What’s the point of having 1Malaysia “clinics”?
From our Dobbs forum, a doctor mentions this incident:
Just had a guy with ACS present 2 days after going to 1M clinic with angina. No ECG available, told to ride his motorbike to the hospital! Son said if he knew how deficient it was, he would have gone straight to the klinik kesihatan.
and so what’s the point of having 1Malaysia clinics if the clinic
Doesn’t have a doctor on site. Only nurses and MAs. Supervision? Monitoring standards?
Doesn’t have many tests and medications on site.
Doesn’t have transport / ambulance.
Doesn’t have any allocation. Staff, meds etc are cannibalised from nearby klinik kesihata...
Source: Malaysian Medical Resources - April 9, 2013 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: palmdoc Tags: - Nation - Palmdoc 1Malaysia Clinics Source Type: blogs
Health Facts Malaysia 2012
Interested to know more about health related statistics for Malaysia? Well, the 2012 data are available here:
Health facts 2012
from the MOH (PDF format)
from the Malaysian Medical ResourcesHealth Facts Malaysia 2012 (Source: Malaysian Medical Resources)
Source: Malaysian Medical Resources - April 2, 2013 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: palmdoc Tags: - Nation - Palmdoc Malaysia Statistics Source Type: blogs
Query about medical studies II
Posted in our Facebook page:
I’m Wan from Malaysia. I found your facebook page and I hope you could advice me on an important decision that I have to make. I just graduated with A Level in Singapore and I am considering Russia to pursue medicine. I am uncertain of this decision of mine and in a serious dilemma. I am aware of some negativity towards studying in medicine in Russia but at the same time I am doubtful about the reliablity of such info as well. Hopefully, you could assist me in this matter. Thank you and I really appreciate your time and honest and sincere reply.
Regards
Wan
Hi
I think there are certain th...
Source: Malaysian Medical Resources - March 28, 2013 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: palmdoc Tags: - Education - Palmdoc Russia Source Type: blogs
Query about medical studies
Irwan posted this message in our Facebook Page
1. Im SPM 2012 Leaver, sc stream, Im Sabahan bumiputra..im interested to me a medical doctor. what should i take after this? Taking STPM? KPM Matriculation? which is more recognised qualification?
Both are the same and equivalent routes to get into a local medical school.
2. How many pointer should i get? some people say that KPM Matric 3.80-4.00 pointer to enter the public univ in malaysia.. is this true?
We have no idea, sorry. This probably will not be static and change from year to year depending on the standards of the students. It is highly competitive as you can imagine...
Source: Malaysian Medical Resources - March 27, 2013 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: palmdoc Tags: - Education - Feedback - Palmdoc Schools Source Type: blogs
New: Nursing sites
We’ve added a new page linking Malaysian Nursing Sites (other than Nursing schools which are listed separately). The link can be located if you hover your mouse over the Professional link in the top menu of the MMR>
As usual, if anyone has suggestions for more links, please let us know.
from the Malaysian Medical ResourcesNew: Nursing sites (Source: Malaysian Medical Resources)
Source: Malaysian Medical Resources - March 26, 2013 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: palmdoc Tags: - Palmdoc - Site changes - Site updates Nurses Nursing Source Type: blogs
Internship in Australia (II) – JPA scholars asking for the moon?
There is an ongoing thread in Dobbs, the Malaysian doctors forum Australian-trained doctors ’may be forced overseas’ and basically, Internship (Housemanship) jobs in Australia are relatively scarce compared to the number of medical students being produced.
Now JPA scholars studying medicine in Australia are making a plea for “guaranteed Internship jobs” in Australia
PETALING JAYA (March 17, 2013): Malaysian medical students on scholarships in Australia are calling on the government to enrol its scholars at institutions that provide internships for international students.
In a petition to the government, mor...
Source: Malaysian Medical Resources - March 22, 2013 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: palmdoc Tags: - Nation - Palmdoc - Training Australia Housemen Intern Source Type: blogs
Should Shift work for House Officers be abolished?
One may question this after an enlightening letter by a House officer, Dr. Timothy Cheng, who wrote :
Revamp current shift system
The main issue that gave birth to this shift system was the concern for the well-being of the house officers.
With the current shift system, continuity of care of patients is disappearing as house officers are not able to care for one patient longer than 12 hours at a stretch.
Most doctors that have gone through the on-call system realise the stress and the workload it brings but are also thankful for the training and skills that it equips them with.
As a house officer, I wish we had shifts that...
