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Originally Posted by Unregistered

General Medicine is GPs no specialists. Internal Medicine is satki high power specialists.

Nonsense... Gen Med doctors are Advanced IM trained. Depending on hospitals, some call their Gen Med department Gen Med, some called Advance IM.

General Practitioner =/= Gen Med - Usually only have MBBS
Gen Med/AIM have - MBBS, MRCP and have also exited from their residency programme

Originally Posted by Unregistered

Nonsense... Gen Med doctors are Advanced IM trained. Depending on hospitals, some call their Gen Med department Gen Med, some called Advance IM.

General Practitioner =/= Gen Med - Usually only have MBBS
Gen Med/AIM have - MBBS, MRCP and have also exited from their residency programme

thanks. this is good explanation

Originally Posted by Unregistered

Nonsense... Gen Med doctors are Advanced IM trained. Depending on hospitals, some call their Gen Med department Gen Med, some called Advance IM.

General Practitioner =/= Gen Med - Usually only have MBBS
Gen Med/AIM have - MBBS, MRCP and have also exited from their residency programme

Advance IM?

Cant just be simply IM? Talk about inferiority complex.

Dont see any Advance Gen Surg.

Are doctors on conditional registration supposingly not allowed to locum in GP practice? Also are doctors hired by MOHH not allowed to have their own business?

Originally Posted by Unregistered

Is the number of overseas trained doctors vs locally trained doctors that got into residency published?

This is surprisingly true. Not sure why is there such a large representation from the IMG cohort in comparison to the locally trained doctors.

Originally Posted by Unregistered

This is surprisingly true. Not sure why is there such a large representation from the IMG cohort in comparison to the locally trained doctors.

what do you mean? you have not answered the questions.

on a side note, are you referred to more IMG compared to local grads in the residency programme?

Originally Posted by Unregistered

what do you mean? you have not answered the questions.

on a side note, are you referred to more IMG compared to local grads in the residency programme?

Yes. Way higher % of IMG compared to local.

Originally Posted by Unregistered

Yes. Way higher % of IMG compared to local.

IMG are the chosen ones, their families are rich.
The local grads families are poor.

As you know pedigree is impt.

Originally Posted by Unregistered

IMG are the chosen ones, their families are rich.
The local grads families are poor.

As you know pedigree is impt.

Speaking from a senior perspective, NUS hey days are long gone, and the Dukies are mostly subpar. The strength of Australia and UK med schools is reflected in their grads making it through the rigorous meritocratic selection for residency despite a lack of home ground advantage. Although I would say anecdotally Irish grads are still quite lousy, on par with the Dukies.

Originally Posted by Unregistered

Yes. Way higher % of IMG compared to local.

Can you please show us the link ?