Saturday Teach-In on "DERMATOLOGY" by College of Physicians, AMM

Dear fellow colleagues,

The College of Physician under the Academy of Medicine Malaysia, has been conducting "Saturday Teach-In" program regularly for MOs, HOs, GPs and also for senior medical students.

On January 2011, a one-day course on Haematology was conducted, and there were strong support from medical students (especially from Melaka-Manipal, Universiti Malaya, UKM etc). On the coming 12 March 2011, they will be conducting another Saturday Teach-In, with the topic on Dermatology.

Program:

0900 - 1000 hrs: Registration/ Coffee

1000 - 1100 hrs: Common Skin Disorders (Eczema, Psoriasis, Tinea etc)

1100 - 1200 hrs: Adverse Cutaneous Drug Reaction

1200 - 1300 hrs: Dermatological Emergencies (TEN/ Pemphigus/ Acute Erythroderma)

1300 - 1400 hrs: Lunch

1400 - 1430 hrs: Workshop on Topical Application of Creams

1430 - 1500 hrs: Workshop on Wet Dressing/ Soaks

1500 - 1530 hrs: Workshop on Scalp Treatment / Scabies Treatment

Course Fee for Medical Student: RM 20

As place are limited, for advance booking, please contact:

Secretariat, College of Physicians, AMM

G-1, Medical Academies of Malaysia,

210, Jalan Tun Razak, 50400 Kuala Lumpur.

Tel: (603) 4023 4700 ; 4025 4700; 4025 3700

Fax: (603) 4023 8100 [Email: acadmed@po.jaring.my]

Website for Saturday Teach-In: http://www.acadmed.org.my/newsmaster.cfm?&action=news&menuid=80&parentid=39

1st National Symposium on the Art of History Taking

Dear fellow colleagues,

History taking, an important skill acquired during our medical school training. Professors in med school always emphasize to us that with good history taking, in 80% of cases you will arrive at the diagnosis. The cornerstone of good clinical practice continues to be history-taking and skills in clinical examination. Good doctors will continue to be admired for their ability to distill the important information from the history, for their clinical skills and of course not to forget, for their attitude towards patients, and for their knowledge of diseases, disorders and behaviour problems.

I am not sure whether you wonder History taking is actually an art? Just like Medicine!!! It is like an art, not something fixed like a guideline. Many friends I know take history taking like a template you can use universally for all patients, for which I feel it is wrong. Every patient has their own story to tell; they have their history to tell us, to arrive at the diagnosis.

USM Medical Students make the initiative, to organize the 1st National Symposium on the Art of History Taking.

Further information can be downloaded here: [Accommodation], [Registration Instructions], [Registration Form], [Invitation Letter], [Pre-symposium booklet], [Travelling Information].

On behalf of the organizing committee, I would like to call upon all dedicated and passionate good future doctors, to participate in this symposium. Kelantan, where USM is located at, is a very nice place to visit too. Take this opportunity to learn the art of medicine and history taking, and also take your time to visit around Kelantan, which will be organized by USM colleagues.

Organizing a good and meaningful activities as medical students are not easy. I really hope that all of us can show our full support towards these motivated and passionate colleagues from USM.

*Apologies to the organizing committee for putting up the notice late, as I was very busy with my assignments and exams this few weeks. Please kindly allows more participants even after the deadline, so that we can all benefited from the above program. ~SMMAMS Webmaster, Vincent.

INTERVARSITY SPORTS MEDIC 2010 - Thinking of a Good & Meaningful Weekend?

DETAILS OF THE GAMES:

1. FUTSAL

• 8 persons per team
• Category (a) MALE (b) FEMALE
• Registration Fee : RM12 per person
  
  
  2. BASKETBALL
  
  8 persons per team
  
  Category: (a) MALE
  
  Registration Fee: RM 12 per person
  

(3) BADMINTON

• Groups : (a) Single (b) Double,
  
• Category : (i) MALE (ii) FEMALE
  
• Registration Fee : RM20 per person

Registrations are opened to all Malaysian medical students (SMMAMS / Non-SMMAMS member). Forms and official letter have been sent to your respective university's dean office and Student Representative Council.

