Oh sorry hypermax and manfye, for the late reply.

AIMST Pharmacy, have got a few mates currently doing the Bachelor of Pharmacy programme. So far as i've heard recognition should not be a problem as the course is already accredited by MQA and waiting to be approved by the Pharmacy Board of Malaysia once the first batch has graduated. They are currently in their 3rd year now. The School of Pharmacy will be taking in the lastest Batch 4 students this September.

Facillities wise, it's excellent as most of the facillities such as the Anatomy Dissection Hall, Multidisciplinary Labs they are sharing with us the medical/dental students. Lecturers wise, if i've not mistaken most are from India but with a mix of locals. Not too sure about that though. You guys can check out the curriculum through our new websites anyways. So far, no complaints from my friends. So i guess it's quite okay.

And manfye, AIMST campus hostels do provide us with a super slow LAN internet connection. LOL. The campus is currently working on a campus wide wireless internet connection though.

semeling dead area...nearest town sungai petani 20km..sp its not a happening area..but ok low living cost

Great place to concentrate and study isn't it? Luscious green valley of Gunung Jerai. Not much entertainment. That's part of the reason they set up a medical school there. LOL. Most of the time, studies are the main activity for students in campus. Haha.

Yes, can online.

Many a time we drive to Penang just for movies....it isn't that far anyway...

working on.... swt..
no internet how to find resources from the internet..
how about the off-campus hostel price? izit cheap?
can i duwan to eat at campus? the cafeteria very dirty (what i heard from my fren)

Read again, THERE IS internet. But should be fast enough to do your assignments. WORKING ON wireless, ie currently it's all wired.

There're no off-campus hostels. Renting a place outside will cost at a minimum of RM100 per room.

Food is included in your hostel fees, so might as well just eat it. Nah, the cafeteria looks fine to me. Just some flies once in a while. The food is edible, but certainly not the best around town.

lol, thxs, im ok already if the internet can use MSN and wikipedia, haha...!
so, renting a place outside is better than campus? is there any nice place to intro?
thxs for telling me so many info, hehe

But it's compulsory for foundation and first year students to pay for hostel fees.

swt , why all universities also like tat one.. - -"

Business tactics. Before u enter AIMST, be prepared with the managements. They can make you vomit blood sometimes.

Off-campus houses commonly stayed by students would be Bandar Laguna Merbok (BLM) and Lagenda Heights. Check em' out. Rental in betw 100-200 per room depending on the location and houses.

For dentistry course,is there any twinning program in AIMST? For the practice on cadavers(dead bodies),do you each have one or you all have to share?

Nope no twinning programme, it's a 5 year local course which you have to do here. We have a dental hospital for clinical training and great facillities for dental students from what i've seen. Let edge85 elaborate on this.

Cadavers, we do use it for Anatomy dissection but sadly no, we do not each have one to dissect on it. Most of the cadavers are parts of bodies which are already properly dissected by the lecturer to show important structures such as nerves, vessels etc. It is usually showed by the lecturers during the dissection period where we are divided into 4 groups, students can choose their own favourite station to reside since they are 4 diff lecturers lecturing at the same time. We are allowed to touch and play with it though. Plus, the Anatomy Dissection Hall is opened to students all the time on weekdays 8 to 5 for study purposes. I guess IMU do not have these kind of facillities. Cadavers are still the best way to learn anatomy, IMHO. =)

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But without the twinning program,means it won't be recognised overseas right? Means cannot work there =.=

You can't say that.

Certain countries such as US does not recognise any degrees in every other part of the world no matter how prestigious the university is, therefore u need to sit for the entrance examination such as USMLE in order to be recognised by them. Therefore for recognition, there are many other pathways to it. Such as entrance examination like USMLE and PLAB for UK.

However, AIMST is a cheaper alternative to health sciences related course such as medicine, dentistry etc. If you have the money, i'd say go for the twinning programme at IMU (around 800k-1mil if done in Aus inclusive of cost of living) or try to do it fully overseas definitely. BUT, you have to be aware that it's very tough to secure a space though unless u have really really great results as health courses are very competitive (med, dent etc) throughout the world.

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In fact, dentistry places are so much more limited if compared to medicine.

This post has been edited by csrulez: Aug 27 2008, 10:56 AM

Wow,the twininng program is that expensive? I didn't know it would almost reach until 1mil O_o. Do you have any idea whether in IMU,can we choose the no. of years we want to go overseas?

Btw,you said in AIMST,there is a dental hospital for clinical training and great facillities for dental students from what you have seen . Means you're not in dentistry? The dental hospital,when do you start your training there?

It's a twinning programme from IMU, that's the fees you should expect. It's a 2.5 years local pre-clinical (RM390k excluding cost of living) plus 2.5-3 years (RM500k excluding cost of living) clinical programme abroad, you have no choice if you choose to twin. It's a curriculum.

No, i'm a medical student. That is why i said i'd let edge85 to eleborate on the dental programme. I've got many friends here in dentistry though, of course i know what facillities they have got.

Dental hospital provide various dental services to patients around this area, and clinical training starts on 3rd year. You need to have hands on practice on patients under close supervision of the lecturers. As for the great facillities, each of them have their own station to work in. FYI, the dental chairs can cost up to 70-80k EACH. There are many more to elaborate on, unless you take a tour here by urself.

Hello Joy:)

You will start your clinicals in the third year. In year1 you will learn all the basic sciences like anatomy, physiology, biochemistry and noob dentistry. basically very very very objective stuff.

Then in Year 2, prepare for sleepless nights because it gets tough. With 6-8 subjects to juggle for your finals, you'll also be doing simulation lab work and learning how to construct dentures and making moulds and etc in the dental technology labaratory. We took nearly half a year to finish making our dentures!

Then in Year 3, you'll be exposed to the clinical environment. At first, you'll practice on each other. Like taking impressions of each others' teeth, scaling and polishing for each other, checking for ulcers in each others' mouth and more. Basically you'll need to practice the non-invasive procedures on each other before attempting it on patients. WHich you will get to have also in your third year. But as the pioneer batch, we'll only see our first patients in Year 4.

In Year 4, will tell you in a years' time what I've gone through. i'm starting my year 4 on the 8th of September!

The dental hospital is to cater to the walk in patients who will be part of our syllabus before we graduate as dentists. In year 4, (DAMN it's this year, now only I realise), the LAN people will be coming for another time(they come every year) to give us our accreditation. Medicine has already received it.

THanks csrulez and jayelleenelial !. I have another question,what's the difference between penang internation college and AIMST for dentistry? I know they twin to india but is it good/recognised?

I've hardly heard of anyone who went for that. Now with IMU opened, less people have been raving about PIDC. But those who might have gone, are probably finishing their final sems in India and would be coming back soon. But if you look around the internet, most people are either planning to come to AIMST and IMU. Aimst, because we are the pioneer private dental school in Malaysia(before this it was only held by UKM, USM, UM) and after 3 years, out came IMU...and the name itself will attract people there. But it's about 100k+++ more expensive than doing dentistry at AIMST.

So think wisely!

Sigh....i see....yeah,price wise,imu is very ex...more ex than medicine. But then with the twining program,you'll be recognised in the UK and can work there also. sigh.....but then 1mil is too much. >.<. How about singapore Uni? How is the price? (singapore very competitive...very difficult to get in i'm sure but i'm just curious )