MEDICS are worried that poorly trained doctors are being unleashed on Hongkong patients.
They say an examination which qualifies overseas-trained doctors to practise in the territory must be tightened.
The call came after it was announced yesterday that 25 out of 72 candidates had passed this year's licentiate exam.
Professor Arthur Li Kwok-cheung, dean of medicine at the Chinese University, which conducted this year's licentiate, said medics had long been worried that poorly trained doctors were slipping through the exam.
He said the problem was that the kind of candidate sitting the exam had changed, but the exam had not.
In the past, most candidates were experienced doctors, mainly from China.
Now, fresh medical graduates - including some this year from small American colleges - make up the bulk of examinees.