it will just dilute the blood and cause hyponatremia. changes in other electrolytes might not be so significant.

not likely in the near future. since they are going to have the 3rd medical school, a collaboration between NTU and Imperial in 2013. Cheers...

http://www.pmo.gov.sg/News/Transcripts/Pri...ical+school.htm

And with Khoo Peck Puat, Jurong General Hospital and a few more private hospitals coming up, their message is clear, they need more specialists and doctors.

This post has been edited by wgy589: Sep 23 2010, 06:50 PM

And of course the Duke-NUS people who will graduate next year.

This post has been edited by wgy589: Sep 23 2010, 06:52 PM

haha, Imperial is also a top medical institution in the world. it's ranked 11th in thes Life Sciences and Medicine ranking.

http://www.topuniversities.com/university-...nce-biomedicine

and i agree with you, NTU has no experience in medical education, but Singapore MOE need the experience from a local university in managing a tertiary institution, and NTU turned out to be the best choice.

haha, but interesting thing is they can never get the really top medical schools in the world ie Harvard, Johns Hopkins, Cambridge and Oxford to collaborate with them . Duke and Imperial are always below these universities in recognition.

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This post has been edited by wgy589: Sep 25 2010, 08:33 PM

http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=...3748&sec=nation

This is a good news. Johns hopkins hospital is consistently ranked the best in US, to quote wikipedia

the Johns Hopkins Hospital is the birthplace of many medical specialties including neurosurgery, urology, gynecologic pathology, endocrinology, pediatrics, cardiac surgery and child psychiatry. It is widely regarded as one of the world's greatest hospitals.It has been ranked by U.S. News and World Report as the best overall hospital in America for 20 consecutive years.

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similar programs can be found in qatar cornell and singapore duke-NUS.

http://qatar-weill.cornell.edu/

http://www.duke-nus.edu.sg/web/index.php

USMLE is a relatively easy exam compared to medical qualifying exams in other countries and postgrad exams.

one doesn't have to be rich to enter Duke-NUS, as it is highly subsidized by Singapore government and there are several financial assistance available.
However, for Johns Hopkins to be doing the same thing, it needs to get sponsorship from Malaysia government which i think skin colour issue will then come into consideration in the admission process.

so as what rightly and repeatedly pointed out by limeuu, you either need to be rich or of the right skin colour to get into medical school in malaysia (with a few exceptions).

This post has been edited by wgy589: Sep 26 2010, 07:22 PM

If your Uni is in the WHO list, you can definitely sit for USMLE. With excellent result in USMLE you can then try to apply for residency in US. possibility of you getting a famous institution like Johns hopkins is very very low though, especially for super competitive specialties like orthopaedics, eye and ENT. these specialties will usually take home students with very good results or foreign graduates who are already consultants/specialists in their home countries.

This post has been edited by wgy589: Sep 26 2010, 07:54 PM

haha, only hypothesis leh, got evidence to support?

i came across this memory method from a hk drama. it works well for me.

http://litemind.com/memory-palace/
http://litemind.com/improve-memory-speaking-minds-language/

in order to memorise something, we need to understand it. however, there are some facts or numbers that we just have to memorise by heart.

DM will be a good example.

in order to remember the different hypoglycemic agents used in DM type 2, we have to understand that it needs to reduce the blood glucose level and insulin can reduce blood glucose. so the drugs can increase insulin secretion (insulin secretagogues) or increase insulin sensitivity (insulin sensitisers) to reduce the blood glucose. the drugs can also act directly to reduce glucose absorption into the bloodstream (insulin sparers).

so in this case our memory is based on understanding. However, we also need to know the range for impaired glucose tolerance in 2hr oGTT, which is 7.8-11.1 mmol/L (anything below is normal and above is DM)

obviously i can't understand anything to memorise the range 7.8-11.1 So in this case we can relate the numbers to something else.

you can imagine 7 looks like an open jaw from the side, and this is the jaw of a snowman (8), and this snowman is holding 3 candles (111). and this snowman is so fat to have DM. then the numbers 7.8-11.1 can be easily memorised.

U can also put this snowman in a room, and subsequently put other pictures in other rooms. and you can then visit this house full of pictures when you need the figures.

this memorisation method can also make study more interesting. really hope it helps.

yeah, repetition is certainly another important way to get things memorised.

Hi i'm not sure what are the things tested in EOS 5 but this link has lots of relevant websites.

http://forums.studentdoctor.net/showthread.php?t=16494

http://www.acadmed.org.my/index.cfm?&menuid=28
http://www.acadmed.org.my/index.cfm?&menuid=67

like what?

i expected some explanations.

this happened to usmle when oxbridge graduates sat for the same exam as the the 3rd world graduates. but of course there are some differences eg US as a1st world country as compared to Msia, US own graduates also sit for the same exam etc...


of ya, why they never consider implementing the same exam to the local graduates also? this way we can compare the graduates from the different medical schools.

This post has been edited by wgy589: Jan 11 2011, 01:20 PM

hi what course you got? if it's medicine, go for it unless you are planning to work in spore, in which case you should pray to get UM/UKM. : )

if you know chinese, this guy graduated from USM medicine.
http://hookheeliam.blogspot.com/