Foreword from Editor

First and foremost, we would like to thank all the committees that had contributed in
making this edition of AMSA Newsletter a great success. We would also like to express our
gratitude to senior who shared knowledge and experiences in publishing newsletter. Not to
forget each and every universities representatives of universities of AMSA members, your
cooperation is appreciated.
In this newsletter, as in every other newsletter, we shall show you what AMSA
Malaysia has done and achieved. We will publish articles regarding the activities organized
by medical students from member universities of AMSA. This newsletter also serves as a
platform for collaboration between universities in Malaysia in which students are actively
participating and organizing events and activities at local, district and international level. On
behalf of AMSA Malaysia committee, we would like to thank everyone who contributed
directly or indirectly in making this newsletter. We won’t make it this far without your
continuous support and contribution.
This newsletter also marks the approaching end of the reign of current AMSA Malaysia
committee 2013/2014 . Last but not least, we would like to congratulate all the new board
of committees and hope everyone will enjoy this issue of AMSA Malaysia newsletter.

Yeoh Wei Yen

Editor-In-Chief
AMSA Malaysia Newsletter 2014
 Foreword from THE REGIONAL CHAIRPERSON

Greetings from AMSA Malaysia!

First and foremost, I would like to represent AMSA Malaysia to extend our heartfelt
gratitude for taking an interest in us and will continue supporting and dedicating your time to
make AMSA Malaysia heard. This has been the 3rd year of my participation in AMSA Malaysia’s
activities and AMSA Malaysia has been improving over the years. I was given the opportunity
to meet medical students from different universities and get to learn lots of skills which will be
beneficial throughout life through AMSA Malaysia.
For your information, AMSA Malaysia has been established in Malaysia in the 1980s and
it has gone a long way before blossoming in these recent years. It has indeed caught the
attention of many medical students in Malaysia. With its recent success in organizing AMSC
Malaysia 2013, it has brought the bridge between medical students of different universities
closer and made a huge mark in the history of AMSA Malaysia.
I believe I have learned a lot from AMSA Malaysia since embracing it when I was in Year
1. I learned a lot of social skills and nurtured my skills in organizing activities by participating in
programs organized by AMSA Malaysia. I also participated in AMSC Philippines 2012 and made
lots of friends from different countries and still keep in touch with them. We even contact each
other to plan meet-ups when we visit their country.
Last but not least, I hope that you will continue your dedication towards AMSA Malaysia
once you have joined AMSA Malaysia. AMSA Malaysia will not be success without the support
of you guys. With your commitment and dedication in making AMSA Malaysia better, I believe
that the name of AMSA Malaysia will continue to flourish and achieve greater heights. I would
also want to extend my gratitude and appreciation to the editorial board for coming out with
this volume of newsletter.

“Building Bridges, Sharing Dreams”

Lee Li Tng
Regional Chairperson of AMSA Malaysia 2013/2014
ABOUT AMSA MALAYSIA

The Asian Medical Students’ Association is a peak representative organization for medical
students from across Asia, the Asia-Pacific and beyond. Training doc-tors from 11 Member
Nations and 2 Associate Nations combine to share knowledge, undertake activities and social
services and create international and trans-continental friendships.
The AMSA vision is

KNOWLEDGE. ACTION. FRIENDSHIP

Three areas we continuously strive to further in our members and peers through our
organizational mission:
Knowledge : We promote scientific and medical activities to increase and expand our knowledge
whilst training to become the medical professionals of the future.
Action : As medical students, we are concerned for the community around us and endeavor to
do things for the benefit and improvement of our fellow citizens.
Friendship : As future doctors, we aim to build and maintain a good relationship among our
colleagues of the Asia-Pacific and beyond.
 HISTORY OF AMSA MALAYSIA
Asian Medical Students' Association (AMSA) Malaysia is a non-profit and
non-political organization led by medical students, started its operation in The
National University of Malaysia (UKM) since year 1985.
AMSA was officially founded in Manila, Philippines in 1985 and from that
day has been an active, dynamic and exciting student-led, non-profit, non-
political organization. Having established AMSA Malaysia in year 1983, AMSA
Malaysia was one of the 6 funding members of AMSA International.

Professor Dato’ Dr Lokman Saim, the founder

of AMSA Malaysia re-capped the introduction of
AMSA into Malaysia during the recent interview,
“In the year 1980, medical students from Japan
joined students in Thailand in the very first Asian
medical Students’ Conference (AMSC) which was
held in Bangkok, Thailand. It was the first meeting of
its kind among medical students in Asia. In 1981,
Malaysia was also invited to the conference. Medical
students from UKM responded to the invitation and
participated in the event. I was one of the students who had the privilege to
participate in the event. 2 years later, UKM offered to organize the Asian
Medical Students’ Conference (AMSC) in 1983 with the theme “Drug Abuse”.
This was the first step in bringing AMSA to Malaysia.”
In present, AMSA Malaysia has also secured partnership from other
medical students’ associations from other universities in Malaysia such as
National University of Malaysia (UKM), Sabah University of Malaysia (UMS),
International Medical University (IMU), UCSI University, Putra University of
Malaysia (UPM), Monash University, Science University Of Malaysia (USM) and
many other.
Member university of amsa malaysia
Full member universities:

OBSERVER MEMBER UNIVERSITIES:

AMSA MALAYSIA ACHIEVEMENT:
Year Competition Conference/ Categories Award
The 22nd East Asian
2009 Academic Research Medical Students’ Con- 2nd Place
ference (EAMSC)
The 23rd East Asian Med-
2010 Academic Research ical Students’ Confer- 3rd Place
ence (EAMSC)
The 31st Asian Medical
2010 Academic Research Students’ Conference 3rd Place
(AMSC)
The 24th East Asian Med-
2011 Academic Research ical Students’ Confer- Champion
ence (EAMSC)
Anugerah Inovasi Universiti Kebangsaan Kategori Pembangunan
2011 Champion
Malaysia Ke-6 Tahun 2010 Kendiri dan Profesional

