Since its founding in 1992, IMU has emerged as Malaysia’s first and most established private medical and health sciences university with over 5000 IMU Alumni who are currently working as doctors and specialists, and another 3000 serving as pharmacists, in Malaysia and around the world
As a specialist university with 100% focus on medicine, health sciences and complementary medicine programmes, the University encourages innovation, imagination and insight among students and staff to develop a competency framework that ensures IMU graduates are work-ready, knowledgeable, competent and caring healthcare professionals; critical thinkers, reflective and yet proactive
IMU adopts outcome-based curricula for all its programmes. This means that all graduates of IMU fulfill all the desired outcomes expected of him or her in the programme
Since 1993, there have been 32 cohorts of Partner Medical Schools (PMS) students, totalling 2,519 in number. Today, IMU has 29 renowned PMS, which between them offer around 240 places a year to IMU in this exciting, innovative and transformational education model.
Assets of the university include:
Pioneered the partner university model in the country
The first and only private Malaysian medical university to receive the self-accreditation status from the Malaysian Qualifications Agency (MQA)
A specialist university with 100% focus on medicine & health sciences
Pioneered the close integration of Research and Healthcare practice together with Education.
A major breakthrough in 2010 with the start of its Healthcare Centres allowing IMU’s staff and students to receive and treat patients
