MALAYSIA

TIME

• Meeting for doctors usually start off the day but doctors here have meeting with the patients before treating them.
• They also meet with there nurses before seeing patients!

MONETARY DENOMINATION

• Malaysian Ringgit is the Malaysian currency
• The Malaysian Ringgit =0.26 US dollars

IMPORTANT HOLIDAYS

• June 6th:beginning of Ramadan
• July 7th:Georgetown heritage Day

WORK WEEK FOR DOCTORS IN MALAYSIA

• Work 12 hours day
• 4 to 6 days a week
• Usually on call.

MALE V FEMALE DOCTORS

• Male dominated workplace
• Ranked high for female doctors tho
• Male doctors are more in otorhinolaryngology
• Female doctors more in pathology

BUSINESS EXPEXTATIONS

• Dress code: Malaysian doctors wear what the doctors wear in amercia. Sometimes female doctors have to cover all skin. The greet people the common way all doctors do.

CULTURE INFLUENCES

• Chinese culture/Indian cultures
• Islam religion, physically split west and east.
• Population:23 million people
• Speak:basasa melyumain.( also English and Mandarin Chinese)

POLITICAL INFLUENCES

• Lead by prime minister.
• Influenced by China's medical work
• Federal representative democratic constitutional monarchy.

IN ADDITION....

• Dentist,doctors,and nurse.
• It's is dominated in the medical field by men, just like in the US. It is still harder for women to get and hold jobs there.. This Relates to me because the same happens in the US to women.