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21-10-2024, 07:39 PM
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Currently have a Med offer from Oxford and also a local NUS dent offer. My family is well to do and can afford either. Which is the better career for long term in terms of income? I am also keen to get the experience of studying overseas and would prefer to not spend my 20s in Singapore if it can be avoided. I also feel that studying Med at Oxford would be far more prestigious
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21-10-2024, 08:35 PM
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Currently have a Med offer from Oxford and also a local NUS dent offer. My family is well to do and can afford either. Which is the better career for long term in terms of income? I am also keen to get the experience of studying overseas and would prefer to not spend my 20s in Singapore if it can be avoided. I also feel that studying Med at Oxford would be far more prestigious
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want money do dental
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21-10-2024, 09:18 PM
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want money do dental
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I feel like this isn’t so straight forward for a few reasons:
1. With big groups like QnM rapidly expanding and buying up equipment and space itlll be much harder to set up a successful clinic in the future
2. on average, a specialist doctor makes a lot more than a general dentist. If i study at Oxford i can definitely specialise either outside SG or within so being a specialist in singapore is likely. On the other hand, while a specialist dentist makes as much as a probate sector specialist, it’s much much harder to become a dental specialist and without sponsorship would have to pay 80k a year to specialise
Can any doctors and dentists give imput regarding which is financially better assuming I can specialise in a lucrative specialty for med?
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21-10-2024, 10:36 PM
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Ya tough to moonlight nowadays. I am working for a big gp group, I also scared getting caught moonlighting by my boss, (let alone mohh employees)
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Why work for gp group cannot moonlight? Mohh
Employee can work as long full reg and don’t plan to do residency. Cause once get caught no bonus and get kick out of residency. But if you chiong hard can cover bonus part.
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21-10-2024, 10:52 PM
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Originally Posted by Unregistered
I feel like this isn’t so straight forward for a few reasons:
1. With big groups like QnM rapidly expanding and buying up equipment and space itlll be much harder to set up a successful clinic in the future
2. on average, a specialist doctor makes a lot more than a general dentist. If i study at Oxford i can definitely specialise either outside SG or within so being a specialist in singapore is likely. On the other hand, while a specialist dentist makes as much as a probate sector specialist, it’s much much harder to become a dental specialist and without sponsorship would have to pay 80k a year to specialise
Can any doctors and dentists give imput regarding which is financially better assuming I can specialise in a lucrative specialty for med?
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You are asking rhetorically.
Go Oxford Med. But aim for procedural disciplines eg Interventional Radiology, Cardiology, all surgical specialties (not Gen Surg if it still exists) , Gastroenterology, Dermatology, Anesthesiology also ok.
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21-10-2024, 11:20 PM
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You are asking rhetorically.
Go Oxford Med. But aim for procedural disciplines eg Interventional Radiology, Cardiology, all surgical specialties (not Gen Surg if it still exists) , Gastroenterology, Dermatology, Anesthesiology also ok.
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Not a rhetorical question but been leaning toward med because i don’t really want to be looking at teeth all the time
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22-10-2024, 02:35 AM
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Currently have a Med offer from Oxford and also a local NUS dent offer. My family is well to do and can afford either. Which is the better career for long term in terms of income? I am also keen to get the experience of studying overseas and would prefer to not spend my 20s in Singapore if it can be avoided. I also feel that studying Med at Oxford would be far more prestigious
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Both are terrible options if you are already from a well to do family. Just do Law in Oxford and it’s a far superior option. Don’t need to waste time on specialisation and you can get your returns faster. Saying this as a dual MBBS/JD holder. I was in your shoes 15 years ago, and I could have chosen Law but I chose Medicine. Fast forward to today, I didn’t achieve anything remarkable in medicine except for being a long-time GP, which was the main reason why I decided to go back to Law school and become a lawyer. Now toiling in the firm as a junior lawyer in the 40s, while my peers who chose Law back then are the senior partners/my bosses..
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22-10-2024, 05:32 AM
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Both are terrible options if you are already from a well to do family. Just do Law in Oxford and it’s a far superior option. Don’t need to waste time on specialisation and you can get your returns faster. Saying this as a dual MBBS/JD holder. I was in your shoes 15 years ago, and I could have chosen Law but I chose Medicine. Fast forward to today, I didn’t achieve anything remarkable in medicine except for being a long-time GP, which was the main reason why I decided to go back to Law school and become a lawyer. Now toiling in the firm as a junior lawyer in the 40s, while my peers who chose Law back then are the senior partners/my bosses..
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Sorry, but I disagree. If he is from a well to do family, he should have the option to choose what he wants to do as money is not the main reason for him to work.
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22-10-2024, 06:31 AM
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Yes u shld.
Coz hard to get hdmp opportunities after u come back
Must as well quickly complete fellowship between returning
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sorry. what is HDMP?
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