i think Allen is graduated or else he will not be accepted in Perdana Uni.

Dear Allen,

I am sort of your senior but i am medical grad. One of your senior, who graduated last year, from biomedical, pursued his study in medicine in Perdana as well. He seems to enjoy it very much as he posted most of his experiences in Facebook.

But you need to know this, although it is collaborated with John Hopkins, your ultimate degree in medicine is not recognized in John Hopkins itself, not even from our neighbouring countries like Indonesia, Singapore… you can only worked in Malaysia (if only there is SPACE for you.. ). You may argue with me that they say this or that. Honestly this is what we call advertisement. Besides, it is a very new Uni with lack of facilities for teaching. The lack of facilities refers to mannequin, and instruments. They don’t even own a hospital for “experimental learning” among medical students eg UKM owns HUKM and UM owns UMMC. Hence the quality will be doubt. The quality of young doctors already been doubt what else if graduate from such new Uni who don’t even own patients for you to learn with. Again, you may say we will join this and that hospital, but most of MOH hospital won’t allow you to perform procedure on patient, assist in surgery or etc… You are only qualified to become wallpaper or vas… Observe, observe and observe… That is not fun at all without the hands on experience. Once you do it, you will remember for life.

Anyway, if you really, truly, seriously love to become a doctor with “heavy workload, stress, long working hours… xxx” (the young doctors love to say these nowadays, which i think is NON-SENSE), go for it, as I believe with the hard work, persistency, good attitude and the commitment for lifelong learning, even though you are not the best doctors, at least you are among the best. Good luck.

Partnering with JH does not make it a good school automatically. You must understand that JH is just borrowing their curicullum and some lecturers to this university. It is essentially Perdana University degree with NO international recognition. That is the reason I disagree when they put a RM1 million price tag to it. I rather go overseas and get a well recognised degree for the same amount of money. However, I know that JPA is giving full scholarship to everyone accepted into this uni and thus you don’t need to pay anything. Furthermore, being a JPA scholar will guarantee you a job in civil service as you will be bonded. The problem of oversupply will only affect you in your postgraduate studies.

The healthcare structue in US is totally different then Malaysia. Thus, having US based curicullum is not going to do well in Malaysia. The advantage is only the fact that they are recruiting people with basic degree who are more matured and has real interest in medicine

“Just to add to what Anaes SHO has mentioned regarding working overseas as a doctor – you’ll have to deal with prejudices that local patients might have against you.

Unless you can somehow fake an accent and pretty much transform yourself into a true-blooded Aussie (for example, could be British/American/Canadian), people will know you’re foreign-trained because almost none of their own citizens read medicine abroad. Especially so since high profile cases such as the one involving a certain Dr. Patel aka Dr. Death in Australia – foreign-trained doctors now receive heavy scrutiny from both the media and the public. Admittedly, some have been unfairly discriminated against in spite of their immense contribution to rural medicine in Australia. So, it’s not necessarily smooth sailing all the way in a foreign country”

Hi Huskies,

You are absolute right. Recently some of my friends complained to me that they were scolded by some Aussie local patients (older ones) like “I don’t understand your accent, and I don’t know why you are here” “Go back to your country, what r you doing here?”, “go back to China!!” (actually not from China) “We don’t need U here”.

After you pass all 3 parts of MRCP, you need to undergo 18 months gazettement process before being gazetted as a specialist, After that you need to wait 2 years before applying for a subspeciality training programme, which is another 3 years.

Are you an undergraduate or a graduate of biomedical science in UKM ? I was told one must have a basic degree (graduated) then only he/she is qualified to apply for this medical course, otherwise have to go for the undergraduate (Ireland) course.