MSK Course Evaluation

Dear M1/09 students,



CtME is scheduling ME1/09 Sem 5 Musculoskeletal online course evaluation tomorrow morning, 30 March 2011 (Wednesday). Please be reminded on the following:



Musculoskeletal Online Course and Lecturer Evaluation

Date: 30 March 2011 (Wednesday)

Time: 10.30am – 12.30pm

Venue: E-Lab 3



Please take note the attendance will be taken. CtME would really appreciate your participation of this exercise and your co-operation is highly appreciated for curriculum development.



Regards

Rohayati Raben

CtME

Annoucements ( 29.3.2011)

Please take note of the important announcements below:


1. Community Medicine Report Deadline The deadline for the com med report is on 1 April 2011. The group leader is required to collect all the reports on that day and hand it in to the respective facilitator on his/her time. Please be cooperative and have it ready by that day because it would be unseemly for your leader to approach and bother your faci on more than one ocassion.

2. ECA Report - Soft Copy (Local Students) I have realised that the email that is stated in the ECA form that Local Seremban Clinical students are supposed to send to keeps failing. There is some error with that particular email address so send your ECA form (soft copy) to the PMS email instead at: pmsmatching@imu.edu.my

Announcements (28.3.2011)

Greetings fellow M109-ians!

Below are several announcements to take note of that I made after today's lecture:

1. Batch Photo

We will be taking the official batch photo this WEDNESDAY, 30 March 2011 at 1030AM.
Please remember to bring your lab coat as it will be a formal picture. This is incredibly important and Tay and I do hope you all will cooperate. I know most are PMS bound but whether or not you are doing local or overseas, it does not change the fact that we spent our pre-clinical years (2.5 years!). We learned together, we grew together and whether we like it or not we shaped each others lives within this period of time here at Bukit Jalil campus. So it would be FANTASTIC if we can have a photo to look back and say "man.. those were the days.. i'm proud to be of the M109 cohort". And even if you're not, lol pretend for the sake of your batchmates who do! :)

2. Case-Based Learning

This is a call to all CBL leaders, Dr. Nilesh wants the names of the 4 presenters for your respective cases. The predetermined leader is the first name of each grouping and it is entirely the responsibility of the leader to find 4 presenters whichever way you deem necessary. If in the event, you are unable to carry out your responsibilities find a friend to take up the role and explain to him/her the exact responsibilities of the leader. Do take this serious! It is a great chance to learn and improve on presentation skills for those who undertake this challenge, and you would eventually have to study those topics anyways. What a great way to remember by heart these topics by presenting them to a cohort of 200 people! So do hand me the names tomorrow in between lectures.

3. Dental Yearbook

I have just received word from the dental students, that they will be placing orders for their dental yearbooks soon. So for those medical students interested in making that purchase which is approximately RM50 for about 50 pages, then do send your FULL NAME and NUMBER OF COPIES to the batch email at medt109@gmail.com. I announce this because I know for some you have many friends in DT109 and would be interested.

Do spread the news to your friends for they might not have read this post or heard the announcements made in between lecturers.

Thank you.

Regards,
Eldwin

MMS Group IV Replacement

It has been brought to my attention that last week's MMS session due to be facilitated by Dr Jo for group IV was cancelled. The details of its replacement is just below:

Date: Tuesday, 29th March 2011

Time: 1030AM

Who: Group IV MMS

Facilitator: Dr. Jo

Regards,

Eldwin

Giving a Talk at Taylors

calling TAYLOR-ians!!!

Taylor's College is looking for people who took pre-U (A-level or SAM) at Taylor's and currently doing Medicine or Dentistry to give a talk to the junior at Taylor's. Just have to share with them your experience as a medic or dental student. The talk will be on next Monday, 28th of March 3pm. Please contact Chiew Lui if you are interested:

Chiew Lui 016-2675811 pink_chlorine@yahoo.com

Thank you ^^

2011 IMU's Got Talent Finals

Hello guys and gals!

Do take note, IMU's GOT TALENT Finals are just around the corner. Below are the details:

Date: Wed, 30 March 2011

Time: 6PM

Venue: LT2

Ticket Price: RM5 (sold outside library and includes 5 votes)

Come out and support your friends or just come out to have a good time!

Important Announcements (23-3-2011)

Greetings M109!

