When it was revealed that the Malaysian Association of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery (MATCVS) was illegally conducting the FRCS "haram" education on behalf for Royal College of Surgeon, Edinburgh (RCS Edin) under the Parallel Pathway program, there was initial denial from them.
Subsequently, MATCVS via their fellow fraternity, College of Surgeon Malaysia (COSM) and Academy of Medicine Malaysia (AMM) took responsibility for it. This is illegal and should be brought to court because they are not approved institution of higher learning under the Ministry of Higher Education (MOHE).
As a result, the PP graduates could not get their diploma accredited by the Malaysian Medical Council (MMC). More so, the diploma was by a foreign institution, RCS Edin thus must be accredited by the UK's General Medical Council for MMC to recognise.
MATCVS, COSM and AMM used their size, network and political influence to attack MMC and opponents of PP. It got to the point of being personal and picking on a certain Professor's financial misfortune which was a cruel and oppressive number by a group of Alumni-linked bankers.
Media were blacked out and medical specialist portal Codeblue were on their side on the pretext of fighting for more Medical Specialist.
Now Codeblue realised that PP is a bogus program. Many parties are being exposed as lying in their various claims and allegations. Do not rule out it is probably a get rich quick scheme by certain party.
These doctors are the geeky kids in school focused on study and spent times on books. Supposed to be exemplary students, have good behaviours and budak baik.
This proves Dr Rafidah Abdullah and Dr Hanafiah Harunarashid may have lied in their early June claim that two of the trainees got a job abroad, presumably as CTS specialist.
At the end of March, the MP for Kuching, Dr Kevin Yii claimed seven practising CTS have RCS Edin qualification to push the argument against MMC for inappropriately rejecting the PP graduates which have their diploma issued by RCS Edin.
He was speaking in concert with Senator Dr RA Lingeswaran from DAP Penang to apply political pressure on MMC to break the law and recognise PP.
Today, Bo Su Lynn revealed in her report HERE that RCS Edin "collaborated" with the ill-equipped and unauthorised MATCVS to design the PP training program. However, RCS Edin told the Minister of Health, Dr Dzul that they designed the PP training program for CTS!
She highlighted conflicting statements made by RCS Edin in their March 2023 and April 2024 statements. And these are from court filings by MMC in the lawsuit by four unreconised PP graduates in CTS.
To quote from the Codeblue report yesterday, RCS Edin demonstrated their tendency to profusely lie as below:
KUALA LUMPUR, June 25 — The Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh (RCSEd) now says it “never suggested” that graduates of Malaysia’s cardiothoracic surgery parallel pathway programme were guaranteed entry to the United Kingdom’s specialist register.
In a press statement last May 15, uploaded on the RCSEd website, the surgical college based in Scotland said UK-based surgical trainees – who have followed a training pathway regulated by the UK’s General Medical Council (GMC) and successfully complete the Joint Committee on Intercollegiate Examinations (JCIE) in the UK – are eligible to apply for, and join, the UK GMC register of specialists.
“This pathway to this specialist register is not available to surgeons from outside of the UK. Instead, surgeons wishing to join the UK’s specialist register must apply using the ‘portfolio pathway’ and submit other evidence of their eligibility to join the register,” RCSEd said in its statement.
“RCSEd has never suggested that successful completion of an international fellowship examination would, on its own, guarantee entry to the UK specialist register, something which is a matter for the GMC.
“However, the GMC may accept the JSF (Joint Specialty Fellowship) FRCSEd cardiothoracic qualification as part of the evidence for specialist registration application through the ‘portfolio pathway’.”
RCSEd claimed that its JSF exams – “which cover a variety of surgical specialties in Hong Kong, Singapore, and Malaysia” – are “of the same standard” as the JCIE exam, “but the format of the examinations is different.”
The royal college based in Scotland claimed that candidates who pass RCSEd’s JSF exam have “achieved the same high standards of knowledge and practice” as those who pass the fellowship examination set by JCIE – by virtue of the fact that RCSEd awards a fellowship to successful candidates in its own exam.
RCSEd’s May 15 press statement was issued two days after CodeBlue published a report on May 13 headlined, “UK Medical Council Denies Recognising FRCS Edinburgh Cardiothoracic Surgery Parallel Pathway Qualification For Specialist Registration”.
The Edinburgh surgical college never sent its statement to CodeBlue, despite CodeBlue’s request for a response to the GMC story.
The RCSEd’s May 15 statement was submitted by the Malaysian Medical Council (MMC) to the High Court here as part of evidence – via an affidavit-in-reply filed last June 15 – in a judicial review application filed by four cardiothoracic surgery parallel pathway graduates against MMC’s December 2023 rejection of their applications to register on the National Specialist Register (NSR). The MMC does not recognise their FRCS Edinburgh in Cardiothoracic Surgery qualification.
The GMC told CodeBlue that it does not recognise the FRCS Edinburgh in Cardiothoracic Surgery qualification for specialist registration in the UK, but graduates can apply to practise as medical doctors.
According to the GMC – which regulates the UK medical profession across England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland – the RCSEd’s JSF exam is “not equivalent” to the GMC-approved Intercollegiate Specialty Fellowship Examination by the JCIE.
The GMC also said section two of the Joint Surgical Colleges Fellowship Examination (JSCFE) is “substantially different” from the approved Intercollegiate exam.
No exam is mandated for applications via the Portfolio Pathway for specialist registration in the UK, said the GMC. Applicants using this route are evaluated on a case-by-case basis.
Citing the RCSEd’s May 15 press statement, correspondence between the MMC and the RCSEd, as well as the UK GMC’s Specialty Specific Guidance (SSG) for entry to the UK specialist register via the Portfolio Pathway in cardiothoracic surgery, the MMC said in its June 15 affidavit that the FRCS Edinburgh in Cardiothoracic Surgery qualification, obtained from passing the JSF exam, “is not recognised by the General Medical Council (GMC) of the UK, and does not guarantee entry to the UK specialist register.”
“As such, the various assertions contained in the articles referred to by the applicants are misleading and are aimed at influencing public opinion against the respondent,” MMC said.
Read on HERE.
Glad that Codeblue realised they been lied upon.
Hope they realised they were being duped into thinking these doctors are really serious in addressing the shortages of Medical Specialists in government hospitals. All along it is about making big exorbitant bucks in private practise.
Isn't it worrisome that these doctors, Professors and Datoks could be compulsively lying, so self serving and greedy? Have they been lying to the families of patients on the true medical condition?
Perhaps, private doctors lie to extract more money from patients and god forbid, harm patients' health. A scary prospect ...
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