Please use this forum to introduce yourself. Name, where you from, your background and the reason you are taking thi course.
In reply to Vaikunthan Rajaratnam
Re: Introduce yourself and why you taking this course
by Vaikunthan Rajaratnam -Here is something about me
Dr Vaikunthan Rajaratnam graduated from the University of Malaya in 1980 with distinction in pathology and did his initial orthopaedic surgery training at the University of Malaya Medical Centre (UMMC) and later continued his advanced plastic, hand and microsurgery training in the UK and US.
He commenced his academic career at the University of Malaya in 1986 and later became a medical entrepreneur by setting up the first private trauma hospital in Malaysia. He maintained his academic affiliations with the UMMC as honorary consultant and progressed to develop hand surgery and public and physician education on health and medicine in Malaysia through his leadership involvement in numerous professional bodies like the Malaysian Orthopaeidc Association, Malaysian Society for the Surgery of the Hand, Malaysian Osteoporosis Society and the Malaysian Healthy Ageing Association.
The last decade saw Dr Vaikunthan Rajaratnam working in the National Health Service in the UK as a senior Consultant Hand Surgeon in Birmingham UK with a subspecialty interest in peripheral nerve and brachial plexus surgery. During this period he accumulated vast experience in the management of mutilating injuries of the Iraq and Afghanistan conflicts working at the Royal Centre for Defence Medicine. His main focus has been in building the specialty of hand surgery in the UK .He has developed a Master’s program for Hand Surgery & Therapy and MBA for doctors. His passion for teaching and education has taken him around the world to deliver workshop and lectures. He continues on his life long journey as a learner and is currently finishing a Masters in Medical Education at the University of Dundee, UK and Masters in Instructional Design and Technology from Open University Malaysia.
In 2011, Dr Vaikunthan Rajaratnam relocated to Singapore as Senior Consultant. He is core faculty for the Orthopaedic and Hand Surgery Residency program and advisor to the Hand Surgery Exit Exam Committee and examiner for the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh and the Masters in Orthopaedics Surgery, National University of Singapore. He also hold an adjunct post as Director of Online Courses at the Perdana University, Malaysia.