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  • Two Former Full-Time Madrasah Students Enrolled Into NUS Medical School

    Two Former Full-Time Madrasah Students Enrolled Into NUS Medical School

    TWO former madrasah students have become the first to be offered places in a medical school here. Ms Amalina Ridzuan and Mr Ahmad Abdurrahman, who each spent the full 10 years in Islamic religious schools, have made the cut to enter the National University of Singapore’s (NUS) highly competitive Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine. There are six full-time madrasahs here. In recent years, they have placed more emphasis on raising academic standards by helping students balance the demands of the religious and secular curricula. The duo also join the ranks of a select number of students who took the polytechnic route to be accepted into medicine. Last year, for instance, only 10 or so polytechnic graduates were offered places at the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine.

    Ms Amalina, 22, who has four siblings aged 12 to 20, grew up playing doctor with them. While in secondary school, a newspaper article about a cancer patient struck her. “I really didn’t want to see (others) having to go through the same pain. That’s why I felt compelled to do something… to do my part to alleviate their pain,” she said. But the former student of Madrasah Al-Ma’arif Al-Islamiah in Geylang took longer than expected to make it to medical school. After graduating from the madrasah, she entered Serangoon Junior College but did not do well.

    “I considered doing a private degree, but I was very interested in medicine and didn’t want to spend the rest of my life doing something I didn’t like, or any other degree,” said Ms Amalina, whose 45-year-old father is a material handler and 44-year-old mother, a management support officer. So she enrolled in a biomedical science course at Temasek Polytechnic and worked hard. She will graduate on Wednesday with a grade point average of 3.98 out of 4. NUS does not comment on individuals accepted into its medical school, but has said it looks for attributes such as compassion, empathy and the ability to relate to people from all walks of life.

    Mr Ahmad will be graduating from Singapore Polytechnic on Thursday. The 19-year-old, formerly from Madrasah Aljunied Al-Islamiah, also studied biomedical science in polytechnic. His 46-year-old mother, an allied educator in a primary school, and 54-year-old father, who is self-employed in the vehicle business, enrolled all four of their children in madrasahs so that they would have a solid foundation in religious knowledge. Mr Ahmad said: “Being in a madrasah taught me time management and how to study smart, because we had so many subjects.”

    At one point, he was taking 14 subjects, including mathematics, history and others on Islamic law and etiquette. His polytechnic course and internships have given him a glimpse of his career ahead. One incident that struck him during a stint at Khoo Teck Puat Hospital was when a doctor asked him to comfort a patient during a painful procedure. “I wasn’t sure what to do, so I just held her hand and looked into her eyes. Somehow, that small gesture helped.”

     

    Source: The Straits Times

  • Amalina Ridzuan Dan Ahmad Abdurrahman Hanifah Marican Ditabal Sebagai Jauhari Harapan

    Amalina Ridzuan Dan Ahmad Abdurrahman Hanifah Marican Ditabal Sebagai Jauhari Harapan

    MEREKA mencipta sejarah beberapa bulan lalu sebagai dua pelajar madrasah pertama yang berjaya melangkah ke Sekolah Perubatan Yong Loo Lin, Universiti Nasional Singapura (NUS), menerusi laluan politeknik.

    Semalam, Cik Amalina Ridzuan, 22 tahun, dan Encik Ahmad Abdurrahman Hanifah Marican, 20 tahun, ditabal sebagai Jauhari Harapan masyarakat Melayu/Islam – kali pertama anugerah yang diperkenalkan Berita Harian pada 2013 itu diberi kepada dua penerima.

    Sedang masyarakat memuji dan menjadikan kisah kejayaan mereka sebagai contoh dan harapan, kededua anak muda itu terus berpijak pada bumi nyata.

    Mereka sedar, banyak mata tertumpu pada mereka dan ingin melihat mereka berjaya.

    “Kami tiba-tiba menjadi contoh kepada pelajar lain, jadi kami perlu berkelakuan dan menunjukkan contoh yang baik. Kami perlu belajar dengan gigih dan kami harus berjaya. Kami perlu menjaga reputasi madrasah dan politeknik kami,” kata Encik Ahmad, bekas pelajar Madrasah Aljunied Al-Islamiah dan Politeknik Singapura.

    Beliau, yang lulus Diploma Sains Bioperubatan dengan Mata Gred Purata (GPA) 3.94 daripada gred penuh 4, berharap lebih ramai pelajar madrasah dan sekolah kejiranan kini lebih terdorong mencapai cita-cita mereka.

    “Kita boleh menjadi siapa sahaja yang kita mahu asalkan kita bekerja keras,” kata Encik Ahmad yang sedang menjalani perkhidmatan negara (NS) dan akan memulakan kursus perubatannya pada Ogos tahun depan.

    Bagi Cik Amalina pula, Anugerah Jauhari Harapan yang mengiktiraf pencapaian dan potensi individu Melayu/Islam bawah 30 tahun menjadi pendorong baginya agar terus melakukan yang terbaik di menara gading.

    Beliau, yang sudah memulakan pengajian minggu lalu, berkata ada banyak yang perlu dihafal dan pengajian lima tahun akan datang dijangka ‘berat’ dan mencabar.

    “Namun setelah mengikuti kuliah selama seminggu, saya semakin yakin bahawa inilah bidang yang ingin saya ceburi,” kata Cik Amalina, bekas pelajar Madrasah Al-Ma’arif Al-Islamiah dan kemudian lulus Diploma Sains Bioperubatan di Politeknik Temasek dengan GPA 3.98.

    Tekanan tidak dapat dielakkan, katanya, lebih-lebih lagi apabila melihat beliau perlu bersaing dengan pelajar lain yang merupakan bekas pelajar sekolah elit.

    Namun beliau mempunyai strategi – kekal konsisten sepanjang tempoh pengajian dan usaha lebih kuat jika mendapati dirinya ketinggalan di dalam kelas.

    “Bagi saya, jika kita mempunyai minat terhadap sesuatu, kita harus berusaha sedaya upaya untuk mencapainya. Usah biarkan halangan mematahkan semangat kita dan membuat kita fikir kita tidak mampu melakukannya,” kata Cik Amalina.

    Beliau dan Encik Ahmad masing-masing menerima trofi dan cek $5,000 sumbangan Institut Pembangunan Pengurusan Singapura (MDIS) di majlis penyampaian anugerah, semalam.

    Ini tahun ketiga MDIS menaja sumbangan wang tunai kepada penerima Anugerah Jauhari Harapan bagi meraikan pencapaian cemerlang individu dalam masyarakat Melayu/Islam.

    “Di MDIS, kami percaya dalam mengiktiraf pencapai muda (young achievers) dan mendorong mereka agar berjaya dalam kehidupan. Anugerah Jauhari Harapan adalah satu cara memberi pengiktirafan kepada individu muda yang layak yang mempunyai bakat luar biasa untuk mencapai kecemerlangan dalam bidang pilihan mereka,” kata Setiausaha Agung MDIS, Dr R. Theyvendran.

     

    Source: http://beritaharian.sg