Ah....the fungus infested hospital....i presume all defects have been corrected, and it is now a fully functional hospital.....

i thought somebody is supposed to build a private hospital next to numed for clinical training?.....is that still on?.....

as a branch campus of newcastle, and if the degree is expected to be on par with newcastle uk, and recognised by gmc, it is expected that the programme should be exactly the same, and the selection and testing criteria should also be the same....

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Added on December 18, 2011, 2:08 pmcyber, at least he has the right attitude of willingness to acknowledge his own shortcomings (noting his med school) and to work hard during the housemanship.....

hmm, which online store is that? do share do share =D

Year 1 will be lots of histo and probably anat as well. (depending on the syllabus) so I guess those are essential. Patho is a must have, that's what I think. but these days I'm reading off lecture notes for subjects like physio and patho. It depends, if you have good lecturers + notes, then you'll be pretty much ok. Tortora/marieb is always recommended in 1 st year but I wouldn't really get it honestly speaking. I have a marieb and I don't use it at all now.

Ah thanks That's comforting. I thought it's going to be ATAR-like (e.g 95% and above to be even considered).

Btw a friend was rejected by IMU PMS but offered a place by Monash Sunway. Strange...

Hey, best Monash MBBS student last year was from Sunway Campus
http://www.monash.edu.my/advancement/marke...ions-Shaun.html

yeah, it depends on how you value it. If ranking and job security comes in, even the 1.5x is worth it =) everyone values things differently. Number of uni offering med in australia is getting less and less, so no surprise those existing ones will jack up the fees, esp the famous ones.

Honestly speaking, I've seen a big difference in attitude btwn msian doctors and aus doctors. Even aus grad doctors make a difference. I shouldn't say much about where or what they specialize in, but I do feel that majority of the doctors here are just rushing to get you out of the room, and don't give a crap about patient's feelings. Of course I might be generalising here as I've seen about 4 msian doctors/specialist here, and comparing it with a few GP in aus and a few aus grad specialist in msia. I know I might not be in the position to say so, but we're taught to communicate well, and be patient centred, and I just don't see much of the doctors here doing that well. Recently encountered such bad attitude, if she wasn't in such high position, I would have just took my relative and got out of the room. Why? Let's just say she looked down on my relative because she didn't have much education, bad communication as in using harsh tone, and don't give a crap about patients feelings, and many more that I don't wanna specify. It's just sad.

Not too sure about IPTA, but in my former uni, they taught us behavioural science, which IMHO can't really be applied in real situations. Either that or they didn't really taught me well enough so I know how to use so. I'm pretty sure comm skills and ethics are stressed at some point in every curriculum, I guess it all comes down to individuals. Like I said, I might be generalizing and I do apologize. But seeing such injustice to patients just made me sad.

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. =)

LoL... whaaat?? 

You guys need some of this to really appreciate anatomy~

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? =)

there has always been a few who have problems, even in the past.....

there is no statistics now, but a few years ago, the moh quoted a figure of 15% or so who were having problems.....whether this figure has gone up, nobody knows, but anecdotal accounts from consultants supervising them gave figures like a quarter to a third fresh housemans have problems fitting into the system.....the consultants were told to 'retrain' them.....ie, do what medical schools should have done in the first place....

they can't get a proper history, can't make sensible working diagnosis, have no experience in simple procedures, display very poor basic medical knowledge, etc....

michelle au described a typical medical student environment in the us....where students are exposed to a fair bit of hands on work.....in some countries, they graduate with very little clinical experience.....everything is theoretical.....