from what i've heard there is a large number of seremban hopefuls in my batch, apparently the number of people opting for seremban has been increasing every year. m208 has about 224 students if im not mistaken (this was before those had to go repeat a sem) but i'm more than certain that there are at 60 or 70 Seremban students.

melb U back on. need to do one year b.med science at imu before going off. they had a talk that day but i didn't go.

just remember BS and CM if you aint so confident. helps alot . alot of questions from this two, can make the difference between A and B or passing or failing (aka life and death)

microbio will be worth your time. dont memorize in depth but but widespread, know the FLM's and a bit of their CFeats like staph and strep.

pharmaco came out, they gave me a box of clarinase (sp) and asked me questions based on the drugs in it (antihistamines)
how does it cause nasal decongestion.

all the best sem2's.

any info on sem 3's eos for me ? my summative wasnt too good. C+.

thanks yeah i realized i changed my meq answers last minute too some times. hope the meq's wont be too vague whereby ill confuse it with some other disease. they said meq all from PBL with some minor modifications right?

thought BS and CM was free marks if read through, maybe not the case in sem 3 right?

full IMU dentistry dont know if its accredited. but very likely if you do PMS program your degree will be recognized in HK . Worst case scenario would be you have to sit for an exam to grant you the license to practice there.

when you apply for imu just check the box for PMS route. and later on there will be a matching program to which they'll match you to the respective universities.

no thats not the case really, correct me if im wrong but are you willing to take the risk to join an indonesia university? what if you dont pass the hk exam and you'll have to work in malaysia (worst case scenario being your degree wont be recognized in Malaysia) . you'll be stuck with a degree that takes you no where.

and with all the reports of surplus of doctors, i think the next hot profession might be dentistry!!

owh lucky you!! you have family there already? or your family is planning to uproot and settle down in HK?

i guess depression cause its a near death experience. but most of the BS lectures have the same 3: Anger, Denial , Depression when it comes to any disease!

yeah apparently its right out of PBL or very easy to identify disease. how did your Crohn's Disease question go like? present with transmural inflam? skip lesions ? something like that? or more vague and not so direct like presenting like appendicitis upon further investigation then one or two of the essential CF comes up?

damn MEQ is gonna be scary, especially GIT!!


uh C-note, i was reffering to " hot profession" as in a profession everyone flocks to like in the dot com boom, was anything IT related, now we have a surplus. now its Medicine, cause RECESSION PROOF, GOOD MONEY, HONORABLE JOB, and those nice words and things a typical asian parent would say. because of that, any tom d*** and harry is becoming a doctor

i figure once most people realize that the statistics dont lie and very like malaysia will face a surplus of doctors, they'll turn to the NEXT BEST THING! dentistry.

when you twin off you'll be paying their fees, for the first two and half years standard 125K++ . Have to remember dentistry is more expensive than medicine, and the first few years you'll be doing more studying than your batchmates! haha you kinda do the same exam your medicine counter part does, and added dental examination papers to take. hence two times the effort!! but thats just the start, late on you'll be having more fun as you break away into your own proper curriculum!

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Added on November 3, 2009, 1:34 ami guess depression cause its a near death experience. but most of the BS lectures have the same 3: Anger, Denial , Depression when it comes to any disease!

yeah apparently its right out of PBL or very easy to identify disease. how did your Crohn's Disease question go like? present with transmural inflam? skip lesions ? something like that? or more vague and not so direct like presenting like appendicitis upon further investigation then one or two of the essential CF comes up?

damn MEQ is gonna be scary, especially GIT!!


uh C-note, i was reffering to " hot profession" as in a profession everyone flocks to like in the dot com boom, was anything IT related, now we have a surplus. now its Medicine, cause RECESSION PROOF, GOOD MONEY, HONORABLE JOB, and those nice words and things a typical asian parent would say. because of that, any tom d*** and harry is becoming a doctor

i figure once most people realize that the statistics dont lie and very like malaysia will face a surplus of doctors, they'll turn to the NEXT BEST THING! dentistry.

when you twin off you'll be paying their fees, for the first two and half years standard 125K++ . Have to remember dentistry is more expensive than medicine, and the first few years you'll be doing more studying than your batchmates! haha you kinda do the same exam your medicine counter part does, and added dental examination papers to take. hence two times the effort!! but thats just the start, late on you'll be having more fun as you break away into your own proper curriculum!



This post has been edited by Cristiano-Ronaldo-7: Nov 3 2009, 01:34 AM

i didnt get Crohn's for my PBL this time. but I guess some stuff weren't covered in our lectures (indications for a rectal examination= covered that in CSU) .

apparently now PBL's will only appear in our EOS MEQ.

yeah lets hope we all do better this coming friday.

and remember we also have MMS !!

but overall IMU is really self directed learning. alot of the materials are there. MMS/OLIS/PBL, our lecture notes are sufficient most of the time, but this time i found myself reading my Robbin's Patho to make sure of my hematoloy diseases cause the lecture notes weren't very clear most of the time. especially lymphoma and leukemia's.

other lecture notes were self sufficient especially pharmacology, and physio (depends). our anatomy lectures are basically all taken from Netters and some from snells, but the explanation there is important, but i realized Nilesh Kumar, you go in and you write more extra stuff down than there is in the notes provided. most of it good information, but not much comes out for exam.

any FAMOUS questions for EOS 3?

