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26-01-2025, 03:57 PM
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honestly not connections within medicine but more so 1. A niche that u are good at 2. Connections to the right people to secure funding, do marketing, handle the business side of thinfs, mentor for advice,etc etc
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From what I see after 10 years in public, most specialist who leave phi do survive in private. I rarely seen any specialist returning to public fulltime after leaving for private. Some do become visiting consultant and run a few clinics/ot (usually for 1 day/week) but most seem to survive outside.
Same thing for gps, although ironically I have seen some gps returning to phi( ops/ch) after being in GP land for few years, but not so for specialist
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26-01-2025, 07:28 PM
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looking at the 2024 and 2023 match, there seems to be a high proportion of UK and SG med students getting accepted into the competitve programs. Not as many aussie med students? Why is this the case?
s://.physician.mohh.com.sg/Documents/Residency%20Match%20Results%20-%20July%202024%20Intake.pdf
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26-01-2025, 08:13 PM
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Originally Posted by Unregistered
honestly not connections within medicine but more so 1. A niche that u are good at 2. Connections to the right people to secure funding, do marketing, handle the business side of thinfs, mentor for advice,etc etc
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This is gold
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26-01-2025, 08:16 PM
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For medical students with family friends and cousins who are in the field (as faculty in uk/aus) in non-competitive specialities, is there anything one can do to leverage that without going too nepo?
Would it be appropriate asking them for some data mining work for their research and became one lf the n-th authors? Or is it just too much / not worth it?
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26-01-2025, 10:57 PM
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Originally Posted by Unregistered
looking at the 2024 and 2023 match, there seems to be a high proportion of UK and SG med students getting accepted into the competitve programs. Not as many aussie med students? Why is this the case?
s://.physician.mohh.com.sg/Documents/Residency%20Match%20Results%20-%20July%202024%20Intake.pdf
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Most Aussie grads who want to specialise will stay choose to stay on after graduation and train there, rather than returning to Singapore? Why train in Singapore when they can work only 40 hours a week on average there and also earn the same salary in training
Those who return to SG right after graduation are just contented to be GP and so they don’t even bother apply for residency
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26-01-2025, 11:05 PM
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Originally Posted by Unregistered
Most Aussie grads who want to specialise will stay choose to stay on after graduation and train there, rather than returning to Singapore? Why train in Singapore when they can work only 40 hours a week on average there and also earn the same salary in training
Those who return to SG right after graduation are just contented to be GP and so they don’t even bother apply for residency
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I think Aus requires PR for most specialties though and you can first apply PR only after you got full license and processing time is another 1-2y, so it takes 3-4 years before getting into training; without taking into account that some specialties like derm or rads will have unaccredited spots and many get in only at pgy5+?
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27-01-2025, 10:01 AM
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Originally Posted by Unregistered
For medical students with family friends and cousins who are in the field (as faculty in uk/aus) in non-competitive specialities, is there anything one can do to leverage that without going too nepo?
Would it be appropriate asking them for some data mining work for their research and became one lf the n-th authors? Or is it just too much / not worth it?
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I mean to be honest both of my parents are private specialists (dad is a oncologist and mum is an ophthalmologist) and they got great connections in PHI (one is a visiting clinical prof currently) but they dissuade me from doing residency
Reason being they know the hard sacrifice it entails both of them didn’t spend much time with me and my siblings in our childhood and left us with care of grandparents
So there’s no benefit actually in fact they don’t even want me to be a specialist
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27-01-2025, 12:47 PM
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I mean to be honest both of my parents are private specialists (dad is a oncologist and mum is an ophthalmologist) and they got great connections in PHI (one is a visiting clinical prof currently) but they dissuade me from doing residency
Reason being they know the hard sacrifice it entails both of them didn’t spend much time with me and my siblings in our childhood and left us with care of grandparents
So there’s no benefit actually in fact they don’t even want me to be a specialist
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bro, isn't ophth lifestyle specialty? also can't they just help u get into something like derm backdoor so you don't have to sacrifice that much in life?
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27-01-2025, 01:58 PM
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bro, isn't ophth lifestyle specialty? also can't they just help u get into something like derm backdoor so you don't have to sacrifice that much in life?
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he’s talking rubbish. If he could he would definitely opth or derm back door. This is basically just 9-5 relax job no death no ultra serious situation
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