Malaysian Medical Students’ Conference (MMSC)
The Malaysian Medical Students’ Conference (MMSC) is a national conference that gathers all the Malaysian medical students from different medical schools locally and overseas to discuss the current health and medical issues in Malaysia. This programme is able to instill the critical thinking skills for a life-long education. It aims to train the medical students to be competitive, capable and innovative at the national and international level. Apart from that, the participants will be introduced to the health-related knowledge in Malaysia and be given the opportunity to share and exchange the thoughts in order to reach for a better solution on the issues discussed. It improves the communication skills among medical students to produce skilled and experienced graduates.
Besides activities which are academic and researched based, the program does include activities which highlight on the social and culture aspects. This will further strengthen the friendship among the medical students and subsequently promote cooperation and enhance communication skills among doctors-to-be from nationwide.
It was first organised at Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia Medical Centre (UKMMC) in year 2016.
Malaysia World Health Assembly Simulation (MyWHA)
The Malaysia World Health Assembly Simulation (MyWHA) is a basic simulation of conferences of the World Health Organization and its regional meetings. MyWHA aims at emulating such framework by gathering international health issues; discussing as well as analyzing them. Besides, MyWHA will aim at trying to brainstorm for key and innovative solutions to such existing dilemmas. Such pertinent issues in the healthcare industry will most definitely aid each and every delegate; leading them to be more open minded and aware of such headlines (issues) that the industry faces.
Besides, MyWHA is an excellent opportunity to build bridges and gather as many peers or colleague’s as possible. The idea of having many can help strengthen bonds, promote intellectual discussion, attentive care towards other opinions from other delegates and most importantly, rationalize and appreciate the others view on the matter. From presentation skills to an individuality unlike the rest, the forum which MyWHA is creating is nonetheless enormous; allowing all to speak their minds, share their very opinion and most pertinently of all, be heard!
The first MyWHA was organised at International Medical University in year 2017. MyWHA 2022 will be the third edition of the MyWHA conference since its first edition in the year 2017. MyWHA had to alter itself to being a fully virtual event in order to effectively function during these pandemic times. The conference was held entirely using Zoom and Discord to ensure the safety and the wellbeing of everyone involved.
Medics Intervarsity Academic Olympiad (MIAO)
The very first Medics Intervarsity Academic Olympiad (MIAO) was organised by AMSA Perdana University in collaboration with AMSA Universiti Putra Malaysia in the year 2019. It then continued to become an annual event under the Academic Department of AMSA Malaysia. MIAO aims to provide opportunities for medical students to apply and showcase their knowledge through academic competitions as well as to provide a networking platform to bring together medical students from all around the nation.
The most recent MIAO was organised by AMSA Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman as Virtual MIAO 2021, with the theme “The Ever-Evolving Discipline – Microbiology”. The Virtual MIAO 2021 consisted of 6 academic based competitions, which were Literature Review-Based Essay Writing Competition, Infographic Poster Competition, Preclinical Multiple Choice Questions, Clinical Multiple Choice Questions, Anatomy Quiz, and OSPE Competition. The competitions were held entirely online as a safety precaution during the pandemic. Medical lecturers from different medical schools were involved in this event as the panels.