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The shortage of supply is mainly due to the wrongful decision of the Medical Council, which I think, is totally wrong.
In or about 2002 or 2003, the deans of both medical schools warned that there would be an acute shortage of supply of doctors and asked the Government to increase the quota of the classes. However, contrary to the advice, the Medical Council insisted that there should be a cut in the quota. It ended up that the quota for each medical school was reduced to an annual intake of 125. It is a shame because of the selfish of the medical profession.
The population in Singapore is about 1/2 of Hong Kong. However, it has 3 medical schools producing about 500 doctors each year. They also welcome the graduates from UK, Australia and Hong Kong to practice there.
In Hong Kong we have about 7.5 million but we only have 320 doctors trained each year until 2019 when Hong Kong would have 420 doctors come into the market. The licentiate examination is just window dressing, In a typical year, the passing rate is around 10%.
Why overseas medical graduates from Australia, UK and other commonwealth countries could practice here before 1997 without any licentiate examination? Is there a drop of standard of other leading medical schools after 1997? The only logical deduction is the medical profession adopts a close-shop policy to protect their self-interest. |
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