We have not posted anything in the past 2 months, not because of reasons circulating around. We wanted to wait and see if there are any changes during this time. We felt that this comment raises a few important issues. There were lots of replies to the comments so best if we discussed this further here.
By brucelee
As the new DGMS has taken over, we want to bring to her office’s attention the nepotism practice by the previous inefficient administrator. By the way, we are all elated to see the back of ex DGMS!
The first issue we want to bring up is the way the postgraduate committee was formed. The committee members were chosen by the ex DGMS and consist of his cronies who are mainly interested in promoting themselves.
They did not do anything to expedite the promotions of other local doctors nor do they provide assistance with our training. To clarify our statement, how come one of its members has been promoted to M19 without having undergone proper training herself?
We know for a fact she went to Singapore as a fellow, did not register herself for specialist training and did not do on calls and rotations while there. She spent her time outside Singapore attending overseas meetings.
Why is she being considered as a Senior Specialist in Brunei when she would only be considered as an associate Specialist in Singapore?? This has happened because she has promoted her substandard qualification despite not having enough experience. We hope the new administration will not do the same mistake and all these people have to be promoted only by local assessments after a few years of experience.
Now, who is she to decide on our future training (us junior doctors) when she herself did not undergo proper postgraduate training? We refuse to have her in the postgraduate committee to decide on our training.
We want to talk about the other member who is the right hand person for our old administrator. She calls herself the coordinator. She is the one who reluctantly returned to Brunei after decades of overseas stay spending government’s money. She never worked in Brunei as a junior doctor and she too is involved in deciding our future? Let the senior doctors who have spent their time in Brunei decide!
She spends more of her time at Ministry and UBD than RIPAS, where she is supposed to look after her patients. Now she is bringing the new scheme for assessment of junior doctors’ training. It’s high time we form a committee to assess his ex cronies who spend their time to promote themselves and decide on our lives. Let us now have 360 degrees assessment on all these cronies.
The second issue is the recent spate of promotions given to ex DGMS’s cronies which was secretly organised as he probably knew he was on the way out! We don’t know whether the 3 month trained Specialist has been promoted too? We are certain she was included, appointment via pillow talk.
It’s time we revamp the present system and postgraduate training committee. Promotions should be given on merits and everyone should have equal opportunities.
We are pleased to have Dr Hjh Norlila as our new DGMS. We hope she will get rid of all these favoritism practice.
Some of points it raises are:
- There is a new DGMS
- Another assessment on how some people can get promoted without proper training.
- How powerful a favourite can become, especially if the boss relies to much on them.
- A lot of decisions we made by one group of people with their own agendas.
To follow our own advice on the last point, please give us your comment on this.