2011 Academic Research Champion

Joint Conference 2011
2011 Public Poster Champion
2011 Scientific Poster(Open) Champion
2012 Scientific Poster Champion
2012 Public Poster The 33rd Asian Medical 3rd Place
Students’ Conference
2012 Academic Research Paper (AMSC) 2nd Place
2012 Video 2nd Place
2012 Academic Research Paper The 26th East Asian Med- 3rd Place
2012 Public Poster ical Students’ Confer- Champion
2012 Scientific Poster ence (EAMSC) Champion
The 34th Asian Medical
2013 Video Students’ Conference Champion
(AMSC)
The 35th Asian Medical
2014 Public Poster Students’ Conference 2nd Place
(AMSC)
AMSA MALAYSIA AS THE HOST OF INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
Year Conference Theme
The 4th Asian Medical
1983 Students’ Conference Drug Abuse
(AMSC)
The 8th Asian Medical
1987 Students’ Conference Medical Curriculum for Year 2000
(AMSC)
The 13th Asian Medical
The Role of Medical Students in
1992 Students’ Conference
Primary Health Care
(AMSC)
The 19th Asian Medical
The Challenges of Health Care
1998 Students’ Conference
Management in the next Millennium
(AMSC)

The 26th Asian Medical

Technology in Medicine: Embracing
2005 Students’ Conference
the Progress, Serving the People
(AMSC)
The 22nd East Asian Med-
Engaging Asia-Pacific Youth in the
2009 ical Students’ Conference
Fight Against HIV/AIDS
(EAMSC)

The 23rd East Asian Med-

Men's Health: Defining The Past,
2010 ical Students’ Conference
Refining The Future
(EAMSC)

The 34th Asian Medical

The Incoming Tide of Community
2013 Students’ Conference
Medicine
(AMSC)
 International medical university (IMU)

On 21st of September 2013, AMSA IMU organized a health screening campaign in

collaboration with the IMU annual event, Chariofare. Our health screening campaign blood
pressure measurement, BMI measurement, blood glucose measurement, nutritional advice by
qualified Nutritionist and medical advice booth by doctors.
This health-screening project was held in IMU. Around 30 medical students were
recruited to help up in our booth. Training was given before the actual event to ensure all of us
have standardized skills to prevent any bias from happening. We started to set up our booth at
8am and everyone was ready at his or her booth at 9am. Throughout the whole event, there
were few ushers helped in ensuring the event was running smoothly.
Apart from the health screening activities, we also had health exhibitions on popular
lifestyle topics such as balanced diet, hypertension and diabetes, as we had discovered these
few issues are the main health issues faced by the Malaysia society nowadays. Several
students were stationed at the booth to provide a more detailed explanation for the public. If
they found that they unable to answer the questions, they will seek the help from the
professionals.
In general, our volunteers demonstrated effective communication and good
commitment working as a team in order to make this event a great success.

Prepared by,
Stephanie
IMU Public Health Screening was held on 10th November 2013 in Kota Damansara, 40 volunteers from IMU,
including the organising committee, departed from IMU at 7.30a.m. and arrived at the venue at 8.00 a.m. We
proceeded to set up the health screening station and health exhibition as soon as we arrived. At about 9.00 a.m.,
the event was officiated by Encik Johari Ketua, President of Persatuan Penduduk Projek Perumahan Rakyat
Seksyen 8/1. Residents were then invited to participate in the event via the Public Announcement system and
some of our volunteers went to door to door knocking to promote the health-screening event to the residents.
The questionnaire for registration includes their personal details, past medical history and family medical history.
After that, the residents were ushered to medical students from IMU who measured the residents’ blood
pressure, body mass index (BMI), and waist-hip ratio (WHR), as well as screened them for their blood glucose and
cholesterol level. In addition, we had student volunteers from Nutrition & Dietetics department to be there to
have questionnaire with the residents regarding to their diets. To conclude the health screening, there were 5
IMU doctors to provide consultation to those who needed further attention.
Apart from the health screening, we also had health exhibitions and videos focussing on popular lifestyle topics
such as smoking, hypertension and diabetes, as we had discovered during planning that such issues were
prominent in this particular group of people. Several students were stationed at the exhibition to further explain
the health information displayed and promote the awareness of health check up. In addition, goodies bags were
given out to the participants as tokens of appreciation.
As this project was held at a residential area, we sought to engage the children as well. Games encouraging a
healthy diet according to the food pyramid and activities such as healthy food choices colouring contest were
conducted with the children in an attempt to instil good lifestyle choices in them. The event ended at 2.00 p.m.
In general, we had received good response from the residents and approximately 133 residents participated in
this event. Our volunteers demonstrated effective communication and good commitment working as a team in
order to make this event a great success.
Prepared by,
Chen Kai Wen
National Kidney Foundation Fundraising was held from 10am to 3pm for 3 days from 28 th
October 2013 to 30th October 2013 in International Medical University. Our objectives for this
event are to raise fund for National Kidney Foundation Malaysia and also to educate the public
about the preventive education and early detection of kidney diseases.

Before the fundraising event, we have made flyers and multiple announcements through social
media about the fundraising as early as a month before the event. We recruited volunteers for
the event to help out with promoting the fundraising as well as to educate the public. Besides
selling merchandises from National Kidney Foundation (NKF) such as kidney coinboxes, we
have also prepared brownies, homemade chocolate candies, kidney-themed T-shirts, badges
and more. Besides the fundraising, we have also prepared a mini exhibition where people can
find out information regarding kidney care and National Kidney Foundation Malaysia. We have
also made a game booth with prizes to attract students to the booth. As the event was held in
the atrium of the campus where students and staffs usually pass by, we received quite a good
response.

In overall, despite struggling during the preparation of the fundraising, the event was
considerably a success. We have successfully raised a total of RM600 for NKF and educate the
public about kidney health through this event.

Prepared by
Yeo Pang Li
The “PROJECT AID: Typhoon Haiyan” was an AMSA Malaysia initiative conducted by the semester 1
AMSA ambassadors of International Medical School (IMU). Over the course of two weeks, the
donation team went to individual lectures of the different medical, dental and health science
batches and personally collected the funds, and setting up donation booths and donation boxes in
the form of a humble biscuit tins around the IMU campus. Along the way, we educated them on the
paramount importance of monetary funds for the people in Haiyan instead clothing and food
donations. We started out with an aim to reach RM10000 as a school. Despite concurrent donation
drives under other organizations for the same cause, our enthusiasm and generosity of the givers
still managed to garner an impressive RM4400 as a school. Our efforts sparked the attention of
Professor Ong, (director of external affairs) as well as the person in charge for IMU healthcare who
proposed a collaboration of donation efforts between our sum and MERCY Malaysia and feature
this donation drive in the local newspapers.

Biscuit tin donation box stationed in various

PROJECT AID Semester 1 donation team places around campus

Approaching university community.

