sailing trip, focus group, SM recruitment

SRC Treasurer/Acting Treasurer
As both our Treasurer and Acting Treasurer are currently on leave, there will be no issuing of cheque/ claiming until Nirmal (Secretary) is back on the 4th of August 2009. Sorry for any inconvenience caused.

Sailing Trip
The Ministry of Higher Education is organizing the “IPTS Sailing Adventure2009 ” which is opened to student participants from all private universities. Participants of this adventure will be taken for a sailing journey with the Royal Malaysian Navy vessel MV Fajar Samudera from 6th to 9th of October 2009. The students participating in this event will be exposed to land and sea activities in Pulau Sembilan, Pulau Pangkor and Langkawi. We are currently still short of 2 male participants. The whole trip will be sponsored by the Ministry. Please contact Miss Aznah from SSD for more information no later than 10th of August 2009. Places are based on a first-come-first-serve basis.

Focus Group
from Ashvini, Social Concerns Representative

Dr Mei Ling wants to hear from you! Yes, all of you. Basically, what she wants is a Focus Group, of students representing each faculty (about 2 per faculty) to group together and have a discussion with me.

And our topic will be. . .

What do you think can be done to instill more university pride in you as an IMU student?

That will be the general gist of it. However I will be asking you guys a few more questions regarding what you think we could work on to improve our university's standing in Malaysia for Dr Mei Ling wants IMU to be the number 1 preferred choice of private medical universities in Malaysia.

So guys, this is your chance to be heard. A chance to fix all those broken cracks you've been dying to get to but haven't had the chance. Consider it a survey of sorts.

To those who are interested, drop me a message @ 0123926052 OR an email @ imusrc@gmail.com with Focus Group as the heading

SM RECRUITMENT FOR M209 ORIENTATION

Hi, I'm Tan Si Han from M208. I'm the new chief sm of the m209 orientation themed 'CHECKMATE'. Realizing you all are enjoying your holiday right now, i've to bother you batch reps a bit to help me to post an announcement regarding sm. :P

This time we really need plenty of sm because according to the people who are in charge of treasure hunt, we need at least 48 sm. And I really need the help from your batch because our batch is going to have summative 1 during the orientation. Not many of my batchmates are willing to join us.

So, can you help me to post an announcement about the recruitment drive? I just need those who are interested in becoming sm:

1. form stations

2. name of all station masters in their respective station

3. contact of the leaders

4. event they want to join (i really hope i can recruit more sm for wet ice breaker)

5. proposal of the game ( how the game will be played... hopefully something less complicated and easier to explain)

Thank you very much for your help. Those who are interested can reach me at sihan89@gmail.comand 0124465765

Kindly take note of the following announcements (quite a number):

1.Dress Code
The administration has expressed concerns over the lack of students' adherence to the dress code lately. Please be reminded that it is imperative to adhere to the dress code to maintain a sense of professionalism as well as for security reasons. The SRC will have a meeting with first time offenders to discuss the matter. Students who fail to comply by the dress code will then be sent to May Kuan, SSD. A third time offender will be sent to the Dean whereby disciplinary action can be taken and a counseling session may be arranged. Please take this matter seriously as it may affect your record. We are not restricting your expression of individuality but please do so within IMU's policy ie no jeans, mini skirts,etc.

2.Student ID
Kindly wear your student ID at all times. Students who do not have one will have to register with their IC with the guards.

3.Lost and Found

SRC is not in charge of Lost and Found. Please proceed to the Facilities and Management Department on the Second Floor, near MPH if you have lost/found something.


4.MAPCU Foosball competition

Registration for MAPCU Foosball team is currently open, anyone interested in representing the university and/or who has a team, please contact Ms Aznah at the Student Services Department by Thursday 23 July 2009.

5.IMU ART FESTIVAL
It's time again for one of the biggest event held in IMU -the 2009 IMU Art Festival.

This year, the theme is Healthcare Go M.A.D. (Make A Difference).

The idea of our theme this year is to encourage healthcare providers to broaden their educational perspective and be the catalyst in using the arts to touch lives.

Among the competitions organized are:

Painting & Sketching

Photography

Short Film

Speech

Dance

Attractive prizes include:
Trophies and Certificates

Cash up to RM250!!!!

