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Originally Posted by Unregistered
Hi everyone Thank you for all the useful information provided in this forum.
I am a 2nd year Resident trainee from Hong Kong and graduated from CUHK. For personal reason I am keen for moving and working in Sg. I noticed it is quite impossible for me to get in residency training program without working experience in Sg. I am wondering about the level of competition and difficulty to get a resident post from a medical officer post, assuming after working a year in Sg as a Medical officer.
Thank you so much.
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i dont think it is that hard to get into a specialty trainee position but depending on what you want. internal medicine generally is easier. ortho, ent, eye, paeds, gs are much harder. Singapore govt believes in free market. In hong kong, only drs that have completed local exams and local housemanship are eligible for full registration. Singapore wise, being at a confluence of different cultures, we adopt an open approach. You have UK, Australia, NZ, HK, Malaysian, Georgia, Indian doctors (both at junior and senior levels) So in a open system, wages are much lower than HK and slots are more competitive.
Since 2010, Singapore adopted an efficient ACGME-I accreditated method of generating specialist, and also did heavy foreign recruitment to bolster the ranks specialists in Singapore. As of 2018, this has result an oversupply of new specialist but inadequate positions for them. But taking a macro view, this might be cost and wage effective.