To be honest after all these years (not to say i'm very senior) i realise it's not about the best medical school u go to (for IMU), it's about the COUNTRY of ur med school that matters in the end.

A borderline IMU student from the PMS may eventually be a surgeon, or pass his/her physician exams anyway (or radiologists or etc etc). U just needa talk ur way thru, know at least 50% of the stuffs (which are common, anything uncommon then REFER TO THAT SPECIALTY FOR REVIEW).

Ppl ended up in Canada/US will eventually get their residency and become consultant - and possibly practice there. UK used to be a good place but i'm not sure about now. Aus and NZ is also closing gate in 2 years time and i foresee the only one thats worth going to are Canada and the US.

hi every one
i wanted to ask something from imu medical students,does anybody have the soft copy of first 2 semesters of lecture notes of medicine? i really want them

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

nobody knows the actual statistics of who rank who higher/lower.....

places varies year to year, check with current sem4 or 5 students, they will have the lists....

logically, shorter places (dundee, aberdeen, notts), cheaper places (liverpool, queens), or 'famous' unis (somehow, edinburgh seems popular in spite of the highest fees)......

If you are referring to membership and fellowship of the glasgow royal colleges, that has nothing to do with the university of glasgow......or even the city of glasgow, except to visit it for the exams.......

this exercise is done at mid sem 5, not the beginning.....

all students rank ALL pms, in their order of preference....

the pms also will rank the students....

there is supposedly a computer algorithm for the matching.....but it is well know, that is NOT how it is actually done.....

my assessment is, they band the students....and take one from each band.....eg, if uni x takes 3 students, they band the students into 3 thirds academically......and take one from each.....that is why many good students will NOT get their choices, as you are disadvantages if you are at the bottom of that band.....someone worse, but at the top of a lower band will get the place.....happens all the time....

however, generally, if you are top 15-20%, you will get your 1st choice, as you will be at the top of the 1st band..........

appeals usually do NOT work.....

this is so all unis have a spread of students.....otherwise the popular pms will always get the cream, and the lower ranked pms will always get the lousy borderline students......

i should add that i suspect there is also a 'black list' by some pms, particularly the oz ones.....although they never say so explicitly or implicitly.....

ie, if you have ever applied directly to the pms, and rejected, you will automatically be dropped from consideration by the uni.....as that would be considered a back door entry.....something taboo in oz.....(see the uq vc fiasco).....

no....the final say will rest with the recipient pms.....

however, some students will automatically be dropped from matching to some.....eg, pr's and citizens cannot match to their own country...only msians can match to canada.....people who failed any sem is excluded from some....etc...

and i suspect those who had applied to oz/nz pms directly and rejected cannot be match to them again....

these courses usually will NOT confer you recognition by mdc as a specialist.....

many examples exists in medicine as well....eg, getting a diploma of dermatology from some where will NOT allow you to be registered with the nsr....

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Added on February 6, 2012, 4:12 pm
i will be blunt here...for the majority of students enrolled in ipts medical and dental programmes (and this includes imu-pms and monash sunway), even if they have money, they will NOT be able to qualify directly into oz/uk medical or dental schools.....

My relative's AS results are 3 A's (Maths/physics/Bio) and B in Chemistry. Now working hard to get A for Chemistry in coming May 2012 A2 exam. If finance and A level results  permits, the relative intends to apply UCAS for September 2013 UK Medicine intakes.

I would like seek all and sundry's advice and opinions on the following:

1) While awaiting applicaton results for direct entry in September 2013, in the meanwhile the relative plans to apply and do IMU pms if possible.

2)In case the relative can proceed to UK medicine in September 2013 intake...... are there any UK universities that may consider 'credit transfers' for the two IMU semester studies..... Or none of UK varsities have 'credit transfer things' for medicine course ??

What are the scenarios ? Appreciate your guidance.....

You are right .  

Comparing against IMU fees for 5 semesters at rm 200k, it IS definitely cheaper to pay UK fees for first two years, at current exchange rates.

ALL  of Russell group universities are charging 27k to 35k pounds for first two years of medicine studies ...... way cheaper than IMU fees for 5 semesters.

The one and only exception being  Edinburg,for first two years,  charging highest fees at 41k pounds only against IMU's 40k pounds.

For those who can gain direct entry to UK medicines and  have DECIDED to do medicine in UK anyway..... it sounds very odd and funny to take IMU pms pathway ....... 

No, no.

Per Year in UK pre-clinicals is 13xxx pounds for Aberdeen and about 18xxx pounds for Leeds .

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Added on February 8, 2012, 3:54 pm

Not sure if i'm getting at what you mean..... hahaha...

Yeah... sorry.

But almost.......  for undergraduate programmes
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Aberdeen is not Russell ...... but Cardiff is .....at 13xxx pound per year

Omg... Imperial is 55k pounds for two years... my bad.

I'd like to know as well, in relation to F1 and F2. Shouldn't this be discussed in "Calling All Med Students"?