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The Department of Social and Preventive Medicine (popularly known as SPM) is one of 22 teaching departments in the
Faculty of Medicine A medical school is a tertiary educational institution, or part of such an institution, that teaches medicine, and awards a professional degree for physicians. Such medical degrees include the Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery (MBBS, M ...
, University of Malaya. It was formed in 1964, one year after the founding of the Faculty of Medicine in the University of Malaya in
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. The department is involved in both Undergraduate and Postgraduate teachings. There are more than 1,000 graduates from Master of Public Health, Master of Medical Science in Public Health, Master of Medical Science (Research), Master of Public Health(Speciality), Doctor of Public Health and Doctor of Philosophy. They originate from Malaysia and around the world and serve in the Ministry of Health, universities, and various National and International bodies in Malaysia and around the world; e.g. the Malaysian Armed Forces,
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(WHO) and Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), and in town and city councils.


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Faculty of Medicine, University of Malaya The Faculty of Medicine, University of Malaya (commonly known as the UM Medical School, FoM UM, UM Medicine or Malaya Medicine) is one of the thirteen faculties of the University of Malaya (UM). It was officially established in September 1962 a ...
* University of Malaya * Wikiversity:Topic:Community Medicine


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Malaya Malaya refers to a number of historical and current political entities related to what is currently Peninsular Malaysia in Southeast Asia: Political entities * British Malaya (1826–1957), a loose collection of the British colony of the Straits ...
University of Malaya Universities and colleges in Kuala Lumpur Educational institutions established in 1964 1964 establishments in Malaysia {{Malaysia-university-stub