Powerpoint presentation presented to
students after their lectures
 One of the major events
held by AMSA IMU in the year
2014 is the National Anatomy
and Pathology Summit (NAPS).
NAPS was successfully held on
the 17th of May 2014 from 9am
to 4pm at IMU Bukit Jalil
Campus. Medical universities
throughout the whole Malaysia
are invited to participate in this
national event in order to bridge
friendship among different
universities and also to share
and learn new knowledge.
Three different workshops were held simultaneously for approximately 3 hours in the morning. And these
workshops are: Embryogenesis, Complete Blood Count and its Clinical Relevance, and Examination of Skeletal Remains for
Age, Gender Determination and Relevant Radiological Anatomy. Three lecturers from IMU who are expertise in those
respective field conducted the workshop in a fun and interactive way, allowing active participation from every
participants.
After a buffet lunch, the summit continue with a more
exciting event: the Image Quiz (preliminary round). This is a
competitive event and this round it was opened to all
participants. The quiz is based all on Anatomy and Pathology
images, and it is paper based. The top 8 students were selected
to participate in the final round which was held in the evening.
After the preliminary round of the quiz, a case
presentation competition is held in one of the lecture theatre.
For this event, each university was given a clinical case 1 week
before the NAPS event, and each team will then present the
details of the case. The presentation is judged based on the
content, presentation skills, rebuttal and also the use of
informative materials.

The last event of the day was the final round of the Image quiz. This is conducted differently from the preliminary
round, it consisted of several rounds of oral quiz, and the team that got the most correct answer will be the winning team.

NAPS came to an end with the price giving ceremony and a closing speech by Dr Arun. Overall, this event was a
success, AMSA IMU will definitely organize this again
University of science, malaysia (usm)

AMSA Kick Off Introductory Night was organized by AMSA

USM in collaboration with Medical Science Society (MEDSOC)
on 22nd October 2012. The program was officiated by Dr Shaik
Farid Abdul Wahab, the advisor of AMSA USM.
Our main objective for AMSA Kick-Off Night is to broaden the student’s knowledge regarding to the
existence of AMSA and the role of students in participating in our activities. It is important for students to
clarify their doubts regarding to this
society tonight.
We were surprised and
delighted that many medical
students, regardless Year 1 to Year 5,
appeared that night. It was out of our
expectations and nevertheless gave
us a huge morale boost to give our
best introductory night to the
audience.
First of all, the president of AMSA 2012/2013 gave his speech, introducing and explaining the purposes
and goals of AMSA. Then, a video presentation and a short sketch made by our committee team were
presented to the audience, regarding healthy lifestyle and alittle only CPR. The audience enjoyed the
presentation very much as a huge applause was given at the
end of the show.
Finally, students were introduced in joining AMSA by
writing down their details at the reception. Their details
would be keyed in by AMSA committee to register them
online. For further enquiries, we have set a senior backup
team to further clarify the questions raised by the new
members of AMSA at the end of the registration.

As a conclusion, it was a productive night as the main

objectives had been achieved and most importantly
everyone had fun.

Prepared by,

Chin Elynn
 The program “Proper Blood Culture” was held on the 7 th December 2013, Saturday at Pusat
Mahasiswa USMKK in collaboration with 2 representatives from BMS DIAGNOSTICS SDN. BHD.
There are 57 medical students participated in this programme. The blood culture bottles are fully
sponsored by the BMS DIAGNOSTICS SDN. BHD .
The event started sharp at 9am where the students registered themselves and was given a
lecture about the principle of microbial diagnosis by Dr. Siti Asma' Hassan from Microbiology
department USM. The lecture lasted for an hour and students were given refreshments during a
short break. At 10.30 a.m., there was a short lecture on the best practices in blood culture
collection and demonstration of venipuncture and blood culture by representatives of BMS
Diagnostics (M) Sdn. Bhd. All the student participated in trying out venipuncture and blood culture
collection using the correct techniques. Finally, we dismissed at 12.30 pm and each participant was
given a pocket guide for best practices in blood culture collection. The event concluded with
souvenir presenting to our guest.
As for AMSA USM members, this workshop had given us a good exposure to more
knowledge on blood culture and venipuncture. It was indeed a great experience gained.
 On 31st October 2013, from 8.00 am –
12.00 pm, we held a talk in SRJK Chun Cheng, a
primary school in Kota Bahru to educate 80
Standard Six students on sex education.
We had divided the students into two
groups according to their gender for our talk.
This is to prevent any discomfort and disgrace
among the primary school students. In our talk,
we had included secondary sex characteristics
development, taking care of hygiene of the
reproductive organ, and also ways to protect
themselves from sexual harassments.
First of all, we introduced the physical
changes to a teenage girl’s body during secondary sex characteristics development. Besides, we showed and
explain to them the anatomy of female reproductive organ by using graphic (cartoon) illustrations and
anatomical model. Then we explained to them about menstruation and how to use sanitary pads, and also
how to dispose of them properly. We did a demonstration in front of them and asked the volunteered
students to repeat the demonstration too. Furthermore, we taught them how to respect different gender and
the ways to protect self from being discriminated, physical or mental violation from others. We reminded
them to say “No” to any physical contacts to their body without their consent.
Next, we introduced the physical changes to a teenage boy’s body during secondary sex
characteristics development. The anatomy of male reproductive organ is shown by using graphic illustrations.
We taught them how to clean the area of penis covered by the foreskin to ensure the hygiene of their
reproductive organ is taken care of. After that we explained to them about pregnancy.
For both of the groups, we explained both the anatomical, changes during puberty and information
about both sex to them to allow them to understand both gender better and avoid curiosity. Meanwhile, this
helped to prevent unwanted sexual abuse cases to happen.
By the end of our talk, we raised a number of questions to be answered by the floor. The students are
actively involved in our talk, demonstration and Q&A session.
UNIVERSITI PUTRA MALAYSIA (UPM)

On 29th September 2012, ASIAN MEDICAL STUDENTS’

ASSOCIATION UNIVERSITY PUTRA MALAYSIA (AMSA
UPM) had organized a visit to Siti Noraini Old Folks
Care Centre in Kajang, Malaysia. It was held in
conjunction with Mid Autumn Festival. Items worth
RM 2000 were fundraised by the committee and
donated to the care center.

This public health campaign was held to educate the

old folks about healthy lifestyle as well as giving
them a health check. About 120 medical students
from University Putra Malaysia (UPM) had joined the
event. Besides health screening, various interactive
activities were carried on that day together with the
old folks to build a better relationship with them. A group photo of all volunteers of the events.
This campaign was officiated by welcoming speech from Mr Abdullah, the owner of the centre, and Mr Chang Wing Liong,
director of this campaign. Students were then divided into several groups to do health screening, cleaning, painting and
cooking. Once the health screening was done for all, we then started the ice breaking activities to have some fun with
them so that they can feel more caring from the society.

