Original Article
Development and validation of a new self-assessment tool to measure professionalism among medical students
Professionalism is a concept that is difficult to define, but in relation to medical practice, it can be summarised as values, behaviours and conduct...
Editorial
Nurturing professional behaviours and ethical practice: From students to professionals
Medical professionalism refers to the set of values, behaviours, and ethical principles that guide the conduct of medical professionals in their interactions with patients,...
Letter to the Editor
Script concordance test to assess diagnostic and management reasoning in acute medicine
Dear Editor,
Clinical reasoning, an essential skill for patient care, can be difficult to assess. We created and validated a script concordance test (SCT) to...
Commentary
Leveraging ChatGPT to aid patient education on coronary angiogram
Natural-language artificial intelligence (AI) is a promising technological advancement poised to revolutionise the delivery of healthcare.1 Traditionally, inclusion of technology in the augmentation of...
Letter to the Editor
Investigating the stressors and coping mechanisms of students in medical school: A qualitative study
Dear Editor,
Medical school can be a stressful experience for students, with burnout being increasingly common.1 Stressors in medical education include a heavy academic workload,...
Letter to the Editor
Reducing non-clinical working hours of junior doctors could benefit patient outcomes
Dear Editor,
An 80-hour duty limit for residents was first introduced by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) in 2003, with the...
Review Article
Through the eyes into the brain, using artificial intelligence
Neurological dysfunction is a leading cause of disability, affecting more than 276 million people worldwide.1 Over the last decades, the prevalence of neurological dysfunction...
Letter to the Editor
Teaching and learning during the COVID-19 pandemic: Perspectives of medical students in Singapore
Dear Editor,
The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has resulted in many changes to medical education, including the site and mode of teaching, conducting of...
Review Article
Theory and Practice in Continuing Medical Education
A physician’s education in medical science represents a continuum of several interrelated phases. It starts with medical school, passes through brief housemanship year, and...
Others
Quality Assurance of Problem-based Learning (PBL): The Hong Kong Experience
The Faculty of Medicine of the University of Hong Kong (HKU) was established in 1887 and its curriculum has been run in a traditional...
Others
Clinical Reasoning Learning Sessions
Many medical schools worldwide have made the shift toward problem-based learning (PBL) medical education. Some of them employ these new techniques in only part...
Others
Is Problem-Based Learning a Quality Approach to Education in Health Sciences?
Since the pioneering adoption of problem-based learning (PBL) by McMaster University in medical education more than three decades ago, increasingly more medical schools around...
Review Article
Long-term Follow-up and Outcome of Extremely-low-birth-weight (ELBW) Infants
With the progressive improvement in the survival of premature neonates, including those born at the extreme edge of viability, there has been a great...
Letter to the Editor
Stress among emergency medicine residents during the COVID-19 pandemic: A qualitative study
Dear Editor,
The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted medical education1,2 and distressed clinicians.3,4 Understanding the impact of this pandemic on emergency medicine (EM) residents’ experience of...
Others
Book Review
These are challenging times for medical schools as the frontiers of knowledge have expanded enormously and rapidly in recent years. In order to keep...
Original Article
A Problem-Based Learning Pathway for Medical Students: Improving the Process Through Action Research
Problem-based learning (PBL) is a student-centred, self-directed, integrated and contextual mode of learning. It has been widely perceived by many to confer advantages in...
Editorial
Curriculum TIPS For All of Us
Medical education is a lifelong learning process. Just as we remind our students and ourselves that the practice of medicine is a lifelong process...
Original Article
Facilitation of Students’ Discussion in Problem-based Learning Tutorials to Create Mechanisms: The Use of Five Key Questions
An important aspect of problem-based learning (PBL), particularly in the early years of the undergraduate medical, physiotherapy, nursing and dental courses, is teaching basic...
Review Article
What do You Mean by “Satisfactory”?
There were 2 questions which initiated this research. One became the title of this paper; the other was a concern that the integration of...
