Harlina Halizah Siraj

Hospital Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (HUKM) | HUKM · Department of Medical Education

Many educators adopt feedback models from articles and books which contain various feedback strategies rather than depending on their own experiences. Mini Clinical Evaluation Exercise (Mini- CEX) is a Workplace-Based Assessment (WPBA) that requires the examiner to observe the student performing a focused task within 15–20 minutes at the clinic or...

Introduction: Mastering the art of conducting a research along with the competitive era of publishing papers showed the importance of undergraduate research. The purpose of this research was to study the impact of undergraduate research “Special Study Module (SSM)” on Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM) medical students and alumni. Methodology: Th...

Background: Qualitative study determines the concealed and hidden aspects of the educational environment. It helps to understand the quality of educational environment of the institute. Aim: This study aimed to assess the clinical learning environment by the students using a qualitative approach. Methodology: Under graduate medical students (N=...

Background: Dermatology is a minor module in internal medicine undergraduate curriculum. Limited time is allocated for its teaching. Most graduates are inadequately prepared to diagnose and manage skin diseases. We aimed to identify the core content of a more effective dermatology module. Methods: A modified Delphi method was used to reach a con...

Faculty development is an integral part of institutional development. This paper describes liking, disliking and suggestions of faculty members on a 2-days Team-Based Learning faculty training workshop, where 39 faculty members were attended. Participants liked the lively and informal discussions through which they got a new technique to teach stud...

Simulated/ standardized patients (SPs) have become one of the significant components in today's medical education and students' assessment. Some differences exist in the training method of SPs for psychiatry examinations compared to other medical disciplines. This brief report highlights the challenges encountered in the training process and method...

Background: Understanding of educational environment is very important to determine the strength and weakness of a curriculum in order to further improvement of an educational institution. This paper reports final year medical students' perceptions on educational environment in a Malaysian medical school. Methods: This was a cross-sectional questio...

Introduction: Internet is the most wanted information and communication technology that brought the worldwide revolutionary change in the information scenario. It helps students to broaden their academic knowledge, research and assignments by accessing to the information world and also by easy communication to their academic community. Though there...

Sleep is an active, repetitive and reversible state of perceptual disengagement from the environment including unresponsiveness to it. Adequate sleep is extremely important for healthiness. But sleep loss is a remarkable problem in modern society. The objective of this study was to investigate the sleep pattern and its association with students' ac...

Introduction: Entrepreneurship CMIE 1022 module was introduced in February 2012 and was made compulsory to all first year undergraduate students in all faculties of Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM). The main objective of CMIE 1022 is to expose the students to entrepreneurship with implementation of online teaching and business game simulation....

Team-based learning (TBL) is a teaching–learning method whichgives the benefit of small group learning within large classes.1 TBLstarts with the students’ preparation, during which they study anadvance assignment defined by the faculty and then participate in thereadiness assurance process (RAP) to demonstrate knowledge. TheRAP consists of a short...

Educators in a multicultural-environment face complex-tasks in teaching for diversity. The objective of this study was to determine the educational environment in a Malaysian medical school, aimed to face the diversity. This cross-sectional study was conducted utilising "Dundee Ready Education Environment Measure", a validated instrument that conta...

Introduction: Appropriate professional conduct of clinical teacher is vital in their medicine practice. In UKM medical centre Malaysia, personal and professional development (PPD) of future medical professionals is greatly emphasized. The objective of this study was to determine the medical students’ perception about the professional conduct of the...

Student can be stressed due to different stressors such as academic, financial, health related or loss of close family member or friend, etc. Stress is the bodies' reaction both neurologically and physiologically to adapt to the new condition. Stress has a negative effect on the academic performance of the students. This study was aimed to explore...

Gestational Diabetes Mellitus (GDM) is associated with pregnancy complications, however its mechanism has not been fully understood. The aim of this study was to investigate the single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) for identifying candidate genes involve in risk factors and complications of GDM. A total of 174 pregnant women with GDM and 114 health...