Participants are allowed to enter more than one category and the deadline for submission is 14th August 2009. Application for all categories is already open, so what are you waiting for? Please proceed to the Student Services Centre to get your entry form now!

For more info, please refer to the entry form or contact Siew Hoon at 012-3958783.

6.MMS Users Committee
We are currently looking for two students from the Medicine faculty to represent the students in the MMS Users Committee. These student representative will be attending MMS Users Committee meetings to discuss on MMS issues and more importantly, how we can improve the MMS. Anyone interested please contact SRC at imusrc@gmail.com or text me at 014-9215715 by Monday, 27 July 2009.

7. MMS Heart Models Missing
There are two heart models in the MMS (small ones that for the lung model) missing since December last year. Anyone holding on to it, please return it to SRC or MMS immediately. Don't worry, no action will be taken and all of us will appreciate it very much if anyone returns the models :)

8. MMS X-ray films
Large number of X-ray plates with legend are available in the MMS Imaging room for study, please approach the MMS counter for the list of X-ray slides available.

9. Academic Board
The following information is now available on the Medicine Academic Board at the Ground Floor notice boards:

• Academic Calendar (Includes tentative dates of Summatives and EOS)
• PMS Matching FAQ
• Alumni Talk dates & information
  
• Any upcoming Medicine events (e.g. Conferences)
• MCEC Meeting Summary

10. Library Hours
Library will be opened 8am - 8pm on Saturdays from now until December 2009.

Sowmya/Karim & Chelsea/Eldwin, sorry to trouble but there are some extra stuff I need your help with. Please get 10 students (or more) from each of your batches for the Curriculum Map Review okay? Let me know asap yeah, thanks!

11. Curriculum Map Review
The 'Curriculum Map' for Foundation 1 and Semester 5 is almost ready for use and we would like to have about 10 representative each from M109 and M207 to view the Curriculum Map for comments. Please nominate 10 students from your batch to review the new Curriculum Map.

The Curriculum Map is fundamentally a system that links together the course objectives for each system/week with all the teaching facilities like Plenary, CSU, MMS, PBL and Hospital Visits.It serves to give students a better guide on their learning objectives and should also facilitate student feedback.

12. Club Committee Certificates

This is the last call for all sports clubs committees; the following clubs have yet to send in their current committee list after numerous email reminders:

Handball

Foosball

Football

Male Futsal

Table Tennis

Netball

Ninjutsu

Tennis

Badminton

Taekwondo

If you happen to be from these clubs/know someone from these clubs, please remind them to send in their committee list by Wednesday 29 July 09.

Clubs mentioned above, please submit your most accurate list of the current committee members for certificate printing purposes by Wednesday. If the last committee did not received their certs, do resubmit their list along with yours. Please submit it as an Excel file, with 3 columns, 1. Name 2. Position 3. Club name; and include your term of service (i.e. 07/08 or 08/09 or 09/10) as well as when your term ends (April/August). Please send the Excel file to imusrc@gmail.com with subject as 'Sport certs (your club name)'.

Certificates will be printed this Friday, any late submission will be printed in the next round of certificate printing cycle in April 2010.

IMU dance competition

This is Arthur of the Dance Committee, and with pleasure we would like to officially confirm/announce this year's

IMU DANCE COMPETITION!

If possible, please post the following information up on your batch blog/emailing list/(insert method of communication to all and every member of your batch)

The details are as follows (Subject to change):

The Theme of the competition is GO MAD,

Time would most likely be around 12:30 to 1.30pm

Date is currently the 9th of September, 2009 (09/09/2009/ =D)

Rules and Regulations

1. The competition is open to all full-time IMU students.

2. Each team is allowed a minimum number of 2 people and a maximum number of 8 people. Participants may use any number of songs but each team is allowed a maximum of six(6) minutes to perform.

3. Participants may use any dance form(s). Marks may or may not be given for creativity.

4. Song choices must NOT contain any vulgarities and obscenities.

5. Registration fee is RM3 per person and MUST be handed in with the registration form.

6. Participants must be in the appropriate dance 'dress code' (i.e not too revealing), the Judging Committee reserves the right to bar any participant of the competition, should his/her dress code be deemed unfit.

7. Recycling of dancers to other groups is prohibited.

8. A grace period of 5 minutes will be given to teams who turn up late, after which they will be officially disqualified.

