[2] Shortly after the end of the second World War, a commission was established under the Chairmanship of Sir Alexander Carr-Saunders to enquire into and make recommendations concerning university education in Malaya (Malaysia).

Arising from the commission's Report and that of a Joint Constitutional Committee appointed by the two Governments, legislation was passed in November 1958 providing for the continuance of the UM as a single University, but with two largely autonomous divisions of equal status, one in each territory.

[citation needed] The Universiti Malaya is situated on a site of about 750 acres of land in Pantai Valley on the outskirts of Kuala Lumpur.

The first patients were admitted in March 1967 and before the end of the year several wards had been opened together with the Polyclinic and Accident and Emergency Unit thus making available to the residents of Petaling Jaya and the adjoining area of Petaling Jaya and the adjoining area of Kuala Lumpur a hospital service on a 24-hour basis.

The Faculty of Medicine, Universiti Malaya was the first school that was instituted at UM in 1905 following the Education Commission report that the colonial region in Southeast Asia needed to address the shortage of medical assistants in the large cities of Singapore and Penang.

The Faculty was officially opened on 2 August 1965 by YAB Tun Abdul Razak bin Dato Hussien, The Deputy Prime Minister, who also laid the Foundation Stone of the University Hospital on the same day.

His Majesty the Yang Dipertuan Agung, Duli Yang Maha Mulia, Seri Paduka Baginda, Tuanku Ismail Nasarudin, Shah Ibni Alharmahum and Sultan Zainal Abidin opened the University Hospital (which was later officially known as the Universiti Malaya Medical Centre sometime in the 1990s) on 5 August 1968 when Dr. J.H.E.

The main objectives of UMMC are health services, learning and research, serving as the primary teaching hospital of the Faculty of Medicine, Universiti Malaya.