And Singapore...
I think people with a right mind will choose s something better, I guess.....?

This post has been edited by Yeyechan: Aug 12 2011, 05:57 PM

A recent agreement between IMU and University of Sydney was made to allow graduates with Bsc Pharm Chem(IMU) to further their education in Sydney's Mpharm program. Credit exemptions will be given and students will be allowed into the semester 2 of year 1 directly. This whole program takes 2 years to complete and according to the notice in IMU's site, this mpharm degree is registrable with Singapore and Australia's pharmacy council.

Entry requirement for it will be, if I'm not wrong, a 1st class honours will be preferred over a 2nd upper class, but you must at least achieve a 2nd upper class with an overall bandscore of 7.5 in IELTS to be considered.

Good luck.

1) Monetary reasons? Direct entry is expensive. People might opt to work for a few years prior to jumping into MPharm.(5%)
2) Pre-U cannot make it(95%)

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Added on November 13, 2011, 4:15 pmErr... I said at least a 2nd upper class a... But, it is University of Sydney we are talking here. You know what I mean??? =)
It takes only 2 years to finish this MPharm program. If you calculate based on years spent for the whole course of study,

3 years pharm chem+2 years mpharm=5 years

it's just one year extra compared to most of the direct entry MPharm programs in the world which is 4 years. And, it's cheaper. Unless you're comparing it to IMU's MPharm which both costs around the same, you can save quite some money.

This post has been edited by Yeyechan: Nov 13 2011, 04:17 PM

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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.

This post has been edited by Yeyechan: Dec 5 2011, 02:29 AM

Not to say impossible... But its possibility is unfortunately somehow near 0...

Housemanship in Malaysia is 2 years. Different country have different duration for their housemanship training. UK foundation training also takes 2 years to complete, ie the foundation year 1 and 2. But, for example Singapore, only requires you to do one year of housemanship...........

Different country have different bodies regulating the recognition of medical schools.

I guess that you have gone to the GMC website to find out information regarding international medical graduate(IMG) wanting to work in the UK, and I suppose that it gives you hope somehow... But in reality, there're so many obstacles you will face if you choose to go this pathway.
Firstly, the PLAB exam....
Secondly, NHS will prefer UK grads over IMG....
Thirdly, you won't have time to do so....
Fourthly, it's not cheap....

UK foundation program is on a point-based system.... You'll be awarded certain "pts" in many ways.... Such as, if you graduated from the top 25% percentile of your batch(uk medical school), you'll be awarded 40pts... If you have an extra degree such as BMedSci, you'll be awarded 4pts for 1st class degree.... Or if you have some medical journal publication, extra points will be given too.... so forth and so forth.... And then the final mark is calculated, and you'll be allocated foundation training program based on your marks.... Sounds like PMS matching huh? Ya... It is...

However, this point-based system is only for the UK grads. As you'll fall into the IMG category, you'll be dump to the bottom on the list. The 1st on the list is always UK citizen+UK grad, 2nd will be EU citizen+UK grad. For a Non-UK citizen+UK grad, they will fall in either 3rd or 4th, but a Non-UK citizen+Non-EU citizen+IMG will always be.... at the bottom......

Ahem... Sorry for being losoh... One word... Hard la...

This post has been edited by Yeyechan: Dec 6 2011, 03:54 AM

Dundee is back to 3 years for clinical school so it's no longer 'short'.
Aberdeen and Nottingham are the 2 schools with shorter clinical years(Aberdeen 2 1/4, Nottingham 2 1/2). Besides, Queen's belfast is no longer cheap. The fees has rised from some 18k to 25k and hence, right now only Liverpool and Aberdeen are cheap. And, Edinburgh is no longer the most expensive because St george's has taken the place of being the PALING MAHAL one.

Leicester is a very good school but there is an entrance examination that you have to pass in order for you to proceed. Once you reach there, you'll have to study for about 3 months(Leicester syllabus, not IMU's) and you'll sit for the entrance examination. Failing rate is about 80%, this explains why it's not favoured. Try it if you dare.

To kane: Once you've paid the fees, they'll just tutup satu mata. Clear? Simple as that.

That was during your time.

you should call them and ask... if can, arrange for an interview as soon as possible. if u get accepted, welcome.

General misconception by medical students and their parents nowadays of being able to work or go for specialization overseas with any medical degree... But hell yeah, you're right.

But one thing to add is that if your basic degree is not recognized, you can always make it right by going for PLAB in UK or AMC exam in Aussie to get yourself registered but this will take don't know how many years to complete. Even though any who have passed will get the chance to be registered, they will still be in the bottom on the selection list to go into their postgraduate programs as they have to be in favour to their own UK or Aussie graduates.

Besides, if you're a non-PR of Australia, your chances of getting into their postgraduate training program is near 0.

literally, sorry, yes.

if you graduate with BDS(IMU), you'll have to work for the government for a few years to gain experience in order to allow you to sit for certain dental council's examination (just like Australian Dental Council(ADC) exam, they need you to have don't know how many hours of experience before allowing you to apply for their exam while UK GDC has its own type of exam too).

Ahem, in a nutshell, you'll spend a few years as a NORMAL dentist until the day you pass those exams--->become PR--->wait for your chance to be called in for postgraduate training.

It depends on what program you wanna do.
Anyway, IMU doesn't usually take in students with FIS from other universities but someone who went through proper pre-u.

Erm... 50 pms graduate is like... too many.....
UQ will soon be cutting its intake by half to around 12 places/YEAR, with Warwick and ANU each giving 6 places/YEAR.

This post has been edited by Yeyechan: May 5 2012, 10:34 PM

How I know? Ask IMU or UQ.

It's not only UQ cutting places.... Warwick used to give 13 places per year and it will probably be reduced to 6 per year.... ANU will remain giving only 6 places per year. It could be due to governmental policies to restrict too many foreign doctors from flooding their countries.... Same like auckland and otago...

Call them and ask loh....
PMS student»Local students usually
You have AABa. Thats ok for PMS la. Cukup makan... But IMU is picking student more and more cautiously lately. Good luck to you.

Hello. Have fun in orientation. It's those time for bonding, and make sure you make the most out of it as I reckon you'll be sticking with your group mates most of the time after that.

Have you considered any volunteer works which might help you on your way towards becoming a doctor?? It'd be lovely if you could shadow a few doctors and see what they do every day, too. However, volunteering sounds much of a better choice as you will be studying medicine for the rest of your life and on top of that, it makes you grow as a person. =)

This post has been edited by Yeyechan: Feb 8 2013, 07:14 AM

ABB is fine but they will definitely look for candidates who's got better results first which I think, you might be left out as there are too many AAA students around. If you want it, you work for it. Switching of option in Dentistry is not uncommon when it comes to changing from PDS to local program, it's the other way round that doesn't usually happen. I doubt you'll be the only one who'll want to switch though.

It'll have to depend on what you're gonna study.
If it's any other courses apart from medicine and dentistry,
You'll need 3.7 out of 4 to qualify for a 1st class.

Very simple.

One, IMU has about 25 partner schools to deal with when setting up a "generalised" curriculum allowing all PMS students to transfer prior to finishing phase I, hence needing the extra hours to cover as much materials as possible.

Two, the majority if not all the PMSes usually have more than 2 lectures in a day (?those were my days in IMU... now probably 4? )...

Three, because angmohs are mad about holidays. Try taking away their summer, winter or easter holiday and see what happens.

This post has been edited by Yeyechan: Dec 24 2014, 05:11 AM