Because of ewtd, there will be periods of time when F1 and 2 have time off, over the standard leaves....if people call in sick, you can do locums for them, during such periods...it will be in the same hospital, and usually in the same unit....

But I suspect most will rather take the time off to travel....

If there are so much reservations, I suggest don't do it....even those with great "passion" for the profession are finding it tough and dropping like flies....

There are so much more to life than being a doctor....

Not a game changer...don't see this going anywhere.... although under kpj, training still done under Moh facilities....it is not possible to train people in the private setting....

Not sure why anyone will want to pay so much money, at the same time no income, working free.....to "train" in Moh hospitals with peers doing it for free while getting pay and advancement in civil service....

Yes it did. You really believe that?

We are talking about surgical speciality training here....not medical students....you should know how surgeons are trained....

http://www.pulsetoday.co.uk/your-practice/...0036044.article

something for students and junior doctors to think about....especially those in uk...

Too many graduates, waitlist 1 year, contract jobs only.....

Necromancer....

beggars are not choosers....want it fast, go borneo...

Still poor Borneo....still last choice mostly....but at least the tantrums of the past is no more: appeals against going when posted to Borneo in the past....

Interesting this thread is still alive, but moved into postgraduate issues instead of the old "getting into med school" discussions....

Not in touch with all these changing permutations now, so inputs from hypermax et al is more accurate....

housemanship was 1 year until 2008, when in tandem with the fy (f1 f2) of uk, it was changed to 2 years....

msia decided in the 70's to use universities for postgraduate certifications, hence the masters pathway.....but it's not very efficient, so in recent years, the moh decided to run a parallel pathway system via the commonwealth professional colleges exams within moh training....for the medical stream as mrcp continues to be recognised.....but after the surgical colleges changed to the mrcs, that is not recognised, and hence the surgical stream is stuck with the local masters....(although there are parallel pathways for a couple of sub specialities)...

there is much less interests in medical studies the last 2 years, since it became obvious there is over production in Msia and jobs are not guaranteed....

onelove, what are you intending to go into?