I spoke to a doc friend of mine, and he echoes the sentiments that there is an insufficient number of posts available for housemanship in our country.

If you recall many years back , there was a glut of medical graduates - I remember during my Uni days, when the quota for students applying for courses in medicine was capped to a certain number. That was back in the late 90s early 2000s.

But with the introduction of private institutions which offer medical courses , we saw an increase of medical graduates.

“Over the years, private medical schools have become convenient scapegoats for what is claimed to be an excessive number of medical graduates in this country, when it is self-evident that this is only part of the story,” ~ Prof. Dr Pravdeep Nair.

Obstetrician and Gynaecologist senior consultant Prof Dr Zaleha Abdullah Mahdy pointed out that the country’s doctor to population ratio was alarmingly imbalanced.

“The problem now is that there aren’t enough posts for doctors to fill in the public health service sector; it has not expanded in line with the population’s needs.”

Prof Pradeep suggested ramping up our healthcare expenditure to ease the gridlock in available posts in the medium and long term, as Malaysia currently spends 4.4% of its gross domestic product on healthcare, compared to the recommended 7% by WHO.

“Another solution is to explore the possibility of smart partnerships with private medical centres and medical schools by allowing housemanship training in the private sector.

“This is in place in Australia under the Commonwealth Medical Internships Initiative,” he said.

He said with a moratorium currently placed on the number of medical programmes in the country as well as limits on intakes, the next steps to consider are a phased reduction in the number of overseas schools Malaysia recognises; a scheduled discontinuance of the provisional registration examination for unrecognised graduates; the introduction of a common competencies checklist for all Malaysian medical undergraduates studying locally or abroad; and the introduction of a common exit examination for all Malaysians who are medical graduates intending to work in Malaysia.

While calling for the current contract doctors to be absorbed into permanent positions, Medical Practitioners Coalition Association of Malaysia president Dr Raj Kumar Maharajah said the number of medical colleges in the country must be controlled.

“Cut down student intakes in private medical colleges by at least 70% and by 50% in public institutions until the situation is normalised,” he said.

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Do you think it’s fair that these contract doctors decided to do a boikot when the country needs them most?

1. Hell yeah!
2. No. It’s an opportunist move.

Would love to hear your views.

⭕️Nearly half of lung cancer patients in Taiwan aren’t smokers
台灣近一半的肺癌患者不吸煙

November is Lung Cancer Awareness Month. The Formosa Cancer Foundation held a press conference on Tuesday to release sobering statistics on the state of lung cancer in Taiwan. According to the latest World Health Organization data, Taiwan''s lung cancer rate is the second-highest in Asia, after North Korea. Alarmingly, nearly half of Taiwanese cases of lung cancer were not caused by smoking.

#cancer #Taiwan #smoke #smoker #lung_cancer

The rich are getting richer, and the poor are getting poorer.

Maybe you've noticed or maybe you haven't…

The world is getting more and more unfair.

The cost of living is getting alarmingly expensive.

Gas prices are going up.

The cost of living is going up.

But things don't seem to be getting better.

Why?

Well, let me answer that question with a few questions.

Yes, school teaches you a lot of different topics that can be useful to get a degree or a profession within that school topic.

However...

Did you get the skills needed to make money outside your job from school?

Did you learn to do your taxes and be successful in general from school?

Did school properly prepare you for what REAL life is like?

The unfortunate answer for a lot of people, maybe even you, is a “no” for all these questions.

Because of this, most people are barely scraping by…

They get left behind…

Fall into poverty…

And stay stuck where they are…

Unhappy. Broke. And unfulfilled.

So most people stay in a job, or they get into business thinking it will give them more time with their friends and family and more income, yet their business seems to drain their energy and time - while costing them more money than it makes them!

Only a few break through the barriers of society and become wealthy.

They escape the poorly designed system.

They reclaim their freedom.

And take their lives back.

Now, if you are you sick and tired of being pushed around.

If you are tired of not getting the money you know you deserve.

And if you want to know how I was able to break free from the system and help thousands of my students do the same…

I’ve created a 5-day wealth mindset roadmap for you.

If you want me to send it to you personally, just send "I'm in Dan" in a personal message to me.

This is a little song written originally for a little video project for some students in my Uni, but they never contacted me back *__* . And then my close buddy from my Tokyo exchange days asked me if she could use any upbeat songs of mine for her typomotion project. AND YES I recorded an extended version! Loving the animator, Rin Shimizu, who designed my little Serrini logo as well. The MV is alarmingly cute!

太可愛了，因為近來我是金頭所以那個cute little girl也是金頭。跳跳跳。

Rin Shimizu 清水鈴
http://www.rinshimizu.com/
Serrini music
www.facebook.com/Serrini.rocks

"I Do What I Wanna"
by Serruria

I've got a voice.
I've got a choice.
I've got a vote,
Oh Yes I've got a vote.
You can't make me do,
What I don't wanna do~~~

Oh I am young
I just wanna run
I make my songs
Eh coz it's so fun
I just wanna do,
What I really wanna do~~~
☺
Come make a noise
But keep your poise
Come look at me
Oh yes! you love me

I am fun
I like John Donne
I make my petty poems
Eh coz it's so fun
I just wanna do,
What I really wanna do~~~

One Step,
Two Steps
I may be slow but I'm taking my steps

One month,
Two years,
Of all the waiting but I'm still here

I'm just tired of everybody telling me what to do
I just wanna be in love and I know that's what you wanna too

Bear in mind, be tough inside and all my dreams will come true
Sing a rhyme O don't be shy
O Coz I know UU want it too~

Dadada

I just wanna do,
What I really wanna do~