At about 2pm, lunch was served to all, some students even feed the old folks who have difficulties to do it. Before we end
the campaign, a multimedia show about the whole day event was projected for all while we gave souvenir to them.

Prepared by,

Chang Wing Liong

Opening ceremony by Mr Abdullah(right) and Mr A caring student chatting with an old folks.
Chang Wing Liong(left)
 On 19th January 2013, AMSA UPM
had organised “AMSA Health Day” at a
primary school in Jenjarom, Banting,
Malaysia themed Home Health Care. About
80 medical students from Universiti Putra
Malysia had participated in this event. Total
public attended this campaign was about
500.

On that day of event, we were

welcomed by the principal of the school, Mr The Siew Teck. All committees were the at the location at 7am early
morning for preparation of the event. VIP invited were Dr Cheah Pike See, Doctor Advisor of AMSA UPM, Mr The Siew
Teck, Principal of the school, Mr Soo Boon Khuan, President of Parents and Teachers Association and Mr Chang Wing
Liong, President of AMSA UPM.

After the arrival of all VIP, the event started off with opening ceremony at 9am. Once after the opening
ceremony, we then begun all our activities such as

 Health Screening ( including vital sign, glucose test and spirometer test), several Doctor are invited as consultant
for the public, Dr Ooi Cheow Peng, Dr Herni Talib, Dr Ching Siew Mooi and Dr Huda Zainuddin.
 Health Talk regarding Alzheimer Disease by Dr Cheah
 Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation Lesson by experienced Health Officer
 Poster Drawing Competition
 Health Exhibition
 Game Stations

During the closing ceremony, prizes of the poster competition were given to respective winners. Lunch were
then served to all before our final clean up. As a whole, it was a very successful event and special thanks to Mr Chang
Wing Liong, Senior Advisor and Ms Celine Lee Chen Yue, Director of the event.
This is a 2-day event that will consist of a full-day scientific seminar, followed by a day filled with activities related to the
brain (exhibitions, games, video-screenings, competitions, health seminars, patient care seminars and laboratory visits).

Day 1 programme: On the 11th of June 2013, the full-day scientific seminar is jointly organised by the Neuroscience
Research Cluster, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, UPM and the Basic Neuroscience Chapter, Malaysian
Society of Neurosciences.

Day 2 programme: On the 12th of June 2013, many fun-filled education-based activities will be organised in collaboration
with various departments in the faculty and NGOs in the country.

The aim of these activities is to increase awareness about the brain and nervous-system health-related issues.

This was an annual event organised by Neuroscience Research Cluster, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Universiti
Putra Malaysia, Basic Neuroscience Chapter of Malaysian Society of Neurosciences in collaboration with AMSA UPM.
Members of AMSA UPM were in charge the Human Anatomy Muzeum UPM. About 12 medical students were there to help
out in carrying out activities such as

Human Anatomy Muzeum, tour-guided by our experienced lecturers

Handwashing session, with the aids of music video and UV light equipments
Paint the brain, to educate the children more about their brains
Build your brain and neurone, to educate youngsters more about nervous system

It was a success as the number of participants went up to 300 for that event. Due to the overwhelming responds from the
publics, each of our activities were carried out repeatedly at different time slots so that we could accommodate more
participants. Special thanks to Mr Teh Ping An, director of this event assisted by Mr Chang Wing Liong.

Prepared by,

Mr Teh Ping An
 4 groups of museum tours were carried out concurrently and repeatedly at
different time slots.

A group photo of the hardworking and exhausted committees and our Dr Cheah
Pike See.
 AMSA Diabetes Day 2013 was a Mega project organized solely by AMSA
UPM with the help of 200 medical students actively participated in planning and
organising it for a year. It was a one day event on 3 rd November 2013 located at
University Putra Malaysia. This event was divided into 4 main activities, namely
Diabetes 8km RUN, Health Screening, Diabetes Health Talk and Poster
Competition.

World Diabetes Day (WDD) is celebrated every year on November 14. The
World Diabetes Day campaign is led by the International Diabetes
Federation (IDF) and its member associations. It engages millions of people worldwide in diabetes advocacy and
awareness. World Diabetes Day was created in 1991 by the International Diabetes Federation and the World Health
Organization in response to growing concerns about the escalating health threat that diabetes now poses. World
Diabetes Day became an official United Nations Day in 2007 with the passage of United Nation Resolution 61/225.
The campaign draws attention to issues of paramount importance to the diabetes world and keeps diabetes firmly in
the public spotlight.

Diabetes Education and Prevention is the World Diabetes Day theme for the period 2009-2013. In conjunction
of this theme, AMSA UPM organized our ever first AMSA UPM Diabetes Day. We have received great responds from
the public even though this is our first time organising it. There were 420 participants for the Diabetes 8km Run, 250
for Health Screening, 200 for Diabetes Health Talk and 600 for Poster Competition. It is a wonderful success credited
to all committees since this is just the first time organizing it.

The Diabetes Starting line.

Run! Run! Run! Run away from Diabetes~~

 A visit from UPM Dean Prof Norlijah accompanied by event director Mr Chang Wing Liong

Our consultation booth for the public by our doctors . A huge crowd joining our health talk.

Most memorable group photo of all VIP and committees after a year long of effort and hard work .
UNIVERSITI tunku abdul rahman (utar)

UTAR Medical and Health Sciences Society (MHSS) in collaboration with UTAR Centre for Research on Non-
Communicable Diseases (CRNCD) had organized a Community Health Screening Service for Persatuan Pesara Kerajaan
Malaysia Bahagian Negeri Selangor and Persatuan Bekas Tentera Malaysia Cawangan Hulu Langat on 12 th October 2013 at
Dewan Samuri Satay, Kajang. The objectives of this event are to provide free health screening with assessment for the
retiree, provide opportunity for MHSS members to serve the community, as well as to raise the awareness toward the
chronic diseases such as hypertension, diabetes, high blood cholesterol and obesity to the community.

Participants started to register on 8.30am and runners guided them to different booth to have particular health
screening .The health screening available in the event included blood pressure measurement, anthropometric
measurement, blood glucose and blood cholesterol measurement. At the end of screening, there were doctors there to
provide consultation, suggestion and advice to the participant based on their health screening result.

With honour, we also invited the chairman of UTAR CRNCD, Prof. Shelly Soo to give a short talk with title of ‘Healthy
Lifestyle’. This short talk was the highlight of the event as the speaker educated retirees regarding the complications caused
by the chronic diseases, preventive measures to avoid those chronic diseases, as well as advantages of practicing a healthy
lifestyle.

