Income of GP Doctors

How much does the average family doctor in Singapore earn?

According to a survey by the Singapore Medical Association, General Practitioners (GPs) in Singapore take home an average monthly income of $10,524.

However the median monthly income is $13,758 - this means the average value of $10,524 is skewed more by the lower earners than the higher earners.

The bad news is that 10 years ago, the average income was $10,271. There has not been much of an increase for the past 10 years!

What I can say from this is: GP doctors are increasingly becoming less attractive (at least economically) as a profession. Students, if you want to be a doctor, work hard and aim to be specialists who can earn much much more than GPs (see my post on doctors' pay).

http://www.salary.sg/2007/income-of-gp-doctors/

How about the case for dentists? Do specialist dentists earn much more than GP dentists?

I am willing to work and do P.G. there

I have M.B.B.S.,and a Diplamo degree inMaternity and neo natal care how to get P.G. and good job

Did you learn to spell before getting your MBBS?

Countries need GPs. As GP numbers decrease pay levels increase. If too many people avoid general practice/family medicine wages WILL increase to encourage more applicants. General Practice is a great job with lots of variability during the working day. One minute you see some one suicidal, then next a happy pregnancy. The interest of the job as well as being able to have an out side life more than compensates for not earning as much as a cardio-thoracic surgeon. By the way, I'm a GP and loving it!

I think most of you have been masked from the reality. I’m a foreign grad and came to singapore as a MO. I totally aware of the issue of overworked and underpaid!!

Well, probably this article above is true if u are working for private sector, or a specialist. But in general, the medical sector in singapore is like a field of slavery. How many percent of us actually made it through to become a registrar/consultant? even if u made it, how many of u can get into the private sector?

Why concern on the total amount that you earn p.a? why not look at how many hours you work per week and count your pay per hour?? Believe it or not, our pay per hour is probably lesser than a nurses’ pay per hour.

How many of you who want to do medicine, full of enthusiasm, thinking that u might make big money out of medicine actually and realise how hard a medical doctor has to work? perhaps a lot of us are/were just way too naive…

Do you know what is on call? do you know how long does a call last for? and how much do u get out of a call??
The definition of ON CALL:
Start working from 7am - 5pm (your daily working hours), then continue from 5pm - 7am the next day (ON CALL); subsequently continue to work like any other day from 7am - 12pm…then you can go home if your colleague is around to cover your daily routine. Please count the number of hours that u have to work non-stop. You think you can take a nap at night when u are ON CALL? forget it!! And working for 30++ hours will give you how much in return??? SGD 110-130 (for HO) and SGD 240-340 (for MO)

Do you think this is physiological? Do you think this is safe for patients or your own health?
Do you think with a basic salary + call pay (taxable) that gives u SGD about 3800-4500 per month (before tax) is worth you spending millions to get the medical degree and work like a donkey for the next 10-20 years? How long do you have to work in order to pay back the amount that you’ve spent on your degree??

If you want to work as a doctor but VERY concern about your pay and increment, i suppose you are not suitable to be in the medical profession. Ask around and find out what is it like to be a doctor before you get yourself into the puddle of mud. If you ask me how many medical doctors actually regret of being a doctor.. i would say more than 80% of us DO regret of being one… not becoz the pay is low. Our welfare and wellbeing is just being ignored by the authority. Doctor is a very nobel profession, however it is also a very inhumane profession that will cause us more harm than good… we are human after all, we are not an immortal.. Even a domestic servant will get to have their meals, toilet breaks and adequate rest on a daily basis!! these are basic human needs!! So what are we??? we are slaves!!!!!

wow that really sounds like a shitty life… thanks for giving us the real behind the scenes of the medical “profession”.

I would suggest that if slave feels this way he should not be a doctor. We all go through tough house jobs. It is a fact of life. When I was a houseman I worked 90 hours a week and was paid less per hour than someone working at McDonalds.

We all work hard. We all do long hours. The pay off comes when you become more senior. I now earn 170 sgd per hour. I don’t work nights and I spend my weekends either sailing or 30m underwater with a scuba tank strapped to my back.

If you are not progressing to the appropriate level, be that consultant, professor or senior GP you need to look at your life and career and work out what is stopping you.

The world is in desparate need of doctors in every country. You just have to open your eyes to the oportunities. But be very sure of the fact that wherever you are in the world as a houseman you will be paid peanuts and treated like a monkey!

i think what slave wants to tell us is that if you are more into money, choose some other profession such as finance field so you don’t get too shocked by what lies ahead.
the health problems that come with the chronic lack of sleep, overwork and stress might not be worth the “journey” to becoming a 170sgd/hour doctor.