SUPPORT EARTH HOUR!!

Just wanna remind everyone that tonight, 8.30pm - 9.30om is EARTH HOUR!!

So where ever you live , please switch of your lights and all non-essential electrical appliances throughout the hour!!!

An excellent opportunity for everyone (especially couples :P ) to gather around candle-light or a camp fire and show your support for Earth Hour!

Come on! Show that we are united!!

University of Queensland talk

There will be a talk by Mr Ken Gideon from University of Queensland.He is an Alumni Manager in UQ and will be giving a series of talks.We have organized him to talk to our students on studying overseas. It will great if you could attend, as he is a very good speaker and has a lot to share!

Monday,30th March 09

12.30 to 1.30 pm: Studying overseas: An invaluable experience.

LT3

Those interested in Wellness Appraisal Module

These are the names of the volunteers I have so far for the Wellness Appraisal Module:

1. Thamaraichelvi (M0708188)
   
2. Amanda Albert (M0708012)
   
3. Kavitha (M0708085)
   
4. Sharon (M0708175)
   
5. Vanessa (M0708211)
   
6. Ooi Yin Chuin (M0708157) Shift 2
   
7. Fung Hwa Jiang (M0708252) Shift 2
   
8. Peggy (M0708138)
   
9. Hann Yee (M0708190)
   
10. Jeannie (M0708221)
    
11. Tra (M0708206) Shift 1
    
12. Gladys (M0708055)
    
13. Lim Kuok Quan (M0708110)
    
14. Lee Teik Yew (M0708103)
    
15. Gwee Yee Yen (M0708060) Shift 2
    
16. Ricky Sia (M0708166) Shift 1
17. Abirami (M0708002)
    

PLEASE ATTEND THE TRAINING SESSION TOMORROW @ 4PM - 6PM (Got to skip lecture I guess). MEET IN ATRIUM IN FRONT OF CSU!

Also, some of you have not told me which shift you would like to take.

One shift is for 2 days, means you have to skip 2 days worth of lectures because the appraisal will be conducted from 4-6pm.

Shift 1 is on the 30th (Mon) and 31st (Tue) March

Shift 2 is on the 1st (Wed) and 3rd (Fri) April.

Refer to THIS post for more details.

Or E-mail your questions to:
victorwong87@gmail.com

Reminder about talks by PMS!

The Twentieth Meeting of the Academic Council will be held on 30 March - 1 April 2009. In conjunction with the meeting, a special session has been scheduled for students to meet with individual members of the Academic Council from partner medical & dental schools.

People this will be the ONLY opportunity we'll get to ask questions to the Deans of the partner medical schools and to know more about studying in the respective schools before we go for Matching in Sem 5 so I advise ALL THOSE DOING PMS to attend the talk!

DATE: Wednesday, 1 April 2009


Senate Room 2.14 (2nd Floor)
*12.45 – 1.00 PM - Presentation by Australasia
*1.00 – 1.15 PM - Presentation by N. America
*1.15 – 1.30 PM - Presentation by UK/Ireland

10 min presentation and 5 min Q&A

Multi-Purpose Halls:
1.30 – 3.00 PM - Students Meet Individual Deans

clothing design competition

The deadline for IMU Clothing Design Contest is on 31st March 2009.

1st prize - RM 1000
2nd Prize - RM 500
3rd Prize - RM 300

Contest Details:
1. Design a sweatshirt and cap with an exciting IMU design.
2. Designs must include IMU logo (IMU logo must not be altered).
3. Winning design may be used for the printin of IMU clothing.
4. Email designs to imusrc@gmail.com.

*SRC/IMU reserves the right to reproduce and publish the designs submitted.

Baking Club announcement!

Baking Class : Lesson 1 (Cookies)

10 a.m. Monday, 30th March @ cafeteria

All welcome but limited spots. First come first serve basis.

If interested, please register with Grace/Ricky by Thursday (25th March).
Please bring along RM 5 (member) or RM 6 (non-member) for the ingredients.

(Ingredients will be prepared by the committee members.)

memo pads :P

To those who haven't passed me the memo pads! TOMORROW (WEDNESDAY) WILL BE THE LAST DAY TO HAND THEM TO ME OR THEY ARE CONSIDERED SOLD!!!!!!!!

I'm handing them over to the Ball committee in the afternoon!! PAY UP or RETURN THEM, PLEASE.

Academic Counsel Breakout session!

The breakout session is where the students in the working committee present to the Deans of the Partner medical schools about IMU. Those who signed up with me....take note of the following information!

When?
31st March (Next Tuesday!)

