Bachelor of Medical Science and Doctor of Medicine

Monash University Malaysia

Bandar Sunway, Selangor, Malaysia

Quick Facts

Duration

5 years

Mode

Full-time, On-campus

Intake

Feb

Tuition Fees

RM571,200

Course Highlights

  • Gain international clinical exposure by embarking on a three-month clinical attachment in Australia
  • Enhance your learning experience through Monash's award-winning facilities such as the Medical Anatomy and Pathology E-Learning Laboratory
  • Transfer to Clinical School Johor Bahru (CSJB) during your third year, which is right next to Sultanah Aminah Hospital, the centre of your clinical studies
  • Explore Monash's Gamification and Immersive Learning Experience by using Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality to study cadaveric and pathological content, anatomical spaces and others

Course Structure

Theme I: Personal and professional development

Professional Issues: 

Introduction to Ethics

  • Ethics and society
  • Relationships and ethics

Introduction to Law

  • Basis of justice
  • Justice system
  • Human rights

Personal Development: Transition to university

  • Study skills
  • Time management
  • Stress management
  • Reflection
  • Self-care
  • Team building
  • Goal setting

Key Learning Experiences:Observations of interactions

  • Medical contact visits
  • Ethics debates
  • Family study
  • Group de-briefing and mentoring

Theme II: Society, population, health and illness

Health and Society

  • The whole person
  • Gender
  • Consumer movement

Health and Information : 

Epistemology

  • Concepts of science and knowledge
  • Critical thinking
  • Basic IT skills

Health and Population:

  • Population health
  • Introduction to research methods

Theme III: Foundations of medicine

  • Molecular and cellular defence
  • Integration and movement

Theme IV: Clinical skills

  • Community visits
  • First Aid course including CPR
  • Clinical skills laboratory
  • Clinical and communication skills

Theme I: Personal and professional development

Professional Issues: Understanding the community

  • Society and community
  • Roles of doctor in community
  • Grassroots healthcare
  • Empowerment

Personal Development: Attitudes to community

  • Patient-centred approach
  • Pain and suffering
  • Teamwork in community groups

Key Learning Experiences: Community service

  • Ethics debates
  • Group de-briefing and mentoring

Theme II: Society, population, health and illness

Health and Society

  • Inequalities in health
  • Aboriginal health

Health and Information : 

  • Exploring databases and information sources

Health and Population:

  • Health promotion
  • Global view of health

Theme III: Foundations of medicine

  • Cardiovascular, respiratory, renal and haematology
  • .Hormones, sex growth and nutrition

Theme IV: Clinical skills

  • Clinical and communication skills linked with systems teaching
  • Rural rotations
  • Clinical skills laboratory
  • Teamwork experiences

Theme I: Personal and professional development

Professional Issues: 

Ethics in practice

  • Clinical research ethics

Law in practice

  • Legal responsibilities
  • Reporting records

Personal Development: Responsibility

  • Patient advocacy
  • Family and society
  • Self-care and assertiveness
  • Educating others

Key Learning Experiences: Clinical rotations

  • Group de-briefing and mentoring
  • Clerking patients
  • Self-appraisal

Theme II: Society, population, health and illness

Health and Information :  

  • Quality and evaluation of health care information

Health and Population:

  • Preventive medicine
  • Occupational health

Theme III: Foundations of medicine

  • Multi-system disease
  • Integrated medicine and surgery

Theme IV: Clinical skills

  • Medicine and surgery
  • Communication skills in a clinical setting

Theme I: Personal and professional development

Professional Issues: Professional judgement

  • Analysis of the consequences of decisions
  • Dealing with uncertainty
  • Team participation
  • Teaching

Personal Development: Reflective practice

  • Personal roles and role conflicts
  • Stress management and coping styles
  • Career choice

Key Learning Experiences: Teamwork

  • Group de-briefing and mentoring
  • Simulation with feedback
  • Teaching Year 1 in skills lab

Theme II: Society, population, health and illness

Health and Society

  • Healthcare services
  • Health policy

Health and Information : 

  • Health economics
  • Evidence-based medicine

Theme III: Foundations of medicine

  • Women's and children's health
  • General practice and psychological health

Theme IV: Clinical skills

  • Skills in Clinical Rotations
  • Women's and children's health
  • Psychiatry and general practice medicine
  • Medical teamwork experiences

Theme I: Personal and professional development

Professional Issues: Leadership

  • Independent learning
  • Leadership and supervision
  • Responsibility of patient management

Personal Development: Self-directed learning and practice

  • Patient-centred care
  • Personal learning contract
  • Electives
  • Remedial selectives
  • Self-assessment 

Key Learning Experiences: Leadership and independent learning

  • Group de-briefing and mentoring
  • Clerking patients
  • Self appraisal

Theme II: Society, population, health and illness

Health and Society

  • Public health
  • Elective

Health and Information : 

  • Medical informatics in practice

Health and Population:

  • Public health

Theme III: Foundations of medicine

  • Student internship
  • Selectives
  • Electives

Theme IV: Clinical skills

  • Clinical skills laboratory for one intensive week before student internship
  • Student internship
  • Rural rotations
  • Teamwork
  • Leadership

This course is accredited by:

  • Malaysian Medical Council
  • Australian Medical Council
  • Sri Lanka Medical Council

This course develops through four themes:

Personal and Professional Development: 

  • Focuses on the doctor as an individual
  • It covers the personal attributes and qualities you'll need in the medical curriculum and as a future medical practitioner
  • Gain a range of generic skills throughout the course

Society, population, health and illness

  • Develops your ability to deal with broader society and population issues.
  • The history and philosophy of the scientific approach to medicine is included, as are approaches to knowledge and information
  •  An understanding of evidence-based clinical practice

Foundations of medicine

  • Knowledge and concepts that underpin medicine - both in the basic medical sciences and in the clinical sciences - are delivered within this theme.
  • In the early semesters, system-based structure is adopted: Basic sciences of anatomy, biochemistry, genetics, immunology, microbiology, pathology, pharmacology and physiology is taught in a clinically relevant perspective.