Below are some important announcements for you to take note of as we will not have a chance to meet until next Monday:

1. Hospital Visit to Tunku Jaafar Hospital

Depending on what time is stated for you in your time table for your hospital visit, please be there 10 minutes before the stipulated time so you don't miss the bus. Also, when reaching there you are to go to the 3rd floor of the IMU Seremban Clinical School building to be briefed then broken down into small groups which you will be notified of when you reach. Make sure you elect a temporary leader and the leader should obtain the phone number of the bus driver to call them when you all are done with the visit. You may return home after your bedside teaching session with the doctor on duty and please look out for one another so you do not leave any one behind!

2. PMS Tuition Fees (updated)

Apparently there were some problems with the previous list of PMS tuition fees as it differed from the amount stated on the IMU website. However, Miss Imelda has come up with the latest list of PMS tuition fees so so go check it out from the Idrive (if you haven't already).

3. Thomas Jefferson and Bmed Science

All letters requesting to pursue BMed Sc & opting for Thomas Jefferson are to be submitted to the Dean of Medical Sciences office directly (not to AAD). Deadline : 24 Mar 2011.

Rgds,

Imelda Bartolome

Academic Affairs

2^nd Floor, IMU Bukit Jalil, KL

Tel: 03-2731 7355

Convo Mag - Artistic Literature Reception

Greeting fellow M109-ians!

Things are getting a lot more hectic with convo mag now as we are trying to finish it ASAP, so it would be apt to make the following announcement. Do check it out!

1. Artistic Literature Reception

We understand that for most of us, studying is not OUR WHOLE LIFE - everyone has specific talents and gifts. So the convo mag committee decided to create a section of our batch year book displaying some of the "expressive arts" that we know this batch has the potential to do. So we officially welcome any:

Artwork (drawings, paintings, sketches, etc.)

Poems

Lyrics

Short Stories (fictional, inspiring experience)

Basically anything that you can scan in or at least send the soft copy of that artwork to the batch email at: MEDT109@gmail.com

Deadline: 31 March 2011

We absolutely welcome all entries so please do not hesitate! It can be old or new artwork as long as it is YOURS and ORIGINAL and you're a part of ME109, PERFECT! :) Depending on the number of pages allowed, we will try our best to include most if not all of the entries.

Cheers,

Eldwin

List of Deadlines

Greetings M109!

Below are just a few random announcements and question(s) answered for those who inquired:

1. List of Deadlines

I realize, there are so many deadlines with this form and that form. So I have organized them in a short list that you can see on the side-widget. As there will be many updates coming up, I know the relevant posts will be shifted down further each time I post so click on the link to bring you straight to the post which concerns that topic. Also you will notice in brackets, I have placed the dates for the deadline for you convenience.

2. Batch Video

This Tuesday, 22nd March 2011 right after the 2nd lecture we will be shooting the batch video. There is one very important scene which we deliberated on and finally came up with a simple idea yet effective to literally get every1 their 5 seconds of fame! We will be attempting to organize the longest single file line in IMU and yes if successful it will look awesomely cool. The plan is to get every1 to line up, so line up according to friends figure out your pose or whatever it is you want to shout out as the camera pans across the line from the beginning to the end of the line. Do stick by if you want to be included, the more the better after all we are all one batch! And I will upload the video to FB/Youtube for every1 to see after IMU Ball 2011. :) Your utmost cooperation would be fantastic! We will try to make it as fast as possible, it really depends on how long it takes to assemble the line. :)

3. Q&A

I received several questions, so I will answer them here although I have answered them personally already so that it may help others who might have the same questions.

a) Do we have to do the Student Attribute Form?
Ans. No. That is only for your mentor to fill out, we have nothing to do for that. Hope you have made a good impression on your mentor the past 5 sems though! :)

b) Do local (Seremban) students have to do the narrative?
Ans. No.

With that I conclude this post.

Regards,
Eldwin

Booking For ECA Purposes

Dear All,

Perhaps I did not make any clearer. This is some of the general rules regarding extra curriculum activities or student related activities:

Approval:

1. All application for event must be submitted 2 weeks prior. Please submit form A and B to SSD.

Location:

1. Venue must be booked 2 weeks prior. Fill in the ECA Booking Form that you can get from SSD. All venue must be approved by SSD and AAD. Atrium are only for exhibition related event. NO AUDIO is allowed in atrium. All events involving AUDIO or SPEAKER must use Driveway. No exception for anyone. No cheers are allowed as well in IMU premises during office hour.

