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BOO! Scared?
27 March 2006Our govt has found a new way to tackle the scholarship issue: scare the applicants!
Here’s the plan, have a group of shortlisted applicants, put them in the hospitals for 3 days, make them visit various departments and hope that the blood and gore will scare them off.
PSD director-general Datuk Seri Ismail Adam said they wanted the students to see doctors, among others, dealing with dead bodies, badly injured patients and also delivering babies to show them that one needed passion to become a good doctor.
Yes, the good DG seems to be of the opinion that “passion to become a good doctor” means the ability to deal with dead bodies, badly injured patients and delivering babies. By his definition, a psychiatrist wouldn’t need much passion, would he? -_-”
“The stint will enable the students to know at the outset what being a doctor is all about and we will be able to choose those, who can really make it in the profession.
“Those who are still confident after familiarising themselves with the mortuary, operatingtheatre and other sections of the hospital will be called for the final interview,” said Ismail,…
He told The Star that some of the scholarship applicants might not want to take up medicine after seeing what the profession entailed.
I say… how about attaching each student to a HO for a week or two, have them work the hours a HO does, be on-call when the HO is… and we’ll see how things go? :P
on March 27th, 2006 at 10:41 pm
The govt’s idea is good. Yours is better. Talking and thinking about being a doctor is easy, but the “scary” part isn’t the blood or the dead bodies. It’s the work itself.
on March 28th, 2006 at 2:37 pm
“starts going around telling everyone you can be a locum… without telling them they need to go through med school and the HO bit first..”
*runs away*
on March 28th, 2006 at 5:51 pm
yay! shock ‘em! yay! locum!
on March 29th, 2006 at 9:11 am
*dies laughing at lishun’s comment*
*out of breath: can’t comment on YP’s post*
on March 30th, 2006 at 12:20 pm
no wonder there were 3 young girls in the labour ward in Banting Hospital wearing neither lab coats nor protective aprons peering at the impending deliveries with wide eyes. at first i was wondering who they were, but later found out there were future JPA scholarship holders :P
on March 31st, 2006 at 5:25 pm
They were there in Seremban on Wednesday too.
on May 16th, 2006 at 1:17 am
[…] There’s more to being a doctor than just seeing patients and blood, as YP has mentioned. They have no idea how tiring and taxing the life of a doctor is. Not to mention the path of being a doctor, which, unfortunately to the bookworms out there, involves more than just reading lots of textbooks and notes. As YP suggested (and I agree), they should attach the students to a HO for a week each, and then let them decide whether that life multiplied by years is worth it or not. […]