Master in Subspecialty
Criteria of entering master has been extended from 3 to 4 years (1 Housemanship + 3 MOships). I believe there must be objections although the plan goes on.
There are master in Neurosurgery, Plastic surgery and Cardiothoracic surgery. I believe there are more to come. Unfortunately we didn't hear much comments on these matter. Do you think we need master in Cardiology, Dermatology, Neurology, ......?
There are master in Neurosurgery, Plastic surgery and Cardiothoracic surgery. I believe there are more to come. Unfortunately we didn't hear much comments on these matter. Do you think we need master in Cardiology, Dermatology, Neurology, ......?
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I believe we in medicine should not support a direct subspecialty training cause they is abundance of general medical problems in all our patients irrespective of the subspeciality discipline in internal medicine ie a good practising haematologist need to have good experience managing a variety of general medical issues and has to be familiar with it very well cause that is the bread and butter in the nuances of clinical haematology apart from the usual jargon of cytotoxic protocols...
One thing we could improve in malaysia is a set structured training system with good guidance from superior trainers, be it internal system or external system. I also believe specialist from private practice whom have demonstrated good teaching skills should be pulled into the general academic pool so that the quality of medical education will only get better. I also personal feel that our trainers should have " his/her trainees at heart" so they ( the trainees ) will excell.
I must say that i have unfortunately seen only very few of such teaches in my medical career but hope that there would be some improvement. I always think about this concept whenever i teach someone ...
So, there is no use having direct subspeciality when we need to focus on better general training.
I am willing to accept comments.
Dr Vijaya Sangkar
Dept of Haematology
ICPMR
Westmead Hospital
Sydney
(formerly of UMMC Kl - and definitely coming back to UMMC in 2007/8)
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