2. Greenzone utilization is allocated based on sports club. Please liaise with them if you need to use it. You can only use it during weekdays as IMU. Weekend is for the public as we have make agreement with DBKL regarding this. Only if there is no taker by Friday 5:30, IMU students is allowed to use it.

Promotion:

1. No promotion is allowed on any glass surface of IMU.

2. Promotional material need to be taken down latest 2 days after the event.

I will update you on and off again. But please make sure everyone that will be organizing student event are aware of this (i.e Club and societies, batches).

Regards

Aznah

Reschedulling of Skills Centre Group 1 (A1-E9)

Dear all,

Please be informed that the Skills Centre 1 for Group 1 (A1 – E9) will be reschedule to Tuesday, 22 March 2011 at 4.00 – 6.00pm. Kindly inform your classmates regarding the rescheduling.

Thank you.

Regards

Zalifah

MOCK PMS Matching - Deadline Update

Greetings!

I'm very pleased to see that the MOCK PMS matching template is being used. However, I have had people inform me as well as witness it myself that some are abusing it. The one thing that I hoped would not happen is happening and that is other peoples' choices are being tinkered with and the template is being used as a platform for pranks. Please, if you are not interested in being transparent with you peers then leave those that are willing to collaborate for the overall benefit of the people PMS-ing in this batch to do so without your interference. I have absolutely no way of stopping what is going on, so I apologize to those that were affected. I can only create the "highway" for the cars, I absolutely can't help it if the cars want to "speed illegally". However, I hope the culprits will get their act straight because PMS matching is a serious matter. They are essentially deciding where that RM1 million is going to fly away to. So don't "play play".

Lastly, I have also decided two final outcomes for this template. I shall leave this up indefinitely until the official PMS Matching has been completed for your convenience and so you can update your info as you see fit. I also will not be creating a summary of the data because the data is ever-changing and it would be pointless, I fully trust you all have the capability to interpret the data for what it's worth and put it to your good use. I shall invest that time instead to work with Tay on the batch video. :)

Cheers,

Eldwin

Hospital Visit - Group 2

It has come to my attention also that the visit to Hospital Tuanku Ja'afar (group 2) for next Tuesday, 22 March 2011 is clashing with the "PMS Meeting Students" session at 12.45PM. So for those PMS students that are interested in mingling with the PMS deans to obtain direct input from them about your interest in their university, etc. then you are allowed to join ANY group's session. This is not applicable for local students!

However, please take note it would be the best if you can find someone in that group 1's session to switch places with you so that the bus on that day is not overloaded. I hope the problem does not come to that.

Thank you.

Eldwin

University of Warwick Talk

PMS Matching is just around the corner! And that means you all are either in deciding mode or have already decided. Either way, SRC has been awesome at organizing so many talks for those PMS-ing so that you can make better informed choices.

Details of Talk
Title: University of Warwick Alumni Talk (Also, generally about working in UK)
Date: 18 March 2011
Time: 1PM
Venue: LT1

Do take note and spread the word for those that may not have heard the announcements or keep up with the batch blog. As I said earlier this week, it doesn't matter if you have never visited the batch blog more than 5 times since sem 1, but this is probably the most important time to start keeping updated because there are too many details to be announcing and at least you have referring text to avoid confusion.

Thank you.

Eldwin

Academic Council 2011

Attention to all students.

I realised when making this announcement, primarily PMS students were present at that time so I shall reiterate it on the batch blog. As you know next week there will be the Academic Council 2011, whereby deans from all the PMS will congregate to discuss on IMU-PMS academic issues. They may or may not ask us for our feedback but our job is to sit there in the Senate Room to be ready in case they require feedback from students (which usually is not the case, or at least not when I attended AC 2010).

Here's the good news! It is a one day gig roughly about 2 hours long and starts at 10.45AM, Monday 21 March 2011 and all those that fully participate will be receiving a CERTIFICATE. I'm guessing that one extra thing on yr ECA report won't hurt any right? Thing is, this is rather limited so I will only accept on a first-come-first-serve basis. If you are interested email me your FULL NAME (as on cert) to medt109@gmail.com. If you receive a confirmation email reply then congratz! Otherwise, assume that you did not get it because it really is very limited.

