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If the oz dollar continues to rise.... like now.... then there'll be a significant difference. The same applies to the pound sterling.

but this is opposed to one forumer by the name of optiplex commenting that the difference is only 80K. between twinning and full training overseas. he did mention, that the particular student that did full training there had to work during weekends and holidays, so its not a real comparison. as the money he earned paid for living expenses. its alot of money saved on that end.

could go up to 1 million depending on what city you are in. some people claim going to melbourne U could be as expensive as 800 to 900K. but it depends on your extra cost. do you club and spend alot of money shopping. maintaining a car etc.

Yup, IMU's PMS programme is by far the best private medical programme in Malaysia. However, it costs a bomb and the students don't actually save much when compared to their counterparts doing full course at the respective universities which they are twinned to.

As limeuu said, Trinity does not give an ENTER score.

Their marks are by percentage. You must have meant a 98% average which is of course quite hard to achieve. Assuming you take 4 subjects, you can only lose 8 marks for a 98% average. Also, marks are not scaled, unlike VCE or SAM. This means that if no matter how well/how terrible the cohort did, the marks will still be the same.

Most people I know had their average pulled down because of English (which is 70% literature and 30% drama).
They will usually get a mark in the low 90s for English and make it up by getting 98-100% for maths/chem etc.

the foundation is for uni entry, not just for medicine lah......

in any case, language is a generic skill, useful in any course/profession.......

oz uni emphasise a lot on being broadly trained, with broad interests.......which is why a quarter of the most courses is actually electives, which can be anything......

so nothing wrong with medical students taking electives in the classics, or drama, or music etc.....and nothing wrong with would be medical students doing literature.......

If not mistaken, there are about 100 plus seats for local MBBS programme in IMU per intake. Therefore, 50 is like 50% passing rate, which is tight IMO.

Alright, thanks for sharing.  The system is surprisingly complicated 
Yup, IPTSs in Malaysia have reputation of taking large number of students and filter them along the way. My batch had 150 students in first year, but 60+ of them were filtered out by the time we entered clinical phase. Therefore out of the current 139 in my batch, only 80+ are of original batch. Passing rate for final MBBS in my school is always somewhere between 80-85%, as compared to IPTA's 90-95%.

Surprisingly, LAN has very strict criteria for IPTSs, especially those foreign owned ones. If graduates from certain IPTS are not up to par, that particular IPTS risk losing its recognition.

And this is the rebuttal article written not long after the first: 吳名氏‧醫生素質與128事件無關 | 評論
Something about getting into medical school depends not only on brains but other criteria as well. And also stating that the 128 students were offered to do medicine elsewhere other than local uni.

Has anyone read Sinchew paper recently? Have a look at this: 吳名‧醫生的素質問題 | 評論 I'm sorry it's in Chinese. Would be glad if anyone can properly translate it. Or else use the goole translator....

Correct me if I'm wrong, since I myself is not Chinese-educated. My friend roughly translated the article orally. Although it's a bit racist, it's roughly about 7 final year Chinese medical students at University of Malaya (UM) who failed their final MBBS exam and has to undergo supplementary semester. For your information, this is the first ever failure of Chinese final year medical students which has never happened before. Incidentally, this was also the first batch of students with non-bumi matriculation students. Tho anonymous author blamed the system for denying the 128 STPM 4.0 students (the 2004 incident) from getting a place in the local university medical schools and stated that this would have never happened if the 128 STPM students were accepted in the first place.

And this is the rebuttal article written not long after the first: 吳名氏‧醫生素質與128事件無關 | 評論
Something about getting into medical school depends not only on brains but other criteria as well. And also stating that the 128 students were offered to do medicine elsewhere other than local uni.

These articles have sparked outcries from one of the junior batches, with most from matriculation disageeing with the first article. Those from STPM, who are the minority, did not participate although there was a general consensus of agreement with the first article. In other words, the age-old debate about STPM vs Matriculation has started all over again.

Being from STPM myself, I can't help but to be more inclined towards the first article, although I still think that we should not generalize things. So guys. what's your take on this?

Yep, are you SPM or STPM? If SPM, please do A-level before going elsewhere. If STPM etc., if will be tough to cope with Medicine.

China also have very competitive placing but I think its not depend as much on the person but the equipment, lecturer and method of teaching.

Imho, charging rm 30 for consultation fee is not much, medical doctors worked REALLY REALLY HARD before they could sit on the chair consulting patient. If I couldnt even charge rm 30 in private practice after studying 5 years in med school, work in hosp for 15 years, I dont think I could take it. With my salary I couldnt afford to send my children to med school.
For doctors salary, I think the working hours per week counts as well. And yes I agreeee to the max that medicine is still a profession or industry for whatever you want to call it, and doctors are just normal humans, they need to earn a living too, with such hard work, i think they deserve more, and there's nothing wrong with it.