Let’s tackle oversupply of doctors | The Malaysian Insight

MUCH has been said in the press about the oversupply of doctors. Nearly all believe that this is a bad thing for the country.

If we have an oversupply of doctors, why should the common folk have to travel by foot and boat in treacherous trips just to get to a hospital in interior places like Sabah and Sarawak? We get more people to train as specialists in all fields which are lacking. We get more doctors who do not want to practice joining research-based fields of medicine and the pharmaceutical industries. These are lacking now.

We can’t be protectionists just to make sure our nest egg is secure and refuse to delve into the actual causes and solutions to the problem. Right now, all complaints are due to the limited number of places for housemanship training. When we are in an economic crunch, why should MMC be spending money on this process which is open to abuse and influence buying.

This is what the Medical Act says in Part III, 13 : “The provisionally registered person shall, immediately upon being provisionally registered, engage in employment in a resident medical capacity to the satisfaction of the Medical qualifying committee for a period of not less than one year in any hospital or institution in Malaysia which is approved by the said committee for the purpose of such employment; four months of such period shall be spent in a resident surgical post, four months in a...

The minister has the power under article 12. to do so. These are renowned exams and the AMC is especially known as being one of or maybe the toughest medical exam in the world. But right now, we don’t even take into consideration these exams and thus we allow a brain drain to take place and hope this brain drain will reduce the number of doctors in the country.

Those who want to lecture or work in the research and pharmaceutical industries should be allowed to do so without forcing them to have an annual practising certificate .

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