A step closer to healing the sick

Half way there: Ecstatic PMC students having a group photo after the ceremony at the Penang Hospital.

INSPIRED by those in the medical profession who gave their all to save lives during the severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) outbreak in 2003, a young girl decided to become a doctor.

Now 22, Caryn Lim is one step closer to her dream as she and 149 other students of the Penang Medical College (PMC) have been presented with their white coats.