Any of you receive Offer Letter from MAHSA regarding Medicine programme? How much is the total cost for the programme? rm250k. ?

Another IPTS offering medicine again? You received the offer?

RM250K for a newly setup IPTS is very expensive. AIMST which is more well established and recognized by the MMC cost only 220K.

Seriously, why do we need so many medical schools? Does MASHA have enough lecturers to run the medical course?

i received physio instead, lolz

there is a dental school, twinning with indonesia........

there is no indication there is any medical programme........and i think there is already too many new programmes all starting at the same time........the gov (if they have any backbone) should freeze all attempts at starting medical schools for the next 5 years.........especially in view of the likely surplus of graduate doctors by 2015.........

i checked the website...it says 5+0...how is that 'twinning'? study in malaysia, but graduate with a foreign degree?

duh..........yes?

there are so many 3+0, 4+0 twinning degrees for all kinds of courses by so many ipts.........all these while.........using the partner uni's syllabus, and graduating with their degrees......but conducted wholly in msia........

in fact, mahsa's own physiotherapy degree is twinned with uni of northumbria in uk.........after 4 years here, you get a british degree!.......a relative is doing that there......

yup , i received the letter today. Well... i think...its for those doctors-wannabe? my result is not so good, and of coz i dream of goin into aimst but i doubt i can enter aimst bcoz they give priorities to their sc.foundation student/form6/a-lvl..

i sat for SAM and my result sucks, TER80.35, 4B 1C. so i think its a gud news for me. if any1 else receive the letter, tell me wat u think... i wanna do a survey on hw many ppl is goin there to study. ^^

there is nothing in their website about such a programme.......

if your ter is 80, i would strongly advise against attempting medicine......i know you started the sam programme very late........maybe you should consider repeating sam, like visualize, and attempt to achieve a better result, to qualify into a better medical school........

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Added on February 20, 2009, 9:26 pmon a side note, these new upstarts are really digging into the bottom of the barrel, accepting people with ter80 into medicine..........i fear for the future of the profession.......

This post has been edited by limeuu: Feb 20 2009, 09:26 PM

i didnt know..never considered those...

Very late? Meaning 2008 March intake is it?

http://forum.lowyat.net/index.php?showtopic=853079&hl=

TS: Something is wrong here. You took it in May. Which college did you go to? As far as I know, most colleges offering SAM won't allow any students to enroll at most 1 month after the last intake (March) begins which is around mid-April. In Taylor's, they stop accepting students even before the intake began.

wakakakaka....well, olympia college can. I did my SAM in olympia college. And for those guys in taylors u all are really lucky bcoz, got extra class, lecturer understands about how to sit for exam. Days b4 i sit for ESL exam, i went to this small seminar held by 1 of the lecturer in taylors "which i will not reveal his/her name" . I REALLY LEARN ALOT DURING THE SEMINAR, like, u muz quote certain stuff from where u get the info (essay) and topic sentence shitz. IN olympia college, no such thing. But of coz, olympia college is cheap and worth it. How much u pay is how much u get. KL's olympia, nt pj/subang/etc...


LIMEUU: dun check their website, they haven't upload yet. CALL AND ASK. their staff will tell you starting this year they'll offer medicine programme.

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Added on February 21, 2009, 9:48 amLol.... my results are shitty i know, but my parents want me to study med, wat else can i do? my father jz dun understand. He even thinks there's such thing like 4+1 where in the final year u can do oversea and study specialist and cum back m'sia become sum ent,ortho specialist. laugh my aSs off. he thinks i'm a genius. Mahsa offering med is gud news for me if can study there. yes, it'll be bad for this profession bcoz nw they seems to commercialise it and encouragin those middle-score student to take up medicine. but BUT BUT!!!


think about it in the firz place, who did this? who caused this, GOVT. i'm sure there are ALOT alot ALOT alot worse bumis doc in local U, doin matrik all aiming for med. Their spm result is even worse. I got 9A but my frenz who got 7A (bumis) can still go in matrik(nw finished ady they are applying for med), local U.

This post has been edited by SAM90Gil: Feb 21 2009, 09:48 AM

LOL, i need at least 12 yrs to become a specialist (from STPM), and ur father thinks that a newly established Mahsa can offer ur specialist qualification, in 5 yrs somemore? haha

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Added on February 21, 2009, 12:05 pmif there's a choice, people would try to avoid malay drs, but it seems like in the future, even non malay drs are no longer "superior" than their malay counterparts due to the lower entry qualifications in some medskols eg Mahsa.

This post has been edited by wgy589: Feb 21 2009, 12:05 PM

Yes, the increasing number of places offering medicine in Malaysia is really ridiculous. In future, there may even be doctor peddling medicine on road side soon.

Well, if your result is only TER80, you need to work really hard in medical school, as medicine is quite tough and requires a lot of hard work. BTW, i would suggest enrolling in other more established medical schools, as you will most likely be caught up in the doctor surplus period. When that time comes, the gov will most likely employ medical graduates from better known medical schools.

Just my 2 cents.

Yeah man, Malaysia boleh.

This post has been edited by hypermax: Feb 21 2009, 01:12 PM

sigh.........another 'forced' medical student.....living the parent's dreams........

if i were you, if you really have little interest, i would just say a firm NO......full stop.......

maybe it is best, if you do go do medicine, to choose the worst one......easier to pass.........you WILL suffer, and maybe even flunk out, in good med schools.........

If that's the case, the public will suffer.

now you are saying my lines?....... ........what do you think is happening with the russian, indian, indonesian trained doctors..........and locally trained doctors through matrik/asasi pathways......

i am at the point of giving up........i don't care anymore.......the politicians don't care shit about the healthcare of the people, too many vested interests......all my efforts at explaining about quality, care in training doctors, at the end people just only care for themselves.......parents just want their mediocre offsprings to have the glamour of being doctors, by hook or by crook.......

i will choose the doctors who will treat me very carefully in future......i advise you all to do the same.......we are becoming like indonesia.....or worse......see how many indonesians don't trust their own doctors, and go to spore, msia for treatment.........maybe one day msians will go to indonesia for treatment!