This event ended with a souvenir-giving ceremony by chairman of Persatuan Pesara Kerajaan Malaysia Bahagian
Negeri Selangor on around 1pm.

This health screening was a huge success with the help of 54 volunteers from MHSS and 6 doctors from UTAR Faculty
of Medicine and Health Sciences (FMHS). It is also glad that UTAR MHSS managed to achieve the objectives and MHSS
members gained a lot of precious experience in serving the community. In the future, UTAR MHSS will be organizing more
events that are related to serving the communities.
 Registration Counter

Blood Pressure Measurement

Height and Weight Measurement

Short talk with title “Healthy

Lifestyle” presented by Prof. Dr.
Shelly Soo
Consultation
UNIVERSITI Malaysia sabah (ums)

23rd November 2013 marked the start of a memorable week for both UMS students and the delegates from Taiwan
who participated in this AMSEP. This time, the Malaysian representative was University Malaysia Sabah (UMS) and China
Medical University (CMU) was the Taiwan representative.

There were 8 delegates from CMU, Min-Chih, the chief delegate together with Pin-Hsuan, Ta-Chien, Wan-Ling, Ying-
Hsin, Wei Wen, Mu-Ching, and Ying-ying.

The activity for the first day included ice breaking session followed by the opening ceremony in the night, held in the
Theatrette Ahmad Nisfu, School of Art, UMS. There were speeches, videos and performances by the students (Indian
cultural dance, Malay Silat and Sabah Sumazau dance). The day was ended with a group photography session.

On day 2, we went to
visit Kinabalu Park in Kundasang. This is a must-visit place as it houses the Mount Kinabalu, a defining symbol of Sabah.
Before reaching there, we stopped-by at the Upside-down House (Rumah Terbalik). It is a showcase of a residential house
standing upside down, with all its contents being displayed upside down. Then we departed for Kinabalu Park.
Besides, the delegates were brought to visit Kundasang Cow Farm, Floating Mosque, Monsopiad
village, Bamboo Musical Festival, and Kiansom Waterfall.

In terms of the academic activities, the delegates attended our pre-clinical and clinical lectures as well
as hospital visits.

The AMSEP concluded with a closing ceremony performance by the Taiwan delegates which consist of
“tai chi”, “wu-shu”, gymnastic and modern dance. The day was ended with souvenir exchange and
group photo session.

Prepared by,

Eddie Lim
The national university of Malaysia
(UKM)

On 16-22 November 2013, a group of 12delegates from Indonesia and 8delegates from Taiwan
participated in this Asian Medical Students’ Exchange Program hosted by the National University of
Malaysia. Indonesia delegates who joined this exchange program were Rifa’atul Mahmudah and Gisti
Respati Riyanti from Sebelas Maret University, Hanum Salsabila from Gadjah Mada University, Fitri
Istikasari from Tadulako University, Nur Fadilah, Aulia Giffarinnisa, Ananda Dwiyogi A. and Annisa Ika
Nurrahmayanti Syakir from Hasanuddin University, Dyah Kusuma Purwitasari, Aulia Chaya Kusuma and
Nisrina Nur Afina from Brawijaya University and Dwi Nawaluddin Naprisal from Muslim University Of
Indonesia. Taiwan delegates were Yu-Ting Ting, Chen Ting Hsun, Yang Ya Ting, Lee Han-Chen, Sung Chu-
Hsuan, Tung Kuan Kai, Tzu Chia Huang and Ying Hao Chen from Chung San Medical University.
The enlightening program started off with a tour around Malacca for the first 2 days. Malacca
was the state we specially chose for the delegates to introduce its fantastic culture and Malaysia’s
history for them. All of us had 1 night stay at Malacca homestay. The delegates were brought to visit
Taman Mini Malaysia and then Botanical Café for opening party. At night, we went for Malacca River
Cruise as it is one of the hotspot for sightseeing. We started the second day by visiting to several
historical buildings such as Independence Memorial Malacca, Sultanate Museum, Port De Santiago,
Christ Church and Maritime Musuem. Delegates were also exposed to the local Baba and Nyonya
culture by visiting Baba Nyonya Heritage Musuem. Not to forget about the Jonker Street Malacca
which is famous for the local delicacies and authentic cultural experiences.
After few days of fun, of course, we did not neglect academic explorations, as the gist of AMSEP Malaysia
programs is always the perfect blending of greatest fun into all programs including academic programs. The
academic program was started with the opening ceremony, which was organized at UKM Medical Centre
(UKMMC). This opening ceremony was graced by the speech given by advisor of this program, Dr. Norhazlina
Abdul Wahab. After the opening ceremony, delegates had their first tour in our hospital. They were brought to
several departments, such as Biochemistry, Microbiology and Pathology department. They were amazed by
technologies possessed by UKMMC. Lastly, they were having opportunities to experience as a clinical medical
student in UKM. They had have ward round that was leaded by matron and head nurses of every ward. They
were so lucky to have a short talk with one of the consultant of Obstetric and Gynaecology (O&G) Department,
UKMMC, Professor Ani Amelia.

After lunch, we went to Putrajaya that serves as federal

Administrative centre of Malaysia. It never dimmed their
mood of visiting this place albeit it was heavily rained. All
delegates were still so enthusiastic after listening to
briefing of head of the day. Their anticipations made our
day, it was the enthusiasm made the trip worthwhile,
indeed. Luckily, the rain was finally stopped at the evening
and we visited to Seri Wawasan Bridge, Millennium
Monument, Perdana Putra and Putra Mosque. All the
buildings in Putrajaya were beared with special story and
meanings behind their beautiful and unique
architechtures. It was a surprise briefing from the head of
the day for the history behind Putrajaya, not just for
delegates, but some of the organising committees as well.
During dinner, together we enjoy the night view of
Putrajaya as well as the local delicacies in Putra Cruise.
19 November 2013
In the morning, we brought delegates
to visit our our anatomy museum and
physiology department. In here, they
understand more on how we learn
anatomy through dissection and
models. Also, they were divided into
smaller groups to join our PBL session.

After lunch, we visited KL City Gallery

where they walked through memories
of Kuala Lumpur and viewed the
amazing Kuala Lumpur city model.
Next, they got to colour the “batik” themselves in National Textile Museum. At night, we visited to the
Petronas Twin Towers, which is the hallmarks of Malaysia as well as across the Skybridge to enjoy the
view of Kuala Lumpur. This tower is the pride of

Malaysian
which represents
the National
20 November 2013
Similar to yesterday, they had academic slot in the morning where they were invited to attend our lec-
tures and join community services. We went to an orphanage and played with the kids there. They en-
joyed every single moment with the kids there. It never broke their connection between Taiwan dele-
gates and those orphans although there was language barrier among them.

