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BACHELOR OF BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING
(PROSTHETICS AND ORTHOTICS
In Malaysia, there are about 300,000 of disabled
people due to various health and diseases problems.
From this total, according to the World Health
Organisation (WHO), the disabled are in needs of
Prosthethics and Orthotics (P&O) equipments lies
about 0.5% from the total people in a country.
Therefore, there are a total of 125,000 of Malaysians
are in needs for P&O services. The P&O services are
available in local medical institutions such as Pusat
Perubatan Universiti Malaya (PPUM), Hospital Kuala
Lumpur (HKL), Hospital Universiti Kebangsaan
Malaysia (HUKM), Pusat Latihan Perindustrian dan
Pemulihan Orang Kurang Upaya (PLPP) dan Hospital
Universiti Sains Malaysia (HUSM). There are also
about 10 of private companies all over Malaysia that
offer the P&O services to patients in needs.
Until to this day, there is none of structured
educational program and being accredidated by the
International Society for Prosthetics and Orthotics
(ISPO), a international committee in monitoring and
regulating services and trainings in the P&O that is
recognized by the WHO. The P&O services in
Malaysia are practiced by technicians that obtained
short and brief trainings locally and oversea using the
‘on-the-job training’ approach.
The objective of Bachelor of Biomedical Engineering
(Posthetics and Orthotics) programme is to produce
experts in the professional levels along with
possesing strong knowledge in the P&O fields with
the required international standards and current
national requirements. This programme will produce
reponsible, inovative and proactive graduates in
improving the quality of services to patients/clients
within their respectively professional care. This
programme will be able to improve the position of
the current P&O officer to be a respectable
individuals in the society with multidisciplinary
expertises that are being practice in the rehabilitation
medicine services. The Department of Biomedical
Engineering of University of Malaya will play a major
role as the catalyst to the development of the
rehabilitation medicine engineering fields in
Malaysia. This programme will be acredidated by the
International ociety of Prosthetics and Orthotics
(ISPO) and also the Engineering Accrediadation
Council (EAC) of Malaysia.
BRIEF PROFILE
DEPARTMENT OF
BIOMEDICAL
ENGINEERING
University of Malaya was the first institute to offer a
biomedical engineering undergraduate program in
Malaysia, having commenced intake in 1997. Having
been formed as a Department in the year 2001, our
flagship undergraduate program is accredited by the
Engineering Accreditation Council (EAC) of Malaysia.
Our lectures are planned and delivered in conjunction
with both University Malaya Medical Centre’s expert staff
and representatives from the local Biomedical Engineering
industry in order to provide the very best in targeted
transferable education.
There are many different taxonomic breakdowns within
biomedical
engineering
such
as
bioinformatics,
biomaterials,
biomechanics,
tissue
engineering,
neuroengineering and physiological measurements. The
aim of the department is to produce professional
engineers who are able to make technical decision in
biomedical engineering field.
The department also established a research center and
specialized research laboratory in 2008. Center for
Applied Biomechanics (CAB) and Medical Informatics and
Biological Microelectromechanical Systems (MIMEMS)
Laboratory are formed to enhance research activities in
this department.