Of the international student body in RCSI, American and Canadian students make up about only 10 % of each year......................
you see it varies..................most US and Canadian students go into the 1st med year and skip the foundation year....................
from the 2006 calss that gratuated the biggest international group was students from the middle east and the gulf region............from UAE, Kuwait, Bahrain, etc.................mostly government sponsored
in the classes below this Malaysian students make up the biggest %.............
around 65 Malaysian students enter RCSI each year on the PMC programme............PMC is a college in penang owned by RCSI and UCD,...........65 students go to each college each year ( combined total of 130)..............most are on the 5 year programme,...........and the rest on the 6 year programme...............they spent either 2 1/2 or 3 1/2 years in dublin then go back to penang for the clinicals,..................in the clinical years in dublin both rcsi and ucd , have a reduction in the numbers of malaysian students because of this twinning programme.................
but there are malaysian government students about 40 diveded between UCD and RCSI who do the full course in Ireland..............
and among the private Malaysian studets who do full course there are about 10 in each year for the full programme in RCSI...............
as for US and Canadian students,,,,,,,,,i know that of the 25 international place that were available this year on the new 4 year programme in RCSI, the student are mostly from the US and Canada,............the other 25 are EU students, mostly irish.............this 4 year programme has 50 students...its the 1st year of this programmme.................so some of the US students who wold have previously applied for the 5 year programmme , applied for the 4 year programmme this year.................
other countries well represented in RCSI are Australia, and Norway..............as Norway not been part of the EU, students from there can apply as international students...............other students come from Nigeria, Jordon, Egypt, Sudan, Syria, Cyprus, Malta, and China................
so US and Canadian students do not make up the biggest international group............in the pre- clinical years its the malaysians, in the clinical years i would give the edge to the Gulf region students over the US and Canada combined, followed by the full course malaysians..................
its an interesting story..................
