International Medical University

Students from the International Medical University (IMU) in Malaysia who are considering completing their medical degree in Aberdeen can obtain information about the curriculum, the location of teaching and placements, course fees, as well as life at the University and in Aberdeen, by using the links on the left-hand side.

IMU students joining Aberdeen

Selection of Partner Medical School

IMU students are matched to a partner medical school overseas by a computer-based process. Both students and the partner schools contribute to the information used in the process. The precise criteria this University uses to select IMU students is available to all IMU students locally at IMU (contact Student Affairs office).

Briefly, we take particular account of the students' academic record and progress at the IMU, but also the comments that the students themselves make in their personal statements and the comments we receive in a proforma letter from the IMU Dean.

We are unable to consider IMU students who prefer to apply directly to Aberdeen in preference to accepting the clinical place allocated elsewhere by the above method of selection.

Students joining the undergraduate programme at Aberdeen will enter the curriculum at the start of the third term of Year 3. Your curriculum at the IMU does mirror in general the one delivered in Aberdeen, but we recognise the issues involved in moving to a new country and medical school. Accordingly, we run a 4-week bridging course to help you settle in to our city and medical school.

IMU Bridging Course

You will be initially welcomed to the Medical School and complete the necessary documentation within the College Office. You will need to be issued with University & Hospital ID badges and attend Occupational Health and Student Health to ensure your health and immunisation details are known.

You will be given an initial tour of the Foresterhill site and the Library where you will be logged on to the university network and shown how to set up your individual e-mail accounts.

You will be given an outline of the MB ChB programme in general and Year 4 in particular, including our assessment methods (exam structure).

Thereafter, the Bridging Course includes the following activities:

  • Introduction to psychological aspects of healthcare
  • Introduction to the sociology and social aspects of medicine in the UK
  • Outline of the Community Course, and screening in the UK; this will include attendance at a General Practice (family medicine unit)
  • Introduction to paediatrics, with hospital ward visits
  • Update in communication and clinical skills and in CPR
  • Hospital ward teaching
  • Update in psychiatry

As we are keen to help our IMU students integrate into the Aberdeen curriculum as easily as possible, we will happily consider other topics for inclusion in the bridging course, should students feel their need.