Corruption In Egypt’s Medical Schools — Part 3

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In my medical school, most of the medical schools in the country, and even all other faculties and universities, there is a very important opportunity to work in them, as a part of the teaching staff, contrary to working in the world outside, either in a hospital, clinic, or otherwise. That act is called: Ta’yeen. And when you first get your job in there you’re called a Mo’eed. After some time you become a Prof. Assistant (or a lecturer), then a Professor.

The advantage of this profession over working outside is that:

1. You start working as soon as you graduate.
2. You get paid at least 5 times you’d get outside.
3. You can easily register and succeed in your Master and Phd degrees.
4. It’s a very point of social power within a mentally-retarded society.
5. As you ascend in the teaching ladder, you become more important, you get paid more, and finally you become a doctor who writes books (mostly steals them from international prints) and sell them. You become accredited as a holy figure who doesn’t make mistakes, while in reality you’re just a piece of #$!@ who has been wasting more time than others in the department.
6. You kick other people’s and students’ a$$es as you like and whenever you like (Aren’t you a holy figure?! You do what you want).

The disadvantages while you’re still a Mo’eed are:

1. You teach students as if you’re an 8th-grader teacher while you’re supposed to be a doctor who works in a hospital or a clinic.
2. You are treated like a pig by your employers and higher doctors (see No. 6 above). No objection, cause if you did so, you’d be fired very easily. Plus, you need to move on to get all those advantages mentioned above.
3. You see all people of the society praising you while you know deep inside that you’re nothing. This builds up tension and insecurity in your mind.

Now let’s skip to the main corruption part. Since, like I’ve just said, being a Mo’eed is a very critical and important thing to most of the people (since most of the people are mentally-retarded here), the students would kill themselves to be Mo’eeds. And since it’s very hard to be so (you need very high grades), corruption makes the whole thing very easy. I’ll put them down in points below:

• Professors/Doctors who were – one day – Mo’eeds put their sons and relatives in the league, making them Mo’eeds too, by money (called Wasta), or personal recommendation.
• Inside the test paper correction rooms scary things happen. Certain papers are edited and given higher marks, while others are just ignored.
• In the oral examination rooms, some students get full marks without saying a word because their father/relative works in the faculty. (Sorry, they do speak,.. but somethings like “Good morning, Sir” — quite enough I guess).
• Mo’eeds pay money to professors to let them give lectures in the main lecture room. This way they become more popular, get more reputation, giving them greater chances to give private tutors (another form of paid corruption coming in Part 4) to the students.

Stay tuned for Part 4. I’m not gonna stop until I release all what I’ve got.

Thanks for reading!
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