Yeap I'm a scholarship holder. I heard this year is quite limited, because the scholarship holders who started their foundation last year in UCSI is also competing for the place in med school with my A Levels batch. Which brings me to get to know more about how Taylors run their medical school.

definitely...most still only want aaa (seems they haven't clued on to the a* yet)....

some people who gets aaa will be from maybe the 85%, and with an atar of 85, you will be prevented from even applying....but you will have a decent shot with aaa......they can't tell the difference between the atar85 and atar99 aaa's........

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Added on March 23, 2012, 12:25 amit's amazing how any med school can 'guarantee' admission.....

but this is bodohland, so anything goes....

many scholars earmarked for overseas 'did not fly', but get placements in ipts......so i supposed it's a formality.....even if ucsi and taylors are full, there's still aimst, mahsa, masterskill, allianze, cucms, even lincoln......

This post has been edited by limeuu: Mar 23 2012, 12:26 AM

Hi all. I just got my SPM results yesterday and am a January intake A-Levels student. I am very very interested in studying Medicine, but due to financial restrictions, I don't think I will be able to study Medicine in the UK if I don't get a scholarship (which reminds me, hardly any scholarships provide medicine). But I'm also hoping to be able to get in NUS..

So, I'd like to ask whether there are any students here from IMU, PMC, PUGSOM or NUMed? These are the universities I'm considering if I'll be doing my degree in Malaysia. For students of any of these universities, I would greatly appreciate it if I could get a reply from you all..

1. Are you satisfied with the teaching method (Pre-Clinical and Clinical) ?
2. Overall student experience?
3. Will it be good choice for me to do a twinning programme with IMU?
4. How's clinical years in Malaysia?
5. I know this is a weird question, do you get to practice on cadavers? I heard you don't get to in IMU..

LOL, I know there's a lot of questions, but it'll be great if you could share some of your experience with me. =)

This post has been edited by ltvl0929: Mar 23 2012, 12:39 AM

I raged before about this matter. I was sponsored to do A-Levels which to my guess initially I was to be sent overseas, but the first day I started, they told me that I'm going to my undergraduate studies here locally. That was then, I guess now I'm okay with it. BUT if they are to send me to other ipts's then its going to be a rage festival again. You have any opinions about Taylors?

many 'did not fly' not because jpa/mara retracted their offers.....but because they failed to qualify for a place in uk/oz for direct entry...

taylor's pms programme is dying......but i suppose their local programme cannot be any worse than say, lincoln....

Im a NUMed student

1. Yes. They have many good lecturers from UK, Singapore and Malaysia. Btw, dont underestimated Malaysian lecturer, as in my opinion, there can actually perform just the same or even better than the UK counterpart
2. Not bad. But its more of the location as it is pretty far from the city compare to other uni e.g UM. But since you still in SPM, there would be probably more social life if you decided to come here.
4. 5 years in Malaysia. But you can go to UK for intercalation.
5. No. We used video for anatomy. This practices is similar to UK.

Btw, if I were you, I would concentrate on A-level/IB/MUFY etc. How about you do your best and maybe get a scholarship in the process. Oh I forgot, do apply to JPA/MARA/IPTS scholarship as they might sponsor you to oversea if you do well enough.

LoL... whaaat??

You guys need some of this to really appreciate anatomy~



This post has been edited by CyberSetan: Mar 23 2012, 01:23 AM

How many students in your batch n what is the allowed number of students a year? Does JPA sent students there?

Hi! Thanks a lot for your reply.

Yeah, am concentrating for my A-Levels now. That's what I was thinking of, getting scholarship to do medicine overseas, but since there are not many scholarships that offer medicine, I'm doing some research on local institutes to prepare myself. My parents advised me to do my degree locally and then specialise overseas. What is the number of students studying in the same year as you now between? =)

How do you plan to specialise overseas? You will need to ensure that your medical degree is recognized first in the overseas country.

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Added on March 23, 2012, 8:46 pmI really think this thread should be pinned, with a guide by seniors like limeuu, so that aspiring medical students (and their parents) understand the course and the profession better.

This post has been edited by podrunner: Mar 23 2012, 08:46 PM

When I choose a university, of course I will choose one that offers the degree that is recognized by the country I plan to further my studies in. But I'm still unsure about the overall path. Still finding out. Heh. =)

Ok, let me help you a little with the "finding out" process. Read up all limeuu's posts in this thread.
I am writing from experience.

Wow. Ok. Haha. Are you a medicine student now? Between, I'm applying for hospital attachment now, thinking of which government hospital to go to. Haha.

No, not a medical student, but I have a "vested" interest.

Ah. I see! =)
Thanks for the advice anyway. =D

I know. Some student actually express this exact statement. But the only country I know which have many supply of cadaver is India. Then again, I think many countries in the world (UK,USA,Singapore, etc.) dont have access to cadaver but they produce world class graduate. But Im not saying like we are good or anything as you guys probably have an advantage

But I'm hoping the hospital will allowed access of medical student in mortuary (3rd-5th year) so at least we can prepare ourself early.

I think there is only 60 of us as there is no advertisement etc. for our university last year. There is no JPA student in our batch yet.

From what I heard, there is more student coming next year. Anyway, our university have open day around February so if you have time you can visit us and talk personally to student around the campus. This year there is a lot of person with SPM visting and many ask about medicine and stuff that we do.

UniMelb and Monash Clayton both use cadavers in their medical program.

regarding the research u doing,how u approach the people in charge?

if the research get published,do u hav the chance to be listed as author or contributor?

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Added on March 23, 2012, 11:34 pmall ireland uni use cadevar as well

This post has been edited by whyyyyy: Mar 23 2012, 11:34 PM

Are you inIreland? which Uni?

nope heard from my friends
there are 10 students per group to dissect a body
before dissecting,they need to meet wit family member of the cadevar and have some talk
i think it is really good

actually a lot western uni like US and UK use cadever to teach anatomy
usually the cadevar is from something like organ donation for education