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Originally Posted by Unregistered
Is fm residency really worth doing for people planning to Do gp work in the future?
I am currently a fm resident going through a surgical (orthopaedic) rotation. Unfortunately I am posted to 1 team (spine) for the whole duration of the posting. Personally I don't see much learning value (I mean you don't need 3 months of spine to learn about back pain/neck pain in a fm context) and the spine surgeries (e.g tlifs) have totally no relevance to FM.
Was wondering if it would be better to just quit and join as a ops rp (for the remainder of my bond) before becoming a private gp eventually?
My understanding is that mmed has no value in the private sector, hence my focus is on the learning, how can I maximise the learning for the remainder of my bond so that I can become a competent gp in the future.
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Singapore's nascent FM residency training is understandably subpar as it's very much in it's infancy with primary care as the bulwark of a nation's healthcare system a new concept locally (Singapore healthcare system is still very much specialist-driven). They should have adopted the Australian RACGP training programme which is world renowned for producing specialist GPs able to act as mini-specialists in all specialities due to the need to be able to practice independently in remote areas. Canada is another country with superior FM training but it's demographics are less like Singapore's compared to Australia