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Wed, 02/16/2011 - 05:52
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Gov't to check on medical courses offered to Malaysians in universities abroad
KOTA KINABALU (Sabah, Malaysia), Feb 16 (Bernama) -- The Malaysian
government is to check on medical courses offered to Malaysians by every recognised foreign university to eliminate any doubts about their standard, Higher Education Minister Mohamed Khaled Nordin said Tuesday.
He said a team of officers would be sent to each of these universities in the hope that it would help to erase doubts about the quality and skills of doctors graduating from there who would be serving in Malaysia.
The officers, comprising representatives from the ministry, student sponsors and the Malaysian Medical Council, would make a thorough check on the medical programme offered, the lecturers, the infrastructure facilities and the facility for exposure of the students to patients, he said.
Mohamed Khaled spoke to reporters after performing the groundbreaking for a housing project for the people of Kampung Lokub at the Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UiTM) Sabah campus in Menggatal near here.
He was asked to comment on newspaper reports today that the skills of more than 3,000 trainee doctors educated abroad undergoing housemanship in Malaysian government hospitals was questionable as some among them were inefficient in carrying out basic medical examination.
The reports said many of these "inefficient" trainee doctors were graduates of foreign universities, particularly in Russia, which were recognised by the government.
Mohamed Khaled said that owing to limited places in local universities, many Malaysian students pursued medical courses in foreign universities, including in Indonesia, India, Egypt, the United States, England, Russia, Germany and Romania.
"Our local universities give preference to quality, with the ratio of one doctor to four students, and, at the same time, medical students must have the opportunity to undergo clinical programmes, and we need many hospitals for this," he said.
government is to check on medical courses offered to Malaysians by every recognised foreign university to eliminate any doubts about their standard, Higher Education Minister Mohamed Khaled Nordin said Tuesday.
He said a team of officers would be sent to each of these universities in the hope that it would help to erase doubts about the quality and skills of doctors graduating from there who would be serving in Malaysia.
The officers, comprising representatives from the ministry, student sponsors and the Malaysian Medical Council, would make a thorough check on the medical programme offered, the lecturers, the infrastructure facilities and the facility for exposure of the students to patients, he said.
Mohamed Khaled spoke to reporters after performing the groundbreaking for a housing project for the people of Kampung Lokub at the Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UiTM) Sabah campus in Menggatal near here.
He was asked to comment on newspaper reports today that the skills of more than 3,000 trainee doctors educated abroad undergoing housemanship in Malaysian government hospitals was questionable as some among them were inefficient in carrying out basic medical examination.
The reports said many of these "inefficient" trainee doctors were graduates of foreign universities, particularly in Russia, which were recognised by the government.
Mohamed Khaled said that owing to limited places in local universities, many Malaysian students pursued medical courses in foreign universities, including in Indonesia, India, Egypt, the United States, England, Russia, Germany and Romania.
"Our local universities give preference to quality, with the ratio of one doctor to four students, and, at the same time, medical students must have the opportunity to undergo clinical programmes, and we need many hospitals for this," he said.
