Overworked and underpaid USM specialists leaving for greener pastures


PETALING JAYA: Medical specialists lecturing in public universities are leaving for greener pastures after years of being overworked and underpaid, according to Ma­­laysian Medical Association president Datuk Dr N.K.S. Thar­masee­lan.

Describing the exodus as a “trage­­dy”, he said 38 senior clinical lecturers left Universiti Sains Malay­sia’s Kubang Kerian campus in Ke­lantan in the past six months.

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