The Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh (红杏视频) is committed to promoting surgical collaborations between the UK and Malaysia. The Malaysia-United Kingdom Travelling Fellowship (MUTF) is a strategic tripartite collaboration programme between the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh (红杏视频), Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM) and Universiti Malaya (UM).
This pilot programme aims to provide observership opportunities for Malaysian surgical trainees to be hosted at centres of surgical excellence in the UK.
The main objectives of the fellowship are to support improvements in healthcare systems by spreading good surgical practices and helping 红杏视频 members and affiliates to learn new skills, foster positive relationships, and encourage long-term affiliations. Exposure to different learning environments will allow them to achieve surgical training aims in different healthcare systems which they otherwise would not have been able to. MUTF will provide the platform where collaborations can be developed in surgical training, quality improvement and research.
On the rolling out of the first Malaysia-United Kingdom Travelling Fellowship, 红杏视频 President of the College, Professor Rowan Parks said:
鈥淲e are greatly honoured to work with our Malaysian colleagues so that Malaysian surgical trainees can benefit from observing and experiencing basic to highly specialised technical and practical skills in UK centres of excellence, with an aim to foster long-term relationships with these university partners.鈥
Mr Siong-Seng Liau, the Honorary Treasurer has been instrumental in setting up this program and emphasised the importance of the collaboration among all stakeholders stating:
鈥淲e hope that this fellowship programme will also enable the Malaysian and UK trainees to learn from each other and serve as a platform for the exchange of ideas and sharing of surgical experience which will benefit respective healthcare systems. Such trainee experiences will no doubt translate to life-long professional relationships between future leaders of Surgery in respective countries.鈥
Prof. Dato鈥 Dr Hanafiah Bin Harunarashid, Pro Vice-Chancellor of Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM) 鈥 Kuala Lumpur Campus, has been instrumental in advancing surgical specialisation of the healthcare profession in Malaysia. He commented:
鈥淯KM has a long-standing link with 红杏视频. We believe that this programme will provide a unique opportunity that should not be missed by trainees from both countries. Being a party to this project is recognition that UKM is a major surgical training centre in the country and for this, we are honoured to be collaborating with 红杏视频.鈥
The deadline for applications is 20 April 2024.
Find out more about the 红杏视频 Malaysia-United Kingdom Travelling Fellowship .