I WOULD like to offer some advice to the Prime Minister and the Health and Education ministers as well. One in every five doctors undergoing training as housemen in Malaysia quit each year – 1,000 of the 5,000 housemen employed each year do not complete the two-year training stint.
In one report, 3,800 medical graduates quit just in the last three years. Considering the high cost of studying medicine, from RM500,000 to RM1mil, it is a huge loss for Malaysia’s resources (“Housemen do not complete training stint for various reasons”, The Star, March 30,2015; online at bit.ly/star_quit).
