Doctor of Medicine

What will you learn?

UCSI University’s Medicine program recruits and trains students to become medical doctors to meet the needs of the healthcare system of the country. This goal is achieved with highly qualified staff, fully-equipped laboratories as well as other essential facilities. With learning as its training thrust, active student participation is the standard expectation.

At the end of the MD program, the graduates would have attained the fundamental knowledge, attitude, and skills in the following five areas:

• Basic medical services
• Clinical and therapeutic methods, procedures, and investigations
• Community health and family medicine
• Communication skills
• Professional competence

Features of the MD Program

Student-centred Learning  With a student-centred rather than teacher-centred program, the curriculum is structured to foster and encourage student learning and the fostering of ownership over their own learning as the main objective.

1. Problem-based Learning (PBL)

The Faculty recognises that the philosophy of using problems to learn is the most effective learning approach suited to medicine, and is used to enhance the learning in Basic Medical Sciences.

1. Integrated Learning

Both Basic Sciences and Clinical Sciences are integrated throughout the academic training with early clinical exposure in the form of hospital visits to enhance the learning of Basic Sciences and to facilitate student transition to a comprehensive hospital & Community-based learning that enables students to develop their interviewing, communication, and physical examination skills. Arranged in Year 2 of the program, these visits enable students to put their training into practice, as well as to facilitate their transition into the clinical environment in Year 3.

1. Computer-assisted Learning

The learning process is further strengthened with active incorporation of multimedia tools, which include a computerised multi-purpose laboratory and 3D cyber anatomy software for anatomy dissection sessions.

Program Details

The five-year M.D. program is segregated into two phases. Phase 1 of the program (the first two years) is conducted at the Kuala Lumpur campus while Phase 2 (the final three years) is based at the clinical school at the Terengganu campus. Each semester comprises approx 16 weeks of class sessions whereby the hours of contact for each session ranges between one to two hours per session.

Accredited by

Malaysian Medical Council

Listed by

   World Health Organisation

Interview

Academically-qualified candidates are required to attend an interview for admission. The outcome of the interview determines a candidate's successful admission into the program.