Source: Malaysian Medical Resources - March 20, 2013 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: palmdoc Tags: - Palmdoc - Training House officer Housemen Source Type: blogs
Malaysian tb cpg
MALAYSIAN TB CPG (3rd EDITION), the first evidence-based TB CPG in Malaysia will be launched at Institut Perubatan Respiratori, Kuala Lumpur on 24 March 2013 by our DG in conjunction with World TB Day
You can follow the event ’live’ on Facebook and Twitter.
(via Dr. Jamalul in Dobbs, the Malaysian Doctors Forum)
from the Malaysian Medical ResourcesMALAYSIAN TB CPG (Source: Malaysian Medical Resources)
Source: Malaysian Medical Resources - March 18, 2013 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: palmdoc Tags: - Events - Palmdoc TB Source Type: blogs
Teleconsultation to improve healthcare delivery (II)
This is part two of a series of posts on Teleconsultation (see part I)
We touched a bit on Telemedicine and Teleconsultation earlier and nothing is better than a video to illustrate this in action. Here’s an example of Teleconsultation in action, and in this case the interaction is intially patient-doctor moving on to doctor (primary care)-specialists.
So now it is time for some feedback, and we’d be grateful for some reader response to the following questions
Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post's poll.
Note: There is a poll embedded within this po...
Source: Malaysian Medical Resources - March 14, 2013 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: palmdoc Tags: - Palmdoc Technology Teleconsultation Telemedicine Source Type: blogs
Dobbs Newsletter
Discussion Group
We’ve created a new group, Heartbeat, to cater for those interested in Cardiology. Check out the Heartbeat forum for interesting Cardiology updates, news and quizzes on ECGs and Angiograms.
For new Dobbers, Dobbs discussions are organised into Groups. There are now 20 Groups within Dobbs and each Group has it’s own forum.
To view the latest Discussions in all the Groups, do visit the Forum link which is available at all times in the Top Menu of Dobbs. You can Search for topics which interest you, using the Search Forums form in the upper right of the page.
To view the list of Group foru...
Source: Malaysian Medical Resources - March 9, 2013 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: palmdoc Tags: - Dobbs - Site updates Source Type: blogs
Teleconsultation to improve healthcare delivery (1)
A recent article in MI suggests that the Health Care sector needs to radically innovate in order to improve the efficiency of healhcare delivery to meet the challenges of the 21st century. The recurring theme in the article seemed to be that some form of Teleconsultation could take the place of traditional office visits in certain circumstances.
Taking an hour drive to a clinic or hospital, finding a car park, waiting in the clinic, followed by more queuing for your medicines could be a thing of the past if Teleconsultation could be applied where appropriate.
For example, a chronic illness like Hypertension can be largely ...
Source: Malaysian Medical Resources - March 4, 2013 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: palmdoc Tags: - Palmdoc Technology Source Type: blogs
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 ...
Source: Malaysian Medical Resources - February 24, 2013 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: LF Ng Tags: - Education - Ethics - LF Ng Australia Housemanship Internship Source Type: blogs
New DG of Health Appointed
The MMR wishes to congratulate Datuk Dr. Noor Hisham Abdullah upon his appointment as the new Director General of Health.
The Star has the news
Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah, been appointed Health director-general, effective March 1
KUALA LUMPUR: Health Ministry deputy director-general (medical)Datuk Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah has been appointed director-general, effective March 1.
His appointment to replace Datuk Seri Dr Hasan Abdul Rahman was announced Thursday by Chief Secretary to the Government Datuk Seri Dr Ali Hamsa.
In a statement, Dr Ali said Dr Noor Hisham‘s appointment, which was approved by the Yang d...
Source: Malaysian Medical Resources - February 22, 2013 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: palmdoc Tags: - Nation - Palmdoc DG MOH Source Type: blogs
Condolences to the family of the late Dr. Thillainathan Selvadurai
It is with sadness that we report Dr. Thillainathan Selvadurai, O&G Consultant and National SCHOMOS chairman passed away suddenly in a road traffic accident yesterday.
We express out heartfelt condolences to his family for their untimely loss.
from the Malaysian Medical ResourcesCondolences to the family of the late Dr. Thillainathan Selvadurai (Source: Malaysian Medical Resources)
Source: Malaysian Medical Resources - February 22, 2013 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: palmdoc Tags: - Nation - Palmdoc Source Type: blogs
Before you go to the Emergency Room
Think again. Our Emergency Rooms are clogged up by non-emergencies!
(spotted in Facebook)
from the Malaysian Medical ResourcesBefore you go to the Emergency Room (Source: Malaysian Medical Resources)
Source: Malaysian Medical Resources - February 18, 2013 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: palmdoc Tags: - Health tips - Palmdoc ER Source Type: blogs
