i really wanna plan ahead now. dunno why. i feel the urge to do so.

Good that you're planning ahead, but there is one problem. IMU partners might pull out any time.

New partners will also come in.

At the end of the day, most of the degrees will be localised and you will be independently assessed and PUBLIC PERCEPTION will be the key to your status.

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Spoon feed you one time... Since you're only 15... You barely know any of these things....
MBBS, MD, MBChB, MBBCh, MBBChir, MBChB BAO, BM, BMed, BMBS, BM BCh...
Semua sama barang...
Usually based on your title, people can agak agak and know where you graduated from.

If you're given a MBBS which the majority of the medical schools in the world uses, people will know that you're a doctor... But can hardly guess where you graduated from....
If you're given an MD, people will think that you graduated from the US... But, you can also graduate from UKM and end up with a MD degree...
If you're given a MBChB, people can think that you graduated from Egypt.. But, you actually graduated from Glasgow...
If you're given a MBBChir, people will definitely know you're a smart ass who graduated from Cambridge because only Cambridge awards MBBChir to their medical graduates....
If you're given a MBChB BAO, people will know you graduated from Ireland... so forth and so forth...
Simple as that... They are the same thing...

It's good to plan ahead...... But there's lot more things to consider other than fixing yourself into the doctor's pathway. =)
You're still young... You've got many options...

TJU is a unique partner medical school with IMU. The partnership between TJU and IMU is established because there's sort of like an agreement between the US and Malaysian government to actually help train doctors for Malaysia in the american style of medical education... This is why, TJU only accept Malaysian students (not for international students)...

Let's say 5 years down the road, you've come into IMU, and you've made it into semester 5 which a thing called the "matching process" that would take place during that time, you'll be asked to rank your choice of universities in a list with all the partner medical schools on it. So you rank them 1-23... which one you want, you rank them 1st...

But, if you want TJU, you'll have to "opt out" from the matching process.... You will compete against with your other peers, who's dying to go to TJU also, just like you.... TJU only accepts 6 students per year.... And usually around 10 students will fight for the mere 6 places, and I can say that the competition is very strong.... You all will compete based on your USMLE part 1 results, the one with higher marks will get the place.

As for the remaining students who did not get TJU, they will either be offered in any of the PMS or in a case where there's no leftover places in the PMS stream, you'll go to Seremban.

I hope the information that I've given is clear and accurate.
If there's anything I've mentioned wrongly, sorry har...

USMLE Source: Wikipedia

The United States Medical Licensing Examination (USMLE) is a multi-part professional exam sponsored by the Federation of State Medical Boards (FSMB) and the National Board of Medical Examiners (NBME). Medical doctors with an M.D. degree are required to pass this examination before being permitted to practice medicine in the United States of America.

thanks so much. if i stay in imu for 2nd phase and do the housemanship for 1 year in msia, can i still bcome a Foundation Doctor in UK to become a surgeon? (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foundation_doctor)

thanks so much. if i stay in imu for 2nd phase and do the housemanship for 1 year in msia, can i still bcome a Foundation Doctor in UK to become a surgeon? (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foundation_doctor)

thanks so much. if i stay in imu for 2nd phase and do the housemanship for 1 year in msia, can i still bcome a Foundation Doctor in UK to become a surgeon? (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foundation_doctor)

1---Practise more in writing as fast and as much information as he can... Even though it doesn't make "perfect" all the time but at least it'll be better.

2---Go for the remedial classes and eat up all the notes(Yes, ALL....! Never pick and choose) that are given by those lecturers and vomit them out SYSTEMATICALLY during resit. The lecturers are there to help them pass. If he doesn't make the effort, he should be the one taking responsibility of wasting his 70k and spending time looking for a new direction after failing medical school.

Source: from xxx who failed in all EOSes yet passed all resits

err me p1anning t0 g0 t0 imu~ is there f0ndati0n in science?  n the mbbs pr0gram~ h0w much is it? is imu very expensive? h0w much d0 u have t0 pay by semester? they dun pr0vide sch01arships 0r disc0unt?

hi thinking about doing pharmacy in imu. issit absolutely necessary for me to do ielts in order to enter? can i use my 1119 results or my EALD results from my AUSMAT?

Relative applied for PMS intake for Feb 2012 but put on waiting list and given conditional offer for Aug 2012 pending pre-u results next month. Does it mean very unlikely to get Feb 2012 intake?

If  Aug 2012 intake and matched to UK, will it be Sept 2014 or  go thru a "gap" period for Sept 2015?

If Sept 2015, matched to an oz uni would be a better option, rite?

Can i know what is the typical offer for mpharm course in imu?if i met the minimum requirement bbb for alevel am i guranteed a place?is it competitive?thank you

I think you need MUET as well...

anyone here in mpharm for the jan 2012 intake? they started today and im thinking of joining next week. but i'll miss orientation! :/

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Added on January 3, 2012, 11:58 pm
haha ok thnx! just went to find out today as well. u're right they need ielts AND muet =( why need so many english qualifications! D:

MUET for to fulfill malaysian criteria..IELTS for overseas..i guess...