QUOTE(jamestan88 @ May 1 2012, 10:51 PM)
I guess Dr. Pagalavan will not name the dubious medical schools he mentions, but let me state some, generally speaking from experience working with houseofficers from various universities (to generalise is bad but you have to see it to believe me).
Ranking from the best to the worse of them lot…
1. UM/UKM/USM graduates are amongst the best I’ve seen, good work ethics, good knowledge, maybe a little poor on presentation skills, probably only 1 out of 100 will pull a disappearing act or get extended by the department.
2. Local twinning graduates i.e. PMC/IMU/MMMC, these are the so-called kids of rich parents or what you people would label them as, but knowledge and attitude-wise, probably on par or slightly lacking behind the UM/UKM/USM bunch. Maybe 5-10 out of 100 are bad, lets face it every medical school produces bad apples.
3. Graduates from UK/Australia/New Zealand, sometimes I wonder why on earth do they even come back from where they graduated (1st world country practices are not applicable to Malaysia!). Knowledge-wise excellent, but usually takes a while to pick up the necessary clinical skills compared to our local graduates, interns are not expected to do much in 1st world countries and if so only under SUPERVISION.
4. Graduates from Indonesia/Middle East, mind you some are JPA scholars, some are sponsored by parents, I’d say 50 out of 100 are good.
5. Graduates from Russia/Ukraine – What do you have to say, I have countless stories accumulated from just over 4 years as these graduates are rare/unheard of before 2008. 95 out of 100 are BAD to the core, no knowledge, doesn’t know how to take a history/examine a patient (some probably did Accountancy), never held a needle/syringe or touch a patient! Last but not least, disappear or try to pretend to be busy so that others will do extra work. How on earth do they graduate from these dubious medical schools?
Why are graduates from Russia/Ukraine being looked down upon? To the extent that they usually exclude from their Rubber Stamp where they graduated. Useless unless proven otherwise as mentioned by some senior doctors.1 - Regarding local graduate (NOT ALL Universities) especially the one that OP listed above, I'd impressed and they gain my respect. I don't have a close friend that undergo Medical course on mentioned institute, but did met a few times during my attachment on annual holiday. Too bad I don't have chance (yet) to exchange our clinical skills since I did took a night shift and she and her colleague did a day shift. But in rough observation, one of the downside from them is they are quite rigid, more like our typical government doctor. I still don't have chance to meet with the one that seems enjoy studying medicine. Maybe one person manifestation is differ from other, idk.
2 - I personally don't have any experience with twinning programme students. But my dad's friend is a dean for one of the mentioned institute. Based on the sharing from his dad, I could believe that most of them are a good students, in term of knowledge.
3 - They as a student are mostly arrogant (especially male) but lack of clinical skill. Theory is quite good.
4 - Indonesia is worsen lately with their corruption in the examination result. Its a sad thing, really. Middle East is quite young to be judge with, there are only about 2-3 batches of graduate and most of them are having balance between skill and theory. But I personally don't think this positive reputation gonna last long, due to overflowing admission of new studies thanks to those irresponsible agents that popup like a mushroom.
5 - Agree with OP, the graduates from there are poor both in skill, theory and personality. Not everyone, obviously, but most of them.
My personal additional comments:
1 - Dr. Pagalavan is a good doctor and observer, but reading solely from his blog is insufficient for any of you to came out with your conclusion.
2 - Public are worrying about so call surplus of graduates. It is a valid reason to be worry, but don't just barking on the problem but government should start find a way to manipulate this reality.
4 - Where is your college located is not the absolute factor of how good you are once you graduated. It boil down to yourself, how discipline you are, how good is your EQ skill etc. A mark of a piece of paper won't bring any good if you are a bad person yourself.
I do hope that Medical Qualification Exam will be tighten from time to time for the sake of the service quality.