After lunch, delegates had chance to challenge themselves on Skytrek where they can go through var-
ious obstacles from tree to tree suspended between 3 meters to 22 meters. At night, we visited i-city
where breath taking view of City of Digital Light located. They also visited Trick Art museum where
they had chance to take photo with two dimensional paintings that have been skillfully rendered by
artists to make them appear as three dimensional.
 21 November 2013
Today, the academic slot is about Malaysia Respiratory Institute and KPJ Tawakkal Specialist
Hospital.In KPJ Tawakkal Specialist Hospital, they have greater insight on private health
system in Malaysia. After lunch, we visited National Museum of Malaysia which is also
another symbol of identification of our country Malaysia. In National Museum, we have
greatly understand about the history of our country and observe various valuable national
assets. On the way travel to Tenmoku Pottery, we stopped by at famous Batu Caves. We
climbed up the stairs and observed Hindu temples and their praying. After Batu Caves, we
visited the Tenmoku Pottery. Tenmoku pottery is specialize in aware winning quality pottery
work for home décor and as well as jewelry pieces and gifts. At night, we held a closing party.
In the closing party, we had sharing session. This was the most touching part of this closing
party. All delegates prepared their own cultural performance for us.

22 November 2013
It was the last day of AMSEP Indonesia-Taiwan-Malaysia. There were 3 delegates leave Malaysia
in the morning. For the others, we brought them to Royale Selangor, petaling street and central
market. It was last round for them to buy their souvenirs in Malaysia. After that, we travelled to
Sunway Pyramid to have our last dinner together with the delegates. Later, we send them to the
KLIA to take their flight back. We were so sad as we had to leave each others after being so closed
for 1 week.
UNIVERSITI PUTRA MALAYSIA (UPM)

Asian Medical Student Exchange Programme

(AMSEP) Universiti Putra Malaysia had hosted
AMSEP Philippines from 26th April to 2nd May
2014. There were 19 committee members from UPM and 10 delegates from the Philippines that
participated this event. Throughout their stays here, we can really see that though we speak
differently, did things differently, and had varied races and beliefs, we ended up teaching each other
some of the greatest lessons in life through our shared experience just the same. After all, as one of
the organizing committee, I think it was truly a great platform for the medical students from these
two countries to build knowledge, action and friendship like what the AMSEP stand for.

Day 1:
After breakfast, we had our opening ceremony conducted in Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences
(FPSK), UPM to formally welcome all our beloved delegates. We had specially invited Lee Li Ting,
Regional Chairperson of AMSA Malaysia, Suzanne Lo, Representative of AMSA UPM as well as Tan
Jane Jane, Director of AMSEP Malaysia-Philippines 2014 to officiate the ceremony. The session took
around one hour and we proceeded with a variety of ice-breaking activities. After a tiring but fun ice-
breaking session, we had our lunch then went to the Anatomy Museum to meet Dr. Suryati Mohd
Thani who toured us around. We then brought the delegates to roam around the UPM Main campus,
which is an astounding 1108.10 hectares.
In the afternoon, we stopped by Alamanda Shopping Centre for them to do some shopping and
change money. We then headed to Dataran Putra, a city square located opposite the Prime
Minister's office complex, Putra Perdana, in Putrajaya. We visited the world only pink mosque and on
that night itself, we brought them to enjoy the Putrajaya River Cruise. We passed by the Seri
Wawasan bridge, Seri Gemilang bridge, Seri Saujana bridge, Putrajaya Convention Centre and other
architecturally stunning structures. The last stop on our Day 1 schedule was the Millennium
Monument.
Day 2:
We headed out to Agriculture Heritage Park, a 14-hectare park full of fruit trees, herbs and spices after
breakfast. We were able to see a demonstration of how rubber is collected from the rubber trees and
how it’s treated as well. After exploring the park, we headed back to UPM and had an informative
lecture on dengue by Dr. RoslainiAbd. Majid. After that, John Jefferson Besa , one of our delegates
from the Philippines presented the common vector borne diseases in the Philippines. In the afternoon,
we had visited a few tourism spots in Kuala Lumpur which comprises of TheanHou Temple, a grandiose
structure dedicated to the heavenly mother, TheanHou, Suria KLCC’s Galeri Petronas, Petronas Twin
Towers and central market.

Day 3:
This day, we brought our delegates to join Dr. Sazlyna binti Mohd. Sazlly Lim on her ward rounds at the
Hospital Serdang. Next, we continue with a PBL session conducted by our own committee members.
From the delegates’ feedback, they claimed that this session was a bit similar to their small group
discussion (SGD) and clinico-pathological conference (CPC), except it was more “benign.” After that, we
traveled to Dataran Merdeka or the Independence Square, Galeri Kuala Lumpur, National Textile
Museum and finally Bukit Bintang. After a simple yet delicious dinner, we visited Pavilion shopping
mall.
Day 4:
The delegates had the opportunity to attend a class with the first year medical students about acid-base
balance in one of the lecture halls in UPM. Then, they were transferred to the lab to have another
informative lecture about stroke by Dr. Wan Aliaa binti Wan Sulaiman. After lunch in FPSK, we visited
The National Theatre, Istana Budaya, National Blood Bank Center, National Monument and National
Musuem. At night, after the buffet dinner with second year medical students of UPM, our delegates as
well as committee members had a game which also known to be “Amazing Race”. We did enjoy

ourselves to the maximum that night.

Day 5:
We started our day with a lecture on surgery by Assoc. Prof. Dr. Abd ALRhmanHikmet Shaker ALAzawi
at Hospital Serdang then went for a hospital round. After ward rounds, we had our lunch in Kolej 17 and
change clothes. Then, we headed to Beryl’s Chocolate Wonderland. The tour started with a film viewing
about the history of Beryl---how it started and how chocolates were made. After the film showing, we
walked through their chocolate museums where one can find various kinds of chocolates from different
countries. After the tour inside, we then headed to their store where we really enjoyed ourselves;
everyone got baskets full of chocolates for their own consumption, friends and family back home. Next,
Day 6:
All of us woke up early that day for a 3-hour ride to Malacca. In Malacca, we visited a lot of places like
A’Famosa, a Portuguese fortresswhich means “The Famous”. We also walked by Sultan Palace and St.
Paul Church for another picture-taking session. Then, we walked our way to Stadthuys also known as the
Red Square, means “city hall”, a structure rich in history worth sharing, situated in the heart of Malacca
Town; photos were taken at the Stadthuys stairs. Afterwards, we went to San ShuGon, a local delicacy
shop in Jonker Street. After having chicken rice balls as our lunch, we proceed to Christ Church. Next,
we walked to St. Francis Xavier Church. since that was the delegates’ last night in Malaysia, we had our
farewell dinner in a restaurant named seafarer. After the sumptuous dinner, we went back to UPM.

