I want to work and study locally, since i saw UTAR fees quite cheap and will help with my financial situation, but idk if the degree is recognised or is it worth 5 years of my life to study
I need some professional advice so i wont choose the wrong path......
My dream of going into forensic science has been foiled becuz well, I've seen the comments on this website, so yea it sucks to be a student without a clear path....
(I want to specialise in radiology btw)

oh..didnt know UTAR has MBBS...

1. Academic qualification

If you are a 3.8-4 STPM student then by all means go ahead. If you are an average student (like me), don't even bother.

Let me give you some stats in IMU

Every year, fresh intakes of medicine students are around 300

At the end, only 50 or so students graduate
2. Motive

I wonder if you are really suited for doing medicine when you said you wanna take Radiology, a specialization that have little patient interaction

Don't need to lie, I have a friend doing medicine and his main objective for radio is the good pay and isolation

If you want job security, forget it, medical grads are saturated as fuck right now

Other than local unis, you still need to compete with private (IMU, MAHSA, UTAR, PERDANA and even some subpar university that I never heard before is offering medical degree nowadays) and foreign uni grads (Russia, India, Indonesia)

Even if you get your housemanship, its contract based, and after 2 years, they will evaluate whether to take you in as permanent staff or not, from what I heard, its difficult because turnover rates are low

Radiology is a specialization, you need to be selected to join a masters programme in local uni (private does not count). Again, you need to compete again for specialization.
3. Financial

I am not sure about UTAR, but a 5 years medicine course in IMU cost right now 500k myr.

Perdana is around half of it at 250k.

These are still extraorbitant amount.

If you are thinking of taking PTPTN, max I think was 60%, leading to around 150k loan, you still need to fork out around 100k for the fees

Now on the 150k loan

There is a 1% FLAT RATE per annum based on your original loan meaning that if you split over 15 years of payment, you need to fork out 22k of interest

And you need to repay close to 1000 per month for 15 years to clear your debt

For housemanship, you get paid around 4k, after paying your ptptn loan monthly you are left with 3k a month

Source : https://codeblue.galencentre.org/2019/12/27...-below-juniors/

3K A MONTH FOR ALL THAT SHIT YOU GO THROUGH

TOPKEK

Conclusion: Medicine is a shit degree, it WAS good years ago, same as pharmacy

Today era, if you want to earn money, computer science is the way to go

Fresh grad programmer = 7k basic pay

Disclaimer: I am not a medical grad, but these are what I observed and having doctors as friends. If actual doctors can correct me, I would be happy.

If you have the 'PI' genes in you and enjoy seeing what is below the surface.

if you willing to go up until PHD, then u can be researcher/ lecturer.

if not, forget it. too much competition and so little space these days.

MBBS, yes any UNI will do, people don't care much which uni you came from. As long as you have the attitude for it. Instead of worrying what UNI would look better in the plaque of your practice place in the future, try to think whether you can survive housemanship or not. no joke. its damn tough.

Even in MLT and biomedical science?