University Malaya Specialist Centre


University of Malaya Specialist Centre is the private arm of the University of Malaya Medical Centre, and one of the top private hospitals in Malaysia. It is a tertiary medical centre with super-specialty services located along Jalan Universiti, Petaling Jaya. Established in 1998, UMSC was initially located at UMMC and in 2007 shifted to UMSC's own building. It is adjacent to the largest teaching hospital in Malaysia, UMMC and Malaysia's oldest medical school, the Faculty of Medicine, University of Malaya founded in 1962 which shares its roots with the National University of Singapore's Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine. UMSC is part of an integrated regional healthcare hub with UMMC, The Faculty of Medicine and The Faculty of Dentistry. Consultants from UMMC are permitted to conduct the private specialist clinic in UMSC after their usual consultation hours, and the facilities at UMMC are shared with UMSC.