How is life as a doctor in Singapore?

So how much do GPs who run their own clinic take home?

Originally Posted by Unregistered

This point is a red herring. Male-only NS obligation is already inherently unfair to singaporean men. But this arises from a national defence policy reason and is an immutable fact that we cannot argue against. Anyway that is a whole different topic.

We are talking about the current status quo which disadvantages male Singaporean doctors against foreign doctors for consultant posts. There's no policy reason to preserve the status quo disadvantage when Singapore males have done a valuable service for the nation.

Thats why foreign doctors who live and work in the safety of Singapore should be forced to contribute 1-5% of their pay to a National Service-in-lieu Fund to benefit under-privileged Singaporeans. No more I-save-babies-so-I-dont-need-to-serve-NS excuse to take advantage of Singapore's infrastructure and FT-friendly policies while discriminating against local born medicos.

This would make it a more level playing field for Singaporean males considering they are inherently disadvantaged against.

Originally Posted by Unregistered

Thats why foreign doctors who live and work in the safety of Singapore should be forced to contribute 1-5% of their pay to a National Service-in-lieu Fund to benefit under-privileged Singaporeans. No more I-save-babies-so-I-dont-need-to-serve-NS excuse to take advantage of Singapore's infrastructure and FT-friendly policies while discriminating against local born medicos.

This would make it a more level playing field for Singaporean males considering they are inherently disadvantaged against.

Hey your anti foreigner sentiment is very discriminatory and wromg.

Originally Posted by Unregistered

So how much do GPs who run their own clinic take home?

Minimum $500,000 a year. You can check with IRAS

Originally Posted by Unregistered

Thats why foreign doctors who live and work in the safety of Singapore should be forced to contribute 1-5% of their pay to a National Service-in-lieu Fund to benefit under-privileged Singaporeans. No more I-save-babies-so-I-dont-need-to-serve-NS excuse to take advantage of Singapore's infrastructure and FT-friendly policies while discriminating against local born medicos.

This would make it a more level playing field for Singaporean males considering they are inherently disadvantaged against.

Haha I think local docs should pay 5% to the FT. Coz local docs go for reservist and make the FT work doubly the hard.

Originally Posted by Unregistered

Haha I think local docs should pay 5% to the FT. Coz local docs go for reservist and make the FT work doubly the hard.

Reservist is like going camping holiday. They can fool their wives and girlfriends but we are not stupid. Haha!

Originally Posted by Unregistered

Minimum $500,000 a year. You can check with IRAS

Haha. Stupid must be rest of the doctors then

1st year medical student here. After completing residency, does one automatically get promoted to AC?

Originally Posted by Unregistered

1st year medical student here. After completing residency, does one automatically get promoted to AC?

It depends….
In the past yes, but now the department actually needs to have enough AC vacancies to hire you as an AC.
If you don’t get an AC spot, you can choose to remain in the department as a Service Registrar until a spot opens up.

It’s slightly different for Family Medicine.
you become AC only 3 years after FM residency.
And C only after completing another 2 year fellowship + doing quite a bit of extra work on top of clinical duties.

Originally Posted by Unregistered

It depends….
In the past yes, but now the department actually needs to have enough AC vacancies to hire you as an AC.
If you don’t get an AC spot, you can choose to remain in the department as a Service Registrar until a spot opens up.

It’s slightly different for Family Medicine.
you become AC only 3 years after FM residency.
And C only after completing another 2 year fellowship + doing quite a bit of extra work on top of clinical duties.

Just curious, which are the specialities that has oversupply of ACs? I am doing renal now, and my consultant keep lamenting that there are NOT enough specialist and that the renal department is super understaffed.