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[QUOTE=Unregistered;128652]Current FM resident here.
Subspecializing from FM is rare and don't make much sense

Avaliable speciality are avaiation med, palliative, sports med, rehab med (newly added this year) and possibly Geri (I think might not accept anymore)
Geri and rehab are hospital speciality. U become a senior resident...and u got to do icu and reg calls. FM doesn't prepare u to do that. The only thing I am confident to do in code is to do cpr. 
Also you application cycle is late becuase FM exit exams is in Nov. Compared to someone who finish IM training with u same year, u will enter the program when he finish senior resident year 2. 
Aviation, sports med and palliative are not nationally run residency, but their intake rate is low.

FM pays competitively in public sector actually. Once u pass the m.med u are a junior family physician, roughly like a registrar in hospital term. Net annual package in polyclinic  is higher than a similar year senior resident even with their call allowance. To hit consultant in poly, u need to do fellowship, but consultant position are not a lot la, so there a ceiling as compared to a subspecializing , where u are a consultant by default. 
But try to do a polyclinic posting first. Casemix is actually very varied and challenging. U cannot say I dun know, not my speciality and u need to see about 60 patients a day to hit quota. It's not fun. I finish the day at 430pm to 5pm, but my mind is numb for the rest of the night. Hospital posting while start early, still got time to drink kopi, zone out a bit here and there, chat up cute dieticians etc. . In Polyclinic ,patient keep coming at u like a train. Go home is buay Lin Chu.

For me..I can't do hospital jobs becuase calls kills me , with the weekend rounds, I feel like my life is gone. I cannot do this for 6 more years. . My lifespan shorten by few months whenever I go on call, hence I choose one that let me finish up with shortest amount of calls. 
If I were in Australia where overall lifestyle is better..I definitely would have chosen a speciality...becuase end of day, despite what the goverment is blasting about, being good at one thing ,or specialist outtrumps a generalist from the point of the medical practitioner.[/QUOTE]

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Today 08:18 AM

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Are there any physicians recruiters whom I can reach out to inquire about what life is like in Singapore? Thanks in advance.

Life in Singapore is good
Low tax
Safe
No patient abuse
Reasonable malpractice insurance
Good working hours
High pay

Today 06:27 AM

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Are there any physicians recruiters whom I can reach out to inquire about what life is like in Singapore? Thanks in advance.

Nope. There are way too many doctors in Singapore. Oversupply. There are literally hundreds of thousands of doctors from USA, UK, NZ, Australia wanting to move to Singapore too. And millions from India.

Yesterday 10:05 AM

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Are there any physicians recruiters whom I can reach out to inquire about what life is like in Singapore? Thanks in advance.

Yesterday 10:00 AM

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There are bad apples everywhere, even among SG doctors.

An apple a day keeps the doctor away

Yesterday 09:47 AM

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It is true.

Google his name
You will realise even our sshsph prof (my epidemiology prof when I was in yllsom M1, now she is full prof at Duke nus) couldn't identify him as a scam

This speak volume abt the quality of Indian doctors
Even those with effy qualifications can converse very knowledgeably abt the subject that sinkie doc cannot accurately determine their background

There are bad apples everywhere, even among SG doctors.

17-01-2021 07:42 PM

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17-01-2021 12:53 AM

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I thought last time got report that India has highest rate of fake medical degrees in the world? Maybe thats why India is a better country to get admitted into medical school?

Got a fake Indian doctor even managed to lecture in Duke-NUS medical school for years, and it was only until he migrated to USA that he got caught by US authorities! Moral of story is, if you graduate from India it is definitely better to work in Singapore because Singapore don't check India's medical qualifications strictly. Other developed countries like USA, Canada, Australia don't allow Indian doctors to work in their countries that easily.

Straits times article of the fake Dr Anoop Shankar from All India Institute of Medical Sciences in New Delhi:
s://.straitstimes.com/singapore/education/ex-nus-professor-in-resume-fraud-scandal-in-us

Fake news.

You are just racist.

16-01-2021 06:35 PM

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Why would you want to go to Canada? So cold. High taxes.
Why would you want to go to USA? Guns. Violence. School shootings.
Why would you want to go to Australia? Heat wave. Fires. Racism.

The only good one I can think of is to go to India.

14-01-2021 09:54 PM

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In senior positions you are not compensated solely based on the hours you work but on the responsibilitied you take on. And maybe a little for your "expertise"

14-01-2021 09:32 PM

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has anyone actually asked a consultant or is aware of how much they earn?

if a gen med con earns at least 15k with hours like 8-5pm on weekdays and perhaps weekend rounds isn't that a pretty cruisy life (though I dont know for sure what the salary range is)

it's the juniors that are underpaid..

But not everybody can become con

Not everybody can become partner in law or accounting

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