How is life as a doctor in Singapore?

Originally Posted by Unregistered

At the tail-end (last few months) of my speciality training in the UK, and just wanna give some insights…

Training conditions in the UK are generally better than that of Singapore, with the exception of pay in absolute terms.

In relative terms, a trainee doctor in the UK earns more on an hourly basis. I am getting paid around £4,500 post-tax as a ST5 Radiology Registrar. On average, I am working around 45 hours a week. Annual paid leave is 35 days. This does not include quality improvement time/ days that I can take leave off for self-study or portfolio writing.

Of course, I am unable to save much compared to working in Singapore, because I have to pay for rent and transport which is more expensive in the UK.

However, if I had chosen to return to Singapore immediately after medical school (like most of my SG peers), it will have been neigh impossible or extremely difficult to match into any respectable speciality.

Most, if not all of my peers are now family physicians/GPs working at Healthway/Raffles. Only 1 got into speciality training in Psychiatry and that’s after 2 tries.

So, in essence, my advice to all Singaporean UK medical graduates or even Singapore medical graduates(who can afford to break bond), is to slog it out for speciality training in the UK, before returning to Singapore.

Sure, in the short term you are financially less well-off compared to your peers who chose to return/work as an MO in Singapore. But long term gains outweighs those minuscule short term gains.

Radiology and Ophthalmology are the 2 best paying specialties in UK.
Congrats!

Originally Posted by Unregistered

At the tail-end (last few months) of my speciality training in the UK, and just wanna give some insights…

Training conditions in the UK are generally better than that of Singapore, with the exception of pay in absolute terms.

In relative terms, a trainee doctor in the UK earns more on an hourly basis. I am getting paid around £4,500 post-tax as a ST5 Radiology Registrar. On average, I am working around 45 hours a week. Annual paid leave is 35 days. This does not include quality improvement time/ days that I can take leave off for self-study or portfolio writing.

Of course, I am unable to save much compared to working in Singapore, because I have to pay for rent and transport which is more expensive in the UK.

However, if I had chosen to return to Singapore immediately after medical school (like most of my SG peers), it will have been neigh impossible or extremely difficult to match into any respectable speciality.

Most, if not all of my peers are now family physicians/GPs working at Healthway/Raffles. Only 1 got into speciality training in Psychiatry and that’s after 2 tries.

So, in essence, my advice to all Singaporean UK medical graduates or even Singapore medical graduates(who can afford to break bond), is to slog it out for speciality training in the UK, before returning to Singapore.

Sure, in the short term you are financially less well-off compared to your peers who chose to return/work as an MO in Singapore. But long term gains outweighs those minuscule short term gains.

Agree
Uk pay is bad but can get into specialty
Aussie bad is good but can't get into specialty
Sg for nus grad, the chance of specilaising is still there
But no work-life balance

Originally Posted by Unregistered

with your base pay like that how much bonus also got use?

Yah lor. I told my collick you work so hard do all the project if get A bonus how much onli? Can buy car? Buy condo with the bonus? Banker work hard bonus is hundreds of thousands.

Originally Posted by Unregistered

Yah lor. I told my collick you work so hard do all the project if get A bonus how much onli? Can buy car? Buy condo with the bonus? Banker work hard bonus is hundreds of thousands.

Ya.
Forever compare doctor salary with banker or tech worker imaginery salary.
Go on.
No one gives a f.

Originally Posted by Unregistered

Ya.
Forever compare doctor salary with banker or tech worker imaginery salary.
Go on.
No one gives a f.

Why not , we spend so much more on or education than them. our pay should be more. there is no altruism nowadays

Originally Posted by Unregistered

Yah lor. I told my collick you work so hard do all the project if get A bonus how much onli? Can buy car? Buy condo with the bonus? Banker work hard bonus is hundreds of thousands.

Heard rumours is 4 months for A ,B is 3 month ..
i rather slack and get B

Originally Posted by Unregistered

Heard rumours is 4 months for A ,B is 3 month ..
i rather slack and get B

wait till you get default C or D LOL

Originally Posted by Unregistered

Heard rumours is 4 months for A ,B is 3 month ..
i rather slack and get B

I got C. Collick got B. Upset like F he never get A.
I told him you invest/trade a bit can get that extra amount the A gives you too

Originally Posted by Unregistered

Ya.
Forever compare doctor salary with banker or tech worker imaginery salary.
Go on.
No one gives a f.

Why so angry if you dont give a F?
It is true. Thats why you so upset.

Originally Posted by Unregistered

Why not , we spend so much more on or education than them. our pay should be more. there is no altruism nowadays

Societyy values generating more money more than treating patients one at a time