only those with a significant clinical component in the pre-clinical can justifiably do this....

if they do, it will not be to even out the fees, but the squeeze more from international students....they have increased the preclinical fees, but have not reduce the clinical fees...

uwa has make it 7 years now, to squeeze even more money.....3 years undergraduate, and 4 years med school.... lol

AUCMS-UKM programme collapses, and UKM absorbed all students....

the shit has finally hit the fan.... lol

how do you know it is upper gi pain?....

nsaids is not an absolute contraindication even if the symptom is from the upper gi.....

i know students do tend to think in terms of black and white, but the real world is often in shades of gray...

i am just cautioning the tendency of medical students to criticise their fellow students, and even senior doctors, on the basis of a perceived mistake....often without details of what actually happened...

in other words, it is wise to give the benefit of the doubt...20 years later, you will understand what i mean...

it's not much different from the usual 4 years graduate entry med school all over the world.....just 1/2 year shorter......

my opinion is that any 4 years programme is already very short.....have another degree does not reduce significantly, the amount of new knowledge that needs learning....no matter what degree....because the content is very different.....

while being a 'matured' student means an older student, an older student does NOT make one absorb information faster than a younger student.....trying to cramp 6 years of teaching into four means 2 things....less holidays, and potentially, less clinical exposure....

Regency Hospital in Johor which is a cpf approved hospital is a big employer....

they don't get paid that much....and workload is certainly more than '10% of taiwan'...

while their basic degree is recognised, their post graduate is not, and hence they have a problem getting nsr registration....most private hospitals do not accept specialists without nsr registration nowadays....

it doesn't always work out, and several have given up and moved back to taiwan....

why do you think so many mediocre students have so much 'passion' to want to be doctors to 'help people'?....

read pagalavan.com.....the answer is there....

you can't work in uk without a lot of difficulties...

the easiest pathway is to get the mrcp/mrcs and enter the spore system as a mo....and pray for a training post....

and are you sure you want to work in spore...it is a notoriously cut throat environment....

perhaps you should talk to people what are working in singapore to get an accurate picture of the work environment there?....

i should add that, while the a levels results does not necessarily predict future performance, i suspect you are going to feel pretty intimidated and maybe overwhelmed by the high flyers in the spore medical scene....remember, it's not bodohland, where mediocrity is the rule...

This post has been edited by limeuu: Oct 2 2014, 12:25 PM

i don't know where they got their figures from, it is not that bad.....yet....

but yes, it will continue to get worse, as the cost of running a general medical practice increases, whereas the sources of income continue to get restricted with new regulations....

gst will increase prices, although patient are 'exempt' from paying gst, most upstream cost are not, and will get passed down as increased cost of doing business....

separation of prescribing and dispensing will further increase cost....as doctors increase consultation charges to cover loss of margin income from drugs.....

the reason for the expected high drop out rate...in addition to people with poor academic ability unable to cope with the demands of real life doctoring....

meantime the scam of ptptn loans continue, and businessman running unis/med schools/enrolment agencies all have got their money....

i have always wanted to backpack, but never had the opportunity....coincidentally, the short break between graduating and starting work i had was also spent in taiwan...but that was a very long time ago...

i always find british textbooks easier to read, and more relevant to msia....americans tend to be different in many ways...

How many exactly?....there were 7 last year....

Double posted.

This post has been edited by limeuu: Apr 23 2015, 01:20 AM

Housemanship is different from the usual civil service jobs...it is a statutory requirement for full registration, and only can be performed in gazetted gov hospitals....

it is also a short term 2 year job, unlike other psd jobs....

therefore it will continue...

in addition, the 2 years compulsory service remains in force, and hence the gov is duty bound to need to keep these doctors under employment for another 2 years.....

however, while housemanship is a close ended 2 year job, doctors have always been taken into the psd as full time employees....and hence people think this is a full time civil service appointment, which it is in the past....and they continue on for another 2 years under compulsory service...

but the two are actually separate matters...therefore, i foresee that housemanship appointment will change into a contract employment....for the 2 years...the compulsory service will be abolished....the newly full registration doctors will need to apply for a full time psd job after housemanship...and that will NOT be guaranteed anymore...

jobless doctors is a reality, as the private sector has limited capacity to absorb junior doctors....

because there are more jobless professionals in the other professions....

but they don't have to deal with a rm1/2 million debt....

read Pagalavan's latest blog about this issue....

from a country's economics and health provisions point of view, there should NEVER be too many doctors....it is wasted resources...

there is no houseman posted to the icu....

housemans are not supposed to be in icu...anaesthesia is not supposed to be part of the 6 rotations specified in the medical act....

however, some hospitals have so many housemans, they do not know where to post them and some end up in anaesthesia....the instruction is however, they will be closely supervised with restricted responsibilities....in the 2nd half of the 2 years...and should not be in icu...

however, knowing some msian hospitals, that is not enforced...

This post has been edited by limeuu: May 7 2015, 07:07 PM