EOS2 i think the famous question is the biliary tree question, came out for me and was in the MSOC question booklet. female and male repro. i cant remember the rest hehe.

uh i dont know if you can apply just to use the library, just borrow some ones imu id or just say youre a visitor and use the library ahhaa.

This post has been edited by Cristiano-Ronaldo-7: Nov 7 2009, 12:45 AM

yeah repro seems to come out FOR EVERY SEMESTER!

hmm TNM will also def come out right!

i honestly think, minus all the "where to find accommodation, FAQ's on courses" this is way better than that junk they call the imu forum. that is horrible.

thanks for your input monkey girl. yeah sem 5's said it came out for theirs. gonna have to go to MMS in the coming weeks to drill on the models!

quite lazy to continue on now. just feel like relaxing and going to sleep. maybe hemopoiesis 1 and 2 first!!

damn dude. thats crazy. hope no one fails, if not gone case man. have to reenter the pool of unis again.

I think my batch will also face such a problem. they said our batch is one of the best. one of the lowest failing rates and all that. but i got a feeling there are more seremban students compared to other batches. so hopefully this wont be a full PMS batch like yours.

btw, judging that some ppl getting 22nd choice. that means alot of people didn't get their top 3, or their top choice ? man, i cant imagine going to Canada

how was your summative chika?

Mines on friday. I feel more prepared than i was for the first summative. hope that helps. i dont wanna see any more C's! hope to get B at the very least this friday. C+ last time damn sad. wanted to see B's.

but i dont really mind just passing my EOS3 already like i just wanted to pass EOS2. but obviously with higher grades than B-

owh. i meant to ask how was your recent sem 5 ICA's? most of the seniors were so stressed out about it, saying the content was crazy with loads of neuroanatomy and MSK go to through?

hmm yeah really shocking, i think i gotta prep myself to go to canada or even NZ which i dont plan on headed to!!

haha chika no worries. ECA counts. next week right? all the best dude!

and yeah i saw their lecture notes. really crazy. but some people claim MSK can be quite easy

hey chika how was your eos5 results? leaving for Otago soon?

haha, 16 more days to EOS3!! still on gi, finished the rest but need to run through most of cvs and respi again!!

This post has been edited by Cristiano-Ronaldo-7: Dec 12 2009, 08:13 PM

hey guys, any osce sample questions

yeah it doesnt even qualify them for a pr. you need to study IN australia to gain points and even so you need at least 2 years i think.

currently they dont have enough places for H.O in aust. so first thing is to shoo away all the international students.

Australia has demand for M.O positions and above. so the best choice is to come back home and gain experience prior to applying for a position.

and at the same time, the demands aint coming from the major cities, but smaller cities and towns where the locals dread to go.

its like any other dirty/unwanted job, if they locals cant ill in, use an IMMIGRANT!

got this info from a friend in imu.

wohooo passed eos3!! thank you monkeygirl for the help you've given me.

EMQ was odd. cause i thought i did pretty well but i got C+ for it, two pharmaco questions came out. MEQ i thought i would do worst but i got B-

overall my eos 3 was tough cause i didnt do too well for the summatives

and i was really panick-y and scared. but i managed to pull through. thank god!

eos 2 is nothing compared to 3!

there was a station on PAD, have to check radial pulse, radial femoral delay (it comes as question on how to check if the pt has coarctation of aorta, one more question)

it was a tricky station for me

the killer was the auroscope. you have to assemble the auroscope and know how to hold it properly and what to check for. many predicted this but it was a shock for most of us still. no BP station.


yes to your second question. eg: lung consolidation, you must perform lets say palpate for chest movement. obviously pt will be normal so state chest expansion is present normal and equal on both sides, but in this case chest expansion will be diminished on affected side!

hope that helps, sounds like you're in m109. sem 3 is way harder than 2. so be careful! but its the sem where you feel you can apply into pbl. when you watch medical dramas you actually understand whats going on way better cause of patho knowledge. =)

all the best. sem 4 awaits me, any recommended text? I heard RENAL is a killer.

This post has been edited by Cristiano-Ronaldo-7: Feb 8 2010, 05:43 PM

kidneys is included in the CSU video, but during practice we never bothered. but the enlargement question did come out for my batch. like where would the spleen enlarge towards.


@gorilla. yeah our batch is freaking competitive. i'm a big time slacker and like monkeygirl before exams is really important.

i highly doubt they'll be kicking more students out. we're currently at 218 i think. but thats before factoring in any more students that dropped out. most other batches in sem 4 are roughly 19X students. we're 20+ than most batches and thats why i think we have more and more universities opening up. and i honestly think that due to the performance of our batch, the deans of imu would beg for the pms's to have more seats during twinning.

i honestly think the elearning system would be a good thing especially for lectures. but one thing i feel is that we actually should do more work on the air topics. would help alot of if more marks were given as well. like imu isnt based on units per semester. we just follow the curriculum!

does anyone feel imu is squeezing the living daylights out of everyone? when i first entered imu it was wayyy to empty. now it feels like everywhere i turn theres a bunch of people eating, studying, playing games or sleeping the photocopy shop as well, i used to be able to go in get lecture notes and rush up, but now theres ALWAYS A LINE. the auntie at the shop should really get things organized there.

hey guys, will neuroanatomy be an important CORE CORE exam question for EOS5?

i just got some neuroanatomy books, i dont know to what extent that im supposed to know though.

thanks.

and any recommended text for SEM 5? (i cant believe i'm sem 5)