A new group, inspired by the Bad Student protesters, has taken to naming itself Bad Medical Students, because it stormed Twitter to disclose the downfalls of studying medicine in Thailand. The hashtag #นักศึกษาแพทย์เลว (Bad Medical Student), has now gained over 86,000 Tweets after the Assistant Dean of the Faculty of Medicine at Chiang Mai university encouraged the group to voice their tackle the business. Dr. Manoch Chokchamsai, posted on his Facebook page:
“Let’s hear some noise from the Bad Medical Students. Talk in regards to the issues the [medical] school wouldn’t want to hear.”
The message gained over 670 feedback and was shared by three,four hundred people on Facebook. Now, it is the top trending subject on Twitter, prompting many medical students, interns and residents to show what they say is the toxic work culture within the Thai medical business. Such allegations range from sexual harrassment, abusive workloads, verbal and emotional abuse, gender discrimination and tons of extra. One Twitter person says she was discriminated against because she was a girl.
“Some professors deal with med students with double standards. Painless was the same, however I was verbally abused and seemed down upon because I am not a man… yep.”
“I was screamed at by a medical workers right in the course of the ward and informed to go leap off a building and kill myself. I didn’t, because I didn’t want to die and simply didn’t want to see their face.”
“We shouldn’t be romanticizing working past human powers as sacrifice, such as being on call for 24 hours and working for an additional right. This practice might be held at every hospital, because I have witnessed it in all places.”
Thailand’s medical training business has long been rumoured to be poisonous, but the issue has by no means been publicly addressed apart from news stories which have shone a light-weight into what occurs behind closed doorways, which has prompted some college students, residents, and interns to take their own lives.
SOURCE: Thai Enquirerg