Thank you.

Eldwin

Deans Meet Students Session - 2011

The Twenty-first Meeting of the Academic Council will be held on 20-22 March 2011. 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: Tuesday, 22 March 2011

TIME 12.45 noon – 1.00 pm Presentation by Partner Medical Schools

VENUE Auditorium A & B, 4.06.01 & 02 (4thFloor)

*12.45 noon – 1.00 pm Presentation by Australasia

*1.00 – 1.15 pm Presentation by N. America

*1.15 – 1.30 pm Presentation by UK/Ireland

TIME 12.45 noon –1.30 pm Presentation by Partner Dental Schools

VENUE Lecture Theatre 3, 4.02 (4th Floor)

(Note: 5 minutes for presentation and 5 minutes for Q&A)

TIME 1.30 pm – 3.00 pm Students Meet Individual Deans (Medical & Dental)

VENUE Multi –Purpose Hall 1-6, 2.07 (2rd 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 Affairs 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 and Health

Mock PMS Matching

Greetings M109!

This is particularly important to those doing PMS-ing. Recently I put a poll up about whether or not you all want to have a mock PMS matching. ~ 50 responded with a yes and though there are 128 PMS students in total, it's still enough to convince me to organize this Mock PMS matching. Do take note that I'm not even doing PMS so i'm doing this purely to help those that requested for it. For those that didn't even know of such a poll to begin with, it's time to get back up to speed because you are severely outdated. So, what I ask is your simple cooperation. I have created the basic template for me to gather your Top 10 PMS choices in the google documents (link below). All you need to do is click on the link and find the row with your name and fill in your Top 10 choices. Before doing it, here are some ground rules to avoid any mishaps.

1. Non-MANDATORY.

This Mock PMS matching is not done under AAD, it is organized within our batch specifically to cater our batch ONLY. It would be great if we can get as many as possible to do the mock PMS matching, but privacy is my biggest concern so if you do not wish to disclose then don't. However, please be ethical because if you are not willing to disclose what your choices are I hope you are not so selfish as to check out the choices of others. "Do to others what you want done to yourselves". Thanks!

2. Reliability

From the get go you can already see many weaknesses in this Mock PMS matching in terms of reliability. So doing this, to a certain extent I am fully trusting you all to only alter your own choices and not to tinker with other peoples' choices (that is absolutely not going to be tolerated if I find out). Also this is not going to be 100% definitive because these are just preliminary choices, i'm aware people may and probably will change their choices after this and ESPECIALLY after they take note of other people's choices but this is to be taken as a rough gauge for you to help you in whatever small or big way possible. It is totally up to you in terms of how you want to interpret the data, my job is to collect and display for you all.

I hope the Mock PMS matching is at least helpful to those that requested for it.

I also hope for your utmost cooperation and even not participating would be cooperation enough in one sense, however if you do decide to take part then please at least keep those 2 points in your mind while doing it.

Deadline: Friday, 18th March 2011

MOCK PMS MATCHING

Regards,

Eldwin

PMS/Local Students - Form A and B

This is a very important announcement so please take full note of all things within this post. This is especially important for those that have not checked out the timetables & notices folder on Idrive.

1. Form A

Form A is the Student Matching Preference form. This is applicable for BOTH PMS and LOCAL SEREMBAN students. The instructions are stated very clearly on the form itself and can be found on Idrive: timetables and notices --> ME109 --> PMS folder. This is to be handed in as a HARD-COPY.

Due Date: MONDAY, 28 March 2011 at 3.00pm (hand in ONLY on that day itself, no earlier or later)

2. Form B

This form is your narrative short essay. This is for PMS Students only and should be sent by SOFT-COPY to pmsmatching@imu.edu.my.

Due Date: WEDNESDAY, 23 MARCH 2011 by 3.00pm

3. PMS Handbook

I just received this mountain of PMS handbooks Tuesday afternoon. So I will have already officially distributed them out WEDNESDAY, 16 MARCH 2011. Miss Imelda has printed just enough for all of you, so please be responsible with your copy do not lose it and take another one. You are taking someone else's and with that said I will also say it is first come first serve. The soft copy is on Idrive for you reference.

