Sunday, September 27, 2009

CONVOCATION MAGAZINE

Hello fellow batch mates

We need your fullest cooperation in helping us to complete the following tasks:
  1. Preferred nickname/name
  2. Personal profile (questions)
  3. 15-word description of yourself
  4. Poll - Types of Medical Students in M207
  5. Signing up to the IMU alumni

Please spend a few minutes to read the following instructions on how to submit your personal profiles for the convocation magazine.
  1. Each PBL group will be given 3 random questions and every member in that group has to answer all 3 questions on their own.
  2. Every student has to find a close friend/friend/acquaintance/stranger (in that order of preference) in M207 to write a 15-word description of him/herself. For example, Karim - A very responsible batch rep who has also won a valedictorian award. In the event that you are unable to find a person to write the description for you, you can write it for yourself.

There is a poll on The Types of Medical Students In M207. This is how it works:
  1. Please nominate ONE person for each category.
  2. Do NOT nominate one person in more than one category.
    This means that when you are submitting your nominations, you cannot have, let's say, Sowmya in "The Pretty Ones" and "The Long Ones". You must, however, nominate one person for each category so if there are 12 categories, your result must have 12 different people each in a separate category.
  3. The poll will be closed by the end of 15th October 2009.
  4. Submit your nominees together with the profiles.
  5. The categories and the descriptions are:
The Intense
Always stressed out/bimbaboompewpewpew like heavy machineries/drink redbull every two hours. Along these lines.

The Can't be Bothered
When the sky falls, they use it as a blanket to sleep. Generally undisturbed and unresponsive.

The Runway Models
Pretty, cute, handsome, good-looking, confident,and whoever that has what it takes to strut his/her stuff like a real runway model.

The Missing
I don't know if you know who to because the people in this group are those who are never around and never in lectures but they're in our batch.

The Oddballs
Whoever that you think is random.

The Sunshines
Smile always. Those who never fail to say Hello with a big smile on their faces and those who always say STUDY HARD whenever exam's around the corner.

The OCDs
Obsessive and compulsive people. E.g. those who can't sleep if they know the notes are not arranged nicely according to the systems then themes then disciplines then alphabetical order.

The Tranquil
Always peaceful, comfortable with themselves and never appear to be stressed.

The 'huh?'
One word - BLUR.

The Intellectual
Those who start their sentences with "CONFUCIOUS says" or "according to the Xun Zu's art of war" or whoever that you think is very smart and intellectual. Basically.

The Jokers
The class will be so boring without their laughters, their funny jokes, their funny stuff. OR YOUR LIFE will be so boring without their funny jokes, their funny stuff, their laughters.

The Hidden Dragons Crouching Tigers
Those who are actually way MORE than who they appear to be. This type of people can be actually very smart, very vicious, very cunning, very treacherous, very kind, very witty BUT they appear to be just an average person.

THIS IS THE WORD DOCUMENT TEMPLATE THAT YOU CAN DOWNLOAD AND FILL IN ALL YOUR INFORMATION.

PLEASE E-MAIL COMPLETED FORMS TO HAKIM: m_hakimj@yahoo.com

hakim: And ONE MORE thing - guys please make sure your answers DO NOT exceed 100 words..PLEASE!

Thank you. The M207 editorial board.

Sunday, September 6, 2009

Articles about medical internship in Australia!

Qi Hong posted this link on the chatterbox which i feel is rather interesting and important to consider, especially those planning to transfer to Australia!

1. Internships edge foreign doctors out.
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,25991790-12332,00.html

".....The Australian Medical Students' Association expects no state will be able to offer internships to international students with Australian medical degrees by 2012, when domestic medical graduate numbers peak.."

2. Concerns As Start Of Medical Student Tsunami Reaches Intern Allocation, Australia

http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/158318.php

"...Already New South Wales has invoked a priority listing and locally trained international students will in not be allocated in the first round as in previous years..."

Thursday, September 3, 2009

2nd prematching results

You can download the results thruogh this link ----> http://www.sendspace.com/file/xy7an8

Only 50 people responded, so I don't think the results are reliable, but at least it's something : )

Tuesday, September 1, 2009

2nd Pre- Matching, ECA form deadline

1. SECOND PRE MATCHING

HEYYYY GUYS!! After a pretty long hiatus I'm back!


Myself and Karim are conducting a 2nd pre matching!

So the instructions are the same as last time (check out the post here --> http://imu-m207.blogspot.com/2009/05/pre-matching.html)

Basically, Those with student ID's 001 - 131 : E-mail your choices to Karim (kabita_karim@hotmail.com )

ID number 132 onwards and resit students : E-mail Sowmya (sowmyak88@hotmail.com )

BE HONEST PLEASE!! This is especially imporant because deadline for us to submit out rankings are sooo close!!

We are extending the deadline of the pre-matching to tommorrow night (Wednesday, 8pm) so that the results can be published later that night.

Those who have applied for BMedSc, you can send in your ranking for the 3 unis (Queensland, Warwick and ANU) and those who have applied for Thomas Jefferson are excluded.

The response we got so far is pretty bad (only 48 in total!) so i hope as many of you guys can cooporate and send in your rankings. HELP US HELP YOU :D


2.ECA FORM

-Both PMS AND SEREMBAN students need to fill it up!!!

· PMS bound students to this email address, pmsmatching@imu.edu.my
· IMU bound students to this e mail address, cs@imu.edu.my

-Due on Friday, September 4th 2009

- Submit to Student Services!

-Submit a hard copy to the Student Affairs Office for signature!

Time allocated to see May Kuan of SSD are as follows:

Group 1 : 4.15 -5.15pm, Wednesday 2nd September
Group 2: 10.30am - 12.45pm, Thursday 3rd September

Check the M207 notice board for the name list for each group!