FM (14/9/11) - Plenary

Here are the two important plenaries for the date 14/9/2011 for FAMILY MEDICINE posting.

You may download it from the links below:

Antiseptic

Wound Dressing

Regards,

Eldwin

Seremban Timetable!!!

hey guys,

As v all know,there has been a slight delay in the release of our timetable.As for now,v do not knw what to expect on Monday.So to be on the safer side,v r meeting up at 9am at the school cafeteria on Monday(5th September).for more details log in to our FB group.

More BOOKs...

Hey guys!

To those who are going to Seremban in particular, Joe has taken the effort to get a list of books tt would b necessary/useful for our clinical..the list is as below:

EMO:

1. Davidson's --> RM65
2. Kumar & Clark --> RM93
3. Oxford Handbook of Clinical Medicine --> RM79
4. Oxford Handbook of Clinical Specialties --> RM70
5. Davidson's handbook --> RM40
6. Bailey and Love Surgery --> RM170
7. Burkitt's Essentail Surgery (problems, diagnosis and management) --> RM110
8. Browse's (symptoms and signs of surgical disease) --> RM70

KAMAL:

1. Davidson's --> RM99
2. Kumar & Clark --> RM99
3. Oxford Handbook of Clinical Medicine --> RM55
4. Davidson's handbook --> RM75
5. Bailey and Love Surgery --> RM155
6. Burkitt's Essentail Surgery (problems, diagnosis and management) -->RM95
7. Browse's (symptoms and signs of surgical disease) --> RM50

So the books that are in BOLD are the cheaper ones (compared to the other place)... But I personally prefer books from EMO bcs i have VERY BAD experiences buying from Kamal (books worn out very fast). Anyone else has met with similar problems?? Anyways u guys can think abt it and I will probably collect money and place down orders first day in seremban!

Don't know which to choose? basically seniors would recommend to get:

1. Kumar&Clark or Davidson's (this will be our go to book for the whole internal med rotation whn we need to read up on something)
2. OHCM or Davidson's handbook (for quick reference during ward rounds! u won't go wrong getting OHCM but we got a very good deal for the Davidson's handbook n its a really good book as well!)
3. Bailey's is recommended for surgery rounds (famous surgical book, wont go wrong getting it!). No 6&7 was recommended by Henry from EMO (he says a lot of seniors come to get those books as well).

-JOE-

To those who are off to Seremban:

1.if u need a labcoat u can FB msg Joe ur size ASAP as he will be going there soon to make the

purchase

2.have u signed in our FB group yet? If not please do so at : http://www.facebook.com/groups/183624611693159/

anyways enjoy ur remaining holidays n see u peeps in seremban..

Loves,

Geena...

Pam's Room For Rent

Room for rent in single-storey bungalow at Jalan Rasah, Seremban for RM400.

1. Behind shoplots along Mawar Hospital.
2. Near exit to main road.
3. Walking distance to Hospital Tuanku Jaafar.
4. Air-conditioned room and fully furnished.
5. Toilet next to bedroom.
6. Ample parking space for at least 2 cars.
7. Newly repainted and refurbished house.

*Call 0172870067 or email wamniz@gmail.com for images or more info

Amni 'Pam' Zulkifar

Library Hours Extended

Dear students of IMU,

As per your requests, the SRC and the Library dept. are glad to inform you that with effective from 1^st August ‘2011 the IMU Library Collaborative Study Area (CSA) will be open till 12:00 a.m. on weekdays.
However, we still have to cross a few bumps before we can make it permanent. Yes, everyone, it’s still temporary and on a TRIAL period till the25^th of august ‘2011. If we are able to follow the criteria given to us by the Library dept. till the end of the trial period, then of course the library CSA will continue to be open till 12:00 a.m.
The criteria are as listed below:

1) All books are to be returned by 10 pm
2) No borrowing of books after 10 pm
3) No books or MMS models should be misplaced or damaged during the trial period
4) A minimum of 20 students on average should be present in the CSA.
5) Last but not least, the most important issue:
Students should walk safely while walking back to Vista or their cars after 12:00 am
and should not get mugged on the way during the trial period.

If any of these 5 Criteria are breached or not fulfilled (especially the last 3), then the whole thing is KAPUT!! In other words, library CSA will only be open till 10 p.m., we will never be given a chance to increase library operation hours in the future ever again.
Furthermore, the QSA and MMS section will be closed after 10 p.m. and only 2 part-time student librarians and a security guard will be overseeing the library till midnight after 10 p.m. The Reserve Collection Area will be out of bounds during the time 10 – 12 also.

