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2. Specialist Training Programme

2.1 Masters of Medicine

Within MoH Malaysia, the general training administration of this programme is under the purview of the
Training Management Division of MoH. The Medical Development Division of MoH is responsible in
providing medical or technical input for the planning and development, implementation and monitoring
of the training programme. As in 2017, there are 23 areas of specialty training currently being offered
in the Master of Medical Programme (Table 14).

For 2017/2018 intake, 1000 slots had been offered to eligible candidate to undergo Master of Medical
Programme (Open and Closed System). 21 candidates had declined the offer and subsequently 10
additional offers were accepted by candidates from the reserve list. Hence, there were 980 candidates
who had accepted the scholarship offer to pursue specialty training via Master of Medical Programme.
There are 33 MoH hospitals in 2017 that are accredited by universities as training centres for the Master
of Medical Programme as compared to 28 MoH hospitals in 2016 (Table 15).

Table 14
Number of Slots for Specialty Training via Masters of Medicine Offered and Number of
Trainees for 2013/2014 to 2017/2018 Intake
2013 / 2014 2014 / 2015 2015 / 2016 2016 / 2017 2017/
Session Session Session Session 2018 Session
No. of Offers No. of Acceptance No. of Offers No. of Acceptance No. of Offers No. of Acceptance No. of Offers No. of Acceptance No. of Offers No of Acceptance
Disciplines

Anaesthesiology 84 84 89 86 101 100 104 103 121 120
Clinical Oncology 6 6 5 5 12 11 11 11 18 17
Emergency Medicine 56 56 50 48 70 67 62 60 68 68
Family Medicine 77 74 66 56 60 53 66 65 70 66
General Surgery 54 51 60 59 45 44 51 47 58 57
Internal Medicine 64 53 72 67 82 68 62 60 78 68
Neurosurgery 7 7 10 10 11 11 13 12 15 15
Nuclear Medicine 6 6 6 5 6 6 4 4 4 4
Obstetrics & 34 34 31 29 51 49 40 39 51 50
Gynaecology
Ophthalmology 34 34 46 45 53 52 55 55 57 57
Orthopaedic 50 50 63 62 70 68 69 68 67 67
Otorhinolaryngology 29 29 31 31 38 38 34 34 46 46
Pathology 54 54 73 70 86 83 77 76 69 69
Paediatric 41 37 46 43 26 20 50 43 45 44
Paediatric Surgery 2 2 8 8 7 7 8 8 8 8

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