Community service helps AUCMS students to their better education
People always say that the more you practice, the better is your performance.
“Firstly, focus during lectures, understand it and then you practice it. I find it very useful and I can remember it easier,” she said.
Ummu and her friends had chosen to spend their weekend by assisting LPPKN@Community to carry out health checks for about 200 adults.
“We helped the nurses to take blood pressure and measure the height and weight of each person who attended, mainly those aged from 25 to 50,” she said.
She said that she felt very happy to be involved in such a programme as it helped to better her understanding of what she had learnt during her lectures.
“I think as students who are soon to become medical practitioners, we should not wait for our college or lecturers to identify places for us to do industrial training. We can motivate ourselves by joining this kind of event and at the same time help the community.
“It’s a win win situation!” she said.
The event, which was launched by the wife of the Minister in the Prime Minister’s Office, Tan Sri Nor Mohamed Yakcop, Puan Sri Fawziah Abu Bakar, was aimed to improve the well-being of low-income family and to collect community profiles besides categorizing those who have family problems.
It was also organized to improve the knowledge and skills in reproductive health and family through appropriate intervention. Beside health checks, there were talks and exhibitions on how to live a better life style.
Manager of Student Affairs & Community Service, Faridah Saman, said that AUCMS wants its students to be actively absorbed into community service as it could help them to better understand their studies and their roles as future doctors and medical practitioners.
“The AUCMS Community Service Center (ACSC) was established to foster a culture of service by motivating, facilitating, and celebrating the ethics and activities of community service at AUCMS,” she said.
She added by saying that AUCMS aims to enrich the education and life experiences of students and other community members that is the faculty, staff affiliates, alumni, spouses, partners and others through leadership and service opportunities that match the humanity oriented culture of AUCMS.
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