IMET

Introduction to IMET
The Institute of Medical Education and Training (IMET), a unit of the NHG College, aims to support and facilitate medical education and professional training of clinical staff in the NHG. This will also ultimately improve the delivery of care to our patients. IMET will prioritise junior staff training so that Medical Officers (MOs) and Registrars joining the NHG will enjoy the best medical training and support available.

IMET will promote the following:

• Organise and support courses, skill training and workshops which have direct value to the cluster.
• Plan training syllabus for MOs within the cluster.
• Coordinate existing and new training activities across all NHG institutions and disseminate the whole list of training activities available to all our medical staff.
• Build links with renowned medical institutions worldwide to develop the standard of medical research and medical practice and to foster the exchange of knowledge and technology.

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Core Programmes
IMET offers a series of core programmes which will be useful to first-year MOs in the course of their work. These programmes have been endorsed by the NHG CMB Committee. MOs are required to attend at least one of the core programmes within each posting. To facilitate attendance by MOs, most courses run on Saturdays to minimise disruption to clinical duties. We encourage Departments to send their MOs to the Communication Skills and Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS) courses in their first year. These courses are also open to Registrars and Senior Staff. The courses are:

• Communication Skills Courses by Cognitive Institute
• Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS)
• Evidence-Based Medicine (Basic)
• Risk Management
• ECG Reading
• X-Ray Reading

In addition, IMET offers a series of elective modules including:

• Practical Geriatrics for Hospital Doctors
• Laboratory Test Interpretation
• Basic Orthopaedic Surgical Techniques
• Critical Care Medicine
• Respiratory Medicine
• Advanced Trauma Life Support (ATLS)
• How to Read CT Head Scans
• The Sedation Course for Non-Anaesthetists
• The Nuts & Bolts of Brain Death Certification
• Pain Management Course for Acute & Postoperative Pain
• Finance for Clinicians and Managers
• NHG Clinician Leadership
• NHG Clinician’s Guide to Department Management
• Basic Laparoscopic Course
• ASEAN EUS Forum & Basic Hands-on EUS Workshop
• Neurologic Localisation for the Physician
• FRCR / MMED (Medical Physics) Examination Preparatory Course
• PACES MRCP Practice Examinations
• Difficult Airway (Available in 2008)

Please click here to download the IMET Training Calendar (37Kb, XLS)

For details, please contact Ms Vivian Chan, Executive, IMET at Tel: 6772-5840

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Specialty Training Workgroups
IMET provides admin and logistic support to Specialty Training Workgroups in organising specialty-specific training programmes for trainees. These include:

• Anaesthesia (Chairman: Dr Raymond Goy)
• Dentistry (Chairman: Dr Joseph Soon)
• Emergency Medicine (Chairman: Dr Kenneth Heng)
• ENT (Chairman – Dr Loh Woei Shyang)
• Family Medicine (Chairman – Dr Lim Fong Seng)
• Internal Medicine (Chairman – Dr Tavintharan Subramaniam)
• O & G (Chairman – Dr Joseph Ng)
• Ophthalmology (Chairman – Dr Heng Wee Jin)
• Orthopaedics (Chairman – Dr Sathappan S S)
• Paediatrics (Chairman – Dr Marion Aw)
• Pathology (Chairman – Dr Thomas C Putti)
• Psychiatry (Chairman – Dr Arthur Lee)
• Radiology (Chairman – Dr Gregory Kaw)
• Surgery (Chairman – Dr Cheong Wai Kit)
• Radiation Oncology (Chairman – Dr Rahul Mukherjee)

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Training Support for NHG MOs
NHG MOs are well supported for training and academic activities, and are encouraged to use the following funds:

• Personal Training Fund (PTF) which supports courses, conferences and core training programs conducted by NHG College
• NHG Postgraduate Sponsorship which supports medical postgraduate examinations (applicable to MOPEX MOs only)
• IMET Fund which supports attendance at overseas conferences (NHG Medical Officer International Conference Award), as well as core and local courses if they expend their PTF (applicable to MOPEX MOs only)
• Funding is also provided for life support courses like BCLS, ACLS and ATLS (applicable to MOPEX MOs only)

Please click to download the following:

• Sponsorship for Attending Local Courses (58Kb, DOC)
• NHG Medical Officer International Conference Award (97Kb, DOC)

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