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Kota Samarahan, 26 December 2018 : Sarawak’s first Silent Mentor Training Centre building was launched by YB Datuk Dr Sim Kui Hian, Minister For Local Government And Housing in conjunction with the Academy for Silent Mentor (AFSM) Conference 2018 at Borneo Convention Centre, Kuching, recently.
The launch was witnessed by Professor Dr Chin Kin Fah, Chairman and Founding Director of AFSM, Professor Dr Mohammad Zulkarnaen Ahmad Narihan, Deputy Dean of Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Universiti Malaysia Sarawak (UNIMAS) together with the training centre’s public fund raisers, Datin Amar Kathryn Wee, Mr Ong Ngok Shoon, Miss Zhang Su Ling and Mr Chen Shyang Ren.
The training centre is the culmination of a Memorandum of Agreement between Universiti Malaysia Sarawak and Academy For Silent Mentor that was signed in Kuala Lumpur, on 23rd of March 2017. The memorandum aims to set up a silent mentor centre in UNIMAS’s Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Kota Samarahan campus.
Following the memorandum, the ‘i-Silent Mentor Programme’ was then launched in May 2017 in Kuching by the Academy of Silent Mentor with the aims to promote consented body donation for the advancement of medical education as well as helping to facilitate the development of humanity among healthcare professionals.
The newly launched centre will serve as a complementary training centre for UNIMAS’s medical and nursing students. In addition it will also serve as a resource centre for anatomy and basic surgical skills as well as soft skill module takers as the students will be the volunteers at the centre.
Aiming to nurture good humanistic values and empathy amongst the medical and nursing students in UNIMAS, as inspired by selfless acts of the donors, the Silent Mentor Centre will be the avenue for postgraduate surgical skills training and advanced clinical development particularly for medical and health practitioners.
The establishment of this temporary silent mentor building with its three freezers enables AFSM and UNIMAS to kickstart the silent mentor activities in Sarawak.
AFSM Sarawak is now seeking to raise donations for its permanent centre which will include workshop area and appreciation hall at UNIMAS.
