@cutiesin

and so try to get in the IMU 2+2 or nottingham. did you try?

which pre-U you took? seems like it is a little late to start applying only now

No, it's still not late to apply for both the courses. In fact, Nott's School of Pharmacy will be having another open day on 21st of august.

i think i will taking on dis yr
is guaranteed 1500 discount
i found out frm d website... for international student

the matter of accredited.. since 2012, when our new batch provided..there will b fully accredited..
notthingham juz provides new batch dis yr..so they received fully accredited..
for IMU,they hav 3.5 yrs course which is not accredited..but 4 yrs programme yes!

the reason y i chose is bcoz sunderland is d cheapest fees n affordable living cost..
may i noe how much is d basic salary for reg-pharmacist at uk n msia?

@cutiesin

first of all, it is a fairly new course for segi. new things are messy if you get what i mean.

secondly, there would be difference in terms of delivery of material or the support you will receive although they do use almost everything from sunderland.


if the difference in fees and living cost is not that huge or if your parents can afford to spend the extra money, i would still suggest you to go for nottingham program. little money doesnt hurt compare to their reputation

but d tuition fees at notthinham in uk is double expensiv than sunderland
everyhin has to cum frm new...even notthigham also juz provide one yr batch student

@cutiesin

that is why i am asking for more details. look like pretty much you have decided.

if i stayed, i could be your senior. haha.

Yeah, new courses tend to be messy. Even with Monash. The course units are not confirmed. It's not accredited in Malaysia (I think. Not sure about this really).

No scholarships. No PTPTN yet. Can't do twinning with Australia's campus.

You pay Rm40,000 per year for the name.

But facilities and quality of the lecturers are pretty good here in the Sunway campus so yeah.

@jerk
hehe..waiting for offer letter dis 2 weeks
goin to sept intake

@baoz
har?cant get ptptn>
segi told me 1st 2 yrs i can get 40k loan~in msia

You get what you paid for.

Boots' research (not sure whether it has been converted to some other operation) centre is in Nottingham and Biocity which has the most advanced and largest pharmaceutical industry is in Nottingham.

Sunderland? Pardon me, I can't recall any facts about pharmaceutical in Sunderland.

If your parents can afford it, my vote goes to Nottingham. Anytime better especially prospect wise.

Cheers.

If that's what Segi told you, then they should have got the approval from the gov. As for Monash, they never promised ptptn when we registered. Now they're in the process of getting the approval. God knows when.

This is what they meant about new courses being messy.

I've already accepted the unconditional offer from uni of nottingham and succeed to get the 25% partial scholarship (high achiever scholarship).
However, the tuition fees still seem to be very expensive. Anyone know are there any available scholarships out there for pharmacy students?
Thank you.

Just would like to pitch in my thoughts into all this since I am a final year student in the Mpharm programme at London Sch. of Pharmacy. Personally, I think it's tough but can also be easy, you just have to be versatile since "pharmacy" is not just about the drugs...you will probably learn about everything from manufacturing to communication skills as part of the syllabus which is great but it gets really confusing since it's not structured to perfection yet...there's a lot of stuff to learn in 4 years. I just completed my thesis! So just 1 more year to go until registration....Are there any registered pharmacists here? I would like to ask about the registration process...I have opted not to undertake the pre-reg in UK since I want to come back and help develop our pharmacists here one way or another...so planning to get over the 3 yrs compulsory as smooth as possible..lets put it that way! Anyway, congrats and goodluck to the future pharmacists! Get back to me if you have any info. on registration since I am not a 'normal' Malaysian.....

@wyatt615

no that i am aware of.


@ridd

just to clarify. what do mean by "it's not structured to perfection yet" ?

the London Sch. of Pharmacy recently changes their syllabus or you're referring to other thing?

@ jerk

Our syllabus is broken into courses..so 1 year, there's 2 courses..what i meant was that they are still trying out few things..because if I compare the courses between this year and last year..it's not entirely the same..they are still like..adding or removing few things here and there...just small changes in order to make the subjects you learn sort of sync together if you get what i mean..

@ridd

i think it is a good practice to try to keep the subjects relevant etc except when they are "experiment" with your own batch.

on a side note, i think you are really patriotic if you get what i mean.

Yeah, exactly...the good thing is that they do work closely with students..after the end of every course, we'd have to fill a feedback form just to tell them where you think they can improve..usually timing la..some courses, i feel like its really dense....so always worrying about time to study and there's coursework deadlines..haha, just requires some sort of multi-tasking..however, its no big deal..if you are consistent in your studies..you will pass with flying colors!

@jerk

patriotic? haha thanx..i'm just keen and motivated to come back and start my life! I've lived abroad for 12 years!! so its' time to serve our country!

I`m planning to do degree in pharm too..
I`ve applied for several univrsities in Aust....had spent lots of $$ too >.<

hello.is pharmacy involves human's anatomy?do the students have to anatomise the human body too?like wat medicine students have done?

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Added on August 28, 2009, 7:50 pmhow much salary do the pharmacy graduates get when they started training at hospital?

This post has been edited by minshuen: Aug 28 2009, 07:50 PM

someone should just pin the pay at the first post.. since no one bother reading through whole thread.

Provisionally Registered Pharmacists (PRP) - around RM 3500.

@minshuen
of course we do study biology but not as detail as medic students.

@polaris91
didnt you wait for edu fair or smth? heard they waive the application fees

@jerk: done updated 1st post.

@minshuen: we learn normal human physiology. not to the extent of anatomy as deep as the medics.