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SECRETARIAT OF POSTGRADUATE STUDIES FACULTY OF MEDICINE

medicpostgrad@hctm.ukm.edu.my

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Petrick @ Ramesh K. Periyasamy

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Petrick @ Ramesh K. Periyasamy

Infectious Disease

Mini Biography

Associate Professor Dr Petrick Periyasamy is a Clinical Physician and Consultant in Infectious Diseases at ÿÈÕ´óÈüapp Medical Centre. He is currently the head of infectious diseases in ÿÈÕ´óÈüappMC.

He is passionate in antimicrobial stewardship and is actively involved in the local and national level .

He has contributed to National Guidelines and/or as an External Reviewer for the National Adult Immunisation Guidelines, National Antibiotics Guidelines of Ministry of Health , Malaysian Consensus Guidelines on Antiretroviral Therapy , National policies and Procedures on Infection Control, Management of Dengue Infections in Adults and Management of Tuberculosis among others.

He is a member of the Malaysian Society for HIV Medicine and the Malaysia Society of Infection Control and Infectious Diseases.

Apart from clinical practice, teaching and administrative duties, he is also involved in research mainly in the field of general infectious diseases and antimicrobial stewardship in ÿÈÕ´óÈüappMC and has published in this area . He has collaborated with other universities such as UPM, USIM and UM .
The infectious disease unit trains (ministry of health and universities) fellows , medical officers and family medicine doctors in the infectious disease subspecialty program.

Flowchart of Credentialing and Privileging in HCTM for International Candidates

DEFINITION

Credentialing: a process to set the standards and to do an evaluation for a person’s qualification in a field or procedure. It is recognition for the professional training done by a medical practitioner.

Privileges: the rights given by the hospital for a medical practitioner to give treatments or to do procedures on hospital patients based on the qualifications of the training, and the medical practitioner’s experience and expertise.

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