Materia Medica Malaysiana

UM team wins physiology quiz: "UNIVERSITI Malaya's (UM) Team B has won the university's inaugural Inter-Medical School Physiology Quiz and the Prof A. Raman challenge trophy.
Ng Chee Yong of Team B said he and his teammates � Koay Hean Tang, See Beng Teong, Lim Lee Ling and How Ann Kee � spent more than a week preparing for the quiz. ''Physiology is a subject we studied in first year so we went over all our textbooks and notes, '' he said.
The first runner-up was UM's Team A, while the second runner-up was a team from Universiti Putra Malaysia.
Prof Cheng Hwee Ming, of UM's physiology department, said the quiz was aimed at generating interest in physiology, which is the study of human body functions.
Out of 11 letters of invitation sent out, seven medical schools responded, including Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Universiti Putra Malaysia, Perak Medical College, Asian Institute of Medicine, Science and Technology and International Islamic University Malaysia.
Prof Cheng said the challenge trophy was named in honour of the late Prof A. Raman, who was the first Malaysian physiology professor at UM. He headed its physiology department from 1971 until his death in 1998.
Under his leadership, the department conducted undergraduate and postgraduate courses for medical, dental and paramedical students. He also rose to the challenge of teaching physiology in Bahasa Malaysia by spearheading the authorship of a series of physiology texts in the national language. "