So, students of IMU, the SRC has once again listened to your concerns and have acted upon them. This time, it is up to you to keep this newly granted opportunity and to not mess it up in anyway, if you would like the library CSA to be open till 12:00 a.m. on weekdays.
Also I would like to stress on the importance on student safety once they leave the library at midnight, since that is the main reason the library dept. is concerned about. Please try to travel in packs or groups. Guys I need not remind you, now’s the chance to jump in and walk those pretty ladies off to safety :P.

Anyways, thank you for your support extended to us in this matter and with your help I believe that in the near future we can make more exceptional changes to the library to benefit your needs. Your SRC president, Simran Singh will be visiting most of the batches to announce more details regarding this matter.
Thank you and have a great time everyone!

Nestor Rukmal
SRC Secretary

Batch Rep Resignation

Greetings fellow batchmates! :)

Wow, can't believe that holidays are already half over! I do hope everyone is getting the time that they always wanted to sleep in, exercise, laze around, catch up on TV series, etc. to just rejuvenate after one hell of a semester 5. So, let's return back to my initial purpose of writing this post.

Official Resignation

I have already announced it on the Seremban Clinical School batch facebook group, but this is to just officialize it; also I found some parts of my post would also be directed to those PMS-ing thus hope you will bear with my "formality". :P But, I have nominated Joe and Teegeena as this batch's future batch reps (male and female respectively) and so far I have not heard any negative comments about it. Thus, I will proceed on with slowly transferring over responsibilities to the elected to make the transition as smooth as possible. However, I also maintain my word that nominations are still open so those that would want the job for any reason, feel free to voice out. If this happens, I will immediately start a voting process and the one with the most votes will participate in my hand-over immediately following thereafter. Otherwise, I presume the batch has no other willing bodies and shall congratulate Joe and Geena on August 1st 2011 when they are officially the "go-to people" for everything that you would normally address to the batch reps. I hear-by, formally declare my resignation as batch rep. (:

The Reason

It was a hard decision to come to, trust me. The thought was in my mind since the end of semester 4, but I decided to hang on for the final semester for pre-clinical as things were starting to get really busy with Convo Mag, Mock PMS Matching, etc. I felt that it would be wrong to just leave in the midst of so many things going on and knowing probably no one would want the job seeing it is semester 5 and all. :P So, what finally brought me to do it was because this halfway mark through medical school helped me come to the realization that I do want to move on from this job and try something different. It has been my utmost pleasure to be able to serve every one of you but quite honestly i'm very tired from the job. It seems to be quite easy from the outside to many, but there are many things behind the scenes faced that fails to ever see light. I think that I have tried my very best to do what I was supposed to do and came to the conclusion it is time to let others have this chance to grow from such an experience as I have grown from it. It was very tough to let go, but I hope being batch rep doesn't define who I am to you all. I hope over the 2.5 years you have gotten to know me a bit better than just "he is our batch rep!" because I did try to go beyond by duties several times to let you all know a bit about me personally. :)

Words of Gratitude

I want to express many thanks to you all for allowing me to be your batch representative for the past 2.5 years. I have never once taken for granted all the support and positive encouragement you have given to me over the years and it was one of the reasons I was able to carry on doing what the batch needed every time. It has been a good growing experience and it was only made possible because of the very people that constituted this batch. I know this sounds slightly tacky, but I can say i mean ever word of it as i have never really been know for my semantics anyways. :P It has been so awesome to meet most of the batch and know all of you (I apologize for those I never got to know) but you all definitely made our batch one of the more colourful batches. That is one of the things I will remember about this batch for sure and I apologize if I have ever offended anyone along the duration of my tenure or come short of my responsibilities. I have given my best foot forward and thanks to all of you for making my job easier with your cooperation all this while. I could not have been asked to represent a better batch of people. :)

Do enjoy the holidays well and all the best for those going overseas for PMS and for those that are going to Seremban - see you all there! :)

Your "neighborhood batch rep",

Eldwin

Sban Accommodation

hey guys from m109,

If any of you guys are looking for a place to stay in seremban, i have a batch mate that is advertising for such a room.

here are the following descriptions of the place.

ONE single room, very well furnished, RM 135 per month.

I don't mind if its a guy or a girl as the previous tenant was a female.

It is not far from the hospital and almost 80% of the batch stay in seremban 3.

Water and electricity will be splited evenly among all tenants of the house.

In the room, there is a table, air-con(need to buy from the previous owner), a large cupboard.

We have a fridge and a washing machine here. All provided here.

if interested, let me know and i will get you in touch with him ok.

cheers.. help to spread the word ard. i may have tagged even PMS ppl, but jst tag the rest of your frens lar who might be interested.

just trying to get the word out. help me out yeh :)

2 Rooms for Rent in Sban

Hello there,

I'm from Seremban Clinical School, currently in sem7, would like to ask your help to post the following ad in your batch blog.

