Malaysian Orthopaedic Association MOA
19 Jalan Folly Barat
Off Jalan Ledang
Kuala Lumpur 50480
Malaysia
President : Jamal Azmi Mohamad, MD
Tel : 603-20930100
Fax : 603-20930900
Development of Orthopaedic Service
Orthopaedic service in Malaysia started with the establishment of the first orthopaedic unit at Kuala Lumpur General Hospital after the second world war in 1949.
The first medical faculty of this country University
Malaya (UM) was founded in 1963. Orthopaedic
department of this medical school was established in
1966 and headed by Dr J F Silva from Sri Lanka. Members
of orthopaedic surgeons in the country increased over
the years and orthopaedic services gradually expanded
to cover the whole country. By 1976, there was an orthopaedic
unit in every general hospital of the states and the
Institute of Orthopaedics in Kuala Lumpur was completed.
Postgraduate course in orthopaedic surgery was later
introduced by Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM) and
the first batch of local orthopaedic surgeons graduated
in 1985. Currently 3 universities [UKM, UM
and Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM)] are providing masters
of orthopaedic surgery courses in Malaysia.
Formation of Malaysian Orthopaedic Association
In 1967, the Malaysian Orthopaedic Association (MOA)
was formed with Dr. Abdul Majid Ismail as the first
president. Founding members included Dr Selvakumar,
Dr M Sivananthan, Dr Kannan Kutty, Dr. Pretam Singh,
Dr Balasubramaniam, Dr Balasingam, Dr Mahmood Merican,
Dr Mohd Iqbal, Dr Sachdev Singh, Dr Subir Sengupta and
Dr K Thambyrajah. The first Malaysian Orthopaedic Congress
was organized in 1968 and it was attended by a total
of sixty delegates from various countries.
In the following year, the first Malaysian-Singapore
combined orthopaedic meeting was held in Singapore.
In 1973, the MOA took up the responsibility to host
the 4th Congress of Western Pacific Orthopaedic Association
(WPOA) in Kuala Lumpur. After the establishment
of the ASEAN Orthopaedic Association (AOA) in 1984,
the MOA hosted the 4th AOA Congress in 1987.
Initially most of the annual scientific meetings were
held in Kuala Lumpur. In the 1990s, attempts were made
to have the meetings out of the capital and they were
received with positive response. Our members seemed
to like the idea of combining the scientific meeting
with holiday, and to avoid the heavy traffic. The meeting
in Langkawi Island in 1995 recorded a high attendance
rate and since then most of our annual general / scientific
meetings were held away from Kuala Lumpur.
The main objective of this association is to promote
the advancement of science, arts and practice of orthopaedic
surgery and allied science as stated in the constitution.
With the increasing number of orthopaedic surgeons over
the years, the association recognized the need to ensure
overall development of our members in various aspects
of practice. Many measures have been taken especially
over the past few years to provide opportunities to
achieve this aim.
In order to encourage continuing medical education
(CME) among members, MOA appointed regional representatives
for five geographical regions (North, East Coast, South,
Central and East Malaysia) of the country and provided
financial assistance for them to organize local scientific
meetings. Starting last year, various subspecialty interest
groups were formed under the umbrella of the MOA. These
groups serve to coordinate reaching and training activities
for orthopaedic surgeons interested in these fields,
and to support the regional CME programs by providing
speakers and teaching materials.
With the increasing number of orthopaedic related
basic science and clinical researches, MOA published
the first orthopaedic supplement of Medical Journal
of Malaysia (MJM) in 2000. To encourage more orthopaedic
surgeons to involve in research activities, the MOA
has recently formed a research committee that look into
the possibilities of providing technical and financial
support for research projects especially for members
not attached to teaching institution.
In order to promote humanitarian values among members,
a medical relief committee was formed at the end of
2004. The committee swung into action when several countries
including Malaysia were affected by the tsunami disaster.
MOA has served as a hub to deliver more than USD 300,000
worth of medical supplies donated by various orthopaedic
organizations like Chinese Orthopaedic Association,
Philippines Orthopaedic Association and Chiba Hospital
from Japan to the affected areas in Banda Aceh and Sri
Lanka.
The number of orthopaedic surgeons in this country
is estimated to be around 350. With a 24 million population,
the ratio is about 1 to 70,000, far from expected ratio
of 1 to 25,000. In the effort to increase the number
of orthopaedic work force in the country, MOA will try
to make sure that the quality of medical care will be
maintained. We also hope that we regional and international
cooperation, development of subspecialty fields will
be enhanced.
2011
MOA
Malaysian Orthopaedic Association,
Taylor Spatial Frame Course & Workshop 2011
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Jun 9 - 10 2011
2012
MOA
Malaysian Orthopaedic Association,
42nd Annual meeting.
Pahang DarulMakmur, Malaysia
Jun 14 - 17 2012
2012
ICJR MOA
ICJR-SEA,
International Congress for Joint Reconstruction
and Malaysian Orthopaedic Association,
1st SouthEast Asia International Congress,
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia,
Sep 28 - 30 2012