We, the students of the 2024–25 Year 3 MBBS batch, would like to express our concerns regarding the recent changes to the clinical rotation structure. It has come to our attention that students may no longer be rotating between hospitals and cities during the postings, and will instead be remaining stationed at a single hospital for the entirety of the posting.
We understand that there have been a couple of complaints regarding the logistical challenges of rotating between hospitals, specifically the transport, and we are grateful that these complaints have been taken into consideration.
However, the new arrangement might create a clear sense of unfairness, as some students will be posted at home in the Klang Valley for the entire 8 weeks, while others will be sent to Muar or Manjung for the same duration. This puts a significant financial burden on those not placed in Klang Valley, and many of us will struggle to afford and maintain accommodation in two separate places at the same time for two continuous months. A large portion of the batch simply cannot manage this financially, and we feel like the arrangement is imbalanced and deeply discouraging.
The majority of us believe that the hospital rotations are a fundamental aspect of our training and a followed part of medical teaching worldwide. It ensures equitable exposure and experience, and equal learning opportunities for all students. Each hospital offers unique clinical encounters, teaching styles, patient demographics, and environments that contribute significantly to our growth as future doctors. However, being limited to a single hospital disallows this and restricts our ability to gain a well-rounded clinical experience.
We recognize the challenges involved in managing clinical rotations. But we believe that these challenges are a part of the medicine journey we willingly undertook in pursuing this degree from the very beginning.
Restricting hospital rotations risks creating discrepancies and bias in students’ clinical training and overall competence. Moreover, it also creates financial burden on some students more than the others making the system inherently unfair. Therefore, we kindly request you to please take our perspectives into serious consideration and revise this decision. We want the rotations to remain as it is and are not in favor of any changes that will make us stay in one place for the whole rotation.
Thank you for your time and understanding. Looking forward to a favorable response.
Yours sincerely,
Year 3 MBBS students
37 Comments
I believe having our posting being constricted to one place limits our experience cause in the past posting the different places we went to definitely had a contribution to our learning experience . Also the financial burden a very important thing to consider especially since some of us live alone in cyber and pay full rent, so paying two rents can become really burdensome.
I WANT TO GO AS MANY HOSPITAL AS I COULD TO LEARN MORE TO DIG MORE AND TO BE EXPOSED MORE IN CLINICAL SITE.I’M SURE AND APPROVED MYSELF THAT WE NEED TO ROTATE HOSPITAL AND GRAB AS MANY AS KNOWLEDGE AND EXPERIENCE WE COULD CAUSE ONLY ONE HOSPITAL IS 100% NOT ENOUGH.
I urge that our point of view on the matter gets considered as if this rule gets enforced, a lot of students will face unnecessary and overwhelming financial burden due to maintaining two households in two different cities. Moreover, there might be difference in the learning experience as well as the quality of learning from hospital to hospital.
Personally, I don't understand the layout of the rotations, and I think that this opens the door to discrimination.
I think it’s really biased and does favour only to one side as majority of student will have to take the out numbered bad consequences from this. Imagine for some student that have cyberjaya house rent for the year, and suddenly you just put him or her to posting in somewhere other than klang valley, it surely will burden student more than now. Also the clinical exposure for every hospital is different. Some said this hospital has many procedures to be observed while other hospital not even let the student to be in the ward everyday. Please rethink and take a whole observation in this situation while making decisions instead of making it out of your rationality.
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Need to change rotation per month
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We, the students of the 2024–25 Year 3 MBBS batch, would like to express our concerns regarding the recent changes to the clinical rotation structure. It has come to our attention that students may no longer be rotating between hospitals and cities during the postings, and will instead be remaining stationed at a single hospital for the entirety of the posting.
We understand that there have been a couple of complaints regarding the logistical challenges of rotating between hospitals, specifically the transport, and we are grateful that these complaints have been taken into consideration.
However, the new arrangement might create a clear sense of unfairness, as some students will be posted at home in the Klang Valley for the entire 8 weeks, while others will be sent to Muar or Manjung for the same duration. This puts a significant financial burden on those not placed in Klang Valley, and many of us will struggle to afford and maintain accommodation in two separate places at the same time for two continuous months. A large portion of the batch simply cannot manage this financially, and we feel like the arrangement is imbalanced and deeply discouraging.
The majority of us believe that the hospital rotations are a fundamental aspect of our training and a followed part of medical teaching worldwide. It ensures equitable exposure and experience, and equal learning opportunities for all students. Each hospital offers unique clinical encounters, teaching styles, patient demographics, and environments that contribute significantly to our growth as future doctors. However, being limited to a single hospital disallows this and restricts our ability to gain a well-rounded clinical experience.
We recognize the challenges involved in managing clinical rotations. But we believe that these challenges are a part of the medicine journey we willingly undertook in pursuing this degree from the very beginning.
Restricting hospital rotations risks creating discrepancies and bias in students’ clinical training and overall competence. Moreover, it also creates financial burden on some students more than the others making the system inherently unfair. Therefore, we kindly request you to please take our perspectives into serious consideration and revise this decision. We want the rotations to remain as it is and are not in favor of any changes that will make us stay in one place for the whole rotation.
Thank you for your time and understanding. Looking forward to a favorable response.
Yours sincerely,
Year 3 MBBS students
37 Comments
I totally agree with what has been said. Staying 8 weeks in Muar or Manjung will be financially difficult for many students. Most of us have already rented a place in Cyberjaya, so we would have to pay for two places at the same time. Maintaining two accommodations simultaneously would be financially challenging. As medical students, we are already facing a demanding academic schedule, and adding this financial burden would not only increase stress but also place unnecessary pressure on our families—particularly for those whose parents are already making considerable sacrifices to support our education. Thank you
I believe having our posting being constricted to one place limits our experience cause in the past posting the different places we went to definitely had a contribution to our learning experience . Also the financial burden a very important thing to consider especially since some of us live alone in cyber and pay full rent, so paying two rents can become really burdensome.
I WANT TO GO AS MANY HOSPITAL AS I COULD TO LEARN MORE TO DIG MORE AND TO BE EXPOSED MORE IN CLINICAL SITE.I’M SURE AND APPROVED MYSELF THAT WE NEED TO ROTATE HOSPITAL AND GRAB AS MANY AS KNOWLEDGE AND EXPERIENCE WE COULD CAUSE ONLY ONE HOSPITAL IS 100% NOT ENOUGH.
I urge that our point of view on the matter gets considered as if this rule gets enforced, a lot of students will face unnecessary and overwhelming financial burden due to maintaining two households in two different cities. Moreover, there might be difference in the learning experience as well as the quality of learning from hospital to hospital.
Personally, I don't understand the layout of the rotations, and I think that this opens the door to discrimination.
I think it’s really biased and does favour only to one side as majority of student will have to take the out numbered bad consequences from this. Imagine for some student that have cyberjaya house rent for the year, and suddenly you just put him or her to posting in somewhere other than klang valley, it surely will burden student more than now. Also the clinical exposure for every hospital is different. Some said this hospital has many procedures to be observed while other hospital not even let the student to be in the ward everyday. Please rethink and take a whole observation in this situation while making decisions instead of making it out of your rationality.
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Need to change rotation per month
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I totally agree with what has been said. Staying 8 weeks in Muar or Manjung will be financially difficult for many students. Most of us have already rented a place in Cyberjaya, so we would have to pay for two places at the same time. Maintaining two accommodations simultaneously would be financially challenging. As medical students, we are already facing a demanding academic schedule, and adding this financial burden would not only increase stress but also place unnecessary pressure on our families—particularly for those whose parents are already making considerable sacrifices to support our education. Thank you