At this point, the deadline for entry is the 31st of July, 2009. The deadline may or may not be extended, so sign up quick!

For further enquiries please do not hesitate to email back to us =)

Registration forms will be coming soon!

Regards,

Arthur

IMU's Top Model in conjuction with M207 MALAYSIAN STUDIES PROJECT

Hello everyone, I'm Abdul Karim, Project Director for m207 Malaysian Studies Project would like to request your help to announce this to your batchmates. We're currently recruiting people from every batches possible to join our Fashion Show events that is held in conjuction with our project. We hope to get at least one representative from your batch. Hopefully, you can inform your batchmates about this and also put up this announcements to our batch blog. The details are as follows and the application form is attached to this email. Thank you so much and your help is really appreciated!!

Dreaming of becoming Amber Chia or Carmen Soo???

Now, your dream may come true. Attention, all supermodel-wanna-bes!! In conjunction with M2/07 Malaysian Studies Project, “Malaysia Road to 2009”, a fashion show will be held on 20^th August. All the models will have the chance to show-case attire from renowned fashion retailers and receive hair-styling as well as make-up from the experts. So, what are you waiting for? It is once-in-a-lifetime chance that you might not have. For more information, refer to the application form and what you need to do is just to fill in the application forms attached and e-mail it to the e-mail addresses below before 3rd AUGUST:

Jyun Jyh- jynx87@yahoo.com.my

Wei Ming- ming5275@yahoo.com

Lo Yen- rainnie_yen@hotmail.com

Welcome to the world of supermodels!!!

DOWNLOAD FORM HERE ---> http://www.sendspace.com/file/jf0gzy

PRE MATCHING RESULTS!!

Hey guys SORRY for the LONG delay!!!!

Here are the results for the PRE MATCHING myself and Karim conducted! It's in Microsoft Excell form so you will need to have the program to open it.

This is slightly more updated than the one uploaded in the Google group ( some people have made last minute changes, and I have tabulated the most popular uni's based on the Top 4 choices)

Download from THIS LINK ->

http://www.sendspace.com/file/tzq1zx

Ignore all the Ad's and look somewhere near the bottom of the screen for the link to download. It should say

Download Link: Pre Matching Final.xls

info day payment, hilltop parking tarring,car stickers, online medical reference

Hey everyone!

Just a few announcements for you to take note of :

Info Day Payment
The payment for volunteers who helped out during Info Day is now ready. Please collect it in the SRC Office from Nirmal (Secretary).

Hilltop Carpark Tarring
We are currently negotiating with the administration to have our hilltop carpark tarred. It will be properly painted to maximize space. However, it will not be sheltered. We have put up a poll on our blog ( imusrc.blogspot.com) to find out how much students are willing to pay for it per day. The closing date for the poll is 24th of July 2009. We will use the results from the poll to discuss with the administration. Should you have any suggestions/comments, kindly head over to imucampus.com.

Car Stickers
from En. Dawi Bakri

Please be informed that with immediate effect all staff and student who come to IMU clinical school should have and display the IMU sticker on their vehicle. Without IMU sticker the Security Guards from Limbungan Setia Bhd will not allowed you to enter to IMU. For Seremban clinical school staff and students who have no sticker please collect it from me immediately.

Online Medical Reference
from the Chief Librarian

We are pleased to inform you that IMU and UpToDate have organized an unlimited access to UpToDate’s on-line trial until 31 August 2009. This is the second time the trial set-up for IMU. For those of you who are unfamiliar, UpToDate is an on-line evidence-based medical reference service designed to answer clinical questions, quickly and concisely. Please feel free to pass this information along to anyone on Campus.

To logon and access the UpToDate service, go to: www.uptodate.com/online.

No username and password is necessary.

If you require any details, please do not hesitate to contact us.

To go to a tutorial after you have logged into UpToDate, please click on the help button and then on to Tutorial and then go through the Animated or Feature tutorial.

Enclosed are online brochures that might help you in maximising this trial.

• Features of UpToDate “You don’t need more information. You need the right information…”
• Trial Announcement Poster – small
• User Guide
• Link to Tutorial
• Link to creating a shortcut

Thank you.

Warmest regards,
Pei Jin
PR Liaison 09/10

missing mp4 player!

