For Future Doctors: Kan Dah Cakap…….. Part 2

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For Future Doctors: Kan Dah Cakap…….. Part 2

Just 6 days ago I wrote on the issue of SPM BM in regards to appointment into civil service. Just after the issue was publicised by the newspaper, it became a hot issue of discussion on TV. For at least 2 days following the news report, both RTM and TV3 were having a field day […]

Just 6 days ago I wrote on the issue of SPM BM in regards to appointment into civil service. Just after the issue was publicised by the newspaper, it became a hot issue of discussion on TV. For at least 2 days following the news report, both RTM and TV3 were having a field day condemning the decision to exempt medical grads from SPM BM requirement. All the political heroes and defenders of the country suddenly appeared from nowhere. Well, election is coming……

In my last article, I wrote clearly the historical events over the last 20 years in regards to the need for SPM BM to join civil service. I also wrote on how the opening of enrolment into international schools had led to another big issue that we are facing now. However, the original intention of the news article reported by TheStar was actually in regards to the need to sit for 6 SPM papers and the inability to sit for a single SPM BM paper. Unfortunately, it was blown out of proportion by various quarters leading to a cabinet discussion of the matter.

Yesterday, the cabinet had decided that SPM BM is now needed even for contract post! This basically means, for those who had graduated but do not have SPM BM, you are now required to sit and pass SPM BM paper before even being eligible to apply for housemanship post. This will only further delay your posting. As it is, graduates are already waiting close to 8-12 months, those affected students would probably have to wait for 2 years now! So, for those who are currently still an undergraduate student, please sit for SPM BM as soon as possible. You just need a pass! The only good news is that you don’t need to sit for 6 papers anymore.

As I had always said, when the number of post becomes limited (admitted by DPM himself), the government can pick and choose. This is just the first step. For those who are doing medicine without the minimum entry requirement or NOC since 2012, please be prepared to be next in line. The government don’t give a damn whether you are a medical grad or not. No special privileges will be given.

 

Pass SPM Bahasa and be in civil service, medical grads told

BY MAZWIN NIK ANISandMARTIN CARVALHO

PUTRAJAYA: Medical graduates must pass the SPM-level Bahasa Malaysia (BM) paper to be appointed as contract-based doctors in public hospitals.

However, these contract doctors will not be required to take the six core SPM subjects – Bahasa Malaysia, English, History, Mathematics, Science and Moral or Islam Studies – to be in the civil service.

Once they pass the examination, they can serve as housemen in government hospitals.

Contract-based doctors are those undergoing housemanship as well as those on compulsory service.

� Deputy Prime Minister Datuk Seri Dr Ahmad Zahid Hamidi said the matter had been clarified by the Education Minister at the weekly Cabinet meeting yesterday.

“The Cabinet was told that the Malaysian Examinations Syndicate allows for professionals to take a single paper. So these graduates can take their Bahasa paper in November and then apply for housemanship,” he said.

Last week, The Star reported that some 300 medical graduates with O-Levels qualifications would be required to take the SPM-level BM to be accepted into housemanship.

Making it clear: Dr Ahmad Zahid explaining the ruling for contract doctors to the media at his office in Putrajaya.

A medical graduate said that they were given a waiver for SPM BM from 2003 when the country did not have enough doctors but the waiver was suddenly removed this year without adequate notice.

Before the waiver was withdrawn, O-Levels BM or Bahasa Kebangsaan A was accepted.

Following their plight, the ministry asked the Public Service Department (PSD) to waive the SPM-level BM pass requirement for contract staff and in February, the PSD agreed to the request. But they still need the SPM-level BM for permanent posts.

However, some medical graduates in Selangor said they could not register for only the BM subject but had to register for all six core SPM subjects at the state Education Department, while those from some other states were required to take only BM and History.

On Sunday, Health director-general Datuk Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah said on his website that a waiver was given on the SPM-level BM for contract-based doctors (two years of housemanship and two years of compulsory service) but not for permanent posts.

Dr Ahmad Zahid said the Cabinet decided that SPM-level pass for Bahasa Malaysia would remain a requirement for those who wanted to work with the civil service.

“We are committed to uphold what is stated in the Federal Constitution when it comes to the issue of the national language,” he told a press conference.

Dr Ahmad Zahid said that apart from the Health Ministry, no other ministry, department or agency had relaxed the ruling.

“But at one point, the Health Ministry needed doctors, so this exemption was made. Now, the Cabinet wants the requirement to be maintained,” he added.

He also pointed out that only 23 medical graduates were given the exemption and not “300 or 3,000 as reported”.

Health Minister Datuk Seri Dr S. Subramaniam said the requirement for contract medical officers, including contract-based doctors, to sit for the SPM-level BM paper was re-introduced last December because of the current flood of medical graduates.

Read more at http://www.thestar.com.my/news/nation/2017/07/06/pass-spm-bahasa-and-be-in-civil-service-medical-grads-told/#sEXLrVQ65GovGxtz.99

 

 

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