Join the cream of the crop
HAVING the ambition to become a doctor is not enough if you want to attain your medical qualifications from the prestigious Penang Medical College (PMC).
This award-winning medical college is the preferred college for many aspiring doctors due to its holistic approach in academic and clinical training teamed with world renowned and knowledgeable academicians.
PMC has strict requirements coupled with stringent screening exercises to pick only the crème de la crème to join the other top wellrounded students.
PMC only accepts students with Pre-U qualifications such as ALevels, Australian Matriculation, International Baccalaureate, STPM, Matriculation or their equivalent.
Not only do the students need to be straight-A students, they need to be equally active in extracurricular activities. This is to ensure that only the best of the best are accepted into PMC for the college to maintain its sterling quality of accepting and producing brilliant, well-rounded doctors.
This college is not only one of the top medical colleges in the country, it also offers a unique medical degree twinning programme.
Students start pre-clinical studies outside of Malaysia, in Ireland, for two and a half years while spending their clinical training in Malaysia to prepare them for housemanship here.
PMC is owned and managed by the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland (RCSI) and a partner of University College of Dublin (UCD), so students can choose to do their pre-clinical studies either in RCSI or UCD, both in Dublin, Ireland.
RCSI has a 200-year history in medical education. It was founded in 1784 as a medical education and training college to train skilled surgeons.
As for UCD, it has 150 years of history as one of the top universities in Ireland and offers similarly well-known medical courses.
Students will get to spend two and a half years in Dublin and return to Penang for another two and a half years for clinical studies and training.
According to Surginal Training director N Premnath, this means students undergo full clinical training with direct exposure to actual patients while under supervision at local government hospitals, such as the Penang Hospital, Bukit Mertajam Hospital and Taiping Hospital.
“The students will be trained in small groups of four to six when undergoing clinical training at the hospital,” he says.
In the clinical training, N Premnath says the students will learn the steps and full aspects of treating a patient from checking the patient’s medical background to case management and finally, to diagnose the patient’s condition.
The students will undergo strin- gent training in small groups and they also have direct access to patients while under close supervision of experienced doctors.
PMC was established in 1996 and it has since produced more than 1,000 doctors.
The PMC campus is located within George Town and just a stone’s throw away from Penang Hospital.
The campus is fully equipped with a top-of-the-line facilities such as a 200-seat lecture theatre, seminar rooms, examination halls, multimedia room with Internet access, video conferencing facilities, research laboratory, student study areas, library, clinical skills laboratory, canteen, recreation rooms, student centre and a surau.
All PMC students will be conferred the MB BCh BAO degrees of the National University of Ireland (NUI) as well as the Licentiates of the RCSI and Royal College of Physicians of Ireland upon graduation.
The MB BCh BAO degrees are recognised by the Irish Medical Council, Malaysian Medical Council, Sri Lankan Medical Council and other regulatory bodies throughout the world.
The degree also allows the holder to pursue postgraduate training worldwide.
Visit www.pmc.edu.my for further details about the college’s medical programmes.