The Faculty of Medicine was the first school that was instituted at Universiti Malaya (UM) in 1905 following the Education Commission report that the colonial region in Southeast Asia needed to address the shortage of medical assistants in Singapore and Penang.
Despite the odds, in June 1905, under the Straits Legislative Council of Malaya, the legislation for the establishment of a medical college in Singapore was passed.
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