#2 : Less HO in Department

This can only be applied after you have entered the hospital of your choice. Why?
Because Hospital admin will always put new HO (regardless of 1st posters or not) according to the number of HO in a particular department. They cannot allocate all 10 new HO to medical (already have 20 HO there) when Orthopedic only have 10 HO left, right?
They will try to balance the number of HO in each department so that there are no jobless HO in one department when there are overworked HO in the other department.

The point here is, 1 month before finishing your 1st posting, try to find out whether the next department you're about to enter is depleted of HO (ask those in that department). If its not, then you will not face any problem with lack of HO. If it is yes, what you should do is....

1. Go to your hospital admin (normally it's call bahagian sumber manusia)

2. Ask the officer in-charge to change you to another department, normally they will ask which department you want to enter. (again, do some research on which department has sufficient number of HO, if not, you'll end up in the tiger's mouth trying to avoid a dog-bite)

3. Sometimes admin is reluctant to switch you to another department. Just come up with some good & solid reasons. We're all born as liar at some point, why not use it for good reason, lol

Problems related to lack of HO in a department :-

• +++ workload = one HO covers more patient, need to start your AM round early, go back late, miss your breakfast & lunch & dinner
• +++ stress = many complaints, tons of issues need to be settled
• Freeze Leave request = since less HO available, the department cannot afford their "frontliner" to go on leave (cuti), all your request will be rejected. Remember, your leave is not your right !!
• Shift changed to On-call system = shift system for HO is less tiring compared to on-call system. With less HO available, its going to be hard to create a 3 shifts schedule for HO.  They will end up make HO do on-call system. You're not getting extra salary to do more hours, okay? Only few will thank you for your hardwork
• Working on Big Holiday = muslim working on raya, chinese working on CNY & so on, while bosses cuti kaw-kaw... lol
• Have to work even if you're sick = unless you are being admitted to the ward for falling sick, some will not tolerate, you might get extended in the damn department for falling sick. 

 " Do not expect the world to be nice at you, just because you are nice to the world. Its like asking the lion not to eat you, because you do not eat lion "