Having graduated with a Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery (MBBS) from the Medical Faculty of University Malaya in 1984, Dr Alif Carr Bin Abdul Karim completed serving his housemanship in 1985. He first gained experience in, amongst others, assessing and treating patients with spinal injury, treating basic and complex hip fractures, sports related injuries and also in joint preservation surgery of the knee in the Surgical and Orthopaedic Department as well as in the ER as a Medical Officer from 1985 to 1996. Because of his special interest in osteoarthritis and osteoporosis, Dr Alif Carr pursued his postgraduate training in orthopaedics in the United Kingdom from 1996 to 2001. In 1999, he was appointed to Specialist Registrar (SpR) and obtained his Diploma of Fellowship of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons (FRCS) of Glasgow. Dr Alif Carr was working as a Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon in the United Kingdom before he decided to return to his homeland Malaysia in 2002.

Arthroplasty, Osteoarthritis and osteoporosis, Computer navigated arthroplasty.