Faculty of Medicine, University of Malaya
The Faculty of Medicine, University of Malaya (commonly known as the UM Medical School, FoM UM, UM Medicine or Malaya Medicine) is one of the thirteen faculties of the University of Malaya (UM). It was officially established in September 1962 after the establishment of the university's Kuala Lumpur campus; it was the first medical school established in Malaysia. The faculty is well-known for its medical education and research, especially in the discovery of the Nipah virus (1998–1999 Malaysia Nipah virus outbreak). The faculty is widely regarded as the top medical school in  Malaysia, being placed at No. 145 in the world in the subject of Medicine in the QS World University Subject Rankings 2021; this makes it the highest ranked medical school in Malaysia and the third highest in Southeast Asia. History. The Faculty of Medicine was first established in Singapore as the Straits Settlements and the Federated Malay States Government Medical School in 1905, which trained physicians from present day Singapore and Malaysia. It was located within a former women's mental asylum at Sepoy Lines. The start of this medical school was significant in two ways. It trained local people  to bring Western medicine to the population, and it was supported by merchants who took advantage of the tax exemptions to give generously to public causes. One notable donor was Tan Jiak Kim, a prominent Straits-born Chinese merchant. Another, Tan Chay Hoon, donated a building to the school in memory of his father, Tan Teck Guan. The Tan Teck Guan Building was built in 1911. In 1921, the school was renamed the King Edward VII College of Medicine (KECM), after a donation from the Edward VII Memorial Fund. It was founded by Lim Boon Keng. In 1926, the College  of Medicine Building was built to house the college in addition to the Tan Teck Guan Building. The dental school was founded shortly after. During World War II, the college operated during the Japanese occupation of Singapore, but some people were killed. The first casualty was a fourth-year medical student based at Tan Tock Seng Hospital who was fatally wounded during the Battle of Singapore. While his friends were burying him, they were spotted by Japanese soldiers and eleven were killed on the spot. The dead are commemorated by the SGH War Memorial. In 1949, the KECM merged with  Raffles College to form the Singapore campus of UM. The medical school became the Faculty of Medicine of UM, and students in Malaysia wishing to study medicine would have to go to the campus in Singapore. In 1962, UM split into UM (Kuala Lumpur) and the University of Singapore, with the medical school in Singapore coming under the University of Singapore, while the UM in Kuala Lumpur established the present faculty. The founder Dean of the Faculty was Tan Sri Emeritus Prof Dr. Thamboo John Danaraj. On 5 May 2005, T.J. Danaraj Medical Library was named in memory of the  Dean. Silent Mentor. In affiliation with Taiwan's Tzu Chi University, the Faculty launched the first Silent Mentor program outside of Taiwan in 2012 . The program serves as the platform for the public to pledge and donate their bodies for medical education and research. The donors are addressed as "Silent Mentors" as they teach and educate medical students and professionals despite not speaking any words. After the week-long training workshop, the bodies of the "Silent Mentors" will be returned to the family members to be cremated. The program is largely different from the traditional cadaveric teaching in medical schools  around the globe as most cadavers are unidentified bodies, however in this "Silent Mentor" program, the students are exposed to the life stories of each of the "Silent Mentors" and this is done with the aim to allow students learn Medicine in a humanistic approach. Admissions and programmes. The faculty provides several undergraduate and postgraduate degrees in the field of medical and health sciences. These include: Departments. The faculty is made up of the following departments: Research centres. The faculty includes the following research centres: