Subscribe in a reader | Subscribe by Email I didn’t bother much about this news until the names of Samy Vellu, MIED, and Chitrakala appeared. Looks like Indian community issue since 70% of the affected people are Indians.
I have to wonder, if these graduates are from WHO’s recognised programmes, why don’t they find a job anywhere but Malaysia? The country doesn’t want your services (yet?), so why not work elsewhere first? Perhaps the country where they obtained their degrees will be the best option. So, the decision by some of them to sit for overseas qualifying exams sounds like a better move.
Secondly, to pressure the person to provide “guaranteed” pass is unacceptable. Like that means can close one eye and pass the exams la! I think by having the program in AIMST, the students would have far more better chance than the previous exams which they failed 3 times (!) which the students may attribute to discrimination or other similar factors.
I think MIC made use of this situation to get more students to enrol in AIMST, but looks like very few took up the offer.
But what I think is unfair is the duration of the programme. Looks like the students have to “redo” their degree in 3 years, and then do 2 year housemanship at local universities (which is to be arranged by AIMST?). And pay RM150K for this!
Samy Vellu cuts short dialogue
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KUALA LUMPUR: A six-year battle by medical graduates of unrecognised universities to win a second chance to become doctors “ended” in 40 minutes yesterday. Forty-five of them who had come to a dialogue to get the help of Datuk Seri S. Samy Vellu were left in a daze after the MIC chief walked off while answering the third question.
He become agitated on being repeatedly asked whether the group would definitely pass a three-year study programme designed to help them become housemen.
Samy Vellu said he could not provide an assurance but said it had been done by others in similar circumstances.
“What are you trying to explain to me? Are you saying I am stupid? I am trying to help you and you are trying to argue with me. “I just said those who like the new programme can take it. Those who do not like it do not have to take it. “Now I feel that whatever I tried to do is no good. I have been dwelling on your problems for the last five to six years. Stupid, isn’t it? Stupid. Very, very stupid.”
Samy Vellu then told the group that he was ending the dialogue and would not help them any more. “I am going to put a stop to this. This is my last attempt to see something done,” he said at the dialogue organised by the Maju Institute of Educational Development.
The dialogue was about a special programme recently offered by the Health Ministry to those who had failed the three given attempts at the examination. It comprises a year of pre-clinical studies followed by two years of clinical studies. The programme will enable graduates to transfer credit hours to a local public or private university to complete their course. On passing, they can do their housemanship at public universities.
Medical grads snub ministry programme
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KUALA LUMPUR: Most of the medical graduates from unrecognised universities appear to have snubbed the special programme offered by the Health Ministry.
Just a dozen of the 220 graduates may opt for the programme said P. Chitrakala Vasu, chief executive officer of Maju Institute of Educational Development which is registering students for the programme at its Asian Institute of Medicine, Science and Technology University. She said the figure is based on the number of the graduates who took the registration forms at Tuesday’s dialogue with MIED chairman Datuk Seri S. Samy Vellu.
Chitrakala said the programme comprised one-year pre-clinical studies at a medical institution and two years of practical clinical work at appointed hospitals. The affected graduates, 70 per cent of whom are Indians, attended last Tuesday’s dialogue session. However, a spokesperson for the graduates, claimed that none of the graduates were interested in the three-year programme.
The programme costs RM150,000 and there is no guarantee of a pass. “These graduates will have to spend an additional five years, which includes the compulsory two years housemanship, before they can practise,” said the spokesperson. She added that many of them had decided to sit for the equivalent qualifying exam overseas.
The affected medical graduates obtained their degrees from the Philippines, China, Japan, Pakistan, Romania, India, Armenia, Indonesia and the British Virgin Islands. The spokesperson said the graduates’ degrees were recognised by the World Health Organisation.
She said many chose to pursue degrees that are unrecognised in Malaysia as the graduates failed to get a place in local universities.
The cost of pursuing a medical degree in a recognised foreign university can be as low as RM150,000 or as high as RM1 million, according to Pathmavathy Suresh, the managing director of Nugrahan Sdn Bhd, a representative of recognised foreign universities The cost of getting a medical degree at an unrecognised university is between RM70,000 and RM150,000, she said.
