UiTM Medical Students To Use Selayang, Sungai Buloh Hospitals

SHAH ALAM, Sept 8 (Bernama) -- The Health Ministry has given the nod to Universiti Teknologi Mara (UiTM) to use the Selayang and Sungai Buloh hospitals to teach its medical students.
In revealing this Thursday, the Yang di-Pertuan Agong Tuanku Syed Sirajuddin Syed Putra Jamalullail said the approval to use the two hospitals as teaching hospitals for UiTM students would help the university's medical faculty to produce more bumiputera doctors.
He hoped the students would fully use the facilities provided for them at the two hospitals.
Speaking at the opening of the 62nd UiTM Convocation here today, the King also called on UiTM to find ways to raise the intake of medical students, enhance the quality of its teaching programme and speed up the development of a "medical city".
"The medical city concept will boost research efforts and the endeavour to make Malaysia a centre for medical excellence," he said.
He also said UiTM should ensure the quality of its students following the government's call for UiTM to increase the intake of students to 200,000 by 2015.
It should not take in more students without proper planning as this would adversely affect the quality of teaching and learning, he said.
A total of 14,463 UiTM graduates will receive their scrolls during the convocation that will end on Sept 18.