Heyya, I understand your fear as I was in your position 3 years ago.

I'm currently a dental student in MAHSA. In my 3rd year. All I can say is that I don't think I have any regrets joining MAHSA. We just had our first batch of graduates. Most of them are already attached to different hospitals. Some in Hospital Kuala Lumpur and some all over Malaysia as housemans and dental officers.

The lectures are pretty good compared to some other unis because as our lecturers scolds us all the time 'YOU STUDENTS ARE SO PAMPERED, HERE WE MUST GIVE YOU POWERPOINT SLIDES FOR EVERYTHING'... So most of the time we will get lecture notes.

I heard from a classmate of mine who used to be in IMU, at IMU they just talk, leave the classroom, and your textbook is your companion.

AND OUR FACILITIES ARE PRETTY DAMN GOOD. Haha, after visiting the dental campus in Pusat Bandar Damansara (we have 2 campus, the dental students have a campus of their own)... I have to admit, the facilities are what made me join.

We have 250 students (each intake is 50 students maximum) and so we have nearly 200 dental clinics, meaning one dental chair for every student after year 2 studies. Because we get to treat patients after we finish year 2. So we get the best facilities.

Haha I RECOMMEND YOU VISIT MAHSA DENTAL CAMPUS to help make up your mind. See for yourself and you can ask the admin people to let you speak to a student then we can really tell you how we feel.

Also, I need to remind you that MAHSA dentistry usually have very full intakes, so I recommend you inquire early and check it out.

And also, we are already accredited by the Malaysian Dental Council (this is the MQA site for accredidation and all of MAHSA's course! CHECK IT OUT!):
http://203.106.19.130/mqr/english/eakrKPLi...m?IDAkrIPTS=236

As you can see, it's stated there we have fulfilled MDC's requirements.

Anyways according to the minsitry of health, they are going to stop private insitutions from opening new dental courses because there are too many dental graduates now. And also, we are the first few college to produce dental graduates with our first batch graduating last year.

I hope this helps clear some doubts.

But I always recommend going to visit all the other universities you are interested in ie. AIMST, Segi, etc. AND COME VISIT MAHSA!

And yes, I have to admit we have heard complains about our nursing students when they go to hospitals for their placements.... But so far, even hospitals have complimented the dental students to be better than some of the new medical doctors. HAHAS I don't mean to be proud, but MAHSA's dental students kick ass. We are also the course in MAHSA to have the prettiest girls But our nursing students memang hopeless. So tell whoever's sister that MAHSA dental students are some of the best, just other people from different courses memang hopeless -.- I heard the nurses even cried in front of patients cause they don't know what to do. BUT DENTISTRY STUDENTS ARE NOT LIKE THAT. Because our dental faculty is very strict. If we screw up, we have to face consequences.

But did you know our Pharmacy course is an external (2+2) UK Nottingham course and Physiotherapy is from Northumbria? Meaning if you graduate, you get their degree and you degree is therefore more recognised??

So if I were you, I would also consider Pharmacy, then I get to school in the UK for the same price also HAHA.

Anyways, hope this clear some doubts.

Don't worry, I don't work for MAHSA or help promote them. I just wanna clear the name of MAHSA's dental students from all the horrible rumours. School pride!

Our entry requirements have been increased because of more students applying... So be sure to check that out too.

But like I said, go check out other schools because that will help yourself decide better.

Good luck with your future!

PS: Like the guy mentioned above, there will be a lot of things to complain about in MAHSA ie. no parking at the medical campus, no good food, last minute changes. BUT BUT BUT you'll meet amazing classmates (LIKE US) and our lecturers SAYANG us a lot hahahas cause the dental school is a very close group. So our lecturers really care for us (like in highschool) and it is very personal

So you will complain, you might suffer, but when you go through it, you'll go through it with friends and awesome lecturers. And when you graduate and get a good job, you'll just laugh at all the sufferings and remember the good times

This post has been edited by underneohybrid: Jun 4 2013, 06:12 PM