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 examinations and a shift towards prioritising the mastery of clinical skills relevant to infection control. Hence, Ng et al.’s suggestions on how to maximise learning...

Critical care medicine as a specialty has grown rapidly, both clinically and academically, over the past 25 years. In the USA, certification of competence has been awarded to graduates of the critical care medicine fellowship programmes since 1987. This article is available only as a PDF. Please click on “Download...

The Western Pacific region includes a very diverse group of countries varying in their culture, economic development and per capita income, disease prevalence and medical traditions. The Western Pacific Association of Critical Care Medicine (WAPCCM) includes countries from Japan in the north to Australia and New Zealand in the...

The tutor plays a key role in fostering the collaborative and self-directed learning that is central to problem-based learning (PBL). It is reasonable, therefore, for the tutor to be involved in assessing the processes of collaborative learning. This article is available only as a PDF. Please click on “Download PDF”...

The Faculty of Medicine of the University of Hong Kong (HKU) was established in 1887 and its curriculum has been run in a traditional manner for over a century. The Faculty has been a major training ground for doctors in the Community of Hong Kong. This article is available only...

The posterior cruciate ligament (PCL) provides the main restraint to posterior translation of the tibia on the femur and is stronger than its anterior counterpart. Indeed, it has been regarded by some authors as the primary stabiliser of the knee. This article is available only as a PDF. Please click...

Evidence-based medicine (EBM) is “the conscientious, explicit, and judicious use of the best evidence in making decisions about the care of individual patients.” Considering the vast amount of medical knowledge available today through various media outlets with almost no boundaries, it is essential that our medical graduates should have...

Healthcare delivery systems worldwide are currently undergoing significant changes to create resilient learning organisations that are able to adapt with ever-increasing speed to shifting business, regulatory, and competitive environments. The delivery of healthcare is no longer a single-provider responsibility; modern group practice organisations require a physician to be not...

The professional role of physicians implies a commitment to upholding social order by providing strong leadership, good moral judgement, and the ethical practice of medicine.1-3 However, in the latter part of the 20th century, increasing pressure from political, legal, and market forces has effected significant change in healthcare delivery...

While medical education in Singapore has a hundred-year history, the teaching of psychiatry became salient only in the last quarter of the century. In the early years, medical education mainly focused on medicine, surgery, paediatrics, obstetrics and public health. Fortuitously, interest in psychiatry grew as a consequence of social...

Sleep disorders are common afflictions in both the paediatric and adult populations, increasingly recognised as major public health concerns. Recently, the Institute of Medicine (USA) convened an ad hoc committee of experts in public health, academic and medical administration, and health sciences research to address sleep health issues, including...

The medical faculty in the National University of Singapore was started in 1905 and a Chair in Biochemistry established in 1927. Biochemistry was taught only to medical and dental students until 1960, when a degree course in Biochemistry was introduced under the Faculty of Science. This article is available only...

Medical students today are taught in a competitive environment that fosters the acquisition of knowledge and individual responsibility. However, in recent times, the importance of teaching students to give patient-centred care, work in interdisciplinary teams, employ evidence-based practice, apply quality improvement methods and utilise informatics has come to the...

The field of medicine is complex. Its interwoven structure of clinical practice, medical education and biomedical research, coupled with intricacies of the health system, makes it challenging for one to navigate through without any help. In any academic medical centre (AMC) or hospital, there is an imperative for senior,...

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 individual strengths to become an integrated academic healthcare cluster. This new academic healthcare cluster has a mission to provide outstanding clinical service, discover and promote...

Role modeling has been reported as an increasingly prominent teaching need and strategy in the field of medical education. This aspect of training helps novice doctors to imbibe key values, attitudes, behaviours and ethics that define the medical profession. With the primary goal of medical education being to train...