What time?
10.45am

Where?
Learning Room 1.08, 1st floor

All those who were present on Monday for the discussion we had....you'd be glad to know that IMU will be giving us certificates for participating in this :D

Those who are doing the presentation , we will have to present it to Leslie on THURSDAY (26th March) for him to have a look and make the necessary changes!

PTPTN

Please help to disseminate the following information to your batch mates.

The PTPTN officers will be coming to IMU to collect the loan documents from students who secured the loan recently. They will be here on :

Date : 1 April 2009 (Wednesday)

Time : 9.00 am - 4.00 pm

Venue : Learning Room 1.08, First Floor

Notices will also be put up on notice boards.

Noor Liza

Student Services Dept (ext 6102)

Wellness Appraisal Module for ME109

This is an announcement made on behalf of the Community Medicine Faculty lecturers.

Currently, ME109 batch would be undergoing a Wellness Appraisal Module in which would be a part of their summative for EOS 2. With regards to this, the Community Medicine Faculty is looking for senior students as volunteer facilitators to conduct this Module.

When?

It would be done in 2 shifts.

First shift would be on 30^th and 31^st of March from 4-6pm.

Second shift would be on 1^st and 3^rd of April from 4-6pm.

A training session would be conducted prior to those days on the 27^th March (Friday) from 4 to 6 pm.

What will we do?

We would be facilitators in which we would handle the following stations:

Blood pressure taking stations

Height and Weight station

Waist Hip Ratio station

3-minute step station

Curl test station

Flex Test station

We would be assisting the juniors in performing those assessments and collecting data (e.g taking BP).

We will be conducting training session for all the facilitators on 27^th March (Friday) from 4 to 6 pm.. So no worries if you don’t know what are those stations meant to be.

Who?

The facilitator positions are open to anyone of senior batches who are interested. Especially for the BP taking stations as the seniors have better experience.

We would need at least 15 facilitators from every batch for each shift.

Certificates will be given for those who attend the training sessions and at least one of the shifts.

Please register your names to your batch reps ASAP, as due date would be on this Wednesday 25th March.

For more information, feel free to contact me at 017-5112308 or victorwong87@gmail.com.

Updates...

1.Withe reference to the previous post, on the discounted price for the Cervical Cancer Vaccine I only got the e-mail about the vaccine when I posted the information up, so I'm assuming that it's still not to late for those who are interested to sign up. Just pass me your names and I will hand them over to SRC. They will liaise with May Kuan from SAD to see what we can do :D

2. There seems to be a little confusion about the Academic Counsel thing. I'll try to clear things up. The names that were passed to me, are those who are interested in being part of the working group for the presentation to the Deans of the partner medical schools. Out of these 15 people, only one (or two) will be presenting which will be discussed on the meeting on Monday. Those who aren't presenting, just have to be there on the 31st March, 10.45am at Learning Room 1.08 (1st Floor) to watch the presentation and give your opinion on IMU only when asked by the Deans. To those who will be presenting, there will be a MOCK presentation on the 24th March (next tuesday) just for the SRC to see if your presentation is alright. So PLEASE be there for the Monday meeting, from 1-3pm (venue to be confirmed)

So far, these are the names I've submitted:

Abdul Karim
Sowmya Krishnan
Darren Yap
Lee Shin Ying
Sofia Lim
Muhammad Rauf
Joshua Wong
Jeannie Yap
Lim Xin Ying
Thamaraichelvi
Amanda Albert
Ng Eng Kian
Sandeep Singh
Steven Tan
Sazzi
Eric Tan

Those who are interesed please let me know ASAP because lunch will be provided on Monday and they need to know the exact number of people attending!

UPDATE: MEET IN FRONT OF SRC ROOM AT 1PM TOMORROW (MONDAY)

3. I'll be collecting the memo pads and the money today so please don't forget to bring them! Remember, any lost memo pads are considered sold to the person who lost them I'll be hounding you for the money because ultimately, I'm the one responsible for ALL 570 notepads!! :(

Infinity Milers upcoming races

1. ORANGE RUN
12th april 2009
11KM
FREE ENTRY


2. NEW BALANCE PACE SETTERS
17th May 2009
15KM
Entry Fee: RM45 + RM10 (refundable deposit for timing chip)


3. NEW BALANCE KLANG PACERS
7th June 2009
11KM and 21KM
Entry Fee:RM35 (21KM) RM30 (11KM)

Those who are interested, please get the forms from Whei Ying today (Friday 20th March) and return them with the money on Tuesday :D

IMU PHOTOGRAPHY CLUB OUTING

IMU PHOTOGRAPHY CLUB OUTING



Date : 11th April 2009

Venue : Zoo Negara, KL

*FREE!!*

*Entrance Fee and Transport will be covered by the club*

Only 30 seats available!
For those who are interested, please sign up here! :)
(Non-members are most welcomed as well)

Do visit our blog for more info:
http://imu-photographyclub.blogspot.com

Any enquiries regarding the outing, please contact:

Weh Loong 0126176569

Terri 0192233022

Annoucements!

