Editorial
Bridging the Gap between Primary and Specialist Care: Formidable Challenges Ahead
The strong guiding hand and deep pockets of the state have brought about the growth of hospitals and national specialist centres while leaving the...
Treatment Gets Better, but Leprosy Remains a Global Problem
Rising standards of living and the provision of effective medical treatment have resulted in good control of leprosy in many parts of the world,...
Problems – Theoretical and Real – In the Drug Treatment of HIV-AIDS
Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection is the most important infectious disease of our time. Likewise, the availability of highly effective therapy for HIV represents...
How do we Encourage Clinician Scientists in Singapore?
Singapore can be proud of its many achievements in the last few decades. Amongst these is the very high standard of healthcare enjoyed by...
Mental Health in Singapore: A Quiet Revolution?
Worldwide there are about 450 million individuals in all societies who, in their lifetime, will suffer from a neuropsychiatric disorder that would exact a...
Outcomes in Medical Education
Since its inception in 2003, the Asia Pacific Medical Education Conference (APMEC) has focused on one relevant, practical, and contemporary aspect of medical education....
An Outcomes Approach to Evaluate Professional Development Programmes for Medical Educators
Do our Continuing Professional Development (CPD) programmes provide significant measurable and desirable results? The key metric for evaluating programmes in the past has been...
Challenges in Paediatric Asthma Today
Asthma today affects more than 300 million people worldwide and its prevalence is increasing, particularly among children. The rise in asthma prevalence has been...
Cardiovascular Genetics – Two Steps Forward, One Step Back
The recent publication of 2 studies of the genetics of coronary heart disease1,2 provides an opportune moment to reassess strategies and progress towards the...
Neuro-oncology at the Crossroads
The notion of a tumour in the brain is a most terrifying prospect for most individuals and many physicians. Yet brain tumour is the...