Introduction: Student can be stressed due to different stressors such as academic, financial, health related or loss of close family member or friend etc. Stress is the bodies‘ reaction both neurologically and physiologically to adapt to the new condition. Stress has negative effect on the academic performance of the students. This study was aimed...

Introduction: Student can be stressed due to different stressors such as academic, financial, health related or loss of close family member or friend etc. Stress is the bodies‘ reaction both neurologically and physiologically to adapt to the new condition. Stress has negative effect on the academic performance of the students. This study was aimed...

Gestational Diabetes Mellitus (GDM) is associated with pregnancy complications, however its mechanism has not been fully understood. The aim of this study was to investigate the single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) for identifying candidate genes involve in risk factors and complications of GDM. A total of 174 pregnant women with GDM and 114 health...

The consistency in ratings provided by examiners can affect the reliability of the OSCE. This study was designed to identify the inter-rater reliability among examiners. This was a cross-sectional study involving 22 clinicians from all disciplines of medicine. An OSCE video was shown to each group and the examiners were to give their marks. The res...

Medical doctors are required to provide fair treatment and care to all patients, regardless of their age, gender, ethnicity, religion, social position and financial status. The basic precepts of medical ethics clearly illustrate the importance of medical practitioners to be just, fair and unbiased in treating their patients. In a multi-racial, mult...

Bedside teaching is a vital component of medical education. It is applicable to any situation where teaching is imparted in the presence of patients. In teaching in the patients' presence, learners have the opportunities to use all of their senses and learn the humanistic aspect of medicine such as role modeling, which is vital but difficult to com...

There is a significant gap between teaching and use of interesting technological resources by most of the faculties in medical schools around the globe. The objective of this paper is to highlight a Malaysian medical school’s experience on the use of a Synchronous Transnational Collaborative Learning (STCL) methodology using MedEdWorld – a technolo...

This prospective observational study was done to analyse the prevalence of gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) among primigravidae and its outcome. All healthy primigravidae with singleton pregnancies were offered universal glucose tolerance testing between 16 and 28 weeks gestation. GDM and non GDM groups were managed according to hospital protoco...

To assess the outcomes and risk factors of adolescent pregnancies in 2 major hospitals in Malaysia. We conducted a case-control study of pregnant girls aged 10 through 19 years. The controls were women aged 20 through 35 years who did not become pregnant in their adolescence. Cases and controls were matched for parity and place of delivery. Data we...

Objectives: Regular problem based learning (PBL) workshops are to be conducted in order to know the lacunae of the PBL facilitators and improve on various aspects. Materials and Methods: A total of 20 workshops (with duration of 2-days) were conducted between the year 2005 and 2008. One hundred and ninety one participants registered for the worksho...

Introduction: The new curriculum of Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia's medical programme uses problem based learning (PBL) as the main teaching-learning strategy. Objective: To evaluate the facilitators' skills in conducting the PBL tutorials by evaluating questionnaires at the end of each PBL case. Materials and Methods: The information gathered fro...

Online collaborative learning is an idea whose time has come. 1 In recent years, online collaborative learning networking has been seen as an expanding example within the tertiary level of education. Many educational institutions use the Internet for online collaborative learning. 2 MedEdWorld is an international online collaborative learning netwo...

Advanced abdominal pregnancy is rare, and one that occurs after uterine rupture with delivery of a viable fetus is exceptional. A multiparous patient was admitted at 29 weeks of gestation for conservative management of placenta previa. She complained of intermittent abdominal pain, but repeated assessment suggested that both the patient and the fet...

Bedside teaching is an essential component of medi-cal education and provides the learners an opportunity to use nearly all of their senses. A comprehensive physical examination can provide a diagnosis of more than 70% of diseases. 1 Sometimes it is thought that bedside teach-ing is applicable only to the hospital setting which is not true. Bedside...