Hey guys. Curious , anyone took the mmc examination?

No , its not like that. I just wanna know more about the mmc examination. I;ve got a few seniors who scored straight a and they are pursuing medicine in russia/romania/cuba. As far as i know cuba and romania are listed under the mmc board. But yes , i know its not advice to study at a uni which is approved by the board.

Easier to pass? That im not sure.
The price in romania is about 180k.
Qualification is secondary , The b4 rule still apply. But you know malaysia , i know people who obtained 2c (admath bio) doing med. Anything is possible

Mostly people do @ europe so that they can work in EU i guess.
Finally , someone answered my question without crap.
Wgy , you doing medic too? where? and whats USMLE?
Probably the unrecognized uni is the international passport to get out of MY and work elsewhere?

My most sincere salutations to everyone.

Can i know what are the differences between "MD" and "MBBS" ?

Well im a future medical student . Currently doing my foundation in science.

My agent has opened me to bangladesh (mbbs) indon (md ) and russia .

I dont think i'll be going to russia. My cousins there are suffering to learn their language.

Im curious , are there any graduates from bangladesh? (Im sorry if this sounds dumb , but its my first time hearing about b'desh)

Thanks in advance

cygoh9 - Is it the one which MS Mohamad wrote? Well im still up for medic

zstan - Yes im aware of the difference in that term. Is there more towards it. I rang up the mmc today. Bdesh indon and russia . All three are listed so hence i can practice medicine here without sitting for the exam. Apparently there are a lot of graduates from bdesh and (usu-indon) thats what the dr from the mmc department told me.

This post has been edited by NatBass: May 19 2010, 03:47 AM

=_= Funny? lol.


StarGhazzer - Thanks for the link. Yup the uni's that im looking into are recognized

zstan - What course are you doing? im sure that you arent doing medicine right "

these things are very political. Well its true what they say . In malaysia , its about your contacts , you survive if you know bigshots. I know 2 students doing medicine in bangladesh. 1 arts strm and another one science. The science girl just obtain all D in spm. Rich family. They told me classes are conducted in bengali , exams are held in english. so in other words they study from their text book and answer exams. it doesnt make a difference if they attend class or not. After passing the whole degree just come back and show mmc its a degree from a recognize uni and start working

Anyways - Seniors , im sure you'd heard of mantoux test right. 10mm is the normal reading for a person with tb negative? So anything more then 10mm is positive? how do one confirm that he/she has tb? besides chest x-ray? im sure mantoux test can go false-positive due to BGC injection and the air you breathe?

would it make a difference if the doctor didnt wait for 48-72hours before analyzing the mantoux test?
It can be detected by ESR too right? if im not mistaken for males in general the esr reading is 10< female 20 < ? and in general if you have an active lung infection the level of haemoglobin is lower compared to normal , no?
Speaking about pulmonary TB here.

Dont get me wrong , im not trying to be a pain in the butt here , its just that a cousin of mine was suppose to go to australia this friday and unfortunatey we found out that he had active lung infection. I followed him around during my free time , we had like 4 opinions. 2 gp said he had nothing and perfectly fine. 2more said otherwise. Today he went to umsc , to get a respiratory professors final confirmation. He has to go for CT-scan later in the morning. No symptoms of tb are shown. No weight loss or whatsoever. I'll try to post up the pictures of the x-ray once i get a hold of it for the fun of it
I've heard of stories like the medication of tb last for 4-9 months and side effects are insane. Liver failure , jaundice and so on?




Cyber - thanks for being so proactive and posting up a picture. I cant wait for my time in med school

This post has been edited by NatBass: Feb 22 2011, 03:42 AM

He did an x-ray first. Then mantoux test. It was blistering , doctor did an ESR , his reading was 12. Low lvl of haemoglobin. Today they did the ct-scan to finalize. endobronchial tuberculosis was the conclusion of the ct-scan. He is on Forecox-trac and vitamin B. 4 pills of antiB and 1VitB in the morning , daily. hah 5 tablets per day , wow? 6months he has to undergo medications. ah i finally got a hang of the x-ray. will try to get a decent picture of it with the reports. Does intravenous therapy works faster? Btw he has no main symptoms. No weight loss , no cough , no constant fever.

Quantiferon-TB gold assay - read about it on wiki. Aha , i've not heard anyone speak about this until now. Impressive.

add on : Ct-scan said that there was a tree-in-bud sign
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hY0uMduI8I8

So i guess the tb bacteria isnt active since no symptoms are shown?

This post has been edited by NatBass: Feb 23 2011, 04:07 AM

Nah , his parents didnt allow him. Anyhow there is a 2nd batch going sometime 10th march. If they can see improvement by then , he might go probably. I saw him today , he is on his first day of medications today. Colour of urine turned to orange in the morning. Towards the end of the day the colour was becoming lighter. He had massive diarrhoea , After consuming food. I think after 10-15mins he has to go to the toilet. Poor guy , i feel so irritated looking at him. A healthy lad indeed , idk how he got exposed. I think the medications are very strong. he is often dehydrated . (all this after consuming the medications) i guess his kidneys are really filtering/removing some massive stuff here. A family doctor asked him to get a medicine/supplement called transfer factor. It is to boost up your immune system , according to him he has seen massive changes of his patients

sweat and tears may also turn orange? hah word.

nop im not exposed. did an x-ray already.

He is eating a lot of proper food now , trying to improve his immune system and taking transfer factor tablets as well. hope all goes well. how do i copy and paste stuff? i got the ct-scan disc.

India has 52 medical school which malaysia recognize. But everyones keep going to manipal. I dont see any agent selling the rest of these med schools. Heh and cucm is recognized now? wow

Hey there , any good anatomy book for recommendation? im using Netter for now. Has anyone heard about chaurasia anatomy?

And do you know where can i purchase skull back in malaysia? i need it to refresh my memory. The skull has tons of names.

Thanks in advance

Anatomical models would be better

Okay i was told that mmc has approved us (foreign studying) students to do our practicals back home? How does the procedure go about?

Nop , im not speaking about housemanship. Practicals prior to graduating. Like last time people from indon/russia did their practical lessons during their break back at malaysia and a few years later MMC said that one should do their practical lesson at the place where he/she is studying right? So yeah today our president said that its official that we get to do our practicals back at home. Thats what i meant

http://mmc.gov.my/v1/docs/MINIMUM%20CRITERIA%20V2.pdf

Okay i just saw this. They are saying that as of April 12 if anyone desires to enter med school must have a minimum of 5B in spm ( add math chem bio phy and math ) 3.0 > in foundation and so on right.

So for those who joined med school before april 12 goes by the old ruling of 5credits , 3.0 and recognized uni?

And i got a friend which is leaving to indon soon. Sometime aug (which is after april 12) and he doesnt have the 5b's , but he'd get into a recognized uni by msia. Upon graduating , can he work back home ? he has a recognized degree , or will they still look at his spm even tho he is a doctor that has graduated by their listing. hmm irony much

This post has been edited by NatBass: Jun 3 2011, 07:28 AM

So its a black and white situation where he wont be absorbed by the msian government? There will be alot of issues in the upcoming 6 years. Im sure solely due to money the agent will accept any sort of results and hence those who arent aware of the current happening will get effected. By the way , speaking of those days , my uncle is a arts stream student and now he is a doctor. Doing well. He is in his mid 40's. Medicine isnt some rocket science. Quote from haya " We need all our doctors to be proficient and competent " Is good enough.