Doctors number already exceed originally planned target. 1doctor to 454 Malaysians now
https://www.thestar.com.my/news/nation/2020...-exceeds-target

33 LOCAL MEDICAL SCHOOLS
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_medic...ols_in_Malaysia

Only 25% ppl visit dentist. 8% in Penang. 1dentist to 2963 Malaysians now
https://www.thestar.com.my/news/nation/2020...ttering-concern

More than three private dental clinics within a 10km radius.
Besides 13 LOCAL DENTAL SCHOOL, the Health Ministry also recognises 130 foreign universities and allows their graduates to practice in Malaysia. In 2019, there were more than 3,000 registered dental students in Malaysia, as recorded by the Malaysia Dental Student Association.
https://www.thestar.com.my/opinion/letters/...e-right-reasons

This post has been edited by zxcv96: Sep 21 2020, 05:23 PM

Just ordinary job with ordinary pay scale.

Engineering even worst than those 3...

What job is not ordinary and paid high? Depends on the individual lah, only the minority can outperform becoming the outliner, 90% are average , no matter what courses they studied
All the jobs are the same, university served the purpose to grow graduates to work for the society

There are. Paid highly easy job money.

Anyway, you are true paper qualification is a means to prepare many to join workforce at average pay.

You know what the world needs more? Lawyers. /s

My dentist just robbed me RM2k.

Bright Future.

Engineering degree can transition to other fields
Medical doctors OTOH...

Lol, bro doc, only need to wait for calll to get job 1st year close to 5k
I'm eng, but since its a specific one, no jobs liao

Can go SG

But in government their pay scale progress is slow. At age of 30 around 8.5-9k only. Only when they jump to private there is a huge huge jump

Still easier to get a job if you start from the bottom mang

All jobs are oversupplied la.. those business grads even more so.

The options for graduates from local private and some public universities are limited - Singapore recognises only UKM and UM, and only since 2007. Twinning degrees eg as offered by IMU are not recognised.

SOURCE

This seems a sneaky way to get local Malaysians to study in SG and get stuck serving there if you ask me.

Actually not really - it's not like they are opening spaces for Malaysians to study medicine in Singapore.

Really? Actually anecdotally I have lets see 3 schoolmates who studied medicine there and serving there. I believe they took the Asean scholarship route and on scholarship for A levels.

Ah, those are a different kettle of fish - Singapore loves talent - esp. those on ASEAN scholarships. But, the vast majority of applicants for medicine are locals. There's less than ½ a dozen places allotted for Malaysians wishing to pursue medicine at NUS per cohort of 300. That's how competitive it is.

Yeah but transition not as easy as you think unless it's related like electronics to software.

Also demand in engineering field change roughly every 5 to 10 years.

Civil -> Electronics -> Chemical -> Software(?) -> ?

Lack of doctor job mostly due to abundance of medical degree but not to the extend of engineering degree.

Also the demand is always there whether people like it or not.

This post has been edited by HolyValkyrie: Sep 22 2020, 11:14 AM

It's not that we have enough. It is because the govt don't have the money to employ them..