3 YEARS GRACE PERIOD TO MALACCA-MANIPAL MEDICAL COLLEGE

Here's some update on the Malacca-Manipal Medical College I mentioned a few days ago... Teck Wei, take notice!!! Tell ur frens at Manipal too!! I picked up the main points in the News Straits Time, 4th of July 2003.

The Cabinet gave Malacca Manipal Medical College three years to overcome weaknesses in its medical programme and strictly comply with recommendation from of the Malaysian Medical Council... the Cabinet also directed the college to chenge its duration of medical programme from the Indian system of four and a half years to five years as required by Malaysian Goverment... The third batch of the mediacl students will be asked to to do the five years so that they can go straight into housemanship (i.e. skipped internship)... The council went to the college to ascertain the merits of accrediting the degree and found weaknesses in the system and gave the college one year to correct all the weaknesses, including course structure and clinical exposure during internship...

That's all the important stuff... So things aren't so bad after all!!! =D