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Sharaf Bin Ibrahim

Sharaf Bin Ibrahim MBChB, FRCS, MS Ortho

Orthopedics, Trauma
Bangi, Selangor, Malaysia

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Dr Abdul Majid Ismail was the first Malayan orthopaedic surgeon to be appointed head of the orthopaedic department in the General Hospital Kuala Lumpur in 1958 after completing his training in the United Kingdom (UK). He had obtained the Fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons (FRCS) of Edinburgh and the Master of Orthopaedic Surgery (MChOrth) from Liverpool. He then started a programme to establish an orthopaedic department in every state general hospital. Arrangements were made with the University of Liverpool to train the Malayan orthopaedic surgeons who would be assigned to the respective state general hospitals upon their return from the UK.

In 1964, the first academic orthopaedic department was established in the University of Malaya with Professor John Francis Silva appointed as the inaugural professor. The University Hospital became the first university hospital in the country in 1967. The Malaysian Orthopaedic Association was also founded in 1967 with Dr Abdul Majid Ismail as the first president. There were only 10 orthopaedic surgeons then.

Without a structured residency training programme, the training of orthopaedic surgeons was a lengthy process as trainees had to undergo general surgical training followed by orthopaedic training. In 1976, there were only 30 members of the Malaysian Orthopaedic Association. The change was imminent and had its share of controversy.
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