Medical Education System in Singapore
National University of Singapore (NUS) offers a 5-year undergraduate medical programme.

The General Medicine course runs from the 3rd to the 5th year. It consists of didactic lectures, tutorials, and clinical clerkships, during which students will acquire skills in history taking, physical examination and in reaching an appropriate clinical diagnosis through appropriate investigations. They will learn about and understand common medical diseases and their management. They will also gain familiarity with the commonly used medical drugs and their side effects.

In the 3rd year, the students will spend 8 weeks doing a clinical clerkship in a medical unit. The 3rd and 4th year clerkships include Medicine electives for students to pursue in-depth study or revision in areas of their choice. For the Final year, students will again be posted to a medical unit to pursue a clinical clerkship for 12 weeks (including 2 weeks for dermatology & sexually transmitted disease medicine and one week each for geriatrics and infectious disease medicine). They will also function as a junior houseman under the Student Internship Programme for 4 weeks.

At the end of each posting, the students will be evaluated on daily performance, case analysis, MCQ's and a clinical test. This assessment contributes to the final mark at the Final Professional Examination in Medicine.

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Medical Students Electives
Medical Electives are an integral part of the medical student curriculum and range between 4 to 16 weeks, and are usually undertaken by students who are in their 3rd to 5th years of study.

Medical Student Electives are coordinated and arranged by NUS. For more details, please click here.

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NHG's Commitment to Training & Development
NHG believes that staff is its asset and is committed to developing staff to their fullest potential. We invest in staff training and development to enhance and sustain our capabilities and strengths.

As such, NHG College was set up in July 02 as a training institution to drive and support NHG cluster's training & development strategy. It consists of 3 institutions to cater to the training and development needs of specific categories of NHG staff:

1. Institute of Medical Education & Training (IMET) - for Medical staff
2. Institute of Nursing Education & Training (INET) - for Nursing staff
3. Institute of Management & Allied Health Sciences (IMAS) - for Admin & Allied Health staff

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NHG Medical Elective Travel Award (META)
Singaporeans studying in foreign universities who wish to undertake their medical electives in our institutions can apply for the NHG Medical Elective Travel Award (META).

For more details on NHG META, please click here. (12Kb, PDF)

To download NHG META application form, please click here. (38Kb, PDF)

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Specialist Training In Singapore
The Specialist training in Singapore is divided into 2 phases, namely the Basic Specialist Training (BST) (384Kb, PDF) and Advanced Specialist Training (AST).

To download BST Application Form, please click here. (133Kb, PDF)

Surgery
For Surgery trainees, those who passed their primary surgery exams will be eligible to apply for AST (Surgery) if you have 2 years BST, but this is on condition that you must pass the Final MMed (Surgery) within the 2 years AST period.

Internal Medicine - Removal of Pre-BST Accreditation
With effect from 1 November 2005, the Specialist Training Committee (Internal Medicine) will not allow pre-BST accreditation for all Internal Medicine basic trainees. This was proposed to ensure that a Basic trainee acquires competency in his knowledge and clinical experience in Internal Medicine.

For existing trainees who started their traineeship before Nov 2005, you have been advised to submit your pre-BST accreditation request by end Oct 2005. After which, pre-BST accreditation requests will not be entertained.

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NHG Postgraduate Scholarship
The NHG Postgraduate Scholarship (NPS) is part of NHG's talent cultivation efforts to attract and groom a core of top-rate administrators for NHG.

To broaden the talent base, the NPS will be open to both existing NHG staff as well as external candidates from the private sector. Potential candidates for NPS must have demonstrated an outstanding career record and have been assessed to be of exceptionally high potential, suitable for grooming to fill up top management positions within NHG.

For more details on NHG Postgraduate Scholarship, please click here. (381KB, PDF)

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