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committee. Thus, the major national implementation consists of

regulatory reforms including the establishment of procedures to
recognise foreign MP and the dissemination of such information
to the public. However, the recognition as such could affect
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national regulations concerning professional services including
providing language accessibility to non-native speakers.

In the case of Thailand, according to the database of
the TMC, the numbers of foreign MPs receiving NL from TMC
between 2007 – 2017 are 8 persons. One of the critical
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reason of such low numbers can be critically due to the
language variation across countries, including in the NL

examination process. Even if there is no requirement for foreign
MPs to demonstrate their Thai language skills in an official Thai
NL test, foreign MPs will have difficulty in the NL examination

because some of the questions about Thai regulations in NL
Part I-II are in Thai while Part III of the NL is only conducted in

Thai. In this regard, the importance of using native language in
assessing clinical competency is that the candidates must be
evaluated knowledge and skill along with the interpersonal

communication as it would be disadvantage to Thai patients

90 See including Fukunaga, ERIA Discussion Paper 18 (2015).
91 The Medical Council of Thailand, Numbers of Persons Receiving NL (Non-Thai)
(2017), available at http://www.tmc.or.th/statistics.php.

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