Mastering medicine requires the immersion method

By Julia Tan

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One cannot learn medicine only from textbooks, stressed president and dean of Penang Medical College (PMC) Prof Amir S Khir when Penang Monthly caught up with him recently. You also need to be immersed in the medical world and to be doing continuous research. It makes perfect sense therefore that one of the college’s strengths is in its twinning programme with top universities in Ireland.PMC’s medical programme is a partnership with the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland (RCSI) and...

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Julia Tan

went to primary and secondary school at Convent Pulau Tikus before continuing sixth form at St. Xavier’s Institution; any other school was out of the question. She misses the fried rice at the school canteen, and laments the passing of the wan tan mee lady.


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