Everything a medical college should offer
MEDICINE and Dentistry remains a hot career choice for young Malaysians leaving high schools. While the career choice is often an easy one to make, driven by passion and drive, the same cannot often be said in choosing the institution for this chosen field.
MMMC’s twinning degree programmes for Medicine and Dentistry are designed so that students complete pre-clinical training in its Manipal campus in India for two years and a half, and return to hone their clinical skills in Malaysia. The government hospitals in Melaka, Muar, Jasin, Segamat and government polyclinics provide the settings for the clinical skills training.
Dentistry students perfect their clinical skills in MMMC’s very own on-campus Dental Clinic, which offers training in all disciplines of dentistry. With a student-dental chair ratio of almost 1:1, coupled with a patient-pool of more than 30,000 per year, students are not short of opportunities to develop and fine-tune their dental skill, under the watchful eyes of experienced lecturers and professors from the industry.
For fresh SPM-leavers, a pathway programme is provided via the Foundation in Science programme. A uniquely designed 12-month programme, students are prepared to excel in the MBBS or BDS as subjects are chosen to deepen a student’s science knowledge so that they have a strong head-start in their later years of undergraduate studies. Students in the foundation programme who meet entry requirements are given assured progression into the MBBS or BDS programmes.
It is impressed upon students upon graduation that they have just stepped on the first rung of the medical profession. As the cliché goes, learning is life-long, and that is no less true in the medical arena. In a future where technology is increasingly important, skills that are distinctly human will be among the most valuable, and it is these skills that are enriched through postgraduate study. Considering how vital this is, MMMC organises workshops for USMLE, PLAB and various Royal College fellowship exams at its Melaka campus, so that students can prepare for them prior to graduation and with minimal travel involved from their routine. ethos into its Malaysian curriculum, its faculty and its students. The facilities in the Manipal and Melaka campuses are second to none in that they fully provide for holistic education, academically and socially.
In Manipal, students can join clubs for music and fine arts, enjoy literary pursuits, meditation, yoga, debating, photography and language classes. In addition, the campus has playgrounds and courts for cricket, hockey, football, tennis, basketball, badminton and volleyball, as well as swimming pools, gyms and athletics track.
Parents and students are invited to visit MMMC.
For more information on Open Days, call 1700-811-662 or visit www.manipal.edu.my.