How is life as a doctor in Singapore?

Originally Posted by Unregistered

Nope best path for Singaporeans uk graduates is to do FY there (to avoid the tough HO yr in SG) and then come back ASAP. Wait 3 yrs for full reg. Exit to aesthetics.

Did this path and I am now making around 22k/month in aesthetics. Still relatively new less than 2 yrs exp. So a lot of room to grow.

Have no regrets not specialising because 1. Hate exams 2. Hate PHI life

Why do the madness that is getting into medicine and graduating after many years then.

I'm sure that there are easier pathways.

Originally Posted by Unregistered

Why do the madness that is getting into medicine and graduating after many years then.

I'm sure that there are easier pathways.

Not many jobs can offer 20k/mth with little (at least relatively) stress
As GP, 90% of cases doesn't require much thinking. I think the biggest threat for us is AI robots in the next 20 years

Originally Posted by Unregistered

Not many jobs can offer 20k/mth with little (at least relatively) stress
As GP, 90% of cases doesn't require much thinking. I think the biggest threat for us is AI robots in the next 20 years

Didn't U realise U are in a forum full of high flyers who assumed it is very easy to make 500k in banks, fangs or from crypto?
Mere mortals like me and you only can be gp making 20k a month. We are doomed and shouldn't procreate

Originally Posted by Unregistered

Didn't U realise U are in a forum full of high flyers who assumed it is very easy to make 500k in banks, fangs or from crypto?
Mere mortals like me and you only can be gp making 20k a month. We are doomed and shouldn't procreate

and the thing is this guy is probably around 29 making 250k sgd a year with no arshthetic experience at all. In 3-4 years it’s likely that 360k a year will be doable and in time if he excels or starts his own clinic, the 500-600k a year would be possible. Would even be comparable to a high finance bankers tracjectory with a lot more relaxed job and stability

Originally Posted by Unregistered

Why do the madness that is getting into medicine and graduating after many years then.

I'm sure that there are easier pathways.

Be a beautician!

Originally Posted by Unregistered

Be a beautician!

Mortician also good money

Originally Posted by Unregistered

Didn't U realise U are in a forum full of high flyers who assumed it is very easy to make 500k in banks, fangs or from crypto?
Mere mortals like me and you only can be gp making 20k a month. We are doomed and shouldn't procreate

Meta and HSBC just announced layoffs. Suddenly the forum is quiet.

Originally Posted by Unregistered

Meta and HSBC just announced layoffs. Suddenly the forum is quiet.

They are busy looking for jobs.

Originally Posted by Unregistered

Not many jobs can offer 20k/mth with little (at least relatively) stress
As GP, 90% of cases doesn't require much thinking. I think the biggest threat for us is AI robots in the next 20 years

GP is not worth it. Aesthetics is great but too saturated today unfortunately. I am the psych guy from UK and in all honesty I will recommend all Singaporeans in the Uk to do training before they return to SG.

Main reason is because work conditions are way better in the UK and it’s easier to get into training because all the metrics are clearly listed.

My friends who returned to SG are doing very very poor. Out of the 10 who chose to return.. 8 are working as GPs. Many of them tried to dabble in aesthetics but are not good enough and got sacked by the clinic.. they are now in their mid 30s and obviously regretted their initial path but nothing they can do now but to deal with it (life as a GP)

There’s 2 who were lucky to get into residency in SG (IM residency) but they are now stuck in the advanced stage because they want to get into advanced spec like GI/cards but those specialities are too competitive to get into. They now have to either wait and reapply every cycle (which they are doing), or exit as an IM generalist which is useless in private sector, or opt for a non lucrative spec like geriatrics.

End outcome is that they are not happy and overworked and seriously can u believe it.. most are still single.

Meanwhile I only have a year left in my training and I am happy and living a balanced life.. already engaged to a Korean pharmacist girl , and will relocate back to SG after CCT

Originally Posted by Unregistered

GP is not worth it. Aesthetics is great but too saturated today unfortunately. I am the psych guy from UK and in all honesty I will recommend all Singaporeans in the Uk to do training before they return to SG.

Main reason is because work conditions are way better in the UK and it’s easier to get into training because all the metrics are clearly listed.

My friends who returned to SG are doing very very poor. Out of the 10 who chose to return.. 8 are working as GPs. Many of them tried to dabble in aesthetics but are not good enough and got sacked by the clinic.. they are now in their mid 30s and obviously regretted their initial path but nothing they can do now but to deal with it (life as a GP)

There’s 2 who were lucky to get into residency in SG (IM residency) but they are now stuck in the advanced stage because they want to get into advanced spec like GI/cards but those specialities are too competitive to get into. They now have to either wait and reapply every cycle (which they are doing), or exit as an IM generalist which is useless in private sector, or opt for a non lucrative spec like geriatrics.

End outcome is that they are not happy and overworked and seriously can u believe it.. most are still single.

Meanwhile I only have a year left in my training and I am happy and living a balanced life.. already engaged to a Korean pharmacist girl , and will relocate back to SG after CCT

very nice, will take ur advice. Funny thing is all the local med students are so proud and happy right until the day they graduate. After they start work and realise that the number of local residency positions is so few that 70-75 percentage don’t get into any specialty training and that they have 5 more years of the bond left, reality starts to dawn on them that it might not have been the best choice after all