‘East or west, home is best’

WHILE the country is losing medical graduates to better opportunities abroad, it is also retaining talents who choose to stay on due to various reasons.

Among them, said Universiti Malaya (UM) medical faculty deputy dean of undergraduate studies Prof Dr Muhammad Yazid Jalaludin, include serving the nation after having benefited from heavily subsidised fees provided by the government throughout their medical studies.

Prof Yazid: Most of the medical graduates claim that they would get better training or better career opportunities if they went overseas. This is not always true.