1. Those of you who gave your names to be part of the Academic Counsel group, there will be a meeting on Monday, 23rd March from 1-3pm. Venue to be confirmed. Lunch is served so those who want to go PLEASE make sure that I have your names with me, as I need to pass them to Me- Zhen ASAP!

2. As you may have noticed, campaigning for the next SRC elections have begun and will be going on for the next 2 weeks. EVERYBODY is advised to vote because 1) It is our last chance to do so 2) Although our batch can't be nominated, we still have to choose the people who will be representing the students and voice out our problems!

3. There is a IMU clothing competition going on to design the IMU T-shirts, caps, souveniers etc so to those who want to participate, posters are pasted all over the notice boards so have a look. Winners may get their designs used on the souveniers and will win attractive prizes!

4. I'm sure you all have heard that IMU cup from this year onwards will be following a House system and we will no longer be participating as a batch. There will be 6 houses all together and right now the SRC are in the midst of thinking of names of houses. If any of you have any ideas, pass them to be and I can bring it up to SRC! The names might be used for ALL IMU cups to come so its your way of leaving your mark in IMU before leaving ;)

5. OH, I kept the best news for last! We are please to annouce that the Student Centre at the LG (except for SRC office) is scheduled to be functioning by 23 March!!! FINALLY!!! Gym, dance room, music room, lounge, cafe etc!!!!!!! CURRENT STUDENT LOUNGE WILL BE CLOSED FOR RELOCATION ON 20 TH MARCH!

Discounted rate for IMU students - Cervical Cancer Vaccine

We are pleased to inform you that GlaxoSmithKline Pharmaceuticals (GSK) has kindly offered all employees and their family members a discounted rated for the Cervical Cancer Vaccine at RM145 per dose. The previous rate offered was RM280 per dose.


The criteria for using this vaccine is as follows:

1). Every female (including your family members) who wish to be vaccinated requires 3 compulsory doses of
the vaccine which means RM145 per dose x 3 doses = RM435.00

2) The doses are given at intervals. After the 1st dose, an interval of 1 month and then at the 6th month.

3) Upon payment made at the cashier's office, you will be given a receipt and this receipt has to be presented during the time of vaccine for all 3 doses.


4) The vaccine will be admisintered to you by a nurse appointed by IMU. Storage facilities also be provided by the IMU.

After the awareness talk given by Prof Yasmin in October 2008, we hope that you have now received sufficient information about the importance of taking the vaccine. We strongly encourage you to take this opportunity to get yourself vaccinated as this vaccine will cost you about RM400 - RM500 per dose when taken at a private healthcare centre. THIS IS IS VERY TRUE GUYS..err...GIRLS! I MYSELF HAVE ALREADY BEEN VACCINATED AND I PAID RM300 PER DOSE (DISCOUNTED)!!! I STRONGLY ADVISE EVERY SINGLE GIRL IN OUR BATCH TO GET VACCINATED!

For those of you who are interested, please register with Veena of HR Department before ASAP. All other details as to the time and venue for the vaccination will be provided to you at a later date.

Power shutdown

Please be informed that an electrical shutdown is scheduled for Saturday, 21 March 2009, 5pm to Sunday, 22 March 7am for the connection of power supply to Oral Health Centre.

E LEARNING RESOURCES

OLIS has been moved from the intranet!

So now it can be accessed from home (finally)!!

Access the site at http://elearning.imu.edu.my

Username is your id and if you have not changed your password before, the default password is 123456.

http://elearning.imu.edu.my/course/view.php?id=171

There is also an image bank which is only accessible on campus computers(e labs and library)

Login http://imu.edu.my/air and click on "image bank"

Hope this info is useful!

IMPORTANT PMS ANNOUNCEMENT

N O T I C E

TO : ALL MEDICAL & DENTAL STUDENTS

DATE : 17 March 2009

SUBJECT : MEETING WITH ACADEMIC COUNCIL MEMBERS FROM PARTNER SCHOOLS

The Twentieth Meeting of the Academic Council will be held on 30 March - 1 April 2009. In conjunction with the meeting, a special session has been scheduled for students to meet with individual members of the Academic Council from partner medical & dental schools.