Day 7:
This day was a mix of emotions. Our delegates had their breakfast at 8:30 AM at the Students’ Plaza.
After they finished our food, all of us proceeded to the Tutorial Room, our venue for the farewell party.
Everyone was busy as a bee---changing costumes, preparing souvenirs, and having some vocalizations.
The Philippine delegates presented first with a Flores de Mayo-themed fashion show while every
delegate wore different Filipino traditional costumes. Meanwhile, some of them showed us a dance
known as Maglalatik. After the dance, UPM committees play the “kadang-kadang” or the coconut shell
stilt race that everyone enjoyed. After the traditional Filipino games, our delegates proceeded with their
performances before the video presentation made by them showing all the activities we had for 7 days.
Another video was presented showing our messages to us---our goodbye message in BahasaMelayu.
Then, we continued with a presentation of different Filipino food and delicacies. For their last presenta-
tion, three of our delegates sang “For Good” as an appreciation.
Next was our turn to perform. We did several cultural dances and sang two beautiful songs for our dele-
gates. After all the performances, certificates were given to the delegates. Then, we had an exchange of
souvenirs, food, post cards, and hugs.
Monash university malaysia
The Post EAMSC 2014 Seminar was held on 8th March 2014 in Monash University Malaysia. Registration
began at 8.30am. Our committee came early to set up the counter and make sure everything was in
place. Each participant that came was given goody bags containing a notebook, pen and a file containing
our event booklet – complete with abstracts of the academic competition winners of EAMSC. The day
started off with the opening speech by Professor Dato’ Dr Khalid Abdul Kadir, our Deputy Head of Jeffrey
Cheah’s School of Medicine and Health Sciences, Monash Malaysia. Our first lecture entitled ‘A Case of
Well Managed Chronic Disease’ was presented by Professor Dr. Rusli Noordin, our Head of Clinical School
who came all the way from Johor just to give this lecture. This was followed by our second lecture
presented by Professor Amudha Kadirvelu entitled ‘Atherosclerosis and Vascular Imaging’. We adjourned
for lunch at 12.00pm.
The workshop session began at 1.30pm. It began with a half an hour talk on tuberculosis, an important
infectious chronic disease especially in the Malaysian context. After that, participants were broken up
randomly into groups and a short ice-breaking session was held. The workshops were held in the form of
stations, where each group had to go through each station, collecting points. The stations were based on
the topics tuberculosis and congestive cardiac failure. We broke off for afternoon tea at 4.30pm.
At 5.00pm, our last lecture of the day began. Entitled ‘Diabetes and Metabolic Syndrome’ it was given by
Professor Dato’ Dr. Khalid Kadir, a renowned expert in the field. We ended the academic sessions with a
summary of the academic competitions (scientific paper, poster and public poster), given by Kong Soo
Ling, a delegate from UTAR that attended the conference in Korea. Evelyn, another delegate from IMU,
also gave a short presentation on her experience during the conference in Korea. Prizes for the winners
of the academic workshops were given after this session.
Social night began with dinner at 7.00pm. Participants were entertained by performances from the year
2s of Monash University MBBS course. In order to infuse some essence of Korea into this event, the
organizing committee planned stations based on Korean traditional games. Everyone had fun and the
event ended at 9.30pm.
We initially scheduled for one extra lecture entitled ‘Mental Health as a Chronic Condition’ to be given by
Mr. Paul Jambunathan, a Consultant Clinical Psychologist at Sunway Medical Centre. However, today was
the day of the ill-fated flight of MH370, and Mr. Paul was involved with handling distress calls and
dealing with the crisis. He was very sorry that he couldn’t make it, but he wanted us very much to realize
that in the future, we could all play our part by volunteering to serve during times of need such as this.
 PUBLIC HEALTH PROGRAMME

