CSMU ready to meet all conditions

The Crimea State Medical University in Ukraine will meet the requirements set by the Health Ministry and the MMC to regain its recognition.

PETALING JAYA: The Crimea State Medical University (CSMU) in Ukraine will comply with all conditions set by the Health Ministry to ensure it gained recognition for its medical courses.

In an e-mail to FMT, CSMU, which was de-recognised by the Malaysian Medical Council (MMC) in 2005, said it was set to meet two issues highlighted by the Health Minister Dr S Subramaniam recently.

Earlier this month, Dr Subramaniam had asked CSMU to comply with the Malaysian Medical Council’s requirements in order to gain recognition of its medical courses.

The Health Minister had said that MMC visited the university in 2005 and found that there were several areas of concerns, including the low qualification standard of its medical students.

MMC also found that the university did not have a proper student-lecturer ratio.

Dr Subramaniam had said the MMC sent another a team last year to review the status but there were still areas which were yet to be rectified.

CSMU director AA Babanin said the university would rectify the weaknesses identified by the MMC.

“CSMU’s previous Malaysian student enrollment was based on the ‘no-objection certificate’ (NOC) issued by the (Malaysian) Higher Education Minister,” he said.

The NOC is a regulatory certificate for medical student enrollment outside Malaysia.

Babanin said CSMU’s lecturer-to-student ratio for the “basic science years” (Year 1-3) is 1:8 while for “clinical years” (Year 4-6) was 1:6.

“This ratio meets international standards and fulfills MMC’s criteria,” he said.

CSMU hogged the limelight after it was de-recognised by MMC in 2005, leaving hundreds of students in a limbo.