Malaysian Studying in US

Malaysian who can effort it prefers to have his children to study overseas. The tradition destination is UK, basically due to the historical links and similarity of the education system. However, the number of students opted to pursue their education in US is on the rise.

Currently there are about 7000 Malaysian studying in US. The number is considered rather small when you compare to students from China and India. China is the largest groups consisting of about 160,000. In fact about half of the number of students are from the three countries of China, India and Korea.

Many of the students are attracted to the opportunities in US. The top ranking universities are in US. The internationally renounced universities such as Harvard, Stanford, MIT and Julliard are becoming the target of these students. Many of the professors are leading authorities in their specific fields. Their researches are the cutting edge of the work and their papers are often get their place in the international journals.

Admission into the top universities are competitive for international students. This is mainly because the seat allotted for overseas students are limited. To be considered, the students must attain a good grade, complete a challenging course works, show sufficient funding and have a good command of English.

Read More

Your Future in Medicine - St George University

My daughter is in form 4 now. I am looking at the option for her study, thus I am capturing and the interested course of study.

I am not very sure whether this courses conducted by St George University is approved by Malaysia Medical Board.

Read More

Choosing What to Study after SPM

Studying seem to be a burden for some people. There seem to be too many things to consider in choosing the course after SPM. For the benefit of foreigners, SPM is the examination set my the Malaysian Education Department. It is like the GCE O level, given to student on his/her 11 year of schooling.

From experience and taking to children, there are 3 persons that determine the students study path. They are:

1. The students himself.
2. The parent/ family
3. Other organisation.

A. The student himself.
The student may be able to identify the area that he likes. However, it is often noticed that his/her preferences is not stable, that means that, one day he want to be example a doctor, the next day, after watching a movie, he may want to be a writer.

This is common, as children are still searching and trying to understand about the environment and himself.

B. The parents.
Some parent can be authoritative. He may have a plan line-up for his sons or daughters. The first is to be this, the second to be that and so forth. It had seen some negative results of this practice and some positive ones. There are cases, as I interviewed the students, I asked him, why he applied for the program. The answer was direct.." My father want me to do it, he is sponsoring for it. If I have a choice I would prefer to do ....... "

C. Other organisation.
There are cases when an organisation select the potential students to pursue a given courses. An oil and gas company may foresee the need to have petroleum engineer in 3 years time, then they will view the potential students and offer them scholarships. At the end, it is the students or parents will make the choice.

I was reading an article in thestar written by Louis Yap. It take home the following points...

a. Keep in touch with your friends and value the time you had have and the time you will have. You will be parting you separate path, the time and distant will take the tolls on the relationship. When you are older, then you will appreciate and value the moments that you had had in school. You can never duplicate that.

b. The study and the qualification is the door to your career. You select and choose in full view of your intended career. This is part of your life plan, most likely you have only one opportunity to do it.

Read More

Job of a Pharmacists

The job of a pharmacists include:
- recording the medical history of a patient.
- identifying the goals of a drug therapy.
- working with a patient on the self-medication.
- counselling patients on medical prescription.
- recommend to the doctors on the drug selection.
- maintaining patients drugs profile.

His or her other activities include, giving drugs information to the doctors and patients, preparing materials to be used for drugs and dispensing the drugs.

The Jobs Opportunities    
With a more liberated medical care in you country, the more opportunities are open for pharmacists:

- many choose to start their own drug store. This is the source of drug prescription for a private patients. Most hospital tend to have a pharmacy department and provide the required medicine and drugs.

- Pharmacist at a government hospital - He will be operating the pharmacy at the hospital. His job include identifying what medicine to keep. He will source and purchase the medicine from a suitable source, store and disperse the drugs.

- Pharmacy Industry - This is the industry that do the research on drugs and medical cures, manufacture the drugs and make money from the sale of the products.

Read More