KOTA SAMARAHAN: Silent Mentor Training Centre has launched its first centre in Sarawak, based at Universiti Malaysia Sarawak (Unimas) here.
The centre will serve not only as a complementary training centre for Unimas’ medical and nursing students but a resource centre for anatomy and basic surgical skills.
In addition, the centre would also be a perfect avenue for Unimas students to acquire soft module skills where they would be serving as volunteers, Unimas said in a press statement issued yesterday.
“The centre aims to nurture good humanistic values and empathy amongst the medical and nursing students in Unimas, as inspired by selfless acts of the donors.
“The centre will also be the avenue for postgraduate surgical skills training and advanced clinical development particularly for medical and health practitioners,” the statement added.
Unimas said the training centre was the culmination of a Memorandum of Agreement it signed with Academy For Silent Mentor (AFSM) that was signed in Kuala Lumpur, Mar 23, 2017.
The memorandum aimed to set up a silent mentor centre in Unimas’ Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences at its Kota Samarahan campus.
Following the memorandum, the “i-Silent Mentor Programme” was then launched in May 2017 in Kuching by the Academy of Silent.
The programme aimed at promoting consented body donation for the advancement of medical education and facilitating the development of humanity among healthcare professionals.
The establishment of the temporary silent mentor building, equipped with three freezers for now, would enable AFSM and Unimas to kickstart the silent mentor activities in Sarawak.
Local Government and Housing Minister Datuk Dr Sim Kui Hian launched the centre’s building at Unimas during the Academy for Silent Mentor (AFSM) Conference 2018 held at Borneo Convention Centre here recently.
Present to witness the ceremony were AFSM chairman and founding director Professor Dr Chin Kin Fah, Unimas deputy dean of Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences Professor Dr Mohammad Zulkarnaen Ahmad Narihan, the training centre’s public fund raisers Datin Amar Kathryn Wee, Ong Ngok Shoon, Zhang Su Ling and Chen Shyang Ren.
Meanwhile, AFSM Sarawak is now seeking to raise donations for its permanent centre which will include a workshop area and appreciation hall at Unimas.
