not recognised in spore.......

they do not give offers based on forecast results, but they did give conditional offers before, based on a set minimum cut off....

i presume you are a oz year 12 student, so if you wait till end of december for the year 12 results to come out, it will be too late for application for 1/12 intake.......so earliest intake will then be 2/12.....

imu interview is really nothing.....like i said many times before, they are only interested to know if you can afford the fees.....if your forecast exceeds a certain minimum (they seem to follow the mmc guidelines now, although they have wrongly equate year 12 raw marks with atar score), they will call for interview.....

they did issue conditional offers in the past, but i think with more applicants, they can afford to wait.....in any case, most of the 1/12 places have already been filled by a-levels students.....(in the past, these will have been taken in the 2/11 batch)

ie, they were like utas in the past, hoping to lock in students, but now they are like unsw, where ready eligible applicants exceed places available....

i see uq is also giving conditional offers for the double degree undergrad entry programme.....their minimum requirement for this pathway is very high....atar99/op1.......

uq takes about 400 students.....

about 80 places are for the undergraduate entry double degree pathway....

in addition there is also the UQ-Ocshner MBBS program for approximately 80 USA citizens and USA permanent residents each year.....

surely you can just google for it, or search the uq website?......

nah: http://www.uq.edu.au/study/program.html?acad_prog=2291

you can also combine with science or arts....

they have reduced the gpa requirement for the 1st 2 years, to be allowed to proceed to the 4 years mbbs programme, from 5.5 to 4.0..........so progression is practically assured, barring some catastrophic event......for people who get op1/atar99 to get in.....

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Added on October 6, 2011, 5:35 pmmsian ausmat (sace or wace) and sam (sace) programmes and results are exactly the same as year 12 in all oz states (except qld) and ranked with an atar score......there is no conversion required.....

This post has been edited by limeuu: Oct 6 2011, 05:35 PM

no difference in phase 1........

most 'graduate' students in imu are NOT graduates.....they will then stay on in imu for another year to do research and a thesis, and then graduate with a b med sc degree from imu.....before transferring over to the pms for clinicals.....you need a 2nd upper to transfer......

you do know that if you have a degree other than imu's b med sc you cannot match to anu....

the 2 or 3 year clinical programme are all pretty similar in terms of actual total clinical exposure, probably about 90-100 weeks....the 3 year programmes give you more holidays, and the 2 year ones are very crammed and you will have very little holidays....

i think applying the aqf here is ridiculous, and NOT appropriate......

all medical graduates, whether through the undergraduate or graduate pathway, at the point of graduation, is the SAME, as far as medical knowledge and practice is concerned.....a prior degree confers NO advantage, as far as medical practice is concerned....

therefore, it will be a mistake to say that because a uni decides to change the name of the same course to a masters, you go up 2 ranks in the aqf.....

i am not sure what this new aqf ranking is for.....but for medicine, i think it is inappropriate......but if they must band medicine, it should be at level 8.....it should NOT be at level 7, as it cannot be the same as other ordinary degrees....

question is, where is the fellowship going to fit?.....doctors do NOT take masters or doctorates as a normal pathway to post-graduates.....but based on level of expertise, fellowships and accreditation as specialists must surely be level 10....if such ranking is insisted.....

that is a very old post dug out.....

about 1/2 the monash class, both batches graduated and graduating now, have got houseman jobs in oz.....so it is obviously better than imu's local degree...which is not recognised out of msia and sri lanka.....

conditional offer implies you have not got your pre-u results, so you are probably a oz year 12 student (sam/ausmat) or an a-level student presenting for the end of year exam.....

what are the condition(s) given?.....

obviously the undergrad pms option is the most popular, and rumour has it that they are already all filled for 1/11, so that may be why they offered the local stream.....

while there is officially no difference in the selection criteria for the pms and local stream, it is often noted that due to demand, the cut-off for pms stream appears higher than for the local stream.....but really, just as for the matching exercise, the selection process is just as opaque......

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Added on November 2, 2011, 12:37 pmjust to update, my relative has been offered pms undergrad with a condition of ATAR95, and 80% in chemistry and biology.....that last condition is mmc requirement, but they do not realise there is no raw marks in sam, and the subject scores are given out of 15.....ie a+=15/15, a+=14/15, a-=13/15, etc.....

strange thing is, the deadline is way before the sam results are released.....

This post has been edited by limeuu: Nov 2 2011, 12:37 PM

the as result is just an indication on what your likely performance in a2 is.....

what is their condition for you?.....atar95 is about aaa.....

as for deferred entry, it is possible usually, but whether they will offer a pms place, that will depend on what their pms cut-off is.....as indicated by my relative's offer, there are obvious still pms undergrad places available...

conditional or firm offer?.....and what's your result....or condition required?

just wondering.....if someone wants to be a practising pharmacist, why bother to do pharm chem, and then pharmacy....why not just enter pharmacy directly.....?

where did you get these figures?....they are certainly not true.....

i would hardly call the mbbs phase 1 programme in imu hard, although they however are strict with their exams, especially for the pms students, as all the pms are watching.....

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Added on November 13, 2011, 6:14 pmi just checked the minimum entry requirements....i did not realise the requirement for pharm chem is so low......

This post has been edited by limeuu: Nov 13 2011, 06:14 PM

eos 2 is the exam they weed out the poor performers.....

if you flunk very badly, you will be asked to leave.....

if you fail borderline, you will refer the exam.....if you pass, you move on....if you fail again, you will need to repeat the semester.....

in this respect, imu is stricter than other ipts.....

they have to keep standards high because of pms and pds looking at the conduct of the course and assessments....

everybody does the same exams, irrespective of the stream, so presumably, the same grading system is used......there may however, be difference in who can proceed to phase 2....nobody knows how they really do the matching....but it is a known fact that if you are in the local stream, it would be almost impossible to change to the pms stream at the end, but the reverse happens regularly.....

the strathclyde 2 1/2+1 mpharm programme cannot be registered with the rpsgb, but can do so after their internship and registration with the mpc.....that is what your friend did....

the 2+2 mpharm however can be pre-registered with rpsgb and can undertake pre-registration training in uk.....

all this is very clearly explained in the imu website, and their prospectus....