Course outline
YEAR ONE
Location: Sunway City campus
You’ll be introduced to the basic medical and behavioural sciences
(anatomy, biochemistry, genetics, immunology, microbiology, pathology,
pharmacology, physiology, psychology and sociology) within
interdisciplinary units. In all of these units, there will be a major focus on
clinical issues through problem-based cases and visits to clinical sites.
YEAR TWO
Location: Sunway City campus
You’ll continue to learn the basic medical and behavioural sciences,
while participating in community placements where you’ll work in
community settings with clients of welfare agencies. You’ll also spend
time in the hospital and clinics at Segamat.
YEAR THREE
Location: Clinical School Johor Bahru
You’ll study integrated medicine and surgery, which will be taught using
a series of problem-based learning and bedside teaching sessions in
clinical settings.
YEAR FOUR
Locations: Clinical School Johor Bahru and Sultanah Aminah
Hospital
You’ll engage with core clinical rotations in women’s and children’s
health, general practice, and psychological medicine.
YEAR FIVE
Locations: Clinical School Johor Bahru, Sultanah Aminah
Hospital and in Australia
Your final year will be structured as a series of pre-intern placements,
where you’ll have the opportunity to complete your degree by gaining
wider experience in important disciplines and specific areas of interest
through a range of urban, rural and overseas settings.
Where you’ll be
The entire medical course is completed in Malaysia with the exception of
three months in your final year, where you’ll be based in clinical settings
in Australia. You can take on additional components of Years two, three,
four and five in Australia, subject to the availability of clinical places.
From your third to fifth year, you’ll be
based at the Clinical School Johor Bahru
(CSJB), situated at the southern-most
point of the Malaysian Peninsula, just
across the causeway from Singapore.
CSJB is strategically located right next to
the Sultanah Aminah Hospital, a tertiary
and referral hospital where your clinical
studies will be centred.
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