QUOTE(limeuu @ Mar 28 2012, 11:43 PM)
a common qualifying exam would be politically unacceptable, and indeed, the proposal by mmc (which excludes local graduates from the exam, both ipta and ipts) was turned down by the cabinet..........
objections will arise from both sides....those from good unis do not want an additional barrier and do not see why they need to be tested.....those from bad unis also do not want, as maybe many will fail the exam....
and it will NOT address the problem of bad students locally, both public and private....
When i said common licensing exam, i meant COMMON for all, both local and foreign graduates. Thus, it will address the problem of bad students locally.
And i dun see why anyone should object this (besides those with political agenda). After all, many developed countries (US, Canada, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Japan) have a common medical board exam, which all medical graduates are required to pass in order to practice in the respective countries, regardless of where they graduated from.
QUOTE(limeuu @ Mar 28 2012, 11:43 PM)
there are many other issues.....who will conduct the exam?.....are there enough resources?.....will it include clinicals? (no way moh will cope with clinicals for 3-4K a year)....how objective is the exam?......will it be abused like the clp exams?.....
not going to happen.....
I suggest MMC to form a medical exam board, consisting of senior professors from all local universities or abroad (guest examiners) and senior clinicians from both gov and private hospital. Also, we can divide the exam into few parts, like USMLE, thus limiting the number of applicants for the clinical exam (since some of them will fail in the theory part).
QUOTE(limeuu @ Mar 28 2012, 11:43 PM)
there is an old saying.....prevention is better than cure.....
that is very much the case for this issue....unfortunately, we are not even at cure.....it's palliation at the moment...
I guess we have no other viable choices besides a common licensing exam, since it is very difficult to de-recognize a degree, and also equally difficult to maintain strict intake requirement among local medical schools (as both will require even greater political effort and will).
Of course, what i am saying here might sound like fairy tale, given the political situation in Msia. However, as long as we medical professionals have a common understanding, i am sure we can do something about it, hopefully.
QUOTE(Huskies @ Mar 28 2012, 11:57 PM)
A common licensing exam is great and all, but how transparent/efficient do you think MOH/MMC can carry this out?
And then of course there is the issue of government scholarship/PTPTN recipients (public medical school graduates for that matter too) failing the licensing exam. How do you plan to recoup the public funds splashed on them - arbitrarily if a medical student costs society 200K to educate and the licensing exam has a pass rate of 90% (the USMLE has roughly that amount of passes for US medical graduates) and assuming there are 4000 publicly funded medical students each year - that's 400 x 200K= 80 million ringgit each year down the drain
In other countries, scholarship recipients are almost always the creme de la creme. However, the same can't be applied in Msian context. I am sure you know whom should we blame, and what should we do in the next GE.
P.S I am just sharing my humble dua cents here. You are free to disagree with me but pls avoid inflammatory remarks. Thx
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