Housmanship Extended to 2 Years

Tan Sri Dr Mohd Ismail Merican, the Director-general of health said that the ministry has extended the
housmanship duration for medical graduates to 2 years so that they can strongly kick start their career.

He said “Previously the housemanship duration was only for a year in three compulsory disciplines in either
medicine, paediatrics, surgery or medicine, surgery and obstrectics and gynecology (O&G) - with four months
in each posting. Now it was compulsory for them to be trained in six disciplines namely general medicine,
pediatrics, surgery, orthopedics, O&G and emergency medicine with four months in each postings over a
period of two years.

All housemen would be employed on scale UD41 (RM1999- RM5317) and upon successful completion of
their housemanship training, they would be confirmed in service and promoted to UD44 (RM3028- RM5570)
scale. If their performance was not up to the standard, the period of training could be extended,"

-Zen, MalaysiaToday