I think there is a need to open up a new thread regarding Cyberjaya University College of Medical Sciences (CUCMS).

CUCMS website:
http://www.cybermed.edu.my

Courses Offered:

Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery (MBBS)

Bachelor of Pharmacy (Hons)

Bachelor of Homeopathic Medicine(Traditional medicine)

Diploma of paramedical science

Foundation in science (Medicine/Pharmacy)

Welcome to all CUCMS-ians And Non-CUCMS-ians to join this thread!

Please generously give your constructive comments or criticism with solid evidences and proves.

Any information inquiries can be done here. I will try to answer any questions you want to know if I able to do so.

Uni description:

Cyberjaya University College of Medical Sciences (CUCMS) was founded in line with Malaysian government's aspiration to further improve the healthcare of Malaysians through state-of-the-art educational technology and training in medical sciences. CUCMS was established officially on 23rd October 2005 under the Private Higher Education Act 1966.

Its core mission is to serve the people of the nation through national distinction in health sciences education, research, public service and clinical care.

The establishment of CUCMS is also to close the gap between ready-supply of qualified high achieving students against limited placements available in higher learning institutions for medical and pharmacy students. As reported in the News Straits Times, 22 February 2005, Malaysia was in need of an additional of 3,300 doctors, 700 specialists, 600 pharmacists, 500 dentists and 130,000 nurses.

The name for the medical college takes advantage of Malaysia’s first truly intelligent city and the international image of the selected township of its location, Cyberjaya.

CUCMS seeks to be a university of international standing and a leading medical institution in the region.



The Philosophy,



To harness human potentials in a comprehensive manner to produce holistic health care providers who are intellectually, emotionally and spiritually-balanced.



Our Vision
We aspire to be a distinctive medical sciences institution of higher learning of international repute producing competent health care professionals.


Our Mission

* To expand opportunities in training and education in the highly competitive world of health care industry for both national and global demand.
* To train and educate professional who are imbued with the qualities expected of caring professionals.
* To provide training and education in specialized niche areas in the health care profession.
* To generate new knowledge in innovation through research and development activities pertaining to the needs of the health care industry.

Strategic Objectives

* To train students to be compassionate and skilled health care providers.
* To be innovative in the training and teaching of HCP through appropriate technology.
* To promote the healthy lifestyle in the community.
* To advance the professional and personal development of students and faculty.

This post has been edited by MBBS siang: Mar 14 2010, 01:35 PM

These are the photo of registration and oath taking for 09/10 session MBBS and Bpharm students.


This post has been edited by MBBS siang: Mar 13 2010, 12:22 PM


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Thank you. All the cucms-ians! Please register your account name here. I am going to list down.

CUCMS-ians:

MBBS Siang

damien_snow

Ousiris

hnavalan

RyuKageX

This post has been edited by MBBS siang: Mar 31 2010, 12:14 AM

All our program here are approved by MOHE. For the Bpahrm, our degree had been granted with provisional recognition by malaysian pharmacy board because our pioneer batch bpharm students had been graduated and will be fully recognized when they finish their service.

The professional courses like Pharmacy,Medicine, and dentistry as well as engineering will only accredited by MQA once they are fully recognized by respective authority like MMC for medicine. All of our courses here had been approved by MOHE. It is unlikely for a critical course like Pharmacy to be continued without approval by the MOHE for 5 years.

The main purpose of MQA(LAN) is served as a recognition agency for most of the program in any university. Since the professional courses have their own recognition agency, MQA doesn't play a very significant role in recognition for those qualification. Therefore, the professional qualification will only accredited by MQA after they obtain the full recognition from their own recognition agency.

The recognition again is not an issue in any local medical school.

This post has been edited by MBBS siang: Mar 14 2010, 11:48 AM

Thanks for reminding dear senior

Haha! True also lah!

Basically, I am a STPM leaver. Some of my friends are from foundation. Yea. You need to attend the interview. The interview is actually a way that CUCMS assess a candidate from the aspect of personality and maturation. If they ask you a question like 'what is your vision in future 20 years after become a doctor?'. One of my friend answer, I will have a stable monthly salary with higher social status then other profession as well as possess the ability to give my parents a good life. This kind of answer will definitely fail you.

