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Welcome to the IMU School of Medicine, your dynamic, innovative, and leading-edge journey beyond traditional patient care. You will be instilled with attributes that are important to become a doctor: dedication, competence, and compassion.

Our School's' Achievements

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Faculty to student ratio for MBBS programme

69%

Faculty members are registered with local and/or international accredited associations and professional bodies.

A Word from The Dean

The medical programme at IMU has an international reputation for excellence and innovation. In collaboration with our Partner Schools across the world, students have the opportunity to train as truly global health practitioners. Medicine is a challenging career path that requires dedication and hard work but offers the reward of knowing that you are using what you learn to help people and communities in their time of most need.

Prof Sharifah Sulaiha Binti Syed Aznal

Dean, School of Medicine

MBChB (Glasgow), M Med (O&G) (UKM), PGCert Med Edu (Dundee), AMM.

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Discover everything our school has to offer – from diverse programmes and state-of-the-art facilities to a vibrant student community and global opportunities.

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Learn About Our Achievement & Engagement Activities

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.

Hear from Our Community

I am with IMU since 1994 and at that time it was just a fledgling university amongst the other bigger universities in the country. It started as a little seed in the minds of its founders- Tan Sri Dr Kamal Salih, Dr Mei Ling Young, Dr Saidi Hashim and Prof Ong Kok Hai. Together they roped in two leading medical educationists -Professor Ian Hart and Professor Ron Harden and a STAR was born. Together with our partner schools, we built a one of its kind medical university in Malaysia.

Dr Sushela Devi Somanath

Senior Lecturer and Head of Department

To my surprise, I felt a sense of relief and satisfaction when the MJVC committee announced me as the winner of the best oral presentation award for the Health and Medicine track. I extend my deepest gratitude to my main research supervisor, Dr Wong Siew Tung for being a patient and supportive mentor who assisted me in data interpretation of the project, provided presentation tips during mock presentations, introduced me to basic laboratory skills at IMU research laboratory prior to conducting my final year research project and always present to offer encouragement and mental support whenever I needed it.

Ong Ghee Khang

Student

IMU introduces its medical degree that upholds its holistic approach and has garnered a lot of attention from students globally. As a medical student from one of the top medical schools in Malaysia, I am very proud to be accepted in this university that provides a curriculum which trains students to apply critical knowledge, thus preparing us to be holistic and competent doctors in the future.

Shahkeerah Kamarul

Student

The curriculum emphasises on clinical exposure even during the early pre-Clinical phase of training, which eases the integration of pre-clinical students into their clinical phase of training via hospital visits, exposure rotations in various departments and simulated clinical learning. Finally, IMU provides various avenues for students to strive to be better versions of themselves via clubs, societies, conferences, competitions and networking opportunities which further enriched my student experience.

Tee Chen Giap

Student

Get to Know Academic Members of the School

Our academic members are highly qualified and experienced in different disciplines. The academic community of IMU pursues and achieves excellence in a wide range of research activities.

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