2 rooms for rent in bungalow in Jalan Rasah

Double storey corner lot bungallow house in Taman Limau Emas, Jalan Rasah, about 3 minutes drive from IMU Clinical school Seremban.
Big house with ample parking space(can park 5 cars) furnished with fridge, washing machine, stove, sofa, streamyx internet etc
There will be 2 rooms available in September 2011. Rooms are very big, furnished with ceiling fan only, however you can opt to buy furnitures from the previous seniors.
Rental is RM 230.00 per month(negotiable)
Call 012-2500357 for further enquiries.

ANU Alumni Talk

Dear All,

There will be an alumni talk from IMU Alumni, Phua Chun Seng from Australian National University 2011. Below are the event details:

Date: 1 July 2011

Time 12:30 – 1:30

Venue: Secretariat 3 (2.11)

Topic: Q& A Session of Life in Australian National University

Please spread the news.

Valerie,

Can you book the room

Regards

Aznah

IMU Alumni and profiles

Hey peeps,

It's been already 2 weeks plus since results has passed. Been mising the whole batch :(

Anyway, important announcement.

Those who haven't signed up for alumni, pls do!!! We really need your help to publish our convo mag. How do you sign up for it? just do the following

1. go to http://www.imu.org.my/
2. click "sign up as new member."
3. fill up your details and put your batch as ME109. (remember, there's an E).

It's just that easy.


To those who haven't filled up your profiles, here's the questions. Just copy the questions, answer it and save it in a word document and send it to medt109@gmail.com,

IMU editorial personal Survey questions

1 Name:

2 Date of birth:

3 Contact details:

- Facebook

- Email

- Others:

4 Favourite quote:

5 Favourite idol/ personal of inspiration, why?

Interesting academic questions (I guess):

6 Favourite part of your anatomy and why?

7 Best part about studying in IMU?

8 Sweetest memory in IMU

9 Best hangout spot in IMU

10 Most hated location in IMU

11 weirdest thing that happened to you or to people you know whilst at IMU

12 Favourite lecturer, why?

13 What are you thinking of when u start drifting off during lectures?

14 What would your one piece of advice for young future med students be?

15 Where do u see yourself in 10 years?

Personal questions.. be FRANK !

1 If u had a million tax-free dollars, how would u spend it?

2 If u were stranded on a deserted island, what 1 item would bring and why?

3 If you could turn back time, where and when would u like to go?Why?

4 If you could change something about yourself, what would it be & why?

5 How would you describe yourself in one word?

6 Which was the dumbest purchase that you ever made.

7 What is the craziest thing that you have ever done?

8 If you could have one superpower, what would it be?

9 What will you do if I ask you to make me laugh in the next two minutes?

Semester 6 Talk - Slideshow

Greetings M109 S'ban!

For those that were not able to make it for the S'ban talk (which was most of ya'll..:P), it was generally helpful just to get a overview of what to expect. Dave (SRC S'ban) was nice enough to give me the softcopy of the slides that he was presenting off of so I've uploaded it and you can download it here.

Hope it helps! :)

Regards,

Eldwin

Semester 6 Talk

Greetings every1!

This announcement is aimed primarily at those doing the Local (Seremban) option. A senior, Gurdave has spoken with Miss Asnah and would like to give a talk on what to expect at sem 6 (s'ban) and what to get prepared. It's an unofficial briefing by a senior basically and the details are below: (This is rather short-noticed so do share the info with our other S'ban batchmates so if they at least know about it. I believe in the inter-communicability of M109!)

Topic: Semester 6 Seremban Clinical School Talk

Time: 12.30-1.30PM

Date: 17 June 2011

Venue: MPH 5

Speaker: Gurdave (FB him if you don't know)

Regards,

Eldwin

PMS Letter Typo

"Attention to all the pms transferring boys & girls, not sure if u have noticed a typo of the date of issue in ur respective pms matching result letter. If you want a corrected version of ur letter, please approach ms. imelda by making a move to imu aad whenever ur free, asap. This is totally up to u on whether u want it or not, but it's there ready for ya to take. Thanks. :)"

I approached ms. imelda regarding this matter in this morning, and she hopes i could pass on the msg to the rest of our pms bound batchmates.

Other than that, thanks heaps! take care! ;)





Regards,
derrick

PMS Matching Results / M109 Convo Mag

IMPORTANT:

Great! Now that I have your full attention. :) One last day of OSCE and we are out of this place! But before this blog is rendered useless by about 60%, take note of the 2 important announcements below:

1. PMS Matching Results - Release Time

Dear students,

Good evening. As you know, the PMS Matching results will be released tomorrow, Thursday, 2 June 2011 at 4.00pm at venue 3.04 (LT 2).

