it's the same for all the private med schools, for all ipts actually, and overseas too, on offer you are expected to pay 1 semester fees upfront to accept......

and obviously they want to know if you can really affort their fees, otherwise no point giving you offer.....

like I said many times, ipts selects the best students from the SMALL group of students with money (scholarship, or rich parents)......and reaching the bottom of the barrel, some with mediocre results and lots of money will get in.......

if i x mistaken pmc is half sponsored by penang government
n they have more jpa n mara scholars than private students
so u don really see them advertise compared to imu

IMU facilities are quite lousy if compared to the rest. Unless you are going for twinning no use going to IMU. So far in Sem1 there is no such test every 2 weeks. Maybe you meant PBL. IMU students study all the times because the lecturers don't really teach, you are left to fend for yourself. Certain batches of IMU students are a joke, they come from the weirdest qualifications and have a hard time catching up even in Sem 1 itself. BTW IMU preference is A-levels > STPM > other qualification > SAM. Means A levels you just need BBC you can enter, while SAM even though the requirement is low, the cut off is not really at 85% unless you are a JPA/MARA scholar. Anyway some of the IMU students here would know that, for one of the batch, around 100 people who got the offer declined it, and IMU ended up calling up all those who did not pass the interview / did not get selected in the first round to give them an offer. This is just to give you an overall view of IMU. Not badmouthing them, its just the truth.

ohhh ok... how bout monash and nus?

pardon me, but isn't it a big insult to NUS wen u r comparing them wif IMU/Monash?

do check up their website if u want to know more abt NUS medskol
http://medicine.nus.edu.sg/corporate/

i know NUS is damn good, im just looking at all my options. cuz my parents cant afford aussie or uk, so im just looking at unis in the region.

den y u asked "wic 1 is the best"?
U r keeping ur options open doesn't mean u shld compare all Uni's.



This post has been edited by wgy589: Apr 17 2008, 01:51 PM

ok noted. anyway, how did u get into NUS to do medicine? did u do a-levels? and when's the intake for medical students? been searching for it at their website but to no avail

u shld refer to http://www.nus.edu.sg/
for NUS admission related stuff

http://medicine.nus.edu.sg/corporate/
is mainly abt the medskol.

i did STPM, and but local college Alevels will do.

oh i finally found it! awesome!

now to just decide which coll to go to for a-levels....

erk, 2nd yr no final exam ma.... yeah, we got almost a month study week before 3rd yr final exam., counting the DAY rite now!

anyone in imu got their offer letter yet?

i just received mine today, dead line for payment is 30th april.

31K

lol, actually we have 1 week off before the 2ns Selanjar, and then 3 weeks+ before Pro2..
bosan gila, wished i could fast forward time then..

now i wish i can slow time down!
7 days and counting, hope to survive til then!

good luck & all the best to everyone!
exam fever is really here huh?

To enter NUS it depends more on your interview just like any other top universities in the world. So far I heard from my uncle, cambridge interview for medical student, they use their law professors to interview them.
If you want any local medical school, I would suggest you take a look at AIMST, UCSI and CUCMS as the fees are cheaper than IMU and the facilities are definitely better, IMU is just overhyped, their local programme is nothing.
From what I heard CUCMS has top lecturers in the country even though their clinical schools are a bit bad (army hospitals) because they just started out.

the thing is, im looking at imu cuz im interested in the twinning program and monash cuz of its reputation and the fact tht there's no diff between studying in monash oz and monash m'sia apart from the living costs. but if i was gonna do it at a local ipta, i wana try for UM or UIAM. i'm not really interested in UCSI or CUCMS or AIMST because they're not recognised by the malaysian medical council and they dun offer any sort of twinning program.

wat do u guys think about Penang Medical College? is it good?

This post has been edited by sanesaint: Apr 17 2008, 10:09 PM

don't worry, ALL ipts med schools will be recognised by mmc by the time the 1st batch is in final year, or graduating.......however, they will not be recognised anywhere out of msia........but if you only want to work locally, it is not a problem......

as for monash, don't be fooled, while the degree may be supposedly the same whether it is done in clayton or msia, there are subtle differences.....eg, spore at the moment only recognise mbbs monash from clayton.....and oz mmigration laws as they stand now, means monash msia mbbs graduates cannot work in oz.......they will have to apply for pr status like everybody else and they wouldn't get enough points to qualify at fresh graduation........unlike those who have spent at least 2 years studying onshore in oz, an automatic work visa for 18 months will be granted on application after graduation........

ah. but im not planning to stay at aussie. prob singapore, but i'll see when i get to tht stage

wow thats alot..
3rd year right? pls send my regards to a guy named Ali-Imran if u know him

any forumers studying at PMC/IMU/Monash Malaysia?

This post has been edited by sanesaint: Apr 21 2008, 05:42 PM

hey sanesaint, just for ur info, PMC is no longer recognized by Spore medical council, but things might change any time

n instead of calling for medstudents from diff medskols, y dun u just post ur Q's here? u can oso luk out for their posts in this thread b4. i tink there are a few from IMU.