|
 Welcome to the SingHealth Medical Students website.
This site is set up specially for you, to establish a more direct communication link with the medical students.
On this website, you will be informed of the upcoming activities that we have organised for you.
Visit this site often and be updated of SingHealth events for you!
HOPEX 2006 FAQ for NUS Final Year Medical Students
Final Year NUS Medical Students who are commencing housemanship in May 2006 can refer to the attached presentation slides presented in the briefing held at NUS on 23 January 2006.
To assist you further, we have set up a FAQ for your reference.
Important timelines that you should take note of are as follows:
|
Dates |
Important things to do |
|
24 Jan - 3 Feb 06 (post)
6 Feb 06 (SR M14 A & B) |
Submit Applications for Employment, Postings, SMC registration (& Employment Pass) |
|
11 Apr 06 *
(CRC Sym Rm 2 & 3) |
Submit Final MBBS results & sign Letter of Appointment |
|
24 Apr - 28 Apr 06
(See handout) |
Register with SMC |
|
12 Apr - 22 Apr 06 |
Pre-employment Medical Examination |
|
20 Apr - 28 Apr 06 * |
SingHealth HO Orientation |
|
2 May 06 |
Report to work |
* Dates are subjected to confirmation |
| |
For Local Undergraduates
SingHealth Undergraduate Revision Examination Series (SURE Series)
The Final MBBS examination is an important milestone in the academic journey of a medical student. It is a relatively demanding examination that marks the end of the 5 years medical education. To give these students adequate support in their preparation, we have launched the SURE Series for medical students. It is a series of examination tutorials on Surgery, Orthopaedic Surgery, Medicine and Paediatric Medicine conducted by our SingHealth clinicians to help our students consolidate learning on difficult topics and to rehearse exam techniques. The series was well received on 19, 20 and 21 December 2005. Read more.
Look out for more details for upcoming series in December 2006.
For Overseas Undergraduates
Training, Career and Employment Information
(based on the presentation slides from recent recruitment trip)
If you wish to obtain information on training and career opportunities, as well as employment matters in SingHealth, please click here.
Updates from SMC on UK 2-year Foundation Training Programme
SMC has informed that applications for conditional registration from registrable UK MBBS doctors who have completed the first year of the 2-Year Foundation programme, will be considered for registration. This is under the condition that the applicant is able to produce a letter from GMC that he is eligible for full registration with them after his 1st year.
Student Electives Programme
We welcome applications from overseas medical students for elective postings in SingHealth institutions.
The procedure for application is as follows:
Through NUS:
http://www.med.nus.edu.sg/clinical/
Through SGH:
http://www.sgh.com.sg/ForDoctorsnHealthcareProfessionals/EducationandTraining/UndergraduateMedicalEducation/
For further enquiries, you may contact the Associate Deans' Office at the hospitals :
Singapore General Hospital: Ms Angie Enge (DID: 6326 6664 or email gmbekc@sgh.com.sg)
Changi General Hospital: Ms Kamisah Yusoff (DID : 6850 2378 or email : kamisah_yusoff@cgh.com.sg)
KK Women's and Children's Hospital: Ms Perlyn D Costa (DID: 6394 1327 or email : Pearlyn.D.Costa@kkh.com.sg)
Read about the sharing of one of the medical students.
"You never really know what a heart murmur is until you hear one. Or what an aortic aneurysm is until you feel the throbbing pulsation under your hands. And when you hear a heart murmur, or feel an aortic aneurysm, you never forget. You also never forget the face of the patient.
My attachment at SGH A&E Department thought me more than I had hoped for. Being a year 2 student, I lacked the clinical experience to perform procedures on some of the patients. Thus, I was instead proffered the role of an observer. My job was, simply put, to watch. The phrase 'watch and learn' then took a whole new meaning.
I observed the other doctors perform a wide variety of procedures on patients and was impressed with the precision and dexterity they had. Through simply watching them, I learned the systematic approach required for many of the procedures practiced, such as taking blood and performing the rectal examination. Following my supervisor, Dr Fatimah, around was already a learning experience by itself.
All notions of the A&E department being the epicentre of drama, no thanks to E.R the TV series, were thrown out of the window from the get-go. Though busy it may be, there was no sensational drama as the doctors tended to their patients with patience and efficiency.
After eons of studying disease after disease, it is only right that one garners some clinical experience. Because, as the SGH experience has shown me, true learning only happens in the hospital setting"
-Rima Rai