A new group, inspired by the Bad Student protesters, has taken to naming itself Bad Medical Students, because it stormed Twitter to reveal 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 college encouraged the group to voice their take on the trade. Dr. Manoch Chokchamsai, posted on his Facebook page:
“Let’s hear some noise from the Bad Medical Students. Talk in regards to the things the [medical] faculty wouldn’t need to hear.”
The message gained over 670 feedback and was shared by three,four hundred people on Facebook. Now, it’s the top trending matter on Twitter, prompting many medical students, interns and residents to expose what they are saying is the poisonous work tradition in the Thai medical industry. Such allegations vary from sexual harrassment, abusive workloads, verbal and emotional abuse, gender discrimination and a lot of more. One Twitter consumer says she was discriminated towards as a result of she was a girl.
“Some professors deal with med college students with double standards. The administration was the same, but I was verbally abused and seemed down upon because I am not a man… yep.”
“I was screamed at by a medical staff right in the course of the ward and informed to go leap off a constructing and kill myself. I didn’t, because I didn’t want to die and simply didn’t want to see their face.”
“ Final shouldn’t be romanticizing working past human powers as sacrifice, such as being on call for twenty-four hours and working for another right. This practice is probably held at every hospital, because I have witnessed it everywhere.”
Thailand’s medical schooling industry has lengthy been rumoured to be toxic, but the problem has by no means been publicly addressed other than news reports that have shone a lightweight into what happens behind closed doorways, which has prompted some students, residents, and interns to take their own lives.
SOURCE: Thai Enquirer