University Malaya Specialist Centre

University of Malaya Specialist Centre (UMSC) is the private arm of the University of Malaya Medical Centre (UMMC), and one of the top private hospitals in Malaysia. It is a tertiary medical centre with super-specialty services located along Jalan Universiti, Petaling Jaya. Established in 1998, UMSC was initially located at UMMC and in 2007 shifted to UMSC's own building. It is adjacent to the largest teaching hospital in Malaysia, UMMC and Malaysia's oldest medical school, the Faculty of Medicine, University of Malaya founded in 1962 which shares its roots with the National University of Singapore's Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine. UMSC is part of an integrated regional healthcare hub with UMMC, The Faculty of Medicine and The Faculty of Dentistry.[1] Consultants from UMMC are permitted to conduct the private specialist clinic in UMSC after their usual consultation hours, and the facilities at UMMC are shared with UMSC.

University of Malaya Specialist Centre
Geography
LocationJalan Universiti, Lembah Pantai, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Coordinates3°6′58.2739″N 101°39′2.6669″E
Organisation
FundingGovernment hospital
TypeSpecialist
Affiliated universityUniversity of Malaya Faculty of Medicine, University of Malaya
Services
Beds95
History
Opened1998
Links
Websiteumsc.my
ListsHospitals in Malaysia

See also

References
  1. "About UMSC". www.umsc.my. Retrieved 2016-03-14.


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