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Water4Life 2: Clean water for Long Kahoo Penan community in Baram Sarawak

A small team of engineers, pharmacists and biomedical scientist, staff and alumni, from the University of Nottingham Malaysia (UNM) and Engineers Without Borders Malaysia (EWBM) successfully complete a clean water piping project that channels spring water from a nearby tributary (Long Jilen) for a Penan community in Long Kahoo, in mid-August 2024. Traditionally nomadic hunter-gatherers, …

Experience Sharing: Summer Internship at Tung Shin Hospital

Lim Zhi Yan, currently Year 3 MPharm (Pharmacy) student in the UK   Where did you do your summer internship? How long was it? As I had already experienced a 2-month internship in community pharmacy during my Year 1 summer break, I decided to seek out a chance to gain insight at either a hospital …

Student Research Internship Experience – School of Pharmacy

During the summer break in 2021, I was planning a pharmacy placement in a hospital or a community pharmacy, but they were not feasible due to transportation and COVID-19 pandemic. To utilise my long summer break and not to miss the summer internship opportunities provided by the University of Nottingham Malaysia School of Pharmacy, I …

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MPharm Student Wins Top 25 Talentbank Future Leader Award

MPharm Year 2 Student from the University of Nottingham Malaysia (UNM), Mabeth Tan Oon Ling, has won the “Top 25 Future Leader Award” by Talentbank. The Future Leader Award aims to recognise top university students who excel in both academics and extracurricular activities.   What is Future Leader Awards? Future Leader Awards is a programme …

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Student Sharing: My Hospital Attachment during Summer Break

Article written by Tan Yi Yan, MPharm 2+2 Year 2 student. She did her internship at Gleneagles Hospital during summer break 2021.       How did I find the intern position? When I was considering what to do with my three-month summer break, I chose to locate an intern to widen my perspective on …

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Student Sharing: My Industrial Internship Experience at Kotra Pharma

Article written by Tan Zhi Xuan, Pharmaceutical and Health Sciences Year 3 student. He worked as R&D Formulation Intern with Kotra Pharma (M) Sdn. Bhd for 3 months during the summer break this year. What did I do? I get to understand and experience the in-process of a generic drug product development, from desktop research, carrying …

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Alumni Testimonial – Amirah Suhaila (2018)

            Amirah Suhaila graduated with BSc (Hons) Pharmaceutical and Health Sciences in 2018. She is currently working as key account executive in a multinational corporation.   Why did you choose to study Pharmaceutical and Health Sciences (PHS) at University of Nottingham Malaysia (UNM)? Because of the love towards Chemistry. Throughout …

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First-Year International Student: Embracing Online Learning

This article is written by Anas Samy Abdelhamed Abusikken, MPharm 2+2 Year 1 student (moving to Year 2).   I think we all have to agree that throughout our life spans, the past couple of years have been the most unique, since no recent pandemic had the same effect as this one. For me personally, …

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My Experience as a Covid-19 Vaccination Centre Volunteer

In January 2020, the first COVID-19 case was reported in Malaysia marking the beginning of the devastating virus outbreak in the country. Now, a year later, a massive vaccine rollout is being carried out nationwide under the National COVID-19 Immunisation Programme (PICK). On the 15th and 16th May 2021, I volunteered as part of BP …

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Alumni Testimonial – Elis Syafiqah Hamdan (2018)

This article is written by Elis Syafiqah Hamdan (BSc (Hons) Pharmaceutical and Health Sciences, Class of 2018). Current Job Position I am currently working as a Medical Laboratory Technologist at Synnova Compounding Pharmacy Sdn. Bhd. Job Scope • Compounding complex creams, gels, capsules, troches, suppositories, solutions and lozenges according to Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) and Good …

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