Feedback: Disappointed Doctor
posted in - Feedback, - Nation, - Palmdoc |Disappointed Doctor writes in to the MMR:
I am a medical doctor who was educated overseas and worked in Australia for several years and recently decided to return to Malaysia to serve the country.
As a professional working overseas I heard about the ‘Program bagi mengalakkan warganegara Malaysia yang berpakaran yang bekerja di luar negara pulang ke Malaysia’ and therefore applied for it. I was very disappointed when they rejected my application on the grounds that it was sent after I returned to Malaysia. Apparently it was meant to be sent whilst I was still in Australia.
I find this a very poor excuse given the fact that Malaysia is trying to lure back its citizens to work for them. It discourages professionals such as me from having to bear the burden to return but not have any perks or encouraging incentives. Furthermore, my parents bore my exorbitant medical tuition fees and I did not receive any governmental loans whatsoever. The “least” is something anyone would
expect.Besides that, it took me a great deal of an effort to locate the above mentioned application form which was hidden in the catacombic archives of one of the governmental websites.
Talk about purposeful inconvenience or perhaps voluntary neglect.I can see why many of my colleagues are hesitant to return and serve the government given the unimpressive, unattractive attitude and to top it off the obvious suboptimal remuneration and working conditions. Now, thankfully I still have the option to return to Australia and am reconsidering my intentions to continue here thanks to the above. Job well done in luring professionals back.
I agree with Disappointed Doctor. It sounds typical of bureaucrats who can’t seem to exhibit an iota of flexibility. So the applications must come from overseas and not from those who returned from overseas to Malaysia first? Absolutely ridiculous you might say but in Bolehland I am not surprised.
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January 30th, 2010 at 4:54 pm
Vote out BN. Maybe that might help. No guarantee anyway!
January 31st, 2010 at 8:21 pm
I’m working in Australia at the moment and there are so many Malaysian doctors here working as residents and interns.
I was asked whether they should go back as their parents wanted them home. My honest opinion is that they should complete their training in Australia first and only then return to Malaysia if they are so inclined. But of course I encourage all of them to go back to vote!
January 31st, 2010 at 9:13 pm
This site sounds more like political blog now. I doubt PR will give better incentive. They have to deal with the doctors who are currently work IN Malaysia first. Malaysian domestic doctors will not accept better incentive for those who return from overseas with same qualification.