Hi, just to answer some of your concerns...

LAN accreditation- our medical school had been given a provisional accreditation by LAN, pending on the graduation of our 1st batch of students within 2 years time, by then we'll be able to attain full accreditation. Not to worry about whether we can be accredited or not, as jasperseng had said, we have a very capable dean who was also the former founding dean of the medical school in USM, and he and our group of lecturers will ensure that our medical education will be sufficient to help us to qualify as knowledgeable & professional doctors & also gain us the accreditation.

Lecturers- We've more than 2 Malaysian lecturers due to the addition of a few lecturers recently. And yes, the lecturers from other countries are equally as qualified, with much experience as clinicians, working with other well known universities abroad and some also having PhD qualifications. They're always willing to help, including outside lecture periods. The lecturer-student ratio is also relatively low, and I think this is where we have a little advantage compared to giant medical universities around because we get more personal attention & mentoring by them.

Facilities in the KL campus are quite sufficient, with the museums, discussion rooms and clinical skills rooms, enough to help you with your studies, which would very much be focused on your books anyway for the first two years. Just that the library still has quite limited amount of books especially for the more specific/rare topics e.g. forensic medicine.

Interview- Yeah, you'll definitely be asked some standard questions like "Why you want to become a doctor?" and you'll have to be prepared to be probed and give deeper answers than just "I want to help people & provide the best medical treatment to Malaysians, blah blah blah". No worries, it's not as scary as it seems.

Hope this helps!

The first two years are in the Connaught campus & the last three years are in the new campus in Kuala Terengganu where you'll be doing your clinical studies attached to the general hospital in KT.

Hi. I just received my pre-billing for the next semester and am sad to see the 10% increase in fees which takes a toll on my family, especially in times of an economic crisis like this.

FYI, I actually know one of the directors of one of the colleges around KL and she said that the private education institutions were given guidelines by the Ministry of Higher Education NOT to increase fees for their existing students (fee increment can only be implemented for the new students) but UCSI had clearly defied that rule.

Is there anything we can do to appeal against this increment? The person I talked to suggested that perhaps the Student Council make an appeal on behalf of all the students, because my school's student association had appealed but to no avail. Anyone from the Student Council here?

Yeah, our school has a different calendar from the rest. I'm from the School of Medicine.