Reza Mahmud :
Experts suggested for exploiting huge prospects of sending doctors with work permits to Canada by facilitating adequate training of communicative skill and manner.
Bangladeshi physicians working in Canada said, there are enormous opportunities for getting work permit for Bangladeshi doctors in Canada, but weakness in communication with adequate sensitivity is a major barrier.
They said doctors coming from Bangladesh are not well in communicating with patients with adequate behaviors.
Meanwhile, Bureau of Manpower, Employment and Training (BMET) said there is no scope of imparting training of behaviour to MBBS doctors going abroad with job.
Physicians working in Canada said, Medical colleges in Bangladesh have to teach doctors not only medical education, but also skills of communication with patients with well manner and sensitivity.
The experts also pointed the weakness of number distributing system in medical colleges of Bangladesh.
They said, most of the Bangladeshi doctors used to get on average 60 number while the neighboring Pakistani and Indian physicians get 90 number.
As a result, CV, submitted by Bangladeshi doctors being lagging behind from the two neighboring countries’ competitors.
When contacted, Md. Shahidul Alam, Director General of BMET told The New Nation on Sunday, “There is no scope of imparting communicative training to doctors here. The medical colleges should start such initiatives.”
He said,”We have no agreement with Canada for sending manpower there. But skilled and higher educated people are going there with getting job personally.”
He said, the BMET used to assist them with documentations and clearances.
“In Canada, hiring authorities used to give very less importance on medical treatment giving skill any doctor. They used to give utmost importance on communication skill, and capabilities of understanding patients,” Dr. Tania Rubaiyat, Assistant Professor of Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry of the Western University of Canada told it in a programme in the North American country.
She said in a virtual programme titled “Why Bangladeshi doctors used to get no recognitions in Canada”. The discussion organized by Shawgat Ali Sagor, Editor of Canada’s Bangla daily Notundesh in his virtual programme ‘Shawgat Ali Sagor live’ show.
Dr. Tania said, the authorities in the country used to think that the doctors can give medical services or can learn it easily.
But they want to be ensured if the doctors are well in professionalism and they have capability to understand the patients’ sensitivity and behaved as per the sensitivity of the patient.
They are used to see the doctors’ attitude towards patients, the pattern of talking and other behavioral matters. The Assistant Professor said also that huge opportunities of getting job in the country for numbers of doctors are going vain due to incapability of communication with patients.
She suggested the medical institutes of Bangladesh to give the matter highest importance so that numbers of Bangladeshi medical students and physicians can catch the full potentials in the industrially developed country.
Dr. Khandaker Mahmudul Haque, trying to get a job as a physician in Canada said in the discussion, that misery of Bangldeshi medical teachers pushed the students and doctors in hazardous in the field of getting job abroad.
