The vision of RUMC is to be a health and well-being focused, globally recognised, education and research centre of the highest quality. The RUMC mission is to contribute to patients and society through excellence in education, learning and research and to benefit healthcare in Malaysia and the surrounding region. The mission statement considers the international context of healthcare education. In particular RUMC has benchmarked our common education philosophy, curriculum and assessment in medical education against RCSI and UCD standards. The vision and mission statement are posted on the website and the VLE. 

1 - The RUMC’s educational programme is designed to produce doctors who are equipped with the necessary knowledge and competence and who are ethical, humane and caring in their professional approach.
2 - The doctors graduate with a broad-based medical education and a commitment to life-long learning.
3 - They are capable of coping with looking after patients in hospitals as well as in the community.
4 - They are given the capacity and willingness to acquire more knowledge independently and thus are able to be trained further to go into diverse career options.
5 - The curriculum model is a two-cycle system with the 2.5 years spent in Dublin at either University College Dublin (UCD) or the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland (RCSI) in predominantly pre-clinical medical sciences. Basic history taking, clinical examination and communication skills are taught.
6 - Back in RUMC, the course is essentially a clinical one with a revisiting of medical sciences as appropriate. At the end of the second cycle (total of 5 years) the degree of MB BCh BAO is awarded.
7 - Possess and apply in-depth knowledge of the core biomedical and clinical sciences that underpin the practice of medicine.
8 - Be able to maintain and enhance professional activities through lifelong learning.
9 - Critically evaluate information and its sources and apply this appropriately in their decision making.
10 - Facilitate the learning of patients, families, junior colleagues, other health professionals, the public, and others, as appropriate.
11 - Contribute to the creation, dissemination, application, and translation of new medical knowledge and practices through research and audit.
12 - Recognise personal and professional limits of knowledge and competence and consult appropriately.
13 - Establish clinical skills to that underpin the performance and completion of patient centred assessment and therapeutic interventions in the later programme.
14 - Understand and accept the roles and responsibilities of the doctor as defined by the Medical Council in Ireland and be prepared to accept the roles and responsibilities of the doctor as defined by the Malaysian Medical Council.
15 - Be committed to physician health and wellbeing including self.
16 - Recognise personal and professional limits of knowledge and consult appropriately.
17 - Possess team working skills to promote and maintain the effectiveness of the multidisciplinary team in healthcare provision.
18 - Develop and maintain communication skills to support all roles.

Less than 25 credits of electives. Undergraduate degree students are entitled to take a minimum number of elective
modules equating to 25 credits as part of their programme.

Students are required to return to UCD to complete all outstanding UCD modules that have not been passed successfully after the Stage 4 spring trimester examination period).

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Candidates must agree to undergo testing to assess levels of immunity to certain infectious diseases as per the current UCD School of Medicine Infectious Diseases Policy. The results of such tests are not used to determine entry to the course but are used to provide the student with a suitable immunisation programme schedule.

For further information, please see the UCD School of Medicine Infectious Diseases Policy.

For General Health information see UCD Student Health.
Full List of Programme Requirements.

Fitness to Practice.

Contact The Programme Team.

Students will be required to return to the UCD campus to complete any outstanding UCD modules that have not been passed by the spring trimester examination period (examination board held in June each year).

Students will be required to return to the UCD campus to complete any outstanding UCD modules that have not
been passed by the spring trimester examination period (examination board held in June each year).

Module ID	Module Title	Trimester	Credits
Stage 1 Core Modules
CHEM10130	Applied Intro. & Phys Chem	Autumn	5
MDCS10310	Patients, Doctors & Healthcare	Autumn	5
PATH10020	Basic Principles of Cell Biolo	Autumn	5
PHYC10120	Physics in Medicine	Autumn	5
RDGY10090	Healthcare Imaging and Information Systems	Autumn	5
ZOOL10010	Medical Zoology	Autumn	5
CHEM10080	Inorganic Chemistry	Spring	5
CHEM10090	Organic Chemistry	Spring	5
MDSA10210	Science Medicine and Society	Spring	5
PATH10200	Basic Principles of Genetics	Spring	5
PHYC10130	Physics II Medical Science	Spring	5
Stage 1 Core Modules
Stage 1 Options - A)MIN0OF: Non-mandatory Option
MEIN10030	Multimedia Studies	Spring	5
Stage 1 Options - A)MIN0OF: Non-mandatory Option
Stage 2 Core Modules
ANAT20030	Basic Tissues & Early Develop	Autumn	5
ANAT20080	Musculoskeletal Biology	Autumn	5
GPRS20010	Clinical Science and Healthcare Informatics 1	Autumn	5
MDSA20210	Molecules in Medicine 2	Autumn	5
PHYS20100	Cell-Cell Signalling	Autumn	5
MDSA20170	Vascular Biology	Spring	5
MDSA20180	Cardiac Biology	Spring	5
MDSA20190	Renal Biology	Spring	5
MDSA20200	Respiratory Biology	Spring	5
PHPS20010	Introduction to Epidemiology, Biostatistics & Public Health	Spring	5
Stage 2 Core Modules
Stage 2 Options - A)MIN0OF: Non-mandatory Options
FDSC10010	Food Diet and Health	Autumn and Spring (separate)	5
Stage 2 Options - A)MIN0OF: Non-mandatory Options
Stage 3 Core Modules
ANAT20040	Neurosciences	Autumn	5
ANAT20060	Locomotor Biology	Autumn	5
MDSA20010	Gastrointestinal Tract and Liver Biology	Autumn	5
MDSA20030	Endocrine Biology	Autumn	5
PATH30080	Disease Mechanisms & Pharmacological Principles	Autumn	5
MDSA30090	Understanding Disability for Healthcare Students	Spring	5
MEDN20010	Clinical and Evidence Based Medicine	Spring	5
MEMI30040	Principles of Infection and its Treatment	Spring	5
PATH30060	Genetics, Perinatal and Paediatric Diseases	Spring	5
PATH30190	Oncology & Immunopathology	Spring	5
PHAR30110	Cardiovascular and Renal Diseases	Spring	5
Stage 3 Core Modules
Stage 3 Options - A)MIN0OF: Non-mandatory Options
ANAT20050	Basic Principles of Trauma	Autumn	5
PHYS30110	Adaptation to hypoxia: high altitude and lessons for disease	Autumn	5
PATH30220	Rare Genetic Disorders	Spring	5
Stage 3 Options - A)MIN0OF: Non-mandatory Options
Stage 4 Core Modules
MDSA30050	Respiratory Disease	Autumn	5
MEDN40060	Clinical Skills RUMC	Autumn	5
PATH30030	Haematology/Immunosuppression	Autumn	5
PATH30040	GI/Hepatobiliary Diseases	Autumn	5
PHAR30060	Central Nervous Systems Diseases	Autumn	5
PHAR30070	Endocrine Diseases	Autumn	5
Stage 4 Core Modules

		Award		GPA
Programme	Module Weightings	Rule Description	Description
BHMED008	Stage 5 - 100.00%	Standard Honours Award	First Class Honours	3.68	4.20
			Second Class Honours, Grade 1	3.08	3.67
			Second Class Honours, Grade 2	2.48	3.07
			Pass	2.00	2.47