With the ageing population, degeneration of joints and osteoporosis and the resultant disability pose big public health problems in many countries of the world....

Chinese medicine individualises its treatment plan and practice and refutes any general law. Therefore, Chinese medicine practitioners do not have the tradition of research. This...

Students in general and medical students in particular are often described as “strategic learners”, but in reality many become superficial learners out of necessity...

Allow me to thank you Mr President and your Council for asking me to deliver the 5th College of Physicians Lecture. Your President has...

With the exponential increase in the elderly population in Singapore, the training of young physicians of tomorrow in the care of elderly patients will...

The government recently announced its intention to set up a second medical school at the Outram Campus. Duke University has been invited to help...

Singapore has had only one medical school since 1905. This medical school, the Medical Faculty in the National University of Singapore (NUS), currently takes...

The era of modern anaesthesia in Singapore began in 1847, a year after the successful public demonstration of ether anaesthesia in the USA.1 However,...

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. This...

The Medical School in Singapore was founded on 3 July 1905; it was named the Straits and Federated Malay States Government Medical School. It...

The Inaugural Meeting of the Chapter of Psychiatrists and Chapter of Pathologists, Academy of Medicine, was held on 5 December 1986 at King’s Hotel.1,2...