I just received an interesting info that something is cooking in one of the private medical college in Klang Valley. It seems that this medical college accepted 236 students for 2010 intake when they are only allowed to take a maximum of 150 students! Malaysian Medical Council (MMC) has issued a warning to this medical school to either remove this extra 86 students or face derecognition. Thus 86 students are advised either to switch discipline, transfer to another university or rejoin next intake of 2011!!! you can view some info from these blogs: http://paulineng91.blogspot.com or http://nazirahkamil.blogspot.com/2011/01/very-tragic-ending-of-2010.html.
I have said this many times, private medical colleges are just here to make money, period! I can assure you that NONE of the private medical colleges including some public medical colleges have enough full-time lecturers to even take more than 50 students! On paper, the figures are manipulated by including part-time lecturers as well as consultants from the attached government hospitals. I still feel that medical education should never be commercialised. In most developed countries, all medical colleges are public universities and their standards are maintained by regular accreditation from their respective medical councils. Unfortunately, in this Bolehland, everything is possible. You can rent a few shop lots and start a medical school as long as you have enough cables to pull…………………….. God bless!
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I agree with Dr Pagalavan.
The problem of universities incapable to educate students are glaringly obvious, though somehow those who are in the position of power seemed oblivious instead.
We are so concerned about numbers; churning out as many doctors and pushing the doctor patient ratio down, while putting quality in its expense. We have so many medical and dental schools, be it private or public, but not the capability to even have enough lecturers (partly because remuneration is pitiful in my experience).
Your honest and brazen views are truly respectable.
Most doctors who have ‘made it’ in private practice would choose to keep quiet and just bury their heads in the sand.
If I may ask sir,
What do you think of overseas medical schools?
Especially from egypt,russia and indonesia.
Could you please comment about our local graduates from these countries?
I mean in term of quality
As I had said earlier, it depends on 2 important factor:
1) The entry qualification. If you have an unqualified student then the product will be of dubious quality!
2) Which medical school. All of these countries have good and bad medical schools, so can’t generalise it. I had seen good and bad quality students from these countries. It all depends.
It also depends on whether the students themselves were interested to do medicine in the first place. Did they do medicine for passion, money, glamour or just for a job?