Commentary
Graduate Public Health Education – Singapore’s Contribution to Strengthening Capacity in the Region and...
The effectiveness with which the world tackles its most pressing public health problems depends crucially on the calibre of its public health workforce. Institutions...
A Systems Approach to Teach Core Topics across Graduate Medical Education Programmes
Core curricula including Ethics, Medico-legal issues, Socioeconomics, and Quality Improvement (QI) are relevant and significant for graduate medical education programmes, regardless of specialty. A...
World Federation for Medical Education Policy on International Recognition of Medical Schools’ Programme
There is an increasing need for international quality assurance of medical education. However, there are no present mechanisms for international recognition of medical educational...
“Future” Threat of Gram-negative Resistance in Singapore
Gram-negative bacteria are important causes of urinary tract infections, bloodstream infections, healthcare-associated pneumonia, and intra-abdominal infections. The increasing resistance of Enterobacteriaceae is a significant...
When Words Really Matter
I think a lot these days about doctors giving advice. Nobody taught me, back in medical school, how to give advice.
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Introducing a New Medical School System into Japan
In Japanese universities, high-quality educational opportunities are controlled by meritocratic entrance examinations. Performance in the entrance examination is the key determinant to university admission.
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The Media and Suicide
Suicide worldwide is estimated to represent 1.8% of the total global burden of disease in 1998, and 2.4% in countries with market and former...
Performance Measures for Mental Healthcare in Singapore
Mental disorders are prevalent worldwide and while they are disabling and costly, they have not received that amount of attention and resources needed. A...
Grief Revisited
More than 225,000 people across Asia perished in the cataclysmic tsunami unleashed by the Indian Ocean earthquake on 26 December 2004. At this point...
Neuropsychiatry – An Emerging Field
Neuropsychiatry can be described as the interface between neurology and psychiatry – the intersecting field of enquiry for both the brain and the mind....