PuPUK is an acronym for “Program Perkongsian Universiti Keluarga” or University-Family Partnership in Community WellnessProgram. In this program, medical and nursing students will have a family based medico-social learning experience. Each student is engaged, throughout the 5 years medical course, with a foster family. It is incorporated as part of the medical program at the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences (FMHS) University Malaysia Sabah. The project takes place in the rural region of Kudat on the Northern tip of Borneo. The foster Families are selected by community leaders in Kudat. The students are exposed to a wide range of problems, unmet needs within a family and services available in the community. The students are required to see the families three times a year and during this time they assess their health related behaviours. The students are given a selection of questionnaires which they can administer to the family, in order to understand them better.