Too many ants
Posted by peanut on Sunday Aug 8, 2010 Under as a HOLooking back at the date of my previous post, it is proven that indeed I’m getting lazier in posting up or writing up diaries. A good sign to show that the houseman is really working, a bad sign for myself that maybe I already lost some grip of my own life.
Anyway, had this conversation with my senior the other day. Will put it in another way.
Let’s say, there are production of 3000 units of goods per year to the market, and each year only less than 1000 production was chosen to be upgraded. When time goes by, there will be more and more production of left in the market. Each year they will always be a leftover of 2000 units, and the chance of being selected to be the ‘upgradable’ product decreases, first is 1 over 3, and the subsequent yer, 1 over 5 and 1 over 7 and so on.
This is exactly what it is happening in this profession.
First there are thousands of medical graduates. And then there are limited post graduate seats. And slowly we are filling up the ministry and filling up all those needs.
Even thou few months in the service, I do notice that what we actually lack of is experienced doctors. And the outcome of the health care most of the time depends on where you are and whether there is any specialist available.
Time later, it will be harder to get a chance to work in the places that we want because seats will be filled, there will be a surge of production and hospitals start to have choices. If we do not hold any special experiences, there are simply no reason why a hospital would prefer you rather than another doctor.
It is going to be tough.
A lot will be back log as MOs. A lot will struggle applying for masters. A lot will be disappointed as there are simply too many to choose from and the competition is tough. There must be an edge.
This is a sad phenomenon. Something has to be done.
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August 23rd, 2010 at 10:27 am
*sigh* guess i should have known this on the day i stepped into med school.A road filled with obstacles,a neverending road.