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MoA signing ceremony between UNIMAS and AFSM
Thursday 23 March 2017, 08:00am - 05:00pm
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KOTA SAMARAHAN, 23 March 2017 : A Memorandum of Agreement (MoA) has been signed between Universiti Malaysia Sarawak (UNIMAS) and Academy For Silent Mentor (AFSM) today to set up silent mentor centre in UNIMAS campus in Kota Samarahan.

The establishment of the silent mentor centre are next to the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences in Kota Samarahan will serve as a complementary training centre for medical and nursing programs.

During MoA signing ceremony, UNIMAS was represented by Vice Chancellor, Professor Dato’ Dr Mohamad Kadim Suaidi and AFSM was represented by Chairman and Founding Director AFSM, Professor Dr Chin kin Fah.

“ We believe that the centre will nurture good humanistic values and empathy amongst the medical students in UNIMAS which are inspired by selfless acts of the donors. It will serve as a resource centre for their anatomy and basic surgical skills as well as soft skills module as the students will be the volunteers at the centre,” said UNIMAS Vice Chancellor, Professor Dato’ Dr Mohamad Kadim Suaidi.

In his speech, Professor Dato’ Dr Mohamad Kadim explained  AFSM will helps UNIMAS student to become a better doctors and nurses and teach students to be respectful to their future patients, just like how the students treat the silent mentors with utmost respect.

He described that the centre will also provide an avenue for postgraduate surgical skills training and advanced clinical development particularly for medical and health practitioners such as training centre for live cadaveric workshop for surgical residents and trainees.

He felt that the centre has the potential to develop in many aspects such as centre for research, create opportunity for postgraduate training such as Masters in Anatomy, development of tissue bank and collaborations with other medical training centres and industries.

“ I am confident that our strong relationship will be a start of a significant milestone for both UNIMAS and the Academy of Silent Mentor in our strategies to expand the quality of our teaching, learning and research in Malaysia,” he said.

It is also hoped that through this collaboration, a unique relationship which will complement the strengths and experiences of both parties towards the opportunities for skill enhancements to other allied health professionals such as physiotherapy and complementary medicine such as traditional Chinese medicine.

Article by : Sarena Haidir

 
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