Future doctors are tested on various knowledge and skills in the simulation room that creates highly realistic scenarios for procedural training.
KUCHING (Dec 18): In the changing face of the world and community today, the medical profession has evolved from the traditional role of ‘rescuer from pain’ to a partner-personality, with whom one should work closely with to live healthily.
Qualifying with an MBBS is merely the first step, as it is no longer a fixed road of being a practicing clinician.
According to Manipal University College Malaysia’s (Manipal) Faculty of Medicine dean Dr Adinegara Lutfi Abas, students have multiple pathways these days upon qualifying as a doctor.
“They can choose to remain in practice, to advance into research, go into corporate organisations by becoming a hospital manager or administrator, or occupational health specialist, or choose to serve the community by being in public health,” Dr Adinegara said in a statement.
The Practitioner
One such pathway is the practitioner. The world will never have too many physicians — with the growing population, the doctor practitioner is still much needed in all sectors of society.
While the hours may seem long and un-family friendly, it comes back to the individual. As the saying goes: ‘Do what you love, and you would never feel as if you’ve worked a day!’
“Furthermore, medicine is one of the fields which caters for a varied range of interest, in terms of the specialisations that one can opt to go into,” added Dr Adinegara.
In a future where technology dictates, these skills that are distinctly human will be among the most valuable and it is these skills that are enriched through postgraduate study.
Considering how vital this is, Manipal organises workshops for USMLE, PLAB and various Royal College Fellowship/Membership exam prep courses at its campus in Melaka, so that students can prepare for them before graduation and with minimal travel involved from their ongoing routine.
The Researcher
Students of Manipal’s FIS programme are able to strengthen their interest in research through POSMED, an activitiy that includes topic research, poster presentation and prototype creation.
For the doctor who is constantly intrigued by how things start and can be resolved, or diseases cured, the pathway of becoming a researcher would be a good choice.
As the world shrinks with ease of travel, so looms larger the threat of infectious diseases.
Research work is also more structured today as compared to before, whereby evidence collected is based on a cross-section of causes.
With the advent of the systematic review, the physician research is now a part of a larger multidisciplinary team as the study must incorporate a complete, exhaustive summary of current evidence relevant to the subject matter.
The Community Advisor
If it has always been your dream to treat communities as opposed to treating individual patients, the role of a doctor as a community advisor by way of public health would then be the right path for you.
A strong love of medicine, couppled with mathematics and statistics, are the core ingredient sin excelling in this pathway.
By being able to read into the trends and form analytical solutions, a public health physician would be better able to formulate strategic preventive measures.
The Right Place to Do Your MBBS
With over three dozen medical schools in Malaysia to choose from, Manipal is miles ahead as a top medical school.
Since its inception, over 6,000 medical and over 400 dental surgeons have been delivered to both Malaysian and overseas international health systems, with many alumni progressing successfully into specialist careers of their own.
As a university college, Manipal’s twinning programmes will evolve into fully Malaysian home-grown programmes.
Students are guided to find their true paths before graduation, as they are continuously exposed to the real lives of doctors, researchers and public health individuals through Manipal’s annual post-graduate fair and monthly seminars and exhibitions.
The pursuit of medicine is a marathon, not a sprint. As such, parents and students are invited to visit Manipal and experience life as a future Manipalite for themselves.
For more information, call 1700-811-662 or visit their website.