okay guys am a bit fuzzy about what you take in year one of MBBS programme (am august 09 intake)...i

1)s there a list of the subjects we'll be studying i can get off the interent? or if you're kind enof would u email it to me?(herbalife_malaysia@yahoo.com) ....
2)are there any specifc topics u recommend me to read prior to entry(like the ... name of bones?)
3)when are the mid year holidays for august intakes?
when are the mid year holidays for august intakes btw?


i think one day i'll just blank out. eversince i got the offer into he pms programme i can't get no sleep....i think am excessively anxious cuz there's so much i dunno bout IMU, especially for my being a foreigner(egyptian) i doubt i'll ever get accustomed to the enviroment...urgh that's just me being overly pessimistic...i think am havin some sort of manic depression(am no emo btw:)

cheers,
shahd.

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Added on May 17, 2009, 8:15 amhey there!!! yup got accepted for pms this august;)

This post has been edited by herbalifemalaysia: May 17 2009, 08:15 AM

make sure you hassle them for your results...call up every now and again, show up at the offfice ....

Community somin Project =) i think

how can you possibly survive without past pampers? =S that's antimidating don think i woulda passed my A-levels without pp's..:S

for the love of god stop using abbs it makes me feel urgh so dumb...amen to whoever said doctors have a language of their own :S

great...i dont think any other universities would be joining PMS...i mean they can't just be filing out one after another. if so then their numbers would diminish to ...what? 12? i dunno maybe am being pessimistic, but i don't want having my options narrowed!!!!!this is so depressing they shud be looking for new partner med schools to replace the ones leaving....urgh had to have an emotional outlet hehe back to you:

Lets discuss about PMS shall we? Like how does grades, ECA affect your ranking, its something chika is gonna face in a few months time and me in about a years, but no harm done! and would like any of our past seniors to comment and advice us best on getting our preferred universities.

welll incase am not mistaken both universities are in the uk!! the uk list is getting bigger and bigger...and some ppl might not afford it in the first place i wanna go to nottingham but dad wants me goin to oz:S gRAAR

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Added on May 23, 2009, 3:37 pmwhat does nonmalaysians arent ranked mean?
wth:?

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Added on May 23, 2009, 3:49 pmi can't believe this...many of the uni's won't take international students. this is absurd. newzealand is out of question. that's seriously unfair.

This post has been edited by herbalifemalaysia: May 23 2009, 03:49 PM

guys...i gota ask.. heard that our classes last for 2 hrs/day *mind boggles*.....how is it possible that within 2 hours you'd compile the necessary info. that would allow you to pass your exams? and do these 2 hrs include ALL the materials you need to know...yes i head that there's a lot of 'self studying' that one has to do ...so will we be given the pages that we'd have to study on our own? or do we just rely on our...instincts?

beg to differ. i wouldn't call someone concerned bout their future as one, who'd rather be spoon fed:) for all i know 11000US dollars is a lotta cash per semester,so i'm boud to expect much more professor/student interaction. what if i don't understand a topic well enough despite having researched it several times? what? tough?!! if a lecturer has to go through an entire topic in only 2 hours, does that leave enough time for the students to enquire on any points they don't understand? besides what's the student:professor ratio? even the best universities in the world have approximately 30 credit hours a week! so yes i ought to be a bit taken aback by only 10 hrs/week!!!!!

four A's at A-Level with a 580/600 in biology more than qualifies one to enter med-school based on merit....so i dunno why is it that you hold a serious grudge when it comes to imu selecting med-students...just so you know it's exceedingly competitve to get admitted into IMU, so many ppl who infact applied AND were able to pay the fees, got rejected...take the cases mentioned previously as an example.enough with the generalization and pessimism.. and
PS- not all of us can pay..some families make sacrifices for their children to join the best medical schools....

compete fairly? wait i thought that was supposed to be an international exam?? the A-levels i mean. besides...bummer i competed with my malaysian peers and i was QUALIFIED enough as to be offered a place. that's yet another proof i 'didn't go through all the trouble to go to imu' because i got money on me. no it's because i got those grades, which i worked my head off for inorder to get. so i owe you an apology had uwrongfully understood me as to brag about my A-levels because i simply don't.now that i am a med-student i can most definitely tell you that yes i donot have nothing to brag about NOW that i got accepted along with the current batch. we're all on the same grounds and who knows maybe my grades would come plummeting down once the semester starts?? bragging was definitely not my intention. i used my grades as to prove that the selection process is indeed based on merit. don't tell me they'll accept a student willing to pay, but got trashy grades. ofcourse that sounds absurd because i strongly believe that all those who were accepted for this comin intake are indeed QUALIFIED enough.

and i have already been to cairo's medical school, studied there ...and withdrew in the middle of the semester. you have to understand that the lecturers speak in arabic the entire time, even the complex biological phrases are still in arabic because less than 5% of those admitted into medical schools are from foreign schools. lucky malaysians get to go into english-only classes where the size of the class is approximately 50(max) compared to the usual egyptian batch, they got creme de la creme professors....so yes they were pretty much envied by everyone couldn't change to their classes cuz i had a big fat stamp on my passport saying EGYPTIAN:D
only one private med-uni in egypt, with a notorious reputation for graduating useless doctors..... so i got myself between a rock and a hard place. my family,friends and LIFE exist on another continent. so think again before making any rash judgements..

that was an amalgamation of answers from previous remarks. and i would pretty much appreciate if you don't put my case under the microscope start to cross examine my situation n all:P
peace out:D

lol sorry bout the misunderstanding from my part too and thank you..for a second i thought o m g the semester didn't even start and am havin frenemies already :'(
cheerz m8!

hey yall
for those lookin for accomodation email me: herbalife_malaysia@yahoo.com ; got a list of available accomodations
G-luk!!

lecture notes aint enough?? *gulps* so where do you study from apart from marieb's for the first sem for medicine?

oh god we're having yet another one of those debates again =S all i know is that if you're not an informantm, an insider within IMU you don't have the right to judge it in any form, whether pro or anti!

guys i just read the documents they sent us *_* i want elaboration on the 'hair-do' section....CANT YOU WEAR your long hair wth? you have to tie it up at all times? OMG I CAN SHOOT MYSELF RIGHT NOW*_* this is by far the corniest rule there can ever be *_* urgh
they can't force me to chop my hair off to 'collar length' right?

oh....plz tell me you WERE NOT being sarcastic
you don't examine patients till the clinical year ...imeant for the pre-clinical yrs..*_*

is imu pms recognized by the international medical council (of the country you've graduated from...say uk?) or must you complete your housemanship for your degree to be recognized. don't mean to sound absurd but i'm a bit hazy on this matter...
and if you wana do pharmacy i'd rather you go to nottingham...ive just read off some forum that the pharmacy at imu aint recognized by sing' board....but yet again the same forum stated that imu pms isn't recognized by the 'host' country :S
did i mention my email and fb account got hacked?:'(
that felt better:)

if you graduate from a university in the UK and don't end up with a housemanship after graduation, can you get a direct internship from australia/usa since your degree is internationally recognized or would you have to sit additional exams before you transfer to work there?
thnx;)