Letter to the Editor
Towards a Global Educational Matrix for Tomorrow’s Health Systems
Society supports medical schools expecting them to produce physicians who can improve both the health of the population as well as the health system...
Original Article
Innovative “Case-Based Integrated Teaching” in an Undergraduate Medical Curriculum: Development and Teachers’ and Students’ Responses
In Asia, the challenges facing medical education are similar across different countries. The learning process is still problematic with large classes, and most of...
Others
The Future of Medical Education: The Second 100 Years
This is a proud year for the medical profession in Singapore, as we celebrate 100 years of medical education. As the oldest faculty in...
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The NUS MBBS-PhD Programme: Nurturing Clinician-Scientists for Tomorrow
The MBBS-PhD programme is a significant milestone in medical education in Singapore. In July 2000, the Faculty of Medicine, National University of Singapore (NUS)...
Others
A Century of Medical Students’ Activities (Medical College Union/Medical Society)
On 3 July 1905, the Straits and Federated Malay States Government Medical School was started with the objective of training the local men and...
Others
The First Graduates in 1910
The Medical School in Singapore was founded on 3 July 1905; it was named the Straits and Federated Malay States Government Medical School. It...
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Milestones of the Medical School and Medical Progress of Singapore over the Past 100 years
1905: The Medical School started off in an old female lunatic asylum on the site of the general hospital at Sepoy Lines.1 Called the...
Review Article
Self-directed Learning in Health Professions Education
More than 600,000 new citations were published in MEDLINE in 2005; this raised the total number of indexed citations to more than 14 million...
Commentary
Translating the Family Medicine Vision into Educational Programmes in Singapore
The core of the Family Medicine (FM) vision is patient-centred care, requiring specific education and vocational training. Modern day FM began its existence as...
Others
Impact of Various Continuing Medical Education Activities on Clinical Practice – A Survey of Malaysian Doctors on its Perceived Importance
Continuing medical education (CME) plays an indispensable role in the clinical practice of any doctor. The practice of evidence-based medicine today,1 or any meaningful...
Original Article
Characteristics of Medical School Graduates who Underwent Problem-Based Learning
Problem-based learning (PBL) is one of the medical education strategies to promote continuous active and self-directed learning.1,2 Our medical school implemented PBL in 1990...
Commentary
The Challenges of “Continuing Medical Education” in a Pandemic Era
Although pandemics of influenza have occurred (albeit rarely, i.e. once every few decades) for more than 3 centuries, recent outbreaks of H1N1 and H5N1...
Original Article
The Pedagogical Value of a Student-run Community-based Experiential Learning Project: The Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine Public Health Screening
Experiential learning brings medical students out of the comfort zone of learning in their classrooms to acquire and apply knowledge and skills in an...
Original Article
Two Strategies to Intensify Evidence-based Medicine Education of Undergraduate Students: A Randomised Controlled Tria
Knowledge and skills of evidence-based medicine (EBM) can be taught by many methods, such as role modeling evidence-based care, using evidence for clinical medicine...
Editorial
Mentorship in Academic Medicine: A Catalyst of Talents
The field of medicine is complex. Its interwoven structure of clinical practice, medical education and biomedical research, coupled with intricacies of the health system,...
Original Article
Academic Medicine Education Institute (AM∙EI): Transforming the Educational Culture of Health Professionals
In 2010, Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School (Duke-NUS) and Singapore Healthcare Services (SingHealth) launched an initiative to improve the lives of patients by combining their...
Original Article
“Are Medical Students’ Views of an Ideal Physician Eroding? A Study on Perceived Qualities of a “Role Model” Doctor Before and After Housemanship and between Two Cohorts Five Years Apart “
Role modeling has been reported as an increasingly prominent teaching need and strategy in the field of medical education. This aspect of training helps...
Editorial
Laparoscopic liver resection: Global diffusion and learning curve
Laparoscopic liver resection (LLR) is being utilised with increasing frequency worldwide, as initial concerns about the safety and feasibility of LLR, such as the...