I think you are getting sleepy. Your sentence structure is seriously sucking.
Again, you are assuming. Maybe you should just stick to your Samy Vellu bashing seeing as that is your only ammo.

Till the day we get bad press about the way studies are conducted OR if any of our graduates made a boo-boo in his respective field, then we may continue this conversation. Till you see results(or lack of it), then you judge.

I feel it is pointless for you to argue with me about the credibility of my lecturers. But because I missed out on a few things when I talked about my colourful lecturers from my faculty: My dean himself was the dean of the school of dentistry of Hong Kong University. He helped set up the school of dentistry there alongside the help of his assistant dean back then who also transferred over here to join him. Before that, he was the dean at The London Hospital dental School. We've got an Indonesian professor on board, a chinese ex-NUS lecturer who is teaching us orthodontics, two malay dental tech lecturers, two indian clinical lecturers, a Malay lady who is a retiree from the Ministry Of Oral health and is currently our Dental Public Health lecturer, one indian local anesthesia lecturer and a few others who are taking care of the other years. Oh, and two white lecturers who have beautiful resumes who are our Oral Physiology/Biochemistry lecturer and our Oral Microanatomy lecturer.

Please say the word Indian again.

Also, are you clear about the way I study? Are you sure that the only way I study is by memorizing? Maybe I need to take a photo of all the books I bought in my room that I refer to when I use my slides as headlines. Don't judge me if you don't know my studying style.
.... ok, I don't think I've got alzheimers and I've only sat for my last yr3 final paper like three weeks ago. I clearly remember that I only had to write my ID Number, the date and the subject of the paper. My dear, please get your facts right before laughing.

Hey, how come only she gets replied! I'm STILL waiting for mine.

Spoon feeding? I think that happens in most parts of Asia. BUT, mind you we have PBL. Lots and lots of PBL. Half of our dental lecturers are Brits, so we do get the best of both worlds. And it's the clinical phase which will really determine how good you are.

And come on, the ID system is for confidentiality and official purposes. As professionals, would discriminating do any good to any party? I don't think so. It's not that the lecturer will win what, more votes? i.e. there's no reason for discrimination at university levels (I don't know about IPTAs tho). Besides, 80% of my batchmates are Chinese. And everyone is doing fairly fine.

Speaking of discrimination, aren't you a Malaysian? Get used to it.

Isn't it obvious that you're now turning to English. Running dry on Google-facts? Whatever happened to Sami Vellu lol...

Anyway, maybe you like facts. Here's our dean. Try this: http://www.nature.com/bdj/journal/v186/n4/full/4800050a.html if it means anything at all.

Sorry for not answering your 2nd last post previously.

I did not want to answer because I felt it was unnecessary to condemn the indian medical standards and further cause racial tensions.

There's been a whole lot of cases happening in the world recently.Haven't you heard?

Recently an indian surgeon in the US operated on a patient's wrong lung?
http://www.expressindia.com/latest-news/In...ng-lung/328213/

Have you heard of Dr. Death from Australia who was responsible for the lives of 17 people with his wrong diagnosis?

Have you heard of organ selling trades?

There you go..for the reasons I lost trust in Indian medical standards.

edge85, which course r u in? Medic or dentistry? 80% chinese? that's nice...i feel dat aimst's students r nice, we dont c colourful heads everywhere like in other colleges n uni. They never ponteng BUT the lecturers to ponteng very much.............they suka suka cancel class n then din even gif us a good reason for that. N when they replace classes, they never check whether the classroom is available or not. Juz ask us go there n then we kena kicked out bcz there's other ppl using it. Then we hav 2 go bec 2 our hostel...dam wasting time la....i hope da degree lecturers are not like that...

i'm thinking of changing to manipal. I heard da t aimst's foundation cert is accepted byu manipal n i can go there for my degree. Is dat true?

oic...i'm also planning to take up dentistry after my foundation. So how's da course? is it ok? lecturers ok ? I was talking to a dentistry 1st yr student d other day. She said most of the lecturers r britons?? n she told me her yr not much frm foundation. Mostly are frm stpm or a-levels. I really hope nobody frm foundation wanna take up dentistry nex yr then i dnt hav to compete for a place...muahahahaha....

i got a question tho...if those who took up foundation n then cant get into the degree courses then how? there r arnd 600 students in dis yr's foundation n there's only 120places for medic, 60 for dentistry, 60 for pharmacy n dunno how much for biotech. So the remaining who cant get a place where do they go ??? i'm really curious lol....

And, is da foundation exam hard? my lecturers make it sounds soooo hard...i'm starting to worry now...T.T

200 for medic starting next year, 50 for BDS, 50 for pharm and unlimited for biotech. But places will be increased, just that we're not sure when. You know aimst. Haha.

And no worries of not getting into the degree programmes as long as you've fulfilled the minimum requirement, 215 for medic, 195 for dent and 175 for pharm if i've not remembered wrongly. Just that you need to compete for the earliest intake, else you'll be placed on the waiting list which you need to wait for a year for the next intake. And every year, though there are many foundation students, to be true many did not come back for aimst's degree programme. Reasons being not qualified, ran to other unis or repeating the foundation programme. Like my batch, April 06/07. Out of 240 students, only 50+ came back for medic, around 15+ for dent and 30+ for pharm. So no worries on not getting a place, just study hard, get your results and your place will be secured for sure.

Foundation exam is not tough if compared to STPM, A levels etc, what we always do during our time was last minute studies. Find it really effective but pls, don't learn. Still, have lotsa fun during your foundation, things will be no longer the same when you come to degree. Haha. Well, just follow the lecture notes, do abit of practices esp on chem and maths, you will definitely have no problem in scoring even an A+ for the final examination. Don't make it tough for yourself, trust your ability and don't listen to how the lecturer scares you. Believe in yourself. =)

No wonder people say our foundation intake is dubious. Last minute studying also can get thru.

My sentence structure sucking and how does it not sound nice to you? You're the one who started comparing the life of cats

For once I agree about not arguing with you about your lecturers accomplishments.Most universities would have a dean in their respective academic departments with impressive track records. Appreciate the effort in detailed breakdown of your dentistry academic department up there but how about the medical/surgery dept.?

Tell me if MIC is not the main fund raiser for your university then where did they get their funds from?

About your way of studying who dares question your method?Read carefully again what I've said.I did not refer nor I said it was your method of studying directly in my last post.I said "if" you can manage passes by just depending entirely on lectures it makes the situation no different than spoon feeding.Got it?
You really need sleep, the impulsive temper is deterring you from debating with openly with me with a clear state of mind.

I'm not questioning your memory or anything but when you have requirements like referring students with ID only makes it seems like something amidst.It's not without flaws though.What makes you think that your student database is secure enough not for them to do look-ups?

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Added on July 14, 2008, 4:24 am

Sorry for not answering your 2nd last post previously.

I did not want to answer because I felt it was unnecessary to condemn the indian medical standards and further cause racial tensions.

There's been a whole lot of cases happening in the world recently.Haven't you heard?

Recently an indian surgeon in the US operated on a patient's wrong lung?
http://www.expressindia.com/latest-news/In...ng-lung/328213/

Have you heard of Dr. Death from Australia who was responsible for the lives of 17 people with his wrong diagnosis?

Have you heard of organ selling trades?

There you go..for the reasons I lost trust in Indian medical standards.