MRCS, Malaysia Part A Preparatory Course

Event Date : 24/02/2024 - 29/04/2024
Event Time : All Day
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Online Via Zoom

The numbers of lectures are thirty-seven (seven weekends), and orientation. All lectures are in recording format, but revision sessions are live via zoom.

Orientation Lecture: (1 lecture)

Basic Sciences for Surgeons (17 lectures)

  • Anatomy (8 lectures)
  • Physiology (6 lectures) & Pathology (3 lectures)

Surgery-in-General: (9 lectures)

  • Orthopaedics
  • Head & Neck Surgery (ENT)
  • Vascular
  • Urology
  • Trauma & Surgical Nutrition
  • GIT, Colo-rectal Cancer ERAS Protocol
  • Burns & Skin Tumours
  • Paediatric Surgery, Transplantation & Bleeding Disorders
  • Breast, Thyroid & Esophagus
  • Ethics & Statistics

Discussion & revision: (11 lectures)

Objectives

  • Prepare surgical trainees and those awaiting houseman posting for a career in surgery, master’s degree, and MRCS exam, (Membership of The Royal Colleges of Surgeons of Edinburgh, England & Ireland)

Speakers

  • Prof Lim Kean Ghee
  • Prof Suneet Sood
  • A/Prof Purushotham Krishnappa
  • A/Prof Thiruselvi Subramaniam
  • A/Prof Arshad Ikram
  • A/Prof Yushak Abdul Wahab
  • A/Prof Ramji Narayanan
  • A/Prof Farida Hussan
  • A/Prof Nilesh Kumar Mitra
  • A/Prof Zairul Nizam
  • A/Prof Ismail Burud
  • A/Prof Htar Htar Aung
  • Dr Rafiq Ahmed Abdul Karim Vasiwala
  • Dr Nabeel Ibraheem Jaafar
  • Dr Afshan Sumera
  • Dr Brinnell Annette Caszo
  • Dr Sherreen Yehia Zakaria Elhariri
  • Dr Jamie Kang
  • Dr Mona Mohamed Ibrahim Abdalla

TIMETABLE

Subject Topics Lecturer Date Malaysia Time (GMT+8)
A. Basic Sciences for Surgeons Paper I (17 lectures)
Anatomy (8 lectures) Upper limb A/Prof Arshad Ikram 24 February -
Lower limb A/Prof Arshad Ikram 24 February -
Pelvis A/Prof Farida Hussan 25 February -
Thorax A/Prof Htar Htar Aung 25 February -
Discussion for previous lectures on days 24, 25 February Live, online Monday, 26 February 8-10pm
Abdomen Prof. Nilesh Kumar Mitra 2 March -
Head & Neck & Neuroanatomy Dr Nabeel Ibraheem Jaafar 3 March -
Discussion for previous lectures on days 2, 3 March Live, online Monday, 4 March 8-10pm
Pathology (3 lectures)
  • Cellular injury
  • Disorders of growth, morphogenesis & differentiations
  • Inflammations
  • Neoplasm
A/Prof Purushotham Krishnappa 9 March -
  • Thrombosis, embolism
  • Infarction & haemopoietic
  • Lymphoreticular system
Dr Afshan Sumera 9 March -
  • Immunology & Microbiology
Dr Sherreen Elhariri 10 March -
Physiology (6 Lectures) GIT Dr Brinnell Annette Caszo 10 March -
Discussion for previous lectures on days 9, 10 March Live, online Monday, 11 March 8-10pm
Kidney Dr Mona Abdalla 16 March -
Cardio-vascular Dr Mona Abdalla 16 March -
Endocrine Dr Brinnell Annette Caszo 17 March -
Respiration A/Prof Thiruselvi Subramaniam 17 March -
Discussion for previous lectures on days 16, 17 & past test sheet Live, online Monday, 18 March 8-10pm
Acid-base balance A/Prof Thiruselvi Subramaniam 23 March -
B. Surgery -in-General: Paper II (9 lectures)
9 lectures Head & neck surgery (ENT) Dr Rafiq Ahmed Vasiwala 23 March -
Orthopedics A/Prof Zairul Nizam bin Zainol Fithri 24 March -
Vascular Surgery A/Prof Yushak Abdul Wahab 24 March -
Discussion for previous lectures on days 23, 24 March Live, online Monday, 25 March 8-10pm
Urology A/Prof Ramji Narayanan 30 March -
Trauma (including head injury) & surgical nutrition Dr Jamie Kang Kuang Horng 30 March -
GIT & hepato-biliary

  • Acute, chronic pancreatitis
  • IBD (Crohn’s & ulcerative colitis)
  • Portal hypertension primary biliary cirrhosis & sclerosing
    cholangitis
Prof Suneet Sood 31 March -
Colo-rectal cancer, ERAS protocol & anal conditions Prof Lim Kean Ghee 31 March -
Discussion for previous lectures on days 30, 31 March Live, online Monday, 1 April 8-10pm
Thyroid & breast A/Prof Ismail Burud 6 April -
Burns, Skin Tumours, oseophagus Paediatric surgery, transplantation
rejection, Bleeding disorders Incomplete spinal cord injury Ethics,
statistics & revision
Dr Sherreen Elhariri 6 April -
2 Revisions Discussion for previous lectures on days 6, 7 April & past test
sheet
Live, online Sunday, 7 April 8-10pm
Revision Live, online Monday, 8 April 8-10pm
Revision Live, online Monday, 15 April 8-10pm
Revision Live, online Monday, 22 April 8-10pm
Revision Live, online Monday, 29 April 8-10pm

For Brunei participants, contact Dr Zahraa Zaghloul at [email protected]

Moderator : Dr SIMON CHEAH MUN FAI

REGISTRATION FEE (inclusive of SST)

Regular RM300
IMU Staff / Alumni / Student Non-IMU RM210
Student IMU RM150

Cancellation Policy

  1. Any cancellation of registration must be made in writing to the Secretariat of MRCS, Malaysia Part A Preparatory Course.
  2. There will be a full refund of registration fee for cancellation made by 24 December 2023.
  3. There will be a 50% refund of registration fee for cancellation made before 24 January 2024.
  4. There will be a 30% refund of registration fee for cancellation made before 10 February 2024.
  5. There will be no refund of registration fee for cancellations made after 10 February 2024.
  6. The Organiser reserves the right to cancel or change the topic or trainer of the course, if for whatever reasons beyond its control, the course cannot be held as scheduled or the topics need to be altered.
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