my financial situation has improved since when i was in the uk last  year  i m applying to imu cos i dont want to wait for another application cycle in uk, which will take another year...(course starting in sept 2013). and thats the exact reason why i dont want to get postponed to august intake as there wont be a difference for me anymore. plus it would mean that this year would have been a waste of time.

---

Added on October 4, 2012, 11:20 ami just want to know if I am likely to get in or not.

Thought you missed it so I'm bringing it up again. Can you show me where you got this information?
400 quid a month? How is that possible? 

When you mention it isn't much more than living in KL (I assume you converted 400 quid to ~RM2000), you did not factor in quality of living. I am sure with RM2000 a month in KL as a student, you can live very much luxuriously and far more comfortable than a student living in UK with 400 quid a month.

limeuu mentioned "all inclusive", so I assumed accommodation is included.

I have no idea about food prices in UK, but for me, I prefer to eat out for every meal (doable only in Malaysia). No cooking and more importantly, no cleaning! 

in some cities, rentals can be as low as 50 quid a week, or just over 200 a month, plus utilities.....

if you buy food and cook, you can do with 20 quid a week shopping....food is generally cheaper in uk than oz.....

if you want to eat out everyday, then i suppose if that is your priority, stay in msia.....

I think if you share accommodation, it will work out to be something like that...

leed and nottingham comes immediately to mind.....

glasgow will be more expensive....

if you intend to travel around uk, and can plan 3-4 months ahead, i recommend travelodge chain, many 19 quid rooms in many cities and towns.....and during sales, even 15 quid only.....

Hello I'll be having my IMU interview in 3 weeks' time.

May I ask do most students get within their top 3 choices of PMS? If you do well academically and in your ECAs, will you be able to secure one of the top 3 choices? Someone in this forum said that EACH school takes some weak and some strong students - I do not think this is true, because if you are strong, you get ranked higher, and therefore, if all strong students apply to the more 'sought-after' or reputable schools as their top 3 chocies, they will in fact attain what they want! My top 3 choices are Edin, Glasgow, and Dundee in order of preference. I understand that some 'A' students may not get their choice, probably because their personal statement does not contain enough volunteer work, etc.

time has changed.....there was a time not too long ago, when people are desparately trying to get aussie pms.....now it is uk ones....

there is no guarantee.....but if you are in the upper 1/2 of the cohort, you almost certainly will get one of the 14 uk pms you list as the top 14 in the matching ranking.....

at least there are 14, and the majority of pms slots.....the aussie places are very few now....and with the strength of the aud, and the possibility of not getting a houseman job at graduation, i suspect oz is not popular at all now.....i know at least one student trying to change a match to unsw to a uk uni.....an unheard of thing in the past....

Doctors not from Australia or New Zealand will have to be assessed by the Australian Medical Council before they can register with the Medical Board of Australia as doctors.

AMC Assessment Pathways: Click here

Medical Board of Australia's Types of Registration: Click here

For UK doctors, you may be able to obtain registration via the Competent Authority Pathway.

Also, you should keep in mind that internship shortage are happening in Australia, UK and Malaysia. You may not be able to get your internship in the UK by the time you graduate.

does it help if i am international applicant?
international applicants normally will not apply to monash sunway and numed programme anyway.and the places for international student is fixed.

actually, the pms do NOT create extra places for the imu students (and brunei unversity, which has a similar arrangement with some uk uni, as well as taylors college with st georges).....

they know that there will always be a drop out rate in any cohort, from either failures, or lost of interests....so by the time the cohort reaches the clinical years, there will always be a few places empty....and they allocate them to partnerships like imu.....

why can't that be?....i am talking about the pms, NOT imu...

that is the norm, all the unis know that in some courses the acceptance rate can be as low as 20%......for medicine, it's likely to be higher, and i know for a fact that one make about 350 offers for 259 places....., making a 75% acceptance rate...they of course do not always get it right, so sometimes they will over offer, resulting in over-enrollment.....

but what i am referring to is the drop out between entry, and the start of the 3rd year....about 2-5% will have dropped out....and it is too late to take in new students....except from places like imu...

i get the feeling from this, that you do not know how the imu-pms system works....but am not sure what/how you are thinking....

no, that does not happen......

they know how many places there are, as committed by the respective pms, at the start of every batch....however, imu always take in more than that, as historically, they weed out the bottom 15-25% of each cohort, usually at eos2 and 3....so by the time the cohort is into sem 4, you are more or less assured of completing phase 1.....

ALL pms stream student who successfully complete phase 1 are assured of a place at one of the pms.....

the uncertainty is which one.....and in fact which country!

the majority of students will NOT get their 1st choice....maybe only the top 20% or so may get it, and the lucky ones lower down who choose the 'right' choice.....how they match, the controversy involved, i have detailed in previous posts.....

if on occasions, the cohort coming through is bigger than the number of places, some of the pms can quite easily absorb the extras....some bigger pms can be quite flexible, as demonstrated by the varying numbers they accept from year to year.....

imu has always maintained that there is no difference between the pms and local programme...the students are all mixed up during phase 1 anyway...

however, it is a fact that the cut off are higher for pms compared to the local programme...the local licence has been increased to 150 per batch, or 300 a year, so they have to fill the vacancies.....

there is no information on what the results of exams are like, and how the 2 cohort compare to each other, but anecdotal experience suggest more failures from the pms cohort....why that is so, and whether there is different assessment standards for the 2 is unknown.....but certainly, the pms generally set a high requirement for their selection....

since 2010, the minimum cut off is no more bbc, but bbb, based on the directive from mmc....

the pms-undergraduate programme remains very popular for obvious reasons, and places are always fully subscribed and restricted, in fact less than the past, due to several pms backing out from the arrangement....that is compensated for by increase in the pms-graduate entry stream....but that is quite unpopular.....never seems to fill up all vacancies...

Anyone know someone who got bbc, and now undergoing local MBBS? How is this student doing/coping compared to say, a student with AAA. Just curious as many have said that even AAA students struggle in the course (not specifically in IMU).

I think doing medicine is a terrible idea, in light of existing and potential issues.

I heard a year ago that our Health Ministry conducted a closed survey amongst senior doctors on the HOM in the GH. HOM's from IMU was ranked no 1 and those from UM was no 4. This survey results were never made public.

Do they ask about you clinical involvement or volunteer work during interview?anyone knows?and is the case scenario hard to answer?