Take note:

All this can be found on the Idrive. And Miss Imelda is working on getting a MS Word version of form B up on Idrive to make it more convenient for you all so stay tuned and check the folder regularly.

ECA Form - Verification Sessions

Greetings ME109! I hope since the ECA briefing everyone has been preparing their ECA form. I have listed the time slots for the verification sessions below. The verification sessions are whereby you show you proof (eg. certificate, medal) to approve the particular detail that you are writing in your ECA form. You may go to any of these sessions, please take into account your own schedule and timing and not to come outside the time range stipulated to make it more convenient for Miss Asnah and Miss May Kuan: Session 1: 2-4PM 21 March 2011 Venue: 4th Floor Session 2: 1030-1230PM 22 March 2011 Venue: 4th Floor Session 3: 1030-1230PM 23 March 2011 Venue: 4th Floor The deadline for the submission of the softcopy to the respective email addresses will follow that of what is stated on the ECA form, i.e. 30 March 2011. However, by right you HARDCOPY should have already been submitted to the SSD ladies the moment you have verified all of its contents.

Local students

PMS students --> pmsmatching@imu.edu.my Regards, Eldwin

MMS MSK Week 3 - Timetable Changes

Attention to all those in group III and VI for MMS MSK Week 3 there has been this following change in the time for the sessions because Dr Nilesh is not free during the original time slot.

Group III
130-230PM
21 March 2011

changed to:

130-230PM
18 March 2011

AND

Group VI
1145-1245PM
22 March 2011

changed to:

1030-1130PM
18 March 2011

Spread the word!

Cheers,
Eldwin

Yoga Club

Yoga club is offering a free yoga try out session for the staff and students in IMU. Please do join us and invite your friends along!

A Scent of Morning Breeze
...Date: 18th March 2011(FRI)
Time: 7am-8am
Venue: Green Court
Remarks: Bring ur own mat. If it rains, it will be postponed.

Skin Structure functions and dermatomes

Please be informed on the swapping of class for Prof Judson on 28 March 2011 with SIL on 31 March 2011. The following are the details:

Date: 28 March 2011

Time: 8.00 – 9.00am

Topic: SIL (Research & Preparation for PBL)

Date: 31 March 2011

Time: 8.00 - 9.00am

Topic: Skin Structure functions and dermatomes

Lecturer: Prof John Paul Judson

Seronegative spondyloarthritis

Please note that the lecture on ‘Seronegative spondyloarthritis’ by Dr Annie Tay is reschedule to Thursday, 17 March 2011 at 10.30 – 11.30am in Room 3.05

IMU Ball 2011 - Room Prices

To those who wants to book a hotel room, please do so by next week. Rooms available are deluxe room RM450++ and studio RM650++. For deluxe room, it can fit 1 master bed or 2 single beds. It can fit up to 4 people. Since it coincides with F1 race day, rooms are very limited. So please confirm and pay a down payment of 50% to us by next week. Thanks!

contact for more enquiries

Co-Presidents

May Lau - M209

012-2997876

kinomoto_@hotmail.com

Un Pei Jie - DT109

012-8805583/016-5726692

unpeijie@hotmail.com

Vice President (Admin)

Scott Low Jun Kuang - M209

012-6289082

darthhamster_1990@hotmail.com

GP Posting Presentation (Updated)

Greetings ME109!

Alright, so I have called Dr Verna and confirmed 2 very important details about the GP Posting presentation and report which I will announce tomorrow.

1. If you have any doubts as to which group you are supposed to be in, follow the groupings AFTER SWAPPING. However, if you have already contributed to your group according to the OLD LIST; it's not the end of the world. Make sure that you get your attendance taken by Dr Verna the day of your group's presentation.

2. The report is due after your presentation! Please go to see Miss Rozlin after your presentation and DO NOT DROP IT INTO THE PIGEON HOLE. You must see her personally as she will ask you to sign a piece of paper as proof that you handed up your own report.

I apologize for any inconvenience caused!

Cheers!

Eldwin

International Students Event

Lunch

1-3PM

LT2

Saturday, 12 March 2011

OPEN TO ALL INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS OR PR OF OTHER COUNTRIES.

- Peggy

ECA Briefing

ECA Briefing

Venue: LT2

Time: 1030-11AM

Date: 2 March 2011