is UCSI and CUCMS program recognised by MMC?

ah ic, thanks limeuu. May I ask whether it matters where you finished the mbbs program if your working in malaysia? As in, in the end your still a doctor right? or qualifications make differences, eg cert from a more reputable school compared to cert from a new med school.

thanks limeuu for the info =) um, if converted it should be bout 99. something. *Cos i'm not doing year 12 itself.* =)

If you're confident, try applying to aus/UK universities directly. But in this case, Alvls would do you much better than STPM.

wow din know that it's a twinning program, and to london too.

good to hear that. All the best in your journey. =)

yeah combination of both is needed. It doesn't mean that you're failure if you do other courses. Like limeuu said, in particular Chinese families, they tend to have a thinking that their sons and daughters/ grandsons and granddaughters must be doctors/dentists/lawyers to be successful. Other than that, they are failures. I'm a chinese but my parents just let me choose my own career, but the older generation will definitely have that kind of thinking ie grandparents or other aunts/uncles.

To have an idea of what's inside medicine, try going to a medical library and flip through some of the books, eg biochemistry, embryology, AnP, pharmaco etc etc. Get an idea what you're going into and then reflect whether you are still interested in all these.

But I have to admit, the uni experience in Aus and in Msia is very very different. Esp in terms of the medical course. but yeah, this is off topic. =P

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

it isn't really a burden if you enjoy the course, but i agree, you'll find yourself buried in book. It's a mix of memorizing and understanding. =)

yeah i'm rather shock to see 17-22k for aus. it should be 40-44k now instead, it's rising every year. i think the cheapest is still in tassie, in 2011 it'll be 40k/year, correct me if i'm incorrect. The g8 has raised it to 42k-ish or so. living cost should be less than the estimated one too. 10-12k/year should be sufficient.

be more specific pls on what you're asking about. In terms of 'which one is better', there's no distinct answer to that.

i'm pretty sure he wants to know your choice of PMS-IMU or Local-IMU.

It's sad that PMC is having the other way round, if it's offering clinicals in ireland, I don't mind going there. Um, I heard that you can actually transfer to monash for clinicals starting this year? But it's like 1-2 out of the whole batch i reckon. Not sure about newcastle, but it's rather the same as PMC: clinicals in msia.

both

mm, thought you'll get 2 certs, both UK and IMU? =D that's what i meant. =P but yes, hide the other one and tadaa~ you're fully from UK med school. haha.

oh yay another private uni offering medicine. x.x

try to apply for postgrad med in other countries rather than msia? =) Since you're in UK, you can try to get into the graduate entry medicine. have u been working as a retail pharm or clinical pharm for the past few years?

oh yay more medical schools popping up in msia! Honestly, I don't even know how malaysia will be able to provide everyone with an intern spot in say 5-6 years time. In the end, med grads get jobless, and citizens get crappy health service. x.x

sadly to say. politics + $$$. that's all it takes.

and I am intending to work in msia, preferably after I specialize. Well, that's still way off, keeping alive is already hard enough haha.

haha, the reason why I plan to go back is to serve my community in swak. Hmm, I don't get why so many doctors are so reluctant to go to East Malaysia. I mean have they even been there?? I bet they still think that we still live on trees or something. =P no offense but a few no-brainers actually asked me that question. =/