The dilemma of dental housemanship


WHEN I was 13, my father took a job assignment in India and decided to relocate with the ­family. I was in Form 1 then.

I completed the IGCSE (equivalent of O levels) examination there and returned home to complete my A levels. For reasons unknown to me, the college in Malaysia (a reputable one) did not insist that as a Malaysian, I needed to sit for a Bahasa Melayu (BM) paper.

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