SECRETARIAT OF POSTGRADUATE STUDIES FACULTY OF MEDICINE

medicpostgrad@hctm.ukm.edu.my

PERSONAL AND PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT (PPD) COURSE

Workshop: Team Strategies and Tools to Enhance Performance and Patient Safety (2026)

🗓️ 5 June 2026

WORKSHOP: TEAM STRATEGIES AND TOOLS TO ENHANCE PERFORMANCE AND PATIENT SAFETY (2026) – PERSONAL AND PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT (PPD) COURSE 2026

Objectives

  • Develop effective teamwork, communication, and leadership skills among future medical specialists.
  • Strengthen patient safety awareness through experiential simulation-based learning.


Highlights

  • First TeamSTEPPS simulation-based workshop introduced for Clinical Master/Medical Specialist students in 2026.
  • Equipped students with essential skills in communication, leadership, situational awareness, and mutual support for clinical practice.
Webinar for Personal and Professional Development (PPD) Course 2026

🗓️ 24 January 2026

WEBINAR FOR PERSONAL AND PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT (PPD) COURSE 2026 FOR THE CLINICAL MASTER PROGRAMME

Theme : Bridging Medicine and Law: Medicolegal Essentials for Future Specialists.

  • Enhanced awareness of medico-legal principles and professional responsibilities.
  • Strengthened ethical practice and legal preparedness in clinical settings.
  • Featured expert sharing on medico-legal litigation, duty of care, and managing medico-legal cases

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.