SECRETARIAT OF POSTGRADUATE STUDIES FACULTY OF MEDICINE

ILMU, MUTU, DAN BUDI

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Shalimar Abdullah

Hand & Microsurgery

Course Director Hand & Microsurgery Programme

Hospital Canselor Tuanku Muhriz,UKM Medical Centre.

Dr. Shalimar Abdullah currently works as a Hand Surgeon and Senior Lecturer in the Hand & Microsurgery Unit, Department of Orthopaedics, Faculty of Medicine, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia in Kuala Lumpur. She obtained her medical degree together with a Bachelor of Medical Sciences from the University of Nottingham, England, UK in 1998. She returned to Malaysia to begin her housemanship and proceeded to train in Orthopaedics completing her training in Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia in 2005.

In 2007, she began training in the Orthopaedic subspeciality of hand surgery and received her Fellowship in Hand Surgery from the prestigious Kleinert Institute, Louisville, USA in 2010. She also received the Diploma of Hand Surgery (FESSH exams) in 2012. She was awarded the Junior Travelling Fellow for the American Society for Surgery of the Hand (ASSH) in 2015. She is currently the Honorary Secretary for the Malaysian Society for Surgery of the Hand (MSSH) and is a member for the American Society for Surgery of the Hand (ASSH).

Her interest is in Nerve, Tissue Engineering, Brachial Plexus, and WALANT (Wide Awake Local Anaesthesia No Tourniquet) surgery. She is also a proponent of WALANT surgery both in soft tissues and bony fixation. She is part of the Nerve Team in UKM’s Tissue Engineering Center and is in a project to produce the perfect nerve conduit. She has published up to 70 articles to date. She is very active with an international humanitarian NGO named Mercy Malaysia since 1998. Currently she holds the post of Vice-President III and has responded to many humanitarian crisis in Malaysia and also countries such as Bangladesh, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Japan, Indonesia, Myanmar, Cambodia and Philippines. She is the Team Lead for the EMT or Emergency Medical Team.

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office address

Secretariat of Postgraduate Studies

Faculty of Medicine UKM
Level 2, Kompleks Pendidikan Perubatan Canselor Tuanku Jaafar

Jalan Yaacob Latif, Bandar Tun Razak
56000 Cheras, Kuala Lumpur

MALAYSIA

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Monday to Thursday
8:00 am – 1:00 pm
2:00 pm – 5:00 pm

Friday
8:00 am- 12:15 pm
2.45 pm – 5:00 pm

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Saturday, Sunday & Public Holiday

Step 1

Application through Secretariat of Postgraduate Studies (SPS) website/ link at HCTM website/ or direct communication with the Course Director *Application need to be made a minimum of 6 months before the date of admission
Required process:

Candidate Details and selected programmes
Curriculum Vitae (CV)

*First medical degree needs to be checked whether it is recognised by Malaysian Medical Council (MMC) (a mandatory requirement if the candidate will do rotation outside of HCTM) An offer letter will be issued (by UKMSHAPE) to the candidate for the payment process Course Director

Step 2

Application will be reviewed by the Course Director

Step 3

Fill in and submit Application Form to International Affairs Unit (UPA)
Letter of Temporary Approval/ Letter of Rejection to applicants will be issued by SPS
For the accepted candidates, a copy of the Temporary Approval Letter will be sent to UKM Shape – for VISA’s application process

Step 4

Accepted candidates are required to complete the following documents:

Form 16 for Temporary Practicing Certificate application Click Here
Visa application (Professional Visit Pass (PVP) Click Here

Step 5

Candidate enrolled and report to the Course Director

Step 6

An offer letter will be issued (by UKM Shape) to the candidate for the payment process

Step 7

Course Director will notify the candidate about privileging and credentialing to HCTM Credentialing Link

Step 8

ONE (1) month before programme ends, the Course Director are required to inform SPS and International Affairs Unit, Faculty of Medicine UKM

Finish

SPS will issue Certificate of Completion to the candidate

Flowchart of Credentialing and Privileging in HCTM for International Candidates

DEFINITION

Credentialing: a process to set the standards and to do an evaluation for a person’s qualification in a field or procedure. It is recognition for the professional training done by a medical practitioner.

Privileges: the rights given by the hospital for a medical practitioner to give treatments or to do procedures on hospital patients based on the qualifications of the training, and the medical practitioner’s experience and expertise.

Step 1

Log in to this link: http://credentialing.ppukm.ukm.my/index.php to apply for credentialing application.
*No payment needed for this application

Step 2

For new application, please fill in the details and update your profile.

* If you want to renew you application, please apply 6 months BEFORE your expiry date.

Step 3

Click Credentialing Form and complete all the required information.

*You need to fill in your Malaysian Medical Council (MMC) Registration Number, Annual Practicing Certificate (APC) Number and National Specialist Register (NSR) Number in the prerequisite field.

Step 4

Select Head of Department (HOD) to verify your application.

Step 5

Tick (√) and submit your application.

Step 6

Your Dashboard for the application status will appear. You can check the ongoing status by time to time.

Step 7

All applications will be reviewed in a meeting.

*The meeting will be conducted 4 times a year

Step 8

HCTM issue an Approval Letter (TWO weeks after the meeting)

Finish

HCTM issue Certificate of Credentialing (ONE month after)

Sources: http://credentialing.ppukm.ukm.my/files/pdf/Manual-Pengguna-Sistem-Credentialing-Core-Privileges.pdf

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Shalimar Abdullah