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Common licensing exam for medical grads

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IN January this year, Health Minister Datuk Seri Dr S. Subramaniam was reported in the media as saying that his Ministry was in talks with the Education Ministry to tighten the admission requirements into medical schools in the country.

An online news portal reported that the Minister also said, "We are not going to allow (the opening of) new medical schools, neither are we going to allow them to increase the intake in any of the existing schools."

We warmly welcome the Minister's statements. For decades now, medical practitioners have raised concerns about an oversupply of poorly trained medical graduates in the country. There are also many anecdotal stories, ranging from funny to horrifying, which seemed to support the fraternity's alarm.

As such, we firmly advocate that the Health and Education Ministries work swiftly to address the matter which has snowballed into a national healthcare issue.

There are various reasons which led us into this quagmire. Firstly, there are too many medical colleges. At the last count, there were 33 public and private medical schools offering 49 programmes in Malaysia. On top of this, we recognised 378 institutions in over 35 countries.

Secondly, while the government acknowledged that the growing number of medical programmes was a problem and imposed a five year moratorium in 2005, and then again, in 2010 - the number of graduates continued to burgeon. As such, if there is to be another round of moratorium, it must be strictly implemented.

Thirdly, the existence of many medical colleges have led to an exponential growth in the number of medical graduates. If Malaysian Medical Council (MMC) member, Dr Milton Lum's predictions are right, the country would be looking at 5,000 to 6,000 graduates in 2015-2016, a marked increase from 3,100 in 2011 and less than 1,000 in 2001. This number is expected to rise, and rise.

The medical fraternity have also cited several reasons for the glut. Amongst others, these included slack admission criteria for some of the local and international medical colleges, commercialization of medical education, as well as the lack of qualified medical educators in these institutions.

Dr Lum said that even as far back as 2007, consultants in teaching hospitals such as University Hospital, Hospital UKM, Hospital USM have raised the alarm about the patchy quality of housemen. This saw MMC extending the tenure of the housemanship from one to two years in 2008.

The oversupply of medical graduates have also resulted in another problem; the quality of housemanship training, a critical component in their professional career.

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New traditional medicine 'park" in China to raise standards

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Li Xueying

The Straits Times

Publication Date : 05-05-2014

Bank manager Xie Qing, 49, is a great believer in the cures of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM), be it wolfberries to strengthen her vision or lingzhi mushrooms to fight against viral infections.

But the Shenzhen resident is wary of the quality of the herbs sold in stores and prescribed by clinics. Expensive herbs like cordyceps should be quite rare but you can buy them everywhere now, she says. I do not know which to choose given the scandals about low-quality TCM.

It is such headaches that an upcoming TCM park in Hengqin, Guangdong province, hopes to treat, by setting higher standards for Chinese herbs and minerals.

A collaboration between the Macau and Guangdong governments, the 500,000 sq m park is envisaged to establish stricter quality controls and an incubation centre for research and development into new products. Building according to a 10 billion yuan (US$1.6 billion) masterplan by Singapores Ascendas is under way and it aims to open in 2020 with 300 firms.

Says Albert Chui, its business development manager: The problem with TCM products from China is the trust issue. We hope to help address that.

TCM, which claims a lineage of 5,000 years, remains popular in China including special administrative regions Hong Kong and Macau, and other Chinese-majority societies like Singapore and Taiwan, even as it gains a following in other parts of the world.

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Study unveils new approach to treating brittle bone disease

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4-May-2014

Contact: Glenna Picton picton@bcm.edu 713-798-4710 Baylor College of Medicine

HOUSTON (May 4, 2014) Researchers at Baylor College of Medicine have identified a new approach to treating brittle bone disease, a congenital disorder that results in fragile bones that break easily.

The study, published in the current issue of the journal Nature Medicine, showed that excessive activity of an important signaling protein in the matrix of the bone called transforming growth factor beta is associated with the cause of the disease.

"There are many genetic causes of brittle bone disease in children and adults," said Dr. Brendan Lee, professor of molecular and human genetics at Baylor and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator. "We have discovered many of them but clinicians still cannot easily distinguish the different forms."

Lee said the new study suggested that there may be common mechanisms that cause the decreased quality and quantity of bone in these different forms.

"This identified an important concept in bone disease that while many different genetic mutations can affect the proteins in the bone matrix (like collagen) they act in a common pathway to cause the bone disease that is they affect how signaling proteins called transforming growth factor beta (TGF) are delivered to cells in the bone," said Lee. "We now have a deeper understanding for how genetic mutations that affect collagen and collagen processing enzymes cause weak bones."

Collagen is the most common protein in the human body, and the four most common types are found in different types of tissues including bone, cartilage, blood vessels, and kidney.

In animal studies, Lee and his colleagues showed that blockade of the TGF proteins using an antibody could restore the quantity of bone in mice with different forms of brittle bone disease.

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