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Originally Posted by Unregistered
It is the same everywhere. The academics teach stuff that is not really applicable in the private sector. And with the communications stuff. Some of the things we do in the private sector cannot and probably will not be able to be taught in the training program.
If you want to do private GP work. Do the GDFM good enough. Then learn on the job. 80% of what is done in pte GP land cannot be taught by academia.
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Yup private GP land level of fam med is mostly basic medicine. MBBS +/- GDFM enough, and learn on the job. That's why
NS boys can locum at GP clinics. Because you really don't need to know a lot. No need to know complex level management of multiple chronic issues.
Complicated patients in the community are almost exclusively managed in the OPS simply by virtue of the fact that they need so many medications and close followup which would be very burdensome on the average Singaporean income.