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Originally Posted by Unregistered
Hi I'm currently a Year 3 med student studying in Australia. I'd like to come back to Singapore for my HO/MO for family reasons, despite the initial problems I may face readjusting to the faster pace of life etc. Not a big concern for me, as family is family, after all.
However I'm really concerned whether doing so would be shooting myself in the foot in the long run. I'd like to try out for a surgical specialty as I think I'm quite inclined towards procedural techniques, but I understand it may be very hard to secure a training spot in Sg.
Also I've heard horror stories of specialists exiting residency w/o an Associate Consultant position---aka they are stuck as over-qualified registrars in the local hospitals. Sounds quite shitty to me.
Could anyone kindly enlighten me on:
1) How competitive are surgical residencies in Sg? (How many slots available, or how may competing per slot)
2) Is the specialist market really so saturated that even specialists cannot secure AC jobs?
Thanks!
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What's the intern situation currently in your state? Might not even be possible to stay in Australia these days tbh unless you get the rural contract.
Surgery is very competitive but not sure of the numbers as its not that transparent. But definitely have to rotate few years as an MO and network a lot. If you can find the document last time they used to post who matched what specialty, that can give you an idea of how many spots are there. Once you get it, life of a surgeon will probably be worse than most 1st world systems (barring us probably). This is probably going to get worse with bigger med school intake. With the current glut of regs waiting to be
ACs it is likely they are scaling down residency spots also.
I think if you come back you kinda have to either continuously swim uphill to achieve your dreams, or open your mind to things like gp.