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Overview
Staying at the forefront of medical excellence, SingHealth is introducing the Residency Program as part of its postgraduate medical education.

Graduate medical education (GME) in Singapore is traditionally modeled after the British system. While that system has served the healthcare sector well for many years, constant innovation and adoption of best practices is essential to meet with evolving healthcare demands.

Taking the lead from Singapore’s Ministry of Health (MOH), SingHealth is incorporating the Residency Program as part of its postgraduate medical education. The program features many positive elements:

Structured education curriculum
The program is founded on a structured training framework, modeled after established standards advised by the American Council for Graduate Medical Education International (ACGME-I). This formative curriculum is designed for quality residency training, with standard training requirements based on a set of core competencies¹.

Continuous formative assessment
A structured evaluation system is in place to provide continuous, periodic assessment of residents’ skills and performances. Such rigorous monitoring systems increase learning efficiency through consistent reviews of training processes and outcomes.

Dedicated core faculty
The program faculty comprises a dedicated group of established SingHealth clinician-teachers with protected time for residency training. This ensures a high level of accountability and close supervision of residents’ training, better empowering them for independent medical practice.


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Why SingHealth Residency?
As the largest sponsoring institution (SI) for the Residency Program in Singapore, SingHealth is committed to providing an ideal GME environment to nurture competent medical practitioners – healthcare leaders of tomorrow. This is possible with SingHealth’s rich legacy in medical education, experienced faculty pool and pursuit of excellence in providing quality patient care.


Medical Specialties
Medical specialties for medical graduates to choose for year 2010:

Emergency Medicine Pediatrics
General Surgery Transitional Year
Internal Medicine Preventive Medicine (participating site)
Pathology Psychiatry (participating site)


Core Competencies
The program curriculum is based on 6 core competencies:

Patient Care
Medical knowledge
Practice-based learning & improvement
Interpersonal & communication skills
Professionalism
Systems-based Practice

SingHealth will add a seventh core competency - Faculty Development - to equip individuals with leadership and administrative skills, and increase teaching competencies necessary for passing on of the healthcare education baton.

 

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