Another Medical Schoooooooooooooooool!!! Yah, Malaysia Boleh!!!!!!! Just when everyone thought that there is going to be a moratorium in new medical schools, here we go again!!! Silently , the state of Terengganu is gearing for another joint venture with RCSI for yet another medical school in Trengganu. If I am not mistaken, RCSI also suppose to have an undergraduate medical school with University Perdana, together with John Hopkins. When we are all worried about unemployed doctors in the future, our politicians are more interested in making money as much as they can in the expense of the uninformed rakyat. As of my last calculation, with the addition of this medical school, we will have 31 medical schools in the country with > 50% yet to produce their graduates!!
Welcome to the land of the doctors……………….come 2020…………………. You throw a stone, you will hit a doctor, employed or unemployed…………………………….
Major expansion of UCD and RCSI medical education programmes in Malaysia
Ministers from the State Government of Terengganu[1], Malaysia, were in Dublin today (Monday 21 March 2011) to sign an agreement for the provision of medical education by the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland (RCSI) and University College Dublin (UCD) here in Dublin and by the two colleges in the State of Terengganu in Malaysia.
RCSI and UCD already run the Penang Medical College in the NW State of Penang, in Malaysia through the medical colleges of RCSI and UCD. 130 students currently spend the first 2.5 years of their medical training in Dublin and return to Penang at the clinical stage to complete their undergraduate education for a further 2.5 years.
The new agreement will involve establishing a medical college branch campus in Terengganu, on the East coast of Malaysia.
Building up to 150 students per annum, the Terengganu State Government will initially allocate 50 places for this coming September to students selected by academic merit and interview.
These students will come to Ireland to study at RCSI and UCD for 2.5 years and will return to the new medical school in Terengganu to undertake their clinical training and complete their medical degrees – which are awarded by the two Irish colleges.
Signing the agreement, the Most Hon Haji Ahmad Razif bin Abd.Rahman, the Chairman on State Education, stressed the long relationship in medical education between Malaysia and Ireland.
“Irish medical education has an excellent international reputation for training high quality, clinically skilled doctors and Terengganu welcomes this agreement with RCSI and UCD and to extend this education programme to our State.”
The agreement was signed by YB Haji Ahmad Razif bin Abd.Rahman, Haji Aziz bin Mamat, Director of Terengganu Foundation, Dr Hugh Brady, President, UCD and Professor Cathal Kelly, Registrar and CEO of RCSI, in the presence of the Most Hon Dr Haji A Rahman bin Mokhtar, of the Terengganu State Executive Council.
Professor Cathal Kelly, Registrar / CEO of RCSI said: One of the main advantages of this programme is that Malaysian students undergo their clinical training in the environment in which they will later practice, while benefiting from a comprehensive grounding in the science of medicine in Dublin. We look forward to welcoming these new students to Ireland and to our College.”
“Since the original agreement with the Malaysian Government over twenty years ago, thousands of Malaysian doctors have received some or all of their training in Ireland,” said the President of UCD, Dr Hugh Brady. “These students play an active part in campus life and are testament to the true value of internationalising our higher education sector.”
The Malaysian students will return home for their clinical training in Malaysian hospitals and under this new agreement, RCSI and UCD will apply to the Malaysian Ministry of Health for access to Hospital Sultanah Nur Zahirah in the capital city, Kuala Terengganu for teaching and for delivering the necessary clinical training to these students.
The Penang Medical College is a not-for-profit venture and any income is reinvested in the facilities and the programme in Malaysia.
In addition to the shared-education programme, UCD and RCSI educate a further 200 Malaysian students, who undertake their full 5-year degree here in Ireland.
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speechless.really.
Oh my. seriously?!
yay!! malaysia boleh!!welcome to bolehland!
money money money money!
this is on top of UCSI and UNISZA medical shcool using the same hospital. The wards start to look like a shopping mall already with medical students shopping for patients with clinical signs
http://www.topuniversities.com/
~interestingly…Irish universities are not that high up in the list…n paradoxically..here I am in an Irish land…
the governments are just ignorant of the quality, they are just after the names n money~ annoying..
when & how will they be stop I wonder..???
wow, Perdana university medical school is charging a fees RM250K a year that makes RM1 million for four years course. didnt realise the malaysians are so rich. Ok, built more medical school, makes more profit. more doctors and maybe we can export more doctors to work overseas? Dont worry about quality, this is bolehland
I don’t think we can export any doctors overseas as almost all our degrees are not recognised elsewhere!
At RM250K per year, wouldn’t the student be better off at Johns Hopkins University(42K USD per year)? Expect the government to use tax payers money to keep Perdana University afloat; how many private students can afford the most expensive university in the world ?!
This takes the fallacious assumption that just because one has the quality to satisfy the entry criteria for our glorious Universiti Perdana, entry to John Hopkins is assumed and assured as well?
fat chance…
PS: Huskies, my apologies… my statement wasn’t a poke at you but the system! (On reading my response again, I realised it seems like I’m poking you.)
How does Perdana University justify the exorbitant fees (even higher than Johns Hopkins and certainly many more times higher than the other private medical schools)? Does this mean that other medical colleges are free to charge 250K per year as well? Perdana University must be operating on the assumption that the government will mop up any losses should enrolment numbers fall short (it’s the taxpayers’ money after all). I wouldn’t be surprised if other medical colleges follow suit in the near future…
PS: I was being sarcastic in my earlier comment 🙂
They are just using the John Hopkins name to get a lot of money when John Hopkins is NOT offering the degree!!! It is Perdana University degree and I hope the students/parents will realise that!
Hi, I have read the trails of this blog.
Can Dr Pagalavan share the current view of Perdana University RCSI and its current status? It appears that their campus is still not been built yet even though they have plan it to be ready by 2014. No structure on site as well. How about the state of the Terengganu site for the RSCI medical School. Is it still on going? I have a conditional offer from Numed and PU-RCSI and i still deciding where to go. What would be your advise?
I don’t trust Perdana University and I am not sure about the Terengganu RCSI.
I would prefer NuMed
Thank you.