Industrial Partnership

Partnership with Industry

In order to ensure students are equipped with adequate skills and knowledge relevant to the industry, universities need to have direct and active links with industries. The International Medical University continuously seeks to collaborate with key leading industry players through our “Partnership with Industry” programme.

The main objectives include mutually beneficial collaborations that will drive sustainable engagement between the university and industrial stakeholders to enrich the three key domains of the University: research, education and healthcare.

Activities Under This Programme

Training and industrial pupilage of IMU undergraduate & postgraduate students in industries
Provision of consultancies by IMU staff to industries
IMU as a centre for external quality control for industry
Feedback from industries on appropriate changes to the curriculum for better relevance to industry
Enable industry to support their staff to participate in Continuing Professional Development (CPD) through IMU.
Enable industry to provide opportunities for their staff to undertake part-time postgraduate studies on projects relevant to industry
Conducting collaborative research with industry for product development and product improvement
Commercialisation of IMU research findings by industry
Providing support to IMU staff who seek to engage specific industries

Benefits to Industries

Opportunities in human resource development for industry staff
Sharing and exchange of knowledge to create more effective approaches towards innovative products and process development
Opportunities for collaboration on research and development activities, using both parties’ existing research infrastructure and expertise
Sharing of resources and expertise for public education and community services
Early opportunity for industry to consider IMU students as future staff
Selected use of IMU learning resources for learning and training purposes with access to IMU’s online library of more than 60,000 items of printed books, substantial collection of medical and allied health sciences databases and journals
Strengthening of its brand with this link to IMU