DATE: Wednesday, 1 April 2009

	Medical:Senate Room 2.14 (2nd floor)
*12.45 – 1.00 PM	Presentation by Australasia
*1.00 – 1.15 PM	Presentation by N. America
*1.15 – 1.30 PM	Presentation by UK/Ireland
	Dental: MPH 2.07.02 (2nd floor)
*12.45 – 1.30 PM	Presentation by Partner Dental Schools
N.B * 10 minutes for presentation and 5 minutes for Q&A
1.30 – 3.00 PM		Students Meet Individual Deans (Medical & Dental) MPH 2.07 (2nd floor)

The list of questions compiled by students has already been forwarded to the partner schools and in the general briefing responses to those questions will be covered. This is meant to avoid repetition of questions when the students meet the members later individually. Therefore, students are strongly recommended to attend the general briefing.

The Student Services Department and batch representatives are requested to assist in ensuring the smooth conduct of the session.

Thank you.

Professor Victor Lim

Executive Dean, Faculty of Medicine & Health

Yayasan Tunku Abdul Rahman scholarship

TUNKU ABDUL RAHMAN SCHOLARSHIP


The Tunku Abdul Rahman Foundation invites suitable Malaysian citizens to apply for the Tunku Abdul Rahman scholarship. The scholarship is created to honour the contributions of the late Almarhum Y.T.M Tunku Abdul Rahman Putra Al-Haj as the first Malaysian Prime Minister and Father of Independence. Recipients will be selected from among students through comprehensive interviews.


Application requirements

a) Basic requirements

1) Malaysian citizen

2) 25 years old or under by application deadline

3) Recently finished the first semester *, in Year One of first degree programme in any local institutions of higher learning in the country.

4) Available for the fully local programmes only


b) Academic and co-curriculum requirements

1) Excellent results in SPM/STPM/Matriculation/Foundation level.

2) Distinction in Bahasa Malaysia and English at SPM level.

3) Minimum CGPA of 3.50 in the first semester of the Year 1 in a first degree progamme.

4) Possess leadership quality and active involvement in co-curricular activities.


c) Additional requirement

1) Recipient of the Tunku Abdul Rahman scholarship needs to serve the country for a minimum of 5 years after finishing the sponsored course.


* Successful candidate will be decided after receiving the full result of the second semester in the first year to confirm the CGPA is over 3.5 in the first year.

Scholarship details:

1) Education fee according to the actual fee of the university.

2) RM1,000 Living allowance a month

3) RM500 Books allowance per semester

4) Allowance pertaining to study e.g. thesis, practical/ project paper allowance and equipment allowance (once a year).

5) Return airfare once a year (for Peninsular students who study in the Sabah or Sarawak and vice versa).


Application

All applications must be made through the Student Services Department of your university. Failure to do so will result in application being rejected. Application deadline is 31 March 2009


Application Procedure

Interested students can obtain application forms from Student Services, IMU or from the website at www.yayasantar.org.my

All applications must be submitted before the closing date stipulated in the announcement. Late applications will not be considered. Only shortlisted candidates will be notified for the interview. Applications must be submitted to IMU latest by 27 March 2009.




For more details or to obtain the application form, please see Noor Liza at Student Services, Ground Floor , IMU.

Thank you.

memo pad sales

Hey guys, as some of you know, I have started distributing the memo pads to PBL groups already. The groups which haven't got them will be getting them tomorrow (Thursday, 11th march).

The due date to sell them is on the 18th March (next Wednesday).

Please try your best to sell them (at LEAST one....) to help out the IMU Ball committee with their fundraising. It is not compulsory, though.

dalhousie alumni talk

An alumni from Dalhousie University (in Canada) will be in IMU to talk to students about USMLE Step 1 & 2, studying medicine in US and Canada and applying for residency in USA.

It is tomorrow (Thursday, 11th March) at 11.30am. Venue to be confirmed, so meet in front at SRC Room at 11.30am.

UPDATE!!!!!: Alumni meeting, today (Thursday, 11th March) at Secretariat Room 2. Time changed to 12.30pm!!

announcements =)

1. I will be distributing notebooks for IMU Ball fundraising today during PBL sessions. If you don't know what I'm talking about, read my previous post here. You guys will have about 1 and a half weeks to sell them.

2. Friday Focus is on today in the small discussion room in the MMS. Those who want to brush up their patho will find it useful as there will be case presentations and descriptions of lesions :P It is at 2.30pm.

