This document provides an overview of a lecture on professional development and practice in Malaysian healthcare. It introduces the Malaysian healthcare system and notes that the community is made up of diverse cultures. Physiotherapists must be aware of cultural assumptions and differences between hospital cultures and patients' familiar environments. The lecture also addresses areas of professional practice like medico-legal aspects, autonomy, and administration.

1. PROFESSIONAL
DEVELOPMENT & PRACTICE
AVANIANBAN CHAKKARAPANI, M.P.T in Orthopedic Conditions.,
Lecturer
FM&HS, UTAR
Subject: Professional Development & Practice I
Lecture 1
Date:16.01.2015
Time:8.30 to 9.30 am
Venue: K 401

2.  This unit introduces students with the dynamics,
provision, financing and access to Malaysian health care.
 The Malaysian community is made up of people from many
cultures.
 Awareness of cultural diversity is vital when working as a
physiotherapist in Malaysia.
 Practitioners need to be aware of their own cultural
assumptions, and the cultures of hospitals and of health
care.
 Physiotherapists must consider the impact of the health
culture on people for whom a hospital or other health
care setting is an unfamiliar environment.
 In this unit, the areas of professional practice such as
medico-legal aspects, professional autonomy and
accountability, administration etc are also addressed.

3. MALAYSIAN HEALTH CARE SYSTEM

4. Learning Objective
To introduce the student to
the Malaysian health care
system.

5. Learning Outcome
Able to describe Malaysian
health care system.

6. MALAYSIA

14. Malaysia is to be a nation of healthy individuals,
families and communities, through a health system
that is equitable, affordable, efficient,
technologically appropriate, environmentally-
adaptable and consumer friendly, with emphasis on
quality, innovation, health promotion and respect of
human dignity and which promotes individual
responsibility and community participation towards
an enhanced quality of life.

45. Reference
 Heng Leng Chee. (2009).Health Care in Malaysia:
The Dynamics of Provision, Financing and Access.
New York: Routledge.