KUALA LUMPUR: The recruitment of medical graduates for housemanship is continuing and has never

of housemanship programmes, says the Malaysian Medical Association( MMA).“ Those who are not cut

been based on merit and performance during their housemanship, says Health Ministry secretary

PETALING JAYA: Dr Lu Yeow Yuen completed his compulsory housemanship at the Sarawak General

PETALING JAYA: The setting up of an independent task force to investigate the recent death of a houseman as well as bullying among healthcare colleagues should also look into the whole training system and other causes of stress related to work, says Malaysian Medical Association president Dr Koh Kar Chai.“ The setting up of an independent task force to investigate the recent death of a houseman and to look into bullying among healthcare colleagues, is a good move by the Health Ministry, ” he sai

SEREMBAN: The plight of contract doctors in government service who are demanding to be made permanent will be raised in Cabinet within a fortnight, says Health Minister Khairy Jamaluddin.He said a solution to this was needed to prevent the issue from persisting." I will present a memorandum on the short-and long-term solutions to the Cabinet within a week or two." We need to look at this or else the issue will crop up again and again," he told reporters when met after the state-level national Yo

GEORGE TOWN: The high-stress levels housemen face have been an open secret for quite some time.On a scale of one to five, 88.5% of housemen interviewed in Penang rated their stress levels at between three and five. Those who rated their stress at five accounted for 15.4% of respondents, while 11.5% rated it at two.... The remaining 10% answered either “ always ” or “ never ”.... On their choice of rest days, 57.7% wished they could be off-duty on weekends.To solve any cases of mistreatment, bu

GEORGE TOWN: Bullying is wrong and cannot be tolerated anywhere, especially in hospitals, says Tan Sri Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah. The Health director-general said bullying happens at every level and everywhere.“ It happens in schools, institutions, hostels, training camps, departments, agencies and even in ministries.... Bullying happens in cyberspace as well, ” he told The Star.Dr Noor Hisham added that the Health Ministry was awaiting the police investigation to conclude and the post-mortem rep

Ishak Abd Kadir, president and founder of Insaf Malaysia, an NGO specialising in relief effortsI remember vividly the humanitarian mission to Acheh, Indonesia, that I joined in 2005 to help the victims of a tsunami that claimed more than 270, 000 lives. That experience inspired me to form my own organisation to provide relief to those who are less fortunate. The year 2011 saw the birth of Insaf Malaysia as an NGO that focused on helping people locally and abroad. During my missions overseas, I o

PETALING JAYA: Physically exhausted and mentally strained, junior doctors are becoming patients themselves, seeking psychological and psychiatric help. But it’s a vicious cycle.... They then get branded as “ mad doctors ” or “ mental cases ” which only make things worse for them. These are among the horror stories that several junior doctors told The Star. Their on-call hours could stretch up to 36 hours while some claimed that they have worked an average of 100 hours a week – equivalent to 20