Please register online with us and we will direct your university representative to you. Or if you have problems with the online registration, you can always email president.smmams@gmail.com on the games you want to participate. You should include the details like: 1) Name (please specify Mr/ Ms); 2) University and 3) Futsal/ Basketball/ Badminton (single/double)

To all student representatives / student bodies, if your school has not receive our invitation letter and registration form, please do not hesitate to contact the following person:

(a) Ms. Jayanthi Selvam - 012-2946077 (jeqq2005@gmail.com)

(b) Mr. Ravi - 017-7962634 (ravi_devilz@hotmail.com)

As some colleagues had asked "why only 3 games?". Well, this is the first time we are organizing such event and we hope to start good in a smaller scale. Maybe in the coming year, we will include other games like Bowling, Swimming, Chess, Table Tennis, Squash etc. Let us just come and participate in the above games. Winning is not the most important matter. You will have the great opportunity to make new friends and new networks here. Just come for fun!

Please feel free and do not hesitate to drop us your feedbacks and comments. We will be grateful to hear from you! Hope to see you soon here!

p/s : You can do SMMAMS a kind favour by clicking on the tiny facebook icon about 1 cm below this post. :)

MMA 50th Anniversary Dinner with Prime Minister, Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak

Last 2 weeks, on the 14th of July 2010, the Society of Malaysian Medical Association Medical Students (SMMAMS) was invited to attend the Malaysian Medical Association (MMA) 50th Anniversary dinner with the Prime Minister, Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak at the Hotel Royale Chulan, Kuala Lumpur. About 1000 doctors from all over Malaysia attended the dinner. Those attending include SMMAMS Immediate Past Chairman, Mr. Thanesh Kumar; Chairman Mr. Justin Lee; Vice Chairman, Mr. Lutfi Fadil bin Lokman; Secretary, Ms. Loo Kar Yee; Asst. Secretary, Mr. Melvin Loh; Treasurer, Ms. Sheela Josephine John and committee members Mr. Vincent Khor, Ms. Priya Dashene Raj and Ms. Jayanthi Selvam.

The dinner was preceded with the arrival of the Prime Minister along with other VIPs, including the Minister of Health, Datuk Seri Liow Tiong Lai; Minister of Tourism, Datuk Seri Dr. Ng Yen Yen; Deputy Minister of Defence Datuk Dr. Abdul Latiff and our Director General of Health Tan Sri Datuk Haji Mohn Ismail Merican, and the current MMA President, Dr. David Quek Kwang Leng.

An opening speech was given by the organizing chairman, Dr. Kuljit Singh, followed by speech from MMA President, Dr. David. He spoke on healthcare in 10th Malaysian Plan, free trade zone among doctors in ASEAN zone, 1Care Malaysia, medical education in Malaysia and the most important issue, the 1Malaysia Clinic being managed by MA and Nurses.

The summit of the event was the speech by the Prime Minister. He addressed several issues encountered by the medical profession, and announced his plan to launch 1Malaysia Mobile clinic and open more 1 Malaysia Clinics under the 10th Malaysia Plan as part of its continuous effort to provide quality and afforadable healthcare services to the people.

The MMA is now 50 years old (1960 - 2010). The honorable Prime Minister after his speech launched the new 50th Year MMA logo followed by cutting of anniversary cake. A token of appreciation from MMA was handed to Prime Minister by the MMA president, Dr. David Quek. It was a framed picture of the late PM's father, Tun Abdul Razak in 1967, as he was declaring opening of the 5-storey MMA building in Jalan Pahang, Kuala Lumpur.

It was a great honor for the SMMAMS Committee to attend such a prestigious dinner and have a chance to meet the PM in person. Through the interview with some of the senior MMA members, we had the opportunity to learn the ropes of the Malaysian Healthcare system. It was inspiring to realize that we are all going to be the future leaders, and someday our time will come for us to lead and share the responsibility of ensuring continuous advancement of the Malaysian healthcare.

SMMAMS committee members with DG for Health Tan Sri Datuk Dr. Haji Mohd Ismail Merican (President of Malaysian Medical Council) with MMA President, Dr. David (Right end)

Organizing Chairman, Dr. Kuljit Singh (Deputy Secretary General, MMA)

Our "boss", MMA President, Dr. David Quek

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO MALAYSIAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION AND ALL MALAYSIAN DOCTORS!!! ANOTHER MILESTONES ACHIEVED!!

1st SMMAMS Committee Meeting

The 1st SMMAMS Committee Meeting for fiscal year 2010-2011 had been held at MMA office on 26 June 2010, from 9.00am - 1.00pm.
Some of the agendas and issues which were discussed during the meeting:

1. 3rd Malaysian International Medical Students' Conference (MIMSC)
2. Upcoming events like CME, Sports Meet at UPM, Medical Students' Debate Competition
3. SMMAMS T-shirt Design Competition
4. SMMAMS ICT (Website, Facebook, SMMAMS TV)
5. MMA Students Membership- proposal of Online Application, Student-Friendly application form.

The next meeting will be held around October 2010.