Annual Report - Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman

FMHS Annual Report
2011
research in focused areas, 3 research centres have been established, viz. Centre for Stem Cell
Research, Centre for Cancer Research and Centre for Research in Traditional Chinese Medicine.
Next year is the 10th Anniversary of the founding of UTAR. We will work hands in hands with
other faculties and centres of UTAR towards making UTAR the leading private institution of higher
learning in Malaysia.
It will be a year to consolidate our undergraduate teaching programmes and enhance the
learning experience of the medical & health sciences undergraduates. In line with the recent
development in education of an outcome-based curriculum, the FMHS will concentrate on developing
the learning outcomes for all teaching-learning activities in the different phases of the medical and
health science courses. We will make every effort to promote the e-learning platform (MOODLE) for the
conduct of our teaching-learning activities.
The FMHS will continue to compete for funding to support research and the postgraduate
programmes. We have been successful in obtaining research grants from the Ministry of Higher
Education (MOHE) such as FRGS, from the Ministry of Sciences, Technology & Innovation (MOSTI)
such as Nano Technology Fund and e-Science Fund, private sources such as MAKNA Collaborative
Research Fund, EuYanSang Research Grant, Cryocrod Collaborative R&D Grant and HITV Research
Grant. However, we will not be limiting ourselves to bid for local funding; we will also set our sight for
international funding.
While our mission is to promote education and research, we should continue to interact with the
community to fulfil our corporate social responsibilities. In year 2011, the second year MBBS students
had carried out a successful community project on health promotion in the Seri Kembangan new
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