sini - UKM Medical Centre - Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia

88 • Panduan Prasiswazahthe people of Malaysia. Briefing is given by the Module Head or Assistant Module Headat the beginning of each posting.References1. Sabin C. & Petrie A. 2005. Medical Statistics at a Glance. 2nd Ed. BlackwellPublishing USA2. Dawson B. & Trapp R.G. 2004. Basic and Clinical Biostatistics. 4th Ed. Mc GrawHill, New York.3. Chan Y.H., 2003-2005. Basic Statistics For Doctors Series. Singapore MedicalJournal. Freely available from http://www.sma.org.sg/smj/101: Data Presentation (June 2003)102: Quantitative Data - Parametric & Non-Parametric Tests (August 2003)103: Qualitative Data - Tests of Independence (October 2003)104: Correlational Analysis (December 2003)201: Linear Regression Analysis (Feb 2004)4. Swinscow, T. D. V. 2001. Statistics at Square One. BMJ Publishing Group; 10thedition. Freely available from http://www.bmj.com/collections/statsbk/5. Fox, J.A. 2002. Primary Health Care of Infants, Child and Adolescent. St. Louis:Mosby.FF3128SURGERYThe surgical posting in the 3rd year of Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia medical schoolis a 7-week posting with emphasis on Professional and Personal Development (PPD)and Self Directed Learning (SDL). The students need to attend the Basic ClinicalProgramme design at the initial part of the rotation for one week (not include in the7-week posting). The Department of Surgery is made up of general surgery and relatedsurgical subspecialties such as neurosurgery, urology, and paediatric and cardiothoracicsurgery. General surgery is further subdivided into the Breast and Endocrine Unit,Colorectal Unit, Hepatobiliary Unit, Upper Gastrointestinal/Minimally Invasive Surgery(MIS) Unit and Vascular Unit. Each unit is headed by a consultant (usually a Professor/Assoc. Professor/Senior lecturer) under whom there is a clinical specialist (lecturer),registrars and medical officers who are usually Master of Surgery (MS) postgraduatestudents as well as houseofficers. Students are distributed among lecturers in all the unitswhereby the main aim is exposure to general surgery with a secondary aim of exposureto the subspecialties. Each group will have to go through 2 general surgery subspecialtyunit during the 7-week rotation.