Penang Medical College honours its Class of 2014

Penang Medical College (PMC) held its 14th Conferring Ceremony where a total of 110 students from its class of 2014 received their Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery and Bachelor of Obstetrics degree from the National University of Ireland (NUI). PMC is jointly owned by two of the oldest and revered medical colleges in Ireland, the Royal College of Surgeons (RCSI) and the University College Dublin (UCD). Its first joint venture outside Ireland, PMC graduates leverage on this partnership and gain entry into RCSI and UCD in Ireland for their pre-clinical and training coupled with clinical training at Penang General Hospital.
The graduates also received the Licentiate of the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland (LRCPI) and the Licentiate of the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland (LRCSI).
Gracing the auspicious ceremony were the presidents, heads of departments and fellow academicians from the RCSI, UCD, NUI, Royal College of Physicians in Ireland (RCPI) and PMC. The ceremony which echoes the conferring ceremonies in RCSI and UCD in Dublin witnessed the graduates receiving their scrolls and taking the Hippocratic Oath swearing to practice medicine ethically, honestly and with utmost respect for human life. One of the highlights at the ceremony each year is the student valedictorian speech, the president’s speech, as well as those of VIPs from RCSI, RCPI and UCD, all fascinating and compelling.
[in a box] Apart from receiving their scrolls, some of the graduates were conferred other awards and accolades.
Ireland’s UCD and RCSI award for 1st place in the Final Examination:
Muhammad Khidir Mohd Kamil
Outstanding students from the Class of 2014 were also conferred the Malaysian Medical Association (Penang branch) prizes for 1st place in various medical departments:
Medicine: Ooi Huah Chiang
Surgery: Janice Wee Yong Li
Obstetrics and Gynaecology: Noran Asma Mat Sulaiman
Paediatrics: Chin Zheng Yao
Psychiatry: Muhammad Khidir Mohd Kamil and Janice Wee Yong Li
Ophthalmology: Liong Siok Fuang
Otolaryngology: Mohd Zulfikri Hanafi and Yong Yun Xiu
Penang Medical Practitioners’ Society Book Prize for 1st place in:
Family Medicine: Janice Wee Yong Li
Public Health Medicine: Chin Zheng Yao
Penang Medical Practitioners’ Society, Tun Dr Lim Chong Eu Book Prize for Best All-Round Student: Chin Zheng Yao