National Anatomy and Pathology Summit (NAPS) is an annual students’ conference event organised by Asian Medical Students Association (AMSA) – IMU. This year, the event was initially planned to be held in the month of April at IMU but due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the event had to be postponed. However, the committee was determined to face the challenges and conduct the summit regardless of the pandemic, resulting in NAPS being held on an online platform on 30 May 2020. Despite this being their first time organising an online event, the entire committee worked extremely hard to put everything together for this summit. With a total of more than 80 participants, 5 speakers, 2 quiz moderators and 13 organisers, the NAPS this year turned out to be a success. Read the full article on IMU News.

Professionalism, ethics and personal development is one of the key components of the 8 learning outcome domains of International Medical University (IMU). As an IMU medical student, they strive to improve themselves equally in both medical knowledge and medical moral principles which are important in shaping them as a future healthcare professional. Thus, an intercampus debate between final semester students about bioethics is organised biannually to facilitate discussions and learning on ethical issues in an interactive way. This year, the long-awaited debate was organised by the students on IMU Kluang Clinical Campus under the guidance of their Advisor, Prof Dato’ Dr Sivalingam Nalliah and Supervisor, Dr Hussein Akl. The debate theme was chose based on the Universal Declaration on Bioethics and Human Rights, Article 17 in accordance with the bioethics core curriculum by United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). This theme emphasises on protection of the environment, importance of appropriate access and utilisation of biological and genetic resources as well as the role of human beings in the protection of the environment. Continue reading on IMU News.

Team IMU, comprising Year 5 medical students, finished as the first runner-up at The North Borneo Intervarsity Surgical Quiz competition, a national competition that invites medical undergraduates from various local universities to compete in a series of surgical related questions and quizzes. Read more about it on IMU News.

Prof Igor Nikolayevich Iezhitsa and Prof Renu Agarwal from the Department of Pharmacology & Therapeutics have shared a Gold Award with another three researchers from UniKL for their invention “PhTX-343 as anti-glaucoma agent to alleviate visual impairments” at the International Invention, Innovation & Design Competition 2020 (3iDC2020) organised by Universiti Teknologi MARA.