Internship in Australia (Updated)

Updated post by Dr. LF Ng: Medical internship in Australia and other educational matters   The world has not ended  – so, let us look at some pieces of health care and education matters to pick up this New Year By Dr Leong-Fook Ng, in private practice, Australia Written 27 Dec 2012, revised in Jan 2013 and on 23 Jan 2013 Now that the world has not ended and that future Mayan prophesies may need much time to be rewritten on more stone, one may perhaps have a closer look at some ongoing challenges in the health landscape with political and other New Year resolutions. To the optimists, it may be heralding the beginning of a new era – for example, an unofficial medical reformation movement in Australia. To those who are Christian (and Australia claims to have been founded on Christian tradition), the remembrance of being ultimately freed – for example, from psychological false imprisonment — by Christ, the Saviour – is the hope. With Advent, is timely that lux mundi is allowed to shine on the darkness.  And with hope and light, evil, injustice and oppression will be eventually tackled in a transparent and systematic way. Some days before Christmas, a Malaysia-based specialist colleague (a non citizen but permanent resident) who had sent his daughter to the Monash University (Malaysia) Medical School wrote to me about the difficulties she was facing in obtaining an internship posting in Australia after her recent graduation in Medicine. My colleague had paid hig...
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