Doctors' pay

[hataraki]

Anyone know the salary range of clinical research physicians in private pharmaceutical companies? My fiance is applying for this position and was asked in the application to state "expected remuneration".

Thanks for the info all.

Practised in Singapore for a few years, on cusp of final examinations for AST entry. I confirm salary scale for NSmen is in range of S$5K-6K. AST pay is fairly consistent across specialities at S8K or so including allowances and academic/research flexi bonus. Understood in Radiology and Ortho surgery, Associate Consultant pay averaged S$10-12K including reasonable added for surgeries/procedures etc.

For the tax rate and compared to other professions, S’pore doctors make good money. Averaged out vs. other occupations in other countries, S’pore doctors are doing pretty good. Exceptions would be the US and possibly UK where their payscale is significantly higher. But much much better than India, Continental Europe etc. I hear from friends.

Bobby, if you want to make money, go into front office banking. My friend has 3 years experience in proprietary trading and makes over a million a year. And even then, he is in a company that doesn’t pay that well compared to private hedge funds and investment banks. I left medicine to go to London for a banking job and work about 50-60 hours a week monday-friday only and AFTER tax, make equal to S$22,000/- per month with only 2 years of banking experience. I won’t have as long a career as I would in medicine and will likely get retrenched or burned out within 10 years or so but my salary is starter pay and with 5 years experience, I will hit at least S$500K without the long hours and stress of medicine. And learning the ropes, I can then invest this money wisely. At the end, I think my friends who stayed in medicine will make just as much as me by retirement but I will get to retire earlier :-)

@hakka:
wow that’s great info, thanks for sharing!
it’s posts like this with definite firm figures that can help people make choices about future careers.
cheers

what will be the tax if one get 7000 sg$ per month

tax is around 5k.

but u need to put in your reliefs.

use this website:
http://www.iras.gov.sg/Tax%20Calculators/IIT/IIT.html

did you try to mean, 5% ??

The first 20K is tax free, and there are reliefs, and depending upon marital status, there are a lot of benefits.

How much do consultant radiologists make in Singapore per annum ?

Doctors from abroad form growing pool in Singapore

MORE foreign-trained doctors are choosing to work in Singapore as hospitals step up recruitment to cope with the growing health-care demands of an ageing population.

In the past three years, more than half of new doctors here have come from overseas, including 1,000 foreign-trained doctors who have returned to Singapore after completing their studies.

Some hospitals are also recruiting overseas. KK Women’s and Children’s Hospital (KKH), for example, has hired 15 doctors through six recruitment exercises in Britain, Malaysia, Australia and the Philippines since 2007.

Alexandra Hospital does two overseas recruitments a year. Other hospitals too have been scouring the world to bring in good doctors, many of whom are specialists with years of practice in their field.

Foreign doctors are paid the same as Singapore doctors of similar level.

This drive has seen the number of doctors here grow by more than 450 a year for the past two years, more than double the 200-a-year figure over the five preceding years.

Singapore’s need for doctors has been spurred by the growing population, the influx of foreign patients seeking treatment and the desire to provide even better service – a need that the current annual output of just over 200 medical graduates from the National University of Singapore is unable to meet.

Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong alluded to this in his National Day Rally on Sunday night when he spoke of how Singapore is gearing up for an ageing population.

The country is likely to need double the number of doctors it has now, with a further 1,500 hospital beds being added to the current 11,500 as four new hospitals open over the next five years.

To cope with the need for so many more doctors, the Ministry of Health has made several changes to make it easier for hospitals to recruit foreign medical talent.

Mrs Chua Pek Kim, head of human resources at KKH, said 17 of the 40 doctors it recruited last year, and 11 of the 18 this year, were foreigners or foreign-trained Singaporeans.

Such heavy recruitment is expected to continue for some time, as the Health Ministry wants Singapore to double the number of doctors in the country – from one doctor for every two hospital beds, to one doctor per bed.

Mrs Chua said KKH is still actively recruiting specialists, especially in the areas of emergency medicine, neonatology, paediatric surgery, cardiology and anaesthesia.

Of the 1,750 foreign doctors practising here, 70 per cent, or more than 1,200, are in the public sector. Only one in three are specialists, a Health Ministry spokesman told The Straits Times.

But many of the foreigners working here were practising as specialists, and hope to reach that same rank after the obligatory two years working under supervision.

One such is Dr Lekha Gopal, 39, who was a senior ophthalmologist at Chennai’s Sankara Nethralaya Eye Hospital. When she joined Alexandra Hospital in December 2007, she did so as a registrar, or specialist trainee, although at a slightly higher salary than what she received in India.

The eye doctor, who got her first degree in Bangalore and her specialist degree from Scotland’s University of Edinburgh, said that in spite of the lower rank, she decided to come for the many advantages here, such as the well-equipped hospitals and the opportunity to do research.

She will be applying for full registration when her two years are up in December. If granted, she will be able to work as a consultant.

She and her husband, a researcher at the Singapore National Eye Centre, who have a three-year-old daughter, are thinking of making Singapore their home.

‘Life here is more comfortable and there are a lot more activities we can do over the weekends. We’re both very happy,’ she said.

According to the Singapore Medical Council, the number of specialists in the public sector has gone up by 73 per cent between 2000 and last year. The number will likely shoot up over the next few years as foreign specialists like Dr Lekha complete their two-year stints as registrars.

There are now 3,000 specialists practising here. The biggest increase was in emergency medicine, which more than tripled from 21 in 2000 to 68 last year. This year, another seven joined the ranks.

Source: Straits Times, August 17, 2009

Sep 3, 2009

More foreign dentists

Allowing dentists from Asean, India to practise here will ease shortage

By April Chong, Straits Times

TWO new initiatives are in the works to ease the dentist shortage here by allowing more dentists from the region to work in Singapore.

Together with other recent measures, this can help bring down the dentist to population ratio, from about one dentist for every 3,400 people to one for every 2,200 within the next two decades, said the Health Ministry's chief dental officer, Associate Professor Patrick Tseng. He attended the FDI Annual World Dental Congress at Suntec City which opened on Wednesday.

Prof Tseng said an agreement is being discussed with India to make it easier for dentists from their top institutions to work here, as long as they pass a series of qualifying exams. Currently, their dentists are not eligible to sit for these exams. 'They are willing to export. They have 260 dental schools there,' he said.

A mutual agreement was signed earlier this year to allow dentists from Asean countries to practise in other member countries, subject to the qualification requirements in each country. This will be implemented in January next year.

This means, for example, any dentist from the Philippines or Thailand can apply to work here. Previously, only a restricted number of dentists from Asean could apply.

http://www.straitstimes.com/Breaking...ry_424858.html

[glenndanker]

Doctor deserve their pay for their effort. I know of some doctors literally work 24/7 and have money but no time for their family. Wonder whether they themselves are healthy. Occassionally see doctor work until drop dead, is that what they want. And they may not be the riches lot, some only right!!1