Postgraduate medical education in Singapore may be regarded as having begun in 1910, when the first batch of doