Selangor Darul Ehsan, Malaysia.
E-mail:inquiry@cybermed.edu.my
Contact Number : 603 8319 1010
Fax : 603 8319 1100
Contact Person : Mdm. Haliza
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Presently, CUCMS has the distinction of being the only medical sciences university in Cyberjaya, the Asian multimedia centre.
Right at the outset, CUCMS has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the Ministry of Defense (MOD), Malaysia, while it plans for another MOU with the Ministry of Health (MOH), Malaysia. These MOUs would enable the students to utilize the existing excellent health care facilities in the two ministries for their clinical training. We are the first university which has been granted a wide range of access to the excellent and as yet untapped health facilities at the MOD not only for training but also for research.
CUCMS departs from the traditional training of both doctors and pharmacists in a few ways. Firstly we believe seriously in producing practitioners who are life long learners. Towards this goal, the curriculum is very much student centered with minimum didactic teaching being done. Not only is the widely accepted problem based approach (PBL) being utilized, innovations like student centered learning (SCL), structured peer group discussion and presentation and self assessment on line learning are introduced right from the first year of study. Secondly we are very focused on the end product. With the end product of producing health professional with a passion to care in mind, students are also exposed very early on to the real world practice which they are to encounter on completing their training through the innovative Clinical and Health Exposure and Training (CHET) module from the first semester of the course itself. Thirdly we believe strong in training practitioners who will work efficiently as a member of a health care team. A lot of the academic activities are centred around a student group dynamic with a tutor closely monitoring their progress. This will inculcate team work and team spirit, respect for peers and superiors, humility, criticality and innovativeness among these students. These are qualities which are essential for practitioners of the future. The seriousness of the group dynamics is epitomized by weekly reflection sessions involving all students and the responsible tutors in each group. Students were also required filled up a log book covering not only academic matters but also non academic matters and self improvement strategies.
Besides the method of delivery, there are aspects of the core curriculums which is ‘a first'. This includes the teaching of social medicine, disaster and relief medicine and aspects of military medicine incorporating both aviation and marine medicine. Such instruction at the undergraduate level should create a group of practitioners who are not only competent with their core business of caring for the infirm, but also compassionate, empathetic and are agents of change in the society contributing towards social enlightenment. All in all the curriculum is designed to trained practitioners of the future, ever ready to use the latest there is technology can offer but maintaining human aspect of medicine in line with our motto of nurturing the passion to care. These are practitioners who will practice the science and art of medicine for the betterment of humanity at large.
The growing number of lecturers and professors in both Medicine and Pharmacy helps the planning of research activities, the establishments of international partnerships and the planning of a future postgraduate programme, apart from their customary academic commitments towards the students.
The students are divided into small groups of six or seven. Every mentor meets the group assigned to him or her, at least once a week. Not only would the mentors be able to keep in touch with the development of the mentees, but students would be able to comment on the lectures' and professors' performance as academic guides.
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