Kindly, be informed that if you intend to appeal, the Matching Appeals Form can be found in the E-Learning Portal (ME109). Below are theguidelines when you make an appeal:

i) Students are required to complete Matching Appeal Application Form (at e-Learning portal).

ii) Please submit your appeals letter together with the Matching Appeal Application Form.

iii) No appeals will be entertained unless the form is completed, signed and submitted to AAD within the stipulated deadline.

Deadline: Monday, 6 June 2011; 11.00am

By the way, a representative Prof Soon Lee from the University of Western Sydney will be visiting IMU on Tuesday, 7 June 2011. We would like to urge students who have been matched to UWS to meet up with Prof Soon Lee between 1.00 – 1.30pm at venue 2.03.03.

I would like to take this opportunity to wish you Good Luck and all the best in your future undertakings.

Thank you. J

Rgds,

Imelda Bartolome

Academic Services

2^nd Floor, IMU Bukit Jalil, KL

Tel: 03-2731 7355

2. Convo Mag

We will be collecting money for the convo mag starting tomorrow at the same time and same place as the PMS Matching Results release. The asking price is RM55, the whole convo mag committee is going to work real hard to raise money next week to lower the price (in which if possible we may give you cash rebate) and I really apologize that we have no sample to show you all but hope you have faith in the convo mag committee in producing a awesome year book that will be totally worth the RM55. So do hope you can support us! :)

Post-OSCE Debriefing

Dear Students,

Please be informed that there will be Post OSCE Debriefing on

Date: Friday, 3 June 2011

Time: 10.00am

Venue: Briefing Room, Skills Centre.

Thank you

Regards

Zalifah

OSPE/OSCE Groupings

Greetings guys!

Okay, the groupings are out already. Do check out your IMU email accounts, a soft copy has been sent there. Melody has kindly put up the download links for both of the groupings as well on FB. However, since some of you might not have Melody on FB i've re-linked it here on the batch blog for everyone's accessibility to be fair.

OSPE Groupings

OSCE Groupings

IMU Deposit Refund

Dear Graduating Students & Batch Rep (include and ONLY PMS/PDS),

Congratulations on your End of Course in IMU. Kindly refer and complete the form attached for respective Caution Deposit Refund in AUG’11.

Please be informed that respective refund will be processed within 30 WORKING DAYS AFTER CONVOCATION in 20^th AUG’11. Appreciate if you could deliver this message to parents or to whom it may concern.

Please ignore this email if you have submitted the form earlier OR you may choose to FORWARD to your colleagues as a reminder (in case they have not received). Thanks & Wish you a nice day!

Warm Regards,

Yun Leng

IMU Education Sdn Bhd

Finance Department

Direct: 03-2731 7390

P.S. THE FORMS ARE AVAILABLE AT THE FINANCE OFFICE.

Tel: 03-8656 7228 ext. 2516

PMS Matching Results - Release Date

This is the official announcement most if not all the PMS students have been waiting for:

The PMS Results will be released next Thurs, June 2nd at 5PM.

I sincerely wish you are all happy with the choice you receive, in the mean time

all the best for exams!! :)

Eldwin
&
Diana

Glasgow University Talk

Dear all,

There will be an alumni talk regarding of studying medicine in the UK particularly in the Glasgow University by Lee Kwang Yang this coming Friday (27th May 2011). The details are as followed :

Date : 27th May 2011 (Friday)

Venue : Room 3.06

Time : 12:30pm-1:30pm

His talk should briefly covers :

1) What to expect as a medical student in the UK

2) Some survival skills

Who should attend?

- All the potentially partnering medical students to the UK.

To those interested, please do inform your respective batchreps before the end of Wednesday, which is tomorrow (25th May 2011).

Thank you.

Regards,

Denise

Vice President (Medicine)

Student Representative Council

--
Student Representative Council
International Medical University

PMS Matching Results (Update)

Greetings fellow batchmates!

Quite a number of people have asked me about the PMS results already, so I figured it would be best for me to just put it up on the batch blog. As of last Wednesday (18 May 2011), I received confirmation from Miss Imelda that the PMS matching results will be ready by the end of May. That may mean some time next week, or if it's really cutting close to the deadline it could even fall on any day of our first 2 days of EOS5. I understand some rather have it before and some rather have it after exams, but i really apologize because I can't do anything about the timing at all. Dr JPJ had set a deadline for the AAD to finish the Matching Results by end of the month so they are all scrambling to finish it by that deadline, pity her too because I know she is trying her best. So the date of release might not be on everyones' "good side", but there is really nothing we can do about it..hope you all can still focus on preps for exams at hand. :)

Cheers,

Eldwin

P.S. As soon as I know anything, the first thing I will do is update the blog and FB it. You have my word!