Not really unless the patient is quite immobile or bed ridden. Compression stockings is mmuch a viable alternative for prevention if the patient is not highly at risk. DVT prophylaxis with drugs may give rise to unwanted bleeding.

limeuu will tell you that having the best student in sunway campus doesn't mean its on par with the australian campus.

don't your lecturers show you that? for the pharmacy course during the beginning of the semester our lecturers always show us the best and lowest score for each unit between both campuses, along with the average score and median and standard deviation.

you heard? why not contact their dentistry board to confirm?

go look for tier 3 private hospitals? like tung shin perhaps

Technically those that are high earners either graduated from a local public university or those who have their parents fully subsidising their education fees..

comparable? how are you even comparing anyway? a 50 year old consultant in a top tier private hospital with a 50 year old chartered accountant or a 35 who may just finished masters degree and a 35 year old manager ?

of course it does. some doctors maybe earning a lot but they still have a hefty education loan to settle

erm nolar more than that. at least 5k after adding allowance.

because in dramas you can complete an 8 hour surgery in 5 minutes.

Published: Monday March 30, 2015 MYT 12:00:00 AM
Updated: Monday March 30, 2015 MYT 7:31:58 AM
Housemen do not complete training stint for various reasons

PETALING JAYA: One in every five doctors undergoing training as houseman in Malaysia quit each year, an alarming rate of drop out, considering the high cost of studying medicine.

It may cost up to RM500,000 to study medicine in Malaysia and up to RM1mil if it is completed abroad.

Many newly qualified doctors also quit because of the longer wait to be posted as housemen.

Those who left abruptly have been found working as waiters and even running pasar malam stalls and there has also been a case of a trainee doctor taking up a job as an air stewardess.

Deputy Health director-general Datuk Dr S. Jeyaindran said about 1,000 of the 5,000 housemen employed each year do not complete the two-year training stint.

Among the reasons for housemen to leave the service include unsuitability for the profession as they were pressured to study medicine by their parents.

Having a totally different perception of a doctor’s life, inability to work long hours and suffering from burnouts are the other causes.

He said the rise in numbers of housemen quitting had been growing over the past three years.

Dr Jeyaindran said as housemen were hired by the Public Services Department (PSD), the termination process was tedious and could take up to several months to more than a year.

“Until the person’s service is terminated, the vacancy cannot be filled and those who replace them have to wait for their turn to start,” he said in reply to questions submitted by The Star.

He said many of the housemen who left did not tender official resignation letters.

The large number of medical students graduating each year is another reason for the long wait for postings as a houseman, especially under the new e-houseman system, which allows for newly qualified doctors to choose the place of their posting.

While the average waiting time is about six months, it can be longer for the more popular postings in urban hospitals including the Kuala Lumpur Hospital.

“With 10,000 housemen in all the 45 training hospitals nationwide, these hospitals have varying degrees of waiting periods except for hospitals in Sabah, Sarawak, Kelantan and Terengganu,” Dr Jeyaindran said.

He said the ministry must explore other ways that allow for greater flexibility in employing housemen to replace those who had left.

He said the proposal to have a common entry or fitness to practice examination as proposed by the Malaysian Medical Association (MMA) was among the steps being considered.

Another was a longer induction period for housemen to have better understanding of their work.

“It is not to control numbers as proposed by MMA, but to ensure a minimum standard of competence. The common entry examination is already in place in some Asian countries, the United States and Australia and it might become necessary to ensure safe medical practice especially once there is a liberalisation of trades and services,” he said.

He said a houseman’s workload in Malaysia was lighter than those in other countries, adding that on average, housemen in Malaysia took charge of between four and six patients in a ward compared with eight to 12 in Singapore, Australia and the United States.

“Moreover, house officers in these countries work an average of 80 hours compared with the average of between 65 and 72 hours for Malaysian housemen,” he added.

http://www.thestar.com.my/News/Nation/2015...arious-reasons/

So means East Malaysia, Sabah and Sarawak don't need to wait at all?

nope. still jobless waiting period was 9 months for the previous batch that just got posted

Haha. I already went backpacking around the whole Taiwan for 30 days. Feel free to read my blog

Almost immediately but usually within a few days.. Having said that the letter of offer stands for 30 days.. So you can inform the JKN if you can't report on the first day..

tomorrow refer all your patients to other doctors, buy flight ticket and kasi buang itu resignation letter, and leave the day after

so apparently quite a few of monash malaysia graduates got internship positions in Australia.

Not very sure. Probably around there. My friend got a position at box hill just 20 minutes away from central Melbourne. i guess if you are good they will still take you in. the rest are further away or rural areas or other states.

Well. in the case for my friend she already got the job offer during her studies. whereas in malaysia you have to spend time applying to SPA, wait for a letter before the medical board or something similar considers you, and then you have to wait from 9-12 months before you get a job. not many people could afford to wait that long.

http://www.thestar.com.my/News/Nation/2015...civil-servants/

Even less jobs for medical professionals?

This post has been edited by zstan: May 7 2015, 10:08 AM

A council member from the pharmaceutical society confirmed the immediate freeze of new prp. That should apply to housemen as well. Those that will be graduating in the next few months would not get an interview session with spa

yeap. for now. thanks to the incompetency of our government. well at least for pharmacist's case. it's not like there are no positions available but the transition from pre-reg to full-reg is taking too much time.