take a 'gap' year off....well, 9 months off.....go do things she likes/want to do, preferably nothing to do with medicine....believe me, after this, there will be NO time for anything else....

relative got a travel and work visa to oz, and worked in sales....earn some money, and visited several cities...

You don't get 3 Bs in STPM or  A levels here, no way. Even the lowest tier uni. Alternative is foundation which is a joke!

Hey guys, anyone here did any part time jobs while waiting for their housemanship? If so, what kind of job?

I just graduated and I can't afford to sit at home for months before my first posting!

Thanks for highlighting ....
Btw, St George's is recognised by Sing Med Council , but Plymouth is not.

Never of anyone getting a waiver before but its interesting she came back before she finished her 2nd year. she could have just finished off her second year in uk and get an exemption from the compulsory service.

Statutory requirement is one year for full registration in both countries, although the fy/housemanship are 2 years....

There is no exemption for compulsory service based on years worked in other countries...

Going forward, the criteria for housemanship and compulsory service exemption will be relaxed, as the system strains under the tsunami....

Directive is already out...as I said, criteria for exemption is getting easier...no job offer, exempt...lol

Going to be a lot of unemployed doctors....the private sector has no capacity to absorb these junior doctors....

As per normal jpa procedure, if a scholar do not get offered a job by gov agencies as per agreement, then they are released from the bond....

In the past, this does not occur for doctors, as all gets jobs....this is still the case for the statutory housemanship....

The question is, if after the housemanship, the doctor do not get offered a gov job, what happens....by the same agreement, they should be released....but this had not been tested yet...

Did she get any clinical experience during the first year of the foundation year? I thought its mainly paper work in the first year. How would she be able to to work as an MO without the relevant housemanship experience. Its not so much on the exemption, its the competency that we are talking about.

What were the 3 rotations? In Malaysia we got 6 rotations.

Lucky she didn't experience this:

Indeed... I call it HELLMANSHIP...

She had better done Medical, Surgical and OBGyn rotations... otherwise she will be deep sh*t as an MO... particularly if she is posted in Klinik Kesihatan...
... wait... Paediatric rotation is damn important too.... 

This should be interesting...     

What will happen if a JPA scholar rejected Housemanship offer and went somewhere else to do other medical-related jobs?

Full amount as in the tuition fees and living expenses right? Are there any interest rates involved here?
Must pay all in one shot?
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You're absolutely right on that regards. And this is based on the assumption that everyone will get to practice medicine after they're booted out of gov service.

Still, the ROI for medicine is horrible if you're only given 4 years of confirmed employment with the government. Further structured training as specialists through the masters program are only available to less than 20% of the yearly intake. And unlike engineering and law, medical training in Malaysia can only be done in the gov sector.

So lets say if you spent RM300,000 in a low tier private med school and gets HO/MO salary of RM6k average over 4 years... that's bad. The private GP scene is getting saturated. You may get RM8-10k monthly tops after that if you're lucky.

I'll admit that I dont know how much lawyers and engineers earn after 5, 10, 15, 20 years of practice

And as cybersetan says, when they discovered during housemen period, they are not made for medicine...you will wonder what's next

Word of advice for him...

If he is posted in any one of the major referral hospitals in Sabah...

...be warned and be prepared to be ridiculed and treated as a Houseman by the specialists/consultants there, they will look down on peninsular-trained new MOs versus Sabah/Sarawak-trained MOs unless he is able to prove to them that he is competent and at-par with their own trained MOs...

Previously as a houseman, I watched how some of the new MOs from peninsular Malaysia getting scolded and humiliated during rounds by their specialists/consultants due to their inability to 'adapt' or handle themselves as MOs - as if they are no different from HOs... These new MOs too have tagging period and assesment...  

Which GH? It doesn't really matter whether the new MO graduated from where... it is where the new MO did their HOship that the consultants/Specialists want to know.

I have yet to see how a new MO (UD43) that directly entered Government service being treated by the consultants/specialists.

Aah... if she got posted to Sabah/Sarawak, she would have gained the upper hand for selection into Masters program in IPTA... Plus the lifetime experience of working there...