Hey guys!! Woei Jiun lost his MP4 player on the day of ICA (29th May!!).

He left it in the basket where everyone leaves their phones and stuff before the exam and then forget to collect it and it has been missing since!




It's EXACTLY like the one in the picture, and if anyone knows anything about it, please contact either me or Woei Jiun! Thanks yah!!! =)

Hope you're enjoying what's left of rotations and holidays!!

Take care!

Comm med project and temperature screening

1. Comm med project

PLEASE ANSWER THE POLL ON THE RIGHT HAND SIDE OF THE BLOG!!!!!

We need a rough idea of what people think. Otherwise myself and Karim will make the decision ourselves and no one should complain that they are unhappy about it.

Give your opinion, please!

If you don't know what I'm talking about, refer to the post below.

2. Temperature Screening


Volunteers for Screening of Students
from Vice Presidents (Medicine & Pharmacy)

Due to the large number of students coming in next week (coinciding with the new pharmacy, health sciences & medical sciences batches), there will be a temperature screening at every entrance point for all staff and students from 7.45am to 4.30pm on Monday 13 July. We will need about 50 volunteers to help screen the temperatures in different shifts and would appreciate it if all batches can send at least 5 volunteers each. For those who would like to volunteer, please give your names to your respective batch representatives. Thank you.

Batch reps, please collect the names and send it to imusrc@gmail.com by Thursday (9 July) okay? Thanks loads for your help :)

Regards,
SRC 09/10

comm med

Hi Sowmya and Karim,

Need some information from you and your batch on Community Medicine.

I've received some feedback from M107 and we'll be making some amendments to the schedule for your batch but I'd still need your input. Basically for Comm Med, currently the rough schedule is 2 days lecture followed by 3 days household survey or clinic research. Then you'll need to do a presentation 5 days later and submit a 40-60 pages report 3 weeks after that.

Feedback from M107 was that the time given to write the report was too short, so we'll be extending the time given from 3 weeks to 4 weeks. Also, for household survey, a lot of the M107 finished their household survey in a day or two, so in the end they didn't want to go for the third day, which was quite a problem because Prof. Yadav already made the arrangements with the buses and all, so he kindly asked if your batch would like to reduce the 3 days allocated for survey & research to 2 days instead, and an additional 1 day for write up or planning. However, that would mean that if you all are unable to complete the survey within the two days, you will have to make your own transport arrangements for the third day.

I think your batch will need to consider the following:

1. Would you like to have an additional day for planning (before the survey) or write-up (after the survey)

2. Do you want to rush through the household survey & how small do you want to split the groups for household survey. Smaller groups means you'll be able to complete the task faster and easier, but it will be more dangerous to travel in smaller groups. Last year, two girls were mugged while doing the household survey. Household survey can be very tiring and for everyone to go together is very tedious, but it's really up to your group.

Bear in mind that you are suppose to cover 250 houses for the household survey, in a group of about 15 to 20 people. It might seem daunting at first but some in M107 managed to cover all of them in 1 day. Mezhen also said that her group had a few problems in their data collection which could have been rectified had they had more time to plan.

Sowmya and Karim, I think it's best we seek the opinions of your batchmate and then decide which is best. Can you set up a poll or something on your blog? Or just tell me what's the general consensus will do. Get back to me if you need any more information yeah. Preferably give me your decision by Thursday if it's possible okay? Thanks.

Warmest regards,
Jodie

Hey everyone!

Just a few announcements to make.

Dr Mahathir Dialogue Session

The session is from 9.30am to 11.15am in the Auditorium. Please remind your batchmates that it is compulsory for them to attend the session once they've signed up for it.

Name Tags

To those whose name tag was lost/damaged/ did not receive it at all and have reported the issue to their respective batchreps/SSD, please come to the SRC Office to collect them.

Notice Boards

Our Sports Rep, Mira is in charge of the notice boards. Kindly discuss with her if you are interested in loaning the boards.

Feedback Boards

We have set up a feedback board on the Ground Floor by the escalators. The SRC welcomes any positive feedback or complains that the students might have. However, we highly encourage the students to come to the SRC Office to discuss with us so we can resolve the issue at hand as soon as possible.

Thank you very much.

Warmest regards,

Pei Jin

PR Liaison