Safeguarding specialist training

The purpose of the amendments to Act 50 is to close legal loopholes – to ensure doctors who took the recognised pathway towards becoming a specialist and meet requirements laid out by MMC will be properly entered in the NSR.

THE amendments to the Medical Act 1971 (Act 50) that were passed in the Dewan Rakyat last week have one primary purpose: to facilitate a smoother training, qualification and registration process for Malaysian medical specialists in keeping with consistent, established, and highly rigorous standards.