Internship programmes during the Discovery Year session 2011/2012

As explained in UBD website, in the GenNext programme, students are required to participate in the Discovery Year programme to broaden their knowledge and give invaluable experience in a real world setting. This is normally undertaken in the third year of study, in the 5^th and 6^th semesters of a candidature. During the 2011/2012 session, Biomedical Science undergraduates Cohort 1 went during their fourth year of study, while half of the Cohort 2 went during their third year of study.

In general, the Discovery year options are as follow: 

1. SAP 1 semester (16 mc) and 4 breadth modules in UBD (16 mc).
2. SAP 1 semester (16 mc) and Internship/Community services/Innovation or Incubation projects 1 semester (16 mc).
3. Internship/Community Service/Innovation or Incubation projects  1 semester (16 mc) & 4 breadth modules in UBD (16 mc).
4. SAP 2 semesters (32 mc).

Students are required to undertake any one of the 4 possible options in the Discovery Year.  In some cases, a student may have a one year internship programme or innovation and incubation projects.  In such cases, the student will be required to take at least 8 additional modular credits of breadth modules at UBD. The actual programme to be undertaken should be worked out with the Faculty or Programme advisors and is subject to the availability of places as well as a selection process. 

During the 2011/2012 session, the undergraduates from Bachelor of Health Sciences (Biomedical Sciences) Cohort 1 and Cohort 2 went for internship programmes during their Discovery Year (DY). The programmes were successful in exposing the undergraduates to real life working and research experiences. It was the first batch of undergraduates to go for these programmes in UBD. The following are the undergraduates and their respective internship employing organizations.

1. The Otto-Meyerhof Centre and Clinical Research in Heidelberg and Krankenhaus Nordwest, Frankfurt am Main, Germany. The undergraduates are Fakhriedzwan Fitri Hj Idris, Dk. Nadirah Ahmad and Duratul Ain Durani.

Photo taken with Dr. Andreas Fritz (supervisor) and Professor Datin Seri Laila Jasa Dr Uta Meyding-Lamadé (supervisor), who is also a consultant neurologist at NSRC and Head of the Neurology Department at Krankenhaus Nordwest (KHNW) Hospital

2. United Arab Emirates University, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Department of Pharmacology. The undergraduates are Siti Nur Bazilah Ghazali and Nur Syamimi Matzin.

3. Faculty of Medicine, Alexandria University, Egypt. The undergraduates are Siti Sarah Othman, Nurul Fatini Binti Haji Abdul Malik and Mohd Hanis Bin Awang Masri.

4. Dr. W. Colin Duncan's research group, Medical Research Council (MRC) Centre for Reproductive Biology, The Queen's Medical Research Institute, College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine, University of Edinburgh, UK.  The undergraduates are Hazirah Zainal Abidin and Zety Erwinna Hj Ali Adin.

Photo taken during their trip to an island

5. Molecular Biology and Bioinformatics laboratory, Biomedical Sciences Department, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, University Putra Malaysia. The undergraduates are Nurul Adhwa Hj Abd Rahman, Nur 'Aqilah Mursidi and Zaidah Rizidah Murang.

Photo taken with Shawn Keng (a final year UPM undergraduate)

Photo taken with Associate Professor Dr Cheah Yoke Kqueen (supervisor)

6. University of Malaya, Medical Microbiology Department of University Malaya Medical Centre, Malaysia. The undergraduates are Zaharuddin Hj Abd Rahman and Fuitze Tan.

7. Jerudong Park Medical Centre. The laboratories are Specimen area, Hematology, Microbiology, Blood bank, Biochemistry and Immunology. The undergraduates are Masliza Liussin, Nadzirah Hj Md Said, Ummikalsum Dayan and Eric Lim.

Finally, we wish the juniors of our faculty and other faculties in UBD to have an enjoyable internship programmes for their Discovery Year in the coming academic session.