as someone who has the rare privilege of experiencing med school both in msia and oz, perhaps you can share some of your observations with us, in the med student thread.........

Is Cyberjaya Medical University good? I'm thinking of going for foundation if i score well for my SPM this year.

yeah,share with us ,in med student thread,i so want to know the differences

Manipal University

Kasturba Medical College and Melaka Manipal Medical College (MMMC) campus site.
Some picture taken from Manipal Campus in India during my visit there.


I've been to Manipal (India Campus) last december for an event there (LAGENDA 2009). I can't tell you much about the workings of the college there since I'm not an MMMC student.

Manipal town is quite a distance from Bangalore. The road to Manipal from bangalore - is terrible, took me full 12 hours to reach there.

Campus is quite big and very nice. The Manipal town is not as busy as Bangalore, calm but the weather there is VERY hot. I was sweating all day when I was there (Bangalore is cold but dusty and dry).

Food is somewhat cheaper than in the major cities in Karnataka (an Indian State where Manipal Uni is located). Seafood is easily available, there is even teh tarik (Malaysian version) and Nasi lemak being sold in the campus cafeteria (this is something that I envy a lot - since my campus don't have such food).

but Pictures speak louder than words..




Manipal town surroundings




Buildings




Hey~ there is also a very nice beach there too...

Beach





I couldn't upload more pictures, there is a limit as to the number of picture I can upload perpost.

This post has been edited by CyberSetan: Feb 28 2010, 06:39 AM

I am the first year medical student in Cyberjaya University College of Medical Sciences(CUCMS), currently in second sem(Pharmacology block).

I don't know how to judge a medical school but base on my experience in here, this medical school is really amazing and awesome to me. Here, we are not spoon fed by our lecturers. We use Student Centered Team Learning (SCTL) method. We will always need to prepare for the class everyday without any help from the lecturers but depends on our team. We have our own team for each SCTL module and we need to present and explain the things we prepared before class. During the class, lecturers will give further explanation on the topic discussed and correct the wrong answer that we give.

Here, we use block system. That mean each subjects itself is a block and duration of each subject varied from 4 to 5 weeks. We have weekly test which consist of 25-30MCQ(T/F) to make sure we study and get what we learn in a week. Our final exam will be on every month of the particular subject and the exam consist of SBQ, SAQ, and EMQ. If the subject is a lab based subject , we will need to have the practical exam(OSPE).

For the first semester and half of the second semester of the MBBS programme, we are introduced with the basic medical sciences like Anatomy,Physiology,Biochemistry&nutrition, Pathology, Behavioral sciences, Medical microbiology, and pharmacolgy. The second half of the second semester until the end of the second year will be the systemic medical sciences like endrocrine system, musculoskeletal system, cardiovascular system and so on. Some infectious and topical diseases will also introduced in the second year.

From the second half of the second sem until the end of the second year, we will learn in the way of PBL, CST ,Lectures, and SCTL. The exam format will be the same as first year but in systemic medical sciences, the final exam will also consist of OSCE(Objective Structured Clinical Exam).

For the professional exam, second year will have a professional exam and there are two professional exam in clinical years. In order to proceed from medical sciences years to clinical years, you need to pass the professional exam in second year. Everyone have only 2 chances to fail the year. 1 in medical phase and 1 in clinical phase. That mean the maximum for you to graduate is 7 years. If you fail the medical years twice, you will be bye bye from our Uni. Whoever caught cheating will be expelled from the uni.

Our lecturers have very strong academic background with good experience in medical education. We currently have 42 lecturers in faculty of medicine.

Prof Hamdan is previously taught in UPM and he is our physiology lecturer( Oxford Phd)-He is my mentor right now,

Prof latif is ex-deputy dean of IMU-CVS lecturer and clinical lecturer (cardiologist in hospital An-nur),

Prof Nasarudin is the ex-lecturer in UKM-Anatomy lecturer(Currently is the Deputy dean of medicine in CUCMS),

Prof Hatta saharom-ex lecturer of UKM (Dean of medicine in CUCMS)-behavioral sciences and psychiatry lecturer ,

Prof. Dr. Abdul Rashid Abdul Rahman (FRCP Edinburgh)-cardiologist( clinical lecturer) and so on .

You can go to our uni website. There are a lot of details about all our lecturers. http://www.cybermed.edu.my/cucms-web/index.jsp

Our teaching hospital are:
Hospital KL, Putrajaya Hospital, Serdang Hospital, Sepang Medical center, An-nur hospital, Terendak military hospital( Our clinical subjects got military medicine)

We are going to move to the new campus very soon.

Hope all this info can help. Anything just PM me.

This post has been edited by MBBS siang: Feb 28 2010, 11:03 AM

It looks like CUCMS really expanded compared to 2 years ago... Larger staff group, larger campus...

From what I heard, students there study like mad. Btw, I have a ex-classmate in there, one of the hardworking students.

Thanks for that.

Wow, CUCMS do make their students work.

Not really" study like mad". We also take part in many extra-curricular activities like drama, medical related program( basic medical check up in kampung, orang asli, and so on.) I am one of the student who active in these activities and we are actually organizing a medical related program for my town(Pontian,Johor). I am the project manager for this but still I am one of the top student in my batch.

Not try to show off here but just wanna say, if you study efficiently and arrange your time properly. There is no reason to study like mad.

sorry, currently w/o internet at my place. So will definitely update that in the medical thread once I get a line here =)

Anyone could recommend me any other universities to apply for medicine ?

I'm going to apply for AIMST ,
but just to be safe if there's any other universities being affordable yet having dedicated and good lecturers ?

Just wanna have a few options for me , and I would really be grateful if anyone could share some advice or experience with the universities.

Thank you.

CUCMS.....All the info had been listed and described above. If you are interested and wanna know more about our uni, don't hesitate to ask.

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Added on March 4, 2010, 9:54 amOh yea! UTAR, MAHSA, UCSI.......their fees are quite affordable but UTAR and MAHSA will recruit their 1st batch students in this year. If you are joining,you will be the pioneer batch which is a guinea pig for them.

This post has been edited by MBBS siang: Mar 4 2010, 09:54 AM

Can i know what's your thought about being the pioneer batch for UTAR ? It's quite recognized already these years as there's been many improvements in their universities.
Anyhow , every university will need to have a pioneer batch. Hehe

Studying medicine is very stressful at most times...
However... there are times to fool around... otherwise one would be insane studying non-stop...





Want to learn osteology up-close, in India, one can get human bones cheaply...

It's fun and interesting picture. Good job senior!

Osteology or anatomy? haha. Good for ortho postings as well.

Studied osteology under anatomy last time.

Bones are still lying around my room, now I'm reusing them for forensic medicine and orthopedics.
Its also good for pranking other people as well...

eg; in the past we put the skull in lying around in corridors and see the reactions of the passerby (non-medical ppl) or putting the skull in the college elevator and wait for people (non-medical college staff) to use the elevator from other floor and hear their reactions from ground-floor... very funny...

Try and invent some funny ideas during your med school...

Docs don't prank people. Isn't it? Haha.

Hehe , but playing with bones creating jokes/pranks.

Don't you think it's kinda disrespectful ?...as in the dead person ? =.=

Eh MBBS Siang last time when we got our STPM result, you say you haeading to Russia. What happen?

Thanks for the pics bro, bring back memories. Miss manipal a lot.