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6. Medical Officers in MoH
The number of Medical Officers (excluding the House Officers) working in MoH has been increasing.
There were 24,726 Medical Officers until December 2017, as compared to 21,900 in 2016 (Table 20).

Table 20
Number of Medical Officers (Excluding House Officers) in MoH (2009 to 2017)

2013 2014 2015 2016 2017
14,898 18,072 19,982 21,900 24,726

Source: Human Resources Division, MOH, Medical Professional Development Section, Medical Development Division, MoH

7. Continuing Professional Development (CPD)
Continuing Professional Development (CPD) is an expanded form of Continuing Medical Education
(CME), which had been implemented in a more comprehensive nature. It is a systematic planned
process of lifelong learning and professional development. It enables health professionals to maintain
and enhance knowledge, skills and competency for practice in providing delivery of quality health care
in the country.

MoH has launched its online CPD system in 2007 and currently completed the enhancement
phase since July 2017 (known as myCPD Version 2.0). myCPD is currently used by over 210,000
registered users since its launching in 2007 until December 2017. myCPD system is used by 53 various
health professional or health schemes in MoH, private sectors and universities. Various programs and
workshops had carried out throughout 2017 to increase user awareness on using myCPD system and
as for the CPD Committees at various stages to be more active in carrying out CPD activities.

CPD will continue to be used for various purposes in the MoH and the use of credit points to be
adapted to different requirements such as for Annual Practicing Certificate renewal for Practitioners and
Physician enrolment in the National Specialist Register (NSR). With rapid advancements in medicine, it
is imperative that healthcare professionals continue to keep themselves abreast with new developments
through CPD that would provide better care for their patients.

8. Human Capital Development and In-service Training Activities in the Medical Programme
In the year 2017, RM11,576 million was allocated by MoH to the Medical Programme for local training
of which 9,405 course were conducted and attended by 210,479 medical personnel (Table 21):

Table 21
Human Capital Development and In-Service Training Activities for 2017
Total Allocations Expenditure No. of Training No. of Medical
Year
(RM) (RM) Activities Personnel
2015
Overseas Training 2,000,000.00 1,939,069.01 50 68
Local training 21,152,000.00 20,710,100.42 10,592 266,092
Total 23,152,000.00 22,649,169.43 10,642 266,160

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