Dr. Mohd Shukrimi Awang completed his undergraduate training at the University Science of Malaysia, in 1997 and began his career by pursuing his housemanship training at Hospital Kuala Lumpur in 1997-98. He then joined the Orthopaedics Department at Hospital Kuala Terengganu until, he later join IIUM in June 2000 as trainee lecturer at the Departme