How is life as a doctor in Singapore?

Originally Posted by Unregistered

Duke NUS didn’t ask for large sums of money.
Duke NUS has enough foreign students to pay full fees.
So duke collaboration going v strong for 20 plus years
Anyway lkc medicine without imperial or not . No diff lah.
You still get full Reg.

By the way u only pay 30k per year for lkc education, not the full 100k per year as international student in imperial .
Cheap things no good, good things no cheap.

The Luigi one is Yale NUS but too bad then. Suddenly cancel arrangement,

So since LKCMed no longer paying 'royalty' to Imperial in 2025, does that mean they will reduce the fees?

No reason they charge the current fees since LKC no longer needs to pay money to Imperial after the partnership ends.

Originally Posted by Chelsea

Anybody could shed some lights on:
1) How difficult itd be to get a senior post eg. AC /CON in polyclinic M.Med Fam Med/ GDFM?
2) What’s the duty/ expectations on an AC/CON in polyclinics ? Seeing patients? (Quota?) ? Training & Admin work?
3) Besides Polyclinics, what are the other options as Fam
Med trained Dr / Fellow ?

Thanks a lot !

1. with m.med fam med , ac is given to u in 3 years long as u meet requirement, aka average performer.
no chance with gdfm or fam med training from other countries . to become consultant u need fellowship ( but doing fellowship doesn't guarantee u consultant )

2. up to you. it's a mix of clinical, admin , research or teaching. want be clinic head u at least 50 percent admin. become key trainer at least 40 percent teaching.
most of us have a mix. unfortunately u need to see patients no matter what. quota is 45 patient per day

3. public wise, community hospital is where fammies can shine. it's a mix of internal , rehab med. u can dabble a bit of palliative , dementia work if u keen. lastly is transition services seen at fmcc, cgh and ttsh. slightly more complicated cases are handled by them for 3 months before distributed to primary care.

Originally Posted by Unregistered

So since LKCMed no longer paying 'royalty' to Imperial in 2025, does that mean they will reduce the fees?

No reason they charge the current fees since LKC no longer needs to pay money to Imperial after the partnership ends.

Bro when oil price drop, do u see petrol pump fees decrease.
I think they won't reduce fees.

Originally Posted by Unregistered

1. with m.med fam med , ac is given to u in 3 years long as u meet requirement, aka average performer.
no chance with gdfm or fam med training from other countries . to become consultant u need fellowship ( but doing fellowship doesn't guarantee u consultant )

2. up to you. it's a mix of clinical, admin , research or teaching. want be clinic head u at least 50 percent admin. become key trainer at least 40 percent teaching.
most of us have a mix. unfortunately u need to see patients no matter what. quota is 45 patient per day

3. public wise, community hospital is where fammies can shine. it's a mix of internal , rehab med. u can dabble a bit of palliative , dementia work if u keen. lastly is transition services seen at fmcc, cgh and ttsh. slightly more complicated cases are handled by them for 3 months before distributed to primary care.

So for 1. Could you elaborate more on gdfm or fam med training from other countries? Do you mean they wont be considered for AC/ CON poster even they got the fam med registration in Sg? Thanks again

Originally Posted by Chelsea

So for 1. Could you elaborate more on gdfm or fam med training from other countries? Do you mean they wont be considered for AC/ CON poster even they got the fam med registration in Sg? Thanks again

ya. anything other than a m.med fam med sg will not put u on the consultant track. so u can't get ac.
is senior fp , principal fp

Originally Posted by Unregistered

ya. anything other than a m.med fam med sg will not put u on the consultant track. so u can't get ac.
is senior fp , principal fp

May I know more abt the transition clinic @ eg TTSH you mentioned earlier on? So it is kind of like integrated clinic, seeing more complicated cases and these cases would eventually be discharged to polyclinic after stabilization ? Around how many cases / quota needed to be seen in a day roughly ? Where do these cases come from eg. Referral from other specialty? More complicated general cases referred from somewhere else?

Originally Posted by Chelsea

May I know more abt the transition clinic @ eg TTSH you mentioned earlier on? So it is kind of like integrated clinic, seeing more complicated cases and these cases would eventually be discharged to polyclinic after stabilization ? Around how many cases / quota needed to be seen in a day roughly ? Where do these cases come from eg. Referral from other specialty? More complicated general cases referred from somewhere else?

aiyah.
u ask so much
u want them they also might not want you.
get ur m.med first

Originally Posted by Chelsea

May I know more abt the transition clinic @ eg TTSH you mentioned earlier on? So it is kind of like integrated clinic, seeing more complicated cases and these cases would eventually be discharged to polyclinic after stabilization ? Around how many cases / quota needed to be seen in a day roughly ? Where do these cases come from eg. Referral from other specialty? More complicated general cases referred from somewhere else?

Why chu want go SG? Chu fall in love with SG gal izzit?
Board certified Int Med in USA is good wat.
Go SG get MMed Fam Med? Dun be nuts la

Originally Posted by Unregistered

aiyah.
u ask so much
u want them they also might not want you.
get ur m.med first

Yes yes agreed with u, let me work on that thanks A LOT for your sharing la!

Originally Posted by Unregistered

1. with m.med fam med , ac is given to u in 3 years long as u meet requirement, aka average performer.
no chance with gdfm or fam med training from other countries . to become consultant u need fellowship ( but doing fellowship doesn't guarantee u consultant )

2. up to you. it's a mix of clinical, admin , research or teaching. want be clinic head u at least 50 percent admin. become key trainer at least 40 percent teaching.
most of us have a mix. unfortunately u need to see patients no matter what. quota is 45 patient per day

3. public wise, community hospital is where fammies can shine. it's a mix of internal , rehab med. u can dabble a bit of palliative , dementia work if u keen. lastly is transition services seen at fmcc, cgh and ttsh. slightly more complicated cases are handled by them for 3 months before distributed to primary care.

How does the pay compare for all these institutions?
OPS, CH, Hospital FMCC

Thanks!