Quality medical and dental studies
MEDICINE and dentistry are popular career choices among young Malaysians leaving high school. While often an easy career choice to make, driven by the student’s passion and drive, the same cannot be said when it comes to selecting an institution to pursue one’s studies in the chosen fields.
Proven track record
With over three dozen medical schools in Malaysia to choose from, Melaka-Manipal Medical College is miles ahead as a top medical school. Since its inception, over 4,000 medical and over 200 dental surgeons have been delivered to the Malaysian and overseas international health systems, with many alumni members progressing successfully onto specialist careers of their choosing.
International and global exposure
Melaka-Manipal’s twinning degree programmes for medicine and dentistry are designed in such a way that students complete pre-clinical training in the Manipal India Campus, for two and a half years and then return to hone their clinical skills in Malaysia.
The MOH hospitals in Melaka, Muar, Jasin, Segamat and government polyclinics provide the settings for the clinical skills training.
Dentistry students perfect their clinical skills in Melaka-Manipal’s very own on-campus dental clinic, which offers training in all dentistry disciplines.
With a student-dental chair ratio of almost 1:1, coupled with a patient-pool of over 30,000 per year, students are not short of opportunities to develop and fine-tune their dental skills under the watchful eyes of highly experienced lecturers and professors from the industry.
Clear pathway
For fresh SPM school-leavers, a pathway programme is provided via the Foundation in Science.
This uniquely designed 12-month programme prepares students to excel in MBBS or BDS as subjects are specifically chosen to deepen a student’s existing science knowledge to give them a strong head start in the later years of undergraduate studies.
Students who meet entry requirements are given assured progression into either the MBBS or BDS programmes.
Lifelong learning support
It is impressed upon students upon graduation that they have just stepped on the first rung of the medical profession. As the oft-wrought cliché goes, learning is lifelong – no less true is this in the medical arena.
In a future where technology dictates, 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, Melaka-Manipal organises workshops for USMLE, PLAB and various Royal College fellowship exams at its Melaka campus, so that students are able to prepare for them prior to graduation with minimal travel involved.
Balanced lifestyle
Since its inception, MMMC has successfully integrated the Manipal ethos into its Malaysian curriculum, faculty and students. The facilities in both the Manipal and Melaka campuses are second to none in that they fully provide for holistic education, academic as well as social.
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.
The pursuit of medicine or dentistry is a marathon, not a sprint. As such, parents and students are invited to visit Melaka-Manipal Medical College and experience themselves life as a future Manipalite.