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INTRODUCTION COMMUNITIES OUTREACH PROGRAMME

 Physiology Department has been organizing Rakan Sains Program since 2002 and in this program, secondary school students were invited to Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM) Health Campus. The objectives of the program were to provide information and expose students to various activities in USM Health Campus including attending forums, visiting laboratories, placement and preparation of mini-projects in specific laboratories or units followed by presentation of their projects.

 Starting from 2013, Rakan Sains Program will be incorporated into the Physiology Department Community Outreach Program as part of the transformation process to support Universiti Sains Malaysia towards transformingservices and external activities. The program offers dissemination of a variety of health, wellness and safety education information, health screenings and talks. Other activities which will be included in COP are visits to orphanage and handicapped school and other non-specific activities including providing technical assistance in Sekolah Dalam Hospital and attending autistic children in Prince Kindergarden.

 Objectives

 The general objective of COP is to disseminate health related information and create health awareness among the school aged children.

Specific aims of Rakan Sains Program

  1. To expose students to a variety of scientific fields available in USM health campus
  2. To disseminate information regarding specific health related problems in teenagers e.g. obesity, sexual transmitted

          diseases and drug addiction.

  1. To motivate secondary school aged children to obtain health related information
  2. To increase interaction between the staffs from the secondary schools and USM Physiology Department

Proposed activities

 Health talks

Career talk

Health exhibition

Health examination

Health Quiz

 Time

 April and May or whenever it is applicable

 Expected Outcome

 1)      Increase the knowledge regarding scientific fields available is USM health campus among

          secondary  school aged children

2)      Increase the knowledge regarding health problems among the secondary school aged children

3)      Detection of health problems in the school aged children and refer specific cases for further

          management

4)      Enhance collaborative work between secondary schools and Universiti Sains Malaysia