The Medicine and Surgery MB BS Honours programme is delivered at NUMed Malaysia under the authority of the Newcastle University Medical School UK and the teaching, learning and assessment is equivalent to that which students studying in the UK receive.
Our undergraduate programme is designed to develop the skills you will need to become an independent self-learner and to prepare you for postgraduate study and a lifetime of medical learning. At first, our structured learning environment provides you with clearly defined goals and direction, and new material is introduced and explained to you by teachers who are skilled at delivering and explaining information to large groups of students. However, as your experience and confidence develops and the programme progresses, our teaching and learning strategies encourage and ultimately require you to adopt increasing self-reliance and independence in your study and learning. It is therefore very important that you are highly motivated and a ‘self-starter’ able to complete tasks on time and benefit from the variety of learning opportunities offered.
While teaching in lectures and in a variety of clinical settings remains of essential importance, a variety of other innovative methods are used, with the choice of method being carefully chosen to match our particular educational objectives. In Phase I your timetable is planned in such a way as to ensure that you spend no more than 50 per cent of your time in scheduled teaching sessions including the acquisition of early clinical skills. The remainder of your time will be focused on self-directed learning and in gaining early clinical experience. In Phase II most of your time is committed to learning through clinical experience gained in hospital and community settings, and teaching takes place mainly in small groups.
You will be taught by an experienced academic and clinical faculty, including staff trained both locally and overseas. Some 30% of our lecturers are seconded full-time from the Newcastle University Medical School in the UK, and others are alumni of Newcastle University. In addition to the full-time UK faculty, other experienced staff come from Newcastle as visiting lecturers to teach in specialised areas.
As you need to acquire not only a body of knowledge, but also the skills of analysis, problem solving and communication, we assess your progress in a variety of ways. The learning outcomes for the programme are defined in terms of:
You are expected to demonstrate the appropriate level of attainment in each of these three domains before being allowed to progress to the next Stage. The assessment process is designed to encourage and reward transfer of learning from one Stage to the next, and equal emphasis is placed on in-course assessment and end-of-Stage examinations. You will receive continuous feedback on your performance throughout the course.