List of registered docs available at website

Star: KUALA LUMPUR: The public can now check the Malaysian Medical Council (MMC) website to find out if a doctor is a registered practitioner.
MMC president Tan Sri Dr Ismail Merican said Malaysians could go to www.mmc.gov.my to find out if the doctor was registered with the council.
The website also lists nine ethical guidelines, including those on ethical implications for doctors in conflict situations, brain death, medical records and medical reports, dissemination of information by the medical profession and organ transplantation.
“The website is a check-and- balance to ensure our people are getting treated by those registered with the MMC. It was difficult in the past, but now they can do it,” he said yesterday after the launch.
Dr Ismail, who is also Health Ministry director-general, added that doctors also did not have the excuse to delay or not register for their annual practising certificate (APC) with the MMC.
Doctors need an APC to practise in the country and online payment for the annual RM50 fee can be done by November through the portal.
“Now there is no excuse for doctors to say they are late or that they never heard from the MMC. It is online now and we will inform them when we receive the application and payment,” he said.
There are 17,797 doctors with APCs while 307 foreign practitioners have been given temporary certificates which allow them to practise while undergoing postgraduate training or attachment in specific places.
However, Dr Ismail warned deans of medical faculties to be careful when hiring such doctors to be lecturers.