How is life as a doctor in Singapore?

Originally Posted by Unregistered

hi all. i heard rumours about a salary revision for all drs in public service coming some time in October this year. anyone can confirm this? i heard its not limited to MOHH drs but those employed under the various clusters too.

Increase by how much? Even if increase by 10% you all
Will have life changed?

Originally Posted by Unregistered

Using your analogy, does that mean that if one has MRCs or Mrcp, they can apply to become surgical and medical registrar in UK?
Ironical thing is I am a GP with gdfm, but I also have both Mrcp and MRCs (done during my mo years many years back) lol

???
In UK pple do their mrcp in fy2 lei.
In sg, yllsom do their mrcs during HO years lei.
Dun make pple laugh ok.

Originally Posted by Unregistered

Increase by how much? Even if increase by 10% you all
Will have life changed?

increase by how much was the question posed.

yes if increase 10% for a junior specialist earning 20k per month means its 2k/month more which means can dine out more often at restaurants, buy more branded clothes and shoes, go for longer holidays to further away destinations. why not? any increase is good, the more the merrier.

Originally Posted by Unregistered

???
In UK pple do their mrcp in fy2 lei.
In sg, yllsom do their mrcs during HO years lei.
Dun make pple laugh ok.

So would you say the comparative value of Mrcp and MRCs is less than mmed (FM) if one doesn't complete the specialist program?
Meaning if IM resident complete junior residency and mrcp but chose not to pursue senior residency, their qualifications (Mrcp) have less value than a mmed (FM) for e.g

Aren't they all considered intermediate qualifications of the same level?

Originally Posted by Unregistered

increase by how much was the question posed.

yes if increase 10% for a junior specialist earning 20k per month means its 2k/month more which means can dine out more often at restaurants, buy more branded clothes and shoes, go for longer holidays to further away destinations. why not? any increase is good, the more the merrier.

20k a month cant afford to eat out more?
2k is not much lah. Just work an extra day lor.

Originally Posted by Unregistered

So would you say the comparative value of Mrcp and MRCs is less than mmed (FM) if one doesn't complete the specialist program?
Meaning if IM resident complete junior residency and mrcp but chose not to pursue senior residency, their qualifications (Mrcp) have less value than a mmed (FM) for e.g

Aren't they all considered intermediate qualifications of the same level?

Very rare for drs to practice in another country from where they graduated
So it is moot.

Originally Posted by Unregistered

increase by how much was the question posed.

yes if increase 10% for a junior specialist earning 20k per month means its 2k/month more which means can dine out more often at restaurants, buy more branded clothes and shoes, go for longer holidays to further away destinations. why not? any increase is good, the more the merrier.

Your reasoning is very flawed. Does that mean that if one earns more, they will have to spend more? Frugality is key if you want to retire early. I am now a junior surgical resident, but I am still eating and living the same like my university days. Eating at hawker centres, taking bus mrt every day. I even head to JB to buy all my vitamin supplements because it’s cheaper there.

Originally Posted by Unregistered

Your reasoning is very flawed. Does that mean that if one earns more, they will have to spend more? Frugality is key if you want to retire early. I am now a junior surgical resident, but I am still eating and living the same like my university days. Eating at hawker centres, taking bus mrt every day. I even head to JB to buy all my vitamin supplements because it’s cheaper there.

These days FIRE seems to be the rave. A lot of this depends on having successful investments and for the financial system to continue to support these yields on investments be it dividends, rentals etc.

Can you imagine a world where most of the young people are retired at age 30?

Then who is doing work? Who's working to make the money to pay the rent? Doing the work to allow companies to make profits?

AI? Maybe....

For those people making 40-50k a month the difference is living in landed in SG perhaps.

Originally Posted by Unregistered

Your reasoning is very flawed. Does that mean that if one earns more, they will have to spend more? Frugality is key if you want to retire early. I am now a junior surgical resident, but I am still eating and living the same like my university days. Eating at hawker centres, taking bus mrt every day. I even head to JB to buy all my vitamin supplements because it’s cheaper there.

Good job bro.

I notice my students all drive while I take maternity
But maybe is just u born poor like me

Originally Posted by Unregistered

Good job bro.

I notice my students all drive while I take maternity
But maybe is just u born poor like me

Medicine is getting saturated. More doctors now. More specialists. More competition for a pie that isn't all that much bigger.

The way money is earned in medicine is also very slow.

Not one of those higher risk higher reward type of job. In some sectors also got boom. You work for the company and they give phantom shares or stock options it does well, kena buy out for premium or something you cash out. Most of the people I know who got such opportunities say they just did their jobs like any other, then suddenly woah their phantom shares worth millions?? WOw.

Medicine no such thing. Slow and steady. Like the tortoise. But tortoise life like very boring.