CUCMS

CUCMS is the best medicine to reach your goals

2010/06/17

Cyberjaya University College of Medical Sciences’ MBBS course , CUCMS departs from the traditional training of doctors.

THE Cyberjaya University College of Medical Sciences focuses on academic goals and also trains and prepares students to be pharmacists and doctors.

Set up in 2005, CUCMS now has more than 900 students in its Faculties of Medicine and Pharmacy

CUCMS offers the Foundation in Science for Medical or Pharmacy, Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery (MBBS), Bachelor of Pharmacy with Honours (BPharm) and Bachelor of Homeopathic Medical Science with Honours (BHMS).

The Foundation in Science (Medical or Pharmacy) programme is for those pursuing basic degrees in Medicine or Pharmacy at CUCMS.

Its MBBS programme departs from the traditional training of doctors. Its Affective Domain course shapes students' future attitudes to patients, colleagues and society

The university adopts teaching-learning strategies to inculcate the correct attitudes in students.

These strategies include student-centred activities with minimum didactic teaching.

The university uses the problem-based approach method and student-centred team-based Learning,peer group discussion and presentations.

These methods teach learning, responsibility, teamwork and communication skills.

CUCMS introduces clinical medicine and clinical care in the first week of medical school.

It also offers Community and Health Exposure and Training, Clinical Skills Training, Clinical Correlation Course and the English for Special Purposes Course.

These courses not only introduce clinical and communication skills required of the discipline, but teach the behaviour of doctor when dealing with patients.

The MBBS programme has a dedicated course in "Professional and Personal Development", where students learn, observe and analyse expected professional behaviour through workshops and movies.

To end this course, students take part in an outdoor camp in Malacca.

Students undergo a co-curriculum involvement in "Young Mercy" and non-governmental organisations (NGOs) where they are urged as well as supported to organise humanitarian activities. CUCMS offers courses in Disaster Medicine (in Year Two) and Military Medicine and Psychiatry (in Year Four).

The BPharm programme prepares students for jobs in hospitals, clinical, and community pharmacies, as well as industrial pharmacy and pharmaceutical research.

CUCMS exposes Pharmacy students to industrial pharmacy training and research related to drugs and healthcare.

Pharmacy students from the Faculties of Medicine and Pharmacy can do academic and extracurricular activities together.

The BHMS programme is offered through CUCMS's Faculty of Traditional and Complementary Medicine.

Faculty dean Dr Ahmad Asmadi Yusof says it offers a homeopathy course as it used worldwide and CUCMS wants to be the first in Malaysia to offer homeopathic education.