Themed ‘Unseen Danger’, the 2013 AMSA health day was successfully held on the 7 th of
December 2013 at Sekolah Agama Hidayatul Iman, Sg Jelok Kajang. In line with the upcoming pre-
EAMSC conference in Korea, the community starved off many challenges in making this program a
success. The committee members and runners involving medical students from UKM, IMU,UTAR
and Monash University arrived as early as 8.15 am to start off the day.
In the early morning, the Principal of the school was invited to give a opening speech for the
event's opening ceremony. The health campaign started at 8.45 am with the clinical screening booth
accepting participants to undergo a series of screening tests which included body mass index (BMI),
blood pressure, pulse rate, blood glucose and blood grouping. At the end of the screening, a
counseling session was provided to explain their results and clear their doubts. At the same time,
the participants were given pamphlets in order to understand more about diseases that people can
take primary prevention steps on such as Hypertension, Diabetes and obesity.
A booth with games conducted by our members had raised some excitement during this
program. The ‘aseptic technique’ booth was a new exposure techniques that can be highlighted for
children during the program while their parents were doing clinical screening. There was also
games that had raised some fun among children and participants which was "match it correctly" and
gifts were given in return for their great participation. As for all, crowd for this program was made
by children and their presence and participation cheered up the atmosphere.
Crowd slowly tapered as the lunch time was near. After some refreshment and rest, more
crowd came in the late afternoon. To further promote of the event, some members managed to go
house by house to remind and attract more people to come to this program. Runners and members
had also done their best to attract more people to come this program and people could increase
their awareness of silent disease such as Hypertension and Diabetes Mellitus.
We managed to invite Organ Transplant Centre and there was a good numbers of applicants
who were interested in signing up. They also provided pamphlets and books on explanation about
organ transplant and there was a representative from the centre helping out in explaining the
process of signing up for anyone who were interested.
In a nutshell, although it was a small scale campaign attracting around 50-100 people, our
campaign managed to achieve our objective.
 ASIAN MEDICAL STUDENTS’ CONFERENCE (amsc)
malaysia 2013
It is an honor for Malaysia to host one of the greatest annual event of AMSA. It is the 34th Asian
Medical Students’ Conference (AMSC) Malaysia 2013. The great event happened from 3rd July 2013
to 10th July 2013, lasted for 8 days and 7 nights. This was not the first time Malaysia hosted such a
great event at international level, back in 2010, we hosted the East Asian Medical Students’
Conference (EAMSC). The conference was organized by medical students from medical universities,
namely The National University of Malaysia, International Medical University of Malaysia and Monash
University of Malaysia, Universities Tunku Abdul Rahman, Universiti Putra Malaysia and UCSI. The
total number of delegates is 427 from over 20 countries. The theme of the conference was ‘The
Incoming Tide of Community Medicine’ which objective is to create awareness among medical
students regarding the importance of primary health care . Every doctor has a societal responsibility in
the promotion of health and prevention of disease and injury among community in which they live.
The theme mainly focus on community health which is further subdivided into 4 sub-topics namely,
Maternal and Child care, Environmental Health, Occupational Safety and Health and Chronic Non-
Communicable Disease. Many academic activities such as lecture, symposium, workshop and
academic competitions were held through the conference as well as plenty of social and cultural
activities such as cultural night performance, sightseeing to local landmark and tourist hotspots,
nevertheless the delegates have the chance to try variety of local delights and authentic cuisine. The
accommodation of the conference is the 5-stars majestic hotel called The Palace of The Golden Horses
which is a lakeside hotel with breathtaking scenery and cozy hotel rooms.
 The delegates were given a warm treat at the welcoming party in the very ballroom of the hotel
and ice-breaking session was a success. Not only attended lecture, delegates were divided into group
where they had discussion and group work among themselves to have a more practical experience. One
thing special about the theme is that delegates not only had activities in the urban area, but also the
sub urban area called ‘kampong’ area. During the visit to the sub-urb, delegates had the chances to ex-
perience and enjoy the life in typical ‘Kampung’ way. AMSC 2013 is also the first conference to organize
the International Medical Brainteaser which serves as a platform for friendly competition for delegates
on their medical knowledge. Not to forget the Personal and Professional Development seminar given by
Profesor Harlina from UKM on the topic ’How to become a 5-star medical students’.
To bring our local delights to a whole new level, we organized our very own Malaysian Street
Food Fiesta where a tableful of scrumptious and authentic Malaysian food became the dinner for all
delegates. To further enable delegates to understand our culture and tradition, we had prepared some
workshops such as the batik painting workshop, traditional costume workshop and etc. No conference
is complete without the visit to the famous landmark of the country, in AMSC 2013, we brought the del-
egates to visit the Petronas Twin Towers and Putrajaya which include a river cruise session and many
other tourist hotspots.
To complete the conference, we moved from Kuala Lumpur to Genting Highlands on day 7 of the
conference where we had the grand closing ceremony and party in the ballroom of First World Hotel.
The party was given the theme ‘Geeky and Nerdy’ and we had the chance to witness a variety of school
uniform and fashionable costume from different countries. The highlight of the night was the perfor-
mance from the group moderators whose performance was so entertaining and truly displayed their
potential beyond a medical students. Not only that, the organizing committee also gave a surprise to
the delegates by a flash mob performance. Some delegates decided to further extend their enjoyment
in Malaysia by joining the post-Conference Tour to Malacca, the UNESCO World Heritage Site and his-
torical cities of Malaysia.
In a nutshell, AMSC 2013 was a great success after years of preparation and could be one of the
best conference ever organized.
 PUBLIC HEALTH PROGRAMME

AMSA Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM) had organized a charity marathon (RUN FOR FUTURE) with
collaboration of AMSA University Putra Malaysia(UPM) and AMSA University Monash on 27th April 2014
at main campus of UKM. The event started at 9am and ended at 2pm. The motives of the marathon are to
create health awareness among society and raise fund for Kirtash Home.

Besides marathon, we also had other activities like clinical booths organized by Majlis Kanser
Nasional (MAKNA) and National Kidney Foundation (NKF). Our 1 month promotion successfully attracted
132 people from both genders of all age groups to take part in the marathon. Their fees are directed to
Kirtash Home. The VIP of the event was Dr Adli Ali who was the advisor of the program.

The event was started by a speech given by the VIP followed by Abdullah Mohd Badawi who was
the president of the charity marathon. The run started approximately at 10.30am after the arrival of all
the participants.

There were two categories which are men and women categories. There was only one track which
was 7 km distance and two checkpoints along the track. All the finishing participants were provided
medals, certificates, goodie bags and food. Hampers were given to the top three winners from each
category. The gift was given by the president.
While waiting for the participants to reach the endpoint of the track, the families and friends of
them visited those MAKNA and NKF booths. The volunteers explained the aims and importance of the non
-governmental organization (NGO).

In addition, through this charity marathon, we could grow a good relationship among the committee
members of AMSA from different universities. Organizing this program was a golden opportunity for
medical students like us to improve our leadership and communication skills. Besides that, we successfully
achieved our main objective which was to raise fund for the needy children. We hope more charity
programs will be held to lend a hand for those who need help.
 MEDICAL INTERVASITY GAMES (MIVG)

On the 24th of August 2013, IMU was given the

privilege to host the annual Medical Intervarsity
Games (MIVG). MIVG was created in with the aim
of promoting a healthy lifestyle among medical
students through sports as well as to promote
and foster intervarsity relations among the
Medical Faculties in Malaysia.
Medical students from Cyberjaya University
College of Medical Sciences, Perdana University,
Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman, Universiti Putra
Malaysia, Monash University, University
Kebangsaan Malaysia, Newcastle University,
Universiti Malaysia Sabah and the International
Medical University came together on that day.
At 7:30 am, delegates from all over Malaysia had
finally arrived. After registration was finalised, the
delegates were immediately transferred to their
respective sports venue. Hence, the game
commences. Basketball was held at both Score
Arena Kuchai Lama and at IMU itself, badminton
and futsal was held at Sentosa Sports Complex,
table tennis was held at IMU, squash was held at
the National Squash Centre and track and field at
Pusat Sukan UPM.
At 12:30 pm, all delegates are gathered back at
IMU again for lunch. During this time, delegates are able to rest and rejuvenate before the second
half of the games. At 2:30 pm, the delegates are transferred back to their respective venues again
and the games continued. The games officially end at 5 pm and all delegates are subsequently
gathered back at IMU for the closing ceremony.
Back at IMU, all results are gathered, calculated and tabulated. The closing ceremony was initiated with
an inspiring speech given by Dr Purushotham to all medical students. Then, prizes and medals are pre-
sented the winners of individual events. Lastly, the MIVG trophy was presented to IMU as the overall
champion of MIVG 2013.
MIVG 2013 ends with a group photo taken with all delegates and a tying of bonds between medical fac-
ulties from all over Malaysia.
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PROMOTIONAL POSTER OF FUNDRAISING FOR PHILLIPINES
Malaysia public poster entry at amsc Thailand 2014

2ND PRIZE IN PUBLIC POSTER COMPETITION

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