3. We will also be electing our batch's representatives for Prom King and Queen today. Read the earlier post for more information!

4. Remember to send in your elective reports!!

Elective report

Taken from the electives guidelines in I Drive:

Students are expected to submit their elective reports two weeks after the end of
their elective period. Each student is required to submit 1 copy of the report to
their internal supervisor. Any corrections in the report have to be carried out by
the students and resubmitted. The amended copy will be maintained by IMU for
reference.

The report itself should comprise of not more than 2000 words printed on A4 size
papers. Students are encouraged to use graphs, charts and photographs (in
glossy prints) in order to make their report interesting. The report may be bound
(comb binding) after the corrections have been made.

All students MUST submit 1 copy of their elective report together with the EA form to their
TUTOR latest by 9 March 2009 [2 weeks after the elective posting]

I suggest you guys talk to your respective mentors about how they want it done but most are fine with the COP report format :D

IMU's got Talent

The deadline for registration for IMU's Got Talent has been extended to Friday (6th of March)! It's only RM3 and you can get the forms from me (Sowmya).

Remember, ANY form of talent is welcome...telling lame jokes, belly dancing, burping the ABCs, hopping on one foot while singing a song....etc etc etc...

Group performances are welcome (max of 3 ppl per group)!

If it's a single performance, winner gets a pair of IMU Ball tickets, if there are 2 people to a team, each get one ticket and if there are 3 to a team, 3 tickets are up for grabs!

There are also weekly prizes!

Come on guys! Show them that our batch has our share of interesting talents and sign up now!

USMLE discussion

Heyyy! Like I announced yesterday, Yinn Cher from M106 (our orientation president :D ) who recently passed his USMLE Step 1 and will be heading to Jefferson in May has kindly agreed to have an informal session with anyone who is interested in knowing more about what its like to prepare and face the USMLE Step 1 exam.

So if you're curious to know what the exam is like, how much to study, how to register etc...Don't miss this oppurtunity to ask him for yourself :D

Just meet in front of PBL rooms on Wednesday (3rd March) at about 3.00pm and then perhaps we can see which room is free to use!

Prom King and Queen info

OLAA! for your information on how the Prom King and Queen are determined :D We'll be having nominations soon so think about it yah!


The registration of nominees has started last week and will be open till this FRIDAY (6.3.09). We would like to have each batch sending out their representatives: at least one couple (or more??) to participate in this annual contest, where the nominees will undergo a set of challenges as this year, we are making it BIG!!

This year, it is open to ALL batches and the Grand Winners be entitled to RM400 worth of prizes!! There will also prizes to be won in each elimination round.

First Elimination Round- Hit the Books – (IQ)

APRIL 3^rd: Second Elimination Round- Cooking Mania - (Street Smart)

10^th: Third Elimination Round- Fashion Disaster - (Appearances)

17^th: Wild Card Elimination

19^th: Final Round- Talent Show (30 sec)- Story Telling (30 sec)

Through this, we will be selecting our ultimate Prom King and Queen! Please do help us to spread the word and if you think ur friends can carry the title, get them to join!! There will also be a briefing session for all the nominess this FRIDAY (6.3.09) outside the SRC Room for summission of their form and also a softcopy of their personal photo (half body). The time will be confirmed later.

For more details, please contact us:
Chew Ning: 012-4111104
Lau Po Leen: 016-6548969
OR email us at: imuball2009@gmail.com

UPDATES!

Hey guys! Sorry haven't been able to update for a while; my internet's been down!

Hope you've all got over the holiday blues and had a productive first week of Sem 4 :P

So here are some of the announcements I made this week!

1. Some of you still haven't collected your NEW student ID's and EOS 3 results!! So please do so ASAP from the Academic Affairs department. Ask for Ms. Punitha.

2. Elective report is due this Friday (6th of March). Remember, the format is like the COP report, which is available in I Drive.

3. EACH OF YOU will be given 3 notebooks to sell to raise funds for IMU ball! They cost RM3 each and it is optional to sell. If you don't manage to sell them, keep them in good shape and return them to me at the end of the selling period (which i will tell you when i get more info)

4. We need to nominate few couples (no necesarrily bf and gf ) for Prom King and Queen! So when we have the elections (probably today :P), nominate those you think deserve the titles :D

5. IMU BALL TICKETS are still for sale and they cost RM120 per head. MAX of 8 people per table! BUY YOUR TICKETS at the atrium!

6. We still need a batch video for IMU Ball which is about 2 mins long for them to play that night! Whoever wants to help, please let me know and I hope everyone cooperates when we need to make the video :D