An intro to Examination for Provisional Examination(EPR)

I am a Malaysian medical graduate from University of Medicine and Pharmacy Gr. T. Popa, Iasi, Romania.
I’ve been actually thinking for past few months to get started with this blog but then I don’t really know from where to start actually. Somehow I have started my mission and here I am writing a blog for the first time.
The main reason why I am writing this blog is I thought it would be helpful and be a guidance to those who gonna sit for Examination for Provisional Examination(EPR) . EPR is a medical licensing exam for unrecognized  overseas returned/ local medical graduates to get enrolled into houseman-ship in Malaysia. It was formerly known as MQE(Medical Qualifying Examination). A lil history of MQE; initially the programme was run by 3 govt uni  UM, UKM, USM with a fee of RM 3k (one and a half month course + exam) until 2011. Then the MMC came up with a revised MQE programme where it was run by 16 uni (private + govt) with a fee ranging from RM 31k – 50k(6-9mths course + exam) until 2015.
And then, again it was revised and finally the EPR was finalized starting from 2016 (1^st EPR theoretical exam was in july 2016). EPR is a centralized exam where the exam centers will be decided by MMC meaning all candidates will have the same exam centre. Up to this date(end of 2017) the center for EPR theoretical exam is at HUKM and for clinical exam is IMU. It may change in future, so do keep in touch with MMC to know the latest update. In order to sit for the exam, you have to pay RM1k (application processing fee), RM3k (theory exam fee) and RM3k (clinical exam fee) and there was clinical attachment in IMU with extra charge+.
Regarding the time period for the whole process of EPR, I’m writing from my personal experience. I sat for the theory exam in 30^th march 2017 and got the result in the end of May 2017. Whoever passed the theory exam is eligible for clinical exam. Those who failed, have to retake the theory exam. Coming back to my own journey, I passed theory and got the date for clinical exam on July 19^th to be exact and got the result in 3^rd week of September. And thereafter, proceed with houseman-ship application.
This EPR process will roughly kill a whole year of ur time. So, good time management is all u need in case u wanna go for any temporary job.
This is just an effort of making this blog a one stop guidance for EPR candidates. I found it from my own experiences, it is really time consuming to search for guidance from zero. So, the idea to start this blog just popped up in my thought. I hope this will make your life easier to start your exam preparation. These are purely my personal opinion and experiences. Hence, no compulsion to follow blindly whatever I wrote in this blog and pls just use as guidance only.