One of my classmate told me,last time when the interviewer ask him why do you want to be a doctor. His answer is because he want to help people,then the interviewer straightaway bombard him and say not only doctor able to help people. My advice is don't simply answer even though that may be true to you.

They will inform you if you are academically qualified.

Only one day is required. So, don't worry!

This is truth but not sure why he was failed!

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Added on March 15, 2010, 3:51 pmThis is truth but seem like very selfish. Everyone have their own choice for the life but for a doctor wannabe shouldn't have this kind of self-centered mindset even before they become a medical students. Interviewers like honest answer but they expect the answer should be more than own living part.

As a future doctor,some necessary sacrifice is needed. If you already have a selfish mindset even before you enter medical school,then what happen when you become a doctor .

This post has been edited by MBBS siang: Mar 15 2010, 05:06 PM

Btw, I never say we should sacrifice anything just to help people but at least you can't only keep this mindset. His answer is too self-centered. That is what I mean

Answer your question with mature thinking. They may ask some opinion about current issues from you. You will require to write an essay about why do you want to be a doctor. Be calm, be mature. In CUCMS, our interview is not just an procedure because our interviewer treat this procedure seriously as a selection method. Buck up!

SUre Senior! Thanks for joining!

Our university had signed the MOU with both ministry of health and ministry of defense. So, we can use military hospital as teaching hospital. Our university encourage volunteerism, so military medicine and disaster and relieve medicine is one of our curricular as preparation for us to react appropriately during war or natural disaster as well as volunteer our country to help the victims in other country.

No worry, you don't have to serve military hospital. You can graduate as usual and undergo housemanship as normal medical graduate. Teaching military medicine is our advantage and one of the strength. The teaching hospital we are using now are hospital putrajaya, sepang medical center, hospital an-nur, hospital kuala lumpur( psychiatry),terendak military medicine, lumut navy hospital, serdang hospital and any other hospital in selangor.

Most definitely. However, MINDEF scholarship doesn't offer the local private medical school. They only grant the scholarship for medical student in IPTA and foreign medical school that recognized by MMC and JPA.

What language do you expect dude?

I suggest you mentally prepare and answer honestly and please don't try to predict what question will be asked. Answer the question spontaneously with mature thinking. Interview is not only an selection procedure but it serve as a way for you to ensure whether you are suitable to enter medical school or not.

Remember,don't lie! Answer honestly.Good luck

This post has been edited by MBBS siang: Apr 2 2010, 09:43 AM

I don't really understand what you are trying to say here??? Don't you think is good that alternative traditional medicine may take over some role of conventional medicine when the limitation of conventional medicine could be overcome by traditional medicine?

May I know what do you think as a medical doctor, about the traditional medicine with proper management? I think provide such traditional medicine course to produce competent traditional medicine practitioner is an good idea isn't it?

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Added on May 3, 2010, 7:51 pmI also go through all this. Serious shit

This post has been edited by MBBS siang: May 3 2010, 07:51 PM

Oh I see. Thank you for the information.

Sure sure. I want to know also.According to them, the homeopathic treatment is quite effective but I don't really know what is the mechanism of action for the treatment.

Actually,I can't see the logic behind this kind of treatment. Sometime,I did feel their theory a bit ridiculous.

What do you think about chinese traditional medicine? Is that a good alternative medicine in solving some of the limitation of conventional medicine?

This post has been edited by MBBS siang: May 3 2010, 11:09 PM

We have quite a strong academic team especially the clinician here. Like Prof Abdul Latif, Assoc Prof Ikram, Prof Rashid and so on. According to some clinical seniors in our uni,there is no complains about the teaching quality. Most of the Prof here are come from reputable IPTA like UM,UKM,UPM example Assoc Prof DR Khin, Prof Dr Hamdan(Oxford Phd), Prof Hatta and etc. For Pre-clinical year,there is no problems about the teaching and it's all depends on the passion of learning from the students.

The decision is totally up to you. There is no need for any one of CUCMS-ian here to encourage you to enter. I feel insulted when you ask CUCMS-ian to encourage you to enter CUCMS. There is no need for us to do that! The differences of our UNI are clearly stated in the website and all the info of the website is up to date and true. So,make your own decision.

Yea. For PTPTN,there is no need to worry. The student affair will guide us for this. Definitely will get RM150k and this is the promise of PTPTN to our MBBS students.

This post has been edited by MBBS siang: May 14 2010, 04:56 PM