Zain - 16 April 1986 ~ 31 March 1990
  8. Professor Dr. Jason Teoh Soon Teong - 1 April 1990 ~ 31 March 1992
  9. Professor Dato' Dr. Anuar Zaini Mohd Zain - 1 April 1992 ~ 31 March 2000
  10. Tan Sri Professor Dr. Mohd Amin Jalaludin - 1 April 2000 ~ 31 July 2006
  11. Professor Dato' Dr. Ikram Shah Ismail - 1 August 2006 ~ 1 July 2011
  12. Professor Dato' Dr. Adeeba Kamarulzaman - 1 July 2011 ~ 2 December 2020
  13. Professor Dr. April Camilla Roslani - 3 December 2020 ~ Present

Achievements
  • The Merdeka Award: Nipah Virus Encephalitis Investigation Team from the Faculty of Medicine, University of Malaya[21]
  • In 2020, Subashan Vadibeler, a final year (Stage 3.3) medical student from the Faculty of Medicine, was awarded the Rhodes Scholarship. He was the 7th Malaysian to receive this prestigious scholarship.[22] He was also the first student from a Malaysian university to receive this honour (the previous 6 Malaysians who at the time were awarded the scholarship were studying in universities overseas).

See also

References
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  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. PMID 18464135. S2CID 205475733.
  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 8 June 2020.
  14. "T.J Danaraj Library |". umlib.um.edu.my. Retrieved 8 June 2020.
  15. "Silent Mentor".
  16. Mariana Isa; Maganjeet Kaur (15 September 2015). Kuala Lumpur Street Names: A Guide to Their Meanings and Histories. Marshall Cavendish International Asia Pte Ltd. pp. 204–. ISBN 978-981-4721-44-8.
  17. "Merdeka Awards - RECIPIENT / PROFILE - Professor Datuk Dr Looi Lai Meng". Merdeka Award Secretariat.
  18. "EcoWorld - Professor Dr Woo Yin Ling". www.facebook.com.
  19. Ariffin, Hany; Ab Rahman, Syaza; Leong, Sheng Hoay; Chiew, Edwynn Kean-Hui; Lin, Hai Peng; Quah, Thuan Chong; Yeoh, Allen Eng-Juh (March 2020). "MASPORE". Pediatric Hematology Oncology Journal. The Asian Age of Collaboration in Pediatric Oncology- A Call for Action! Part-1. 5 (1): 11–16. doi:10.1016/j.phoj.2020.03.009. S2CID 216525897.
  20. "Welcome to FACULTY OF MEDICINE". medicine.um.edu.my. Retrieved 4 December 2020.
  21. "Merdeka Awards - Health, Science & Technology". Merdeka Award Secretariat.
  22. Chalil, Melanie (11 November 2020). "Ipoh medical student awarded prestigious Rhodes Scholarship, hopes to eradicate dengue one day | Malay Mail". www.malaymail.com. Retrieved 15 November 2020.
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