In 1998, Shin Yuh was awarded with a Public Service Commission Scholarship to pursue nursing studies at King's College, London. She subsequently graduated with a Bachelor of Science (Hons). After working as a nurse for a year, she then pursued and completed an Advanced Diploma in Nursing (Medical/Surgical) in 2004. Shin Yuh then took up the Alice Lee Institute of Advanced Nursing Scholarship in 2006 to do her Masters in Business Administration (health care management) at the National University of Singapore. She has recently completed her MBA course.

Prior to secondment to HSR, Shin Yuh has worked at various inpatient settings in Singapore General Hospital. Her last appointment being an Acting Nurse Clinician in a general surgery ward. She was awarded CEO's Best Clinical Nurse (1st runner up) in 2005.