there is no law or rule against treating close relatives, but it is advisable not to, because the emotional relationship can impair clinical judgement and decision making....

all medical entertainment dramas are exactly that......dramas to entertain.....and should not be taken as real....

An update from OZ:

It is increasingly hard to secure a spot for internship even though past statistics are comforting. For us here in Tassie, we have about 17-18 internationals hoping to stay (out of a cohort of a 100). We are cat 2 in Tassie, but otherwise cat 5 elsewhere. WA seems to have frozen their application so far? And as we know, VIC is basically off limits. So where can we go?

Few of us deduced that we either can a) head back or go to SG, or b) take the commonwealth spot which is rather reasonable. Still, SG won't be that bad (unless someone proves me wrong). Residency program there can be a good thing, and can be a bad thing.

With further budget cuts from the health care side of things, things are not looking well here really. Uni fees will be unbarred starting in 2016. Estimated cost of LOCAL fees is about 30k/yr (from a 8-9k range). Imagine that for internationals?

Undeniably, unis here provide high quality medical education. but it is frustrating for graduates to be stuck in a position not knowing what lies ahead of them.

This will be the first private med school in the UK.... It has been proposed some time ago, with some initial objection to the idea of full fees private medical education....

All students will pay the rather high fees of 35k GBP....which is more than 3 times other students pay at public funded unis....which then begs the question, will any British student want to do this....their current student profile shows half their students are internationals....so it is likely to be higher in the med school with such high fees....

only those who cannot get a public funded education will want to go to there, and it is in recognition of this reality, that they start the programme in Jan, with selection after all UK med schools have started....

Oh dear, poor students who are caught in all of these political warfare.

Med Ed in Msia has sank to a brand new low ei?

Also, the latest from the London Daily Telegraph on foreign graduates:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/imm...-graduates.html

i should tell you also that in medical department, housemen are also in charge of Medical HDU (ICU)... not only in Anesthesiology...

They are Houseman, of course they will be MO around most of the time.

Are u by any chance a medical graduate?

How's this new rule , if implemented, affecting non-EU internationals at UK med schools vis-a-vis EU graduates ?

Appreciate insights . 

then why do doctors starting out in Singapore earn monthly pay of $4000 which is RM11,000?
I was shocked when ex-PM Mahatir said on youtube recently that he earned RM2000 as a doctor.

Complaints of tough life working in NHS UK.
http://www.itv.com/news/2015-07-19/thousan...m-over-nhs-row/

Dear Mr Cameron,

On Wednesday morning this week I returned to work at 0800. I worked the weekend in Intensive Care as a junior doctor, for your information I was working from 2000 to 0900 on Friday, Saturday and Sunday i.e. I was part of the team that provided a 24 hour, 7 days a week, 365 days a year service. My consultant started his weekend of work at 1700 on the Friday. He finished at 0800 on Monday morning. He didn't go home until well after we had started our night shift and he was in before we went home in the morning. We also disturbed him overnight to tell him about our unstable patients. He didn't grumble once. Our anaesthetic consultant didn't grumble when we took a patient back to theatre for bleeding in the middle of the night, nor did he grumble when he was anaesthetising an emergency case the following night. The consultant surgeon also didn’t grumble. Your irresponsible colleague Jeremy Hunt seems hell bent on suggesting to the public that there is no 7 day a week service and that consultants do not work weekends. I have submitted a request, via the Freedom of Information Act, to the Department of Health last night to quantify how many consultants currently opt out of weekend working. I look forward to finding out.