Clinical Skills

  • Encompasses the whole range of clinical skills from the earliest to the later parts of the course.
  • In the early years, you'll go on general practice and rural visits and be introduced to community clinics and hospitals.
  • Multi-professional education is encouraged via potential educational interactions with nurses, paramedics, radiographers and other healthcare professionals during a range of rural health activities.
  • Later years will include advanced elective experiences in diverse medical workplaces, both within and outside the hospital environment.

The areas of study covered include:

  • Cardiovascular system
  • Communication skills
  • Determinants of health
  • Ethics and law
  • Gastrointestinal system
  • Genomics
  • Geriatrics
  • Health systems and health economics
  • Human development and growth
  • Human behaviour
  • Immunology
  • Infectious disease
  • Molecules, cells and tissues
  • Musculoskeletal system
  • Neurosciences
  • Nutrition
  • Patient safety
  • Professionalism
  • Public health and population health
  • Quality assurance
  • Reflective practice
  • Renal and endocrine systems
  • Reproduction
  • Research and statistics
  • Respiratory system
  • Teamwork and leadership.

 

Entry Requirements

  • Monash University Foundation Year (MUFY)*    85%
  • GCE A Level**    14
  • ATAR    95
  • Hong Kong Diploma of Secondary Education    23
  • Indian School Certificate Examination    80%
  • All India Senior School Certificate Examination    85%
  • International Baccalaureate Diploma Program (IB Diploma Program)    36
  • STPM, Malaysia    10.3
  • UEC, Malaysia    ≤1.8
  • Program Matrikulasi (Matriculation Program), Malaysia    3.7
  • Ontario Secondary School Diploma    91%
  • Sri Lankan General Certificate of Education (Advanced Level)    14
  • UNSW Foundation Studies    9.0
  • Foundation in Science and Technology, Sunway College    85%

*The undergraduate entry requirements published are for students who commence the MUFY program in 2024.

**Students have to obtain a minimum of 2A and 1B.

Pre-university qualifications:

  • Satisfactory completion of an appropriate pre-university course is required. Results of pre-university studies must be available prior to commencement of the medicine course.
  • Chemistry at Year 12 is a pre-requisite requirement by Monash University and you'll need to demonstrate a high level of academic achievement in this subject.
  • Completion of Year 12 studies or relevant qualification within 2 years prior to the course commencement date.

Malaysian Medical Council requirements

  • All applicants who apply for the Medicine program in Malaysia are also required to fulfil the Malaysian Medical Council (MMC) requirements in addition to the Monash Medicine entry requirements.

The MMC requirements include the following:

  • At Year 12 (Pre-university result e.g Matriculation, Foundation, Pre-Medical program, A Levels, STPM etc) students must have studied Biology, Chemistry and a third subject which can be either Physics or Maths.
  • At Year 11 (SPM or O Levels or its equivalent) students must have achieved a minimum of “B” in Biology, Chemistry, Physics, Maths/Add Maths and one other subject. However, this Year 11 requirement does not apply if the Year 12 is A Levels or STPM.

International Student Admission Tests (ISAT):

  • You're required to undertake the International Student Admissions Test (ISAT).
  • ISAT results will contribute towards the overall ranking for entry into the course.

Indian Nationals

  • The MMC has set additional requirements for Indian citizens to study medicine in Malaysia. 

Adequate performance in Multiple Mini-Interviews:

  • The Multiple Mini Interviews (MMI) will be conducted in Kuala Lumpur, Singapore and Melbourne.Other interview sites may also be announced, so please check our website and with local agents. The interview format is designed to evaluate whether you possess the relevant personal qualities to succeed in the medicine course, and youâ��ll be assessed by trained interviewers. MMI stations will comprise a series of scenarios and associated questions focusing on your relevant personal qualities such as:
    • Motivation
    • Communication skills
    • Critical thinking
    • Ethical/empathetic reasoning

The MMI consists of four sequential interview stations. At each station, you'll be interviewed for eight minutes, followed by a two-minute changeover (i.e. 10 minutes per station), with a circuit that takes 40 minutes to complete. If you haven't been invited to participate, you cannot request for an interview.

Generally the MMI will be conducted in July and November each year and a formal email invitation will be sent to eligible applicants.

Sound English language skills are required for all academic programs at Monash. You can demonstrate your English language proficiency through one of the following:

  • Adequate score in Approved English subject at Year 11/Year 12 equivalent qualification, or
  • English Proficiency Tests.

Estimated Fees

Application fees (non-refundable)

RM100

RM0

  • PROMO

Tuition fees

RM571,200

Other miscellaneous fees

RM1,200

Discounts & scholarships

-RM300

  • Exclusive

Total payable amount

RM572,100

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