then you are lucky....i understand new offers now state that fees are not locked, and MAY be increased yearly based on inflation.....the key word is 'may', and i do know cases where they actually did NOT increase, although the offer letter says it 'may'....in that sense, uk unis are more lenient than oz, where there are no more lock fees....and they do increase yearly....

question is, do they tell you what year 3 fees will be, from year 1?....since they do not fix fees until just before the academic year starts, each year....

Any clinical component first 2 years?

That's right.

Assuming annual fees increase of 10%, and by Sept 2015 as you commence Clinical Year 3, you would probably be

charged fixed  annual clinical fees of GBP 30820 x 1.10 over ALL 3 years of your Clinicals.

However, after pre-clinical Year 2 in 2014/15, should you proceed to do Intercalated Degree in 2015/16 and, thus

commence the Year 3 Clinicals by september 2016....... then you would probably be charged fixed Clinical fees of

GBP 30820 x 1.10 x 1.10 over ALL 3 clinical years.

Therefore, for international students, in a way....... it doesn't pay to do Intercalated Degree !!!
Note: Cllinical fees commencing September 2014 is already GBP 30820.

it makes no financial sense for full fees paying international students to do an intercalated year....unless it is mandatory, like in oxbridge, ucl and notts.....

the extra 2 points in the fy matching process becomes important if one is eyeing for the afp stream.....

Hey everyone

I contacted the Singapore Medical Council (SMC) to ask about IMU-PMS accreditation and the registration eligibility in the eyes of the SMC.

The following is their reply:

"In order for the medical qualification to be considered a registrable basic medical degree by SMC, the twinning programme’s entire duration of clinical training and final examinations must be conducted in the medical school listed in the Second Schedule and the partner university must be the conferring university as well. We would like to reiterate that graduates from the Malaysian, US and Canadian medical schools on the schedule must have undergone the entire medical training on the main campuses of the respective medical schools – i.e. both pre-clinical and clinical for eligibility for registration with SMC. As such a basic medical degree from IMU would not be considered a registrable qualification for medical registration."

I note the following observations:

1) UK and Aust PMS are excluded from the following statement: '...must have undergone the entire medical training on the main campuses of the respective medical schools – i.e. both pre-clinical and clinical for eligibility for registration with SMC'.

2) There was no clear answer on whether IMU-PMS graduates are eventually eligible for SMC-registration. The only mention was 'basic medical degree from IMU', which could refer to the IMU-MBBS programme instead of the IMU-PMS programme.
Kindly explain their reply, in case I might have interpreted the meaning wrongly. Also from previous experiences, has any IMU-PMS graduate ever been denied full registration by SMC when they return back to Singapore?



Thanks all

just need you to explain a little bit here. you mean the withdrawal of several foreign unis was due to IMU setting a higher standard ?

Just wondering - does anyone know why the IMU pre-clinical phase is 2.5 years and yet the holidays are so short (1 or 2 weeks), whereas in all the PMS's the holidays can be as long as one month at one shot and yet their preclinical phase is only 2 years? I know that the last semester (sem 5) in IMU pre-clinicals is to prepare us for the clinical phase, but even with this out of the equation, the pre-clinical holidays are longer in many PMS's. Does that mean IMU covers 'more' than the PMS's? Or does it mean IMU spreads the content out and therefore spare time is reduced?

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OKAY. xD
Is there any other schoalarship if I get 4A*S in A Levels that I could try to apply anyway? ._.
Just asking before I resort to mapa schoalarship?

Ah I see...
That's pretty sad .........
Okay that's the reason why I have to make sure I'm able to work overseas next time :/
I'll come back to Malaysia when Money isn't an issue for me anymore maybe..
Just another question, let say I graduate at UK.
Will my UK cert write "twinning with IMU" or something?
And will it affect my chances of applying to work at other countries?
Thanks!

They say it's a conspiracy theory to promote more fys to go to Scotland and Wales hahaha.
(I've heard the fps there are not that good, especially when it comes to the academic foundation programmes.)

Just a gmc report about its visit to numed last year.
http://www.gmc-uk.org/NUMed_2013_14_report.pdf_60845154.pdf

I applied for direct entry already, but I'm not sure if I can get an interview, let alone an offer. And if I accept an offer for IMU for the Feb 16 intake I would've paid the first sem fees already which i assume is not refundable.

The main difference is who are eligible for the scholarship...jpa scholarships are in recent years open to all, with an obvious but unstated quota set for bumi and non bumi....

Mara on the other hand, is purely for bumi only....and if jpa has any scholarship restricted to only bumis, they use the name 'mara', to avoid confusion and complains.... Hence the so called jpa-mara scholarship....

Since this is not well understood, let me make it clear then...

There is NO more scholarships for non bumi to do medicine overseas....

There is still such scholarships for bumis....and three agencies are still doing that....jpa-mara, Mara itself, and state bodies....

Got my offer from IMU! Bottom line before leaving for partner school is RM263k...Something tells me that 2 years pre-clinical in the UK is also around the same price...

Holy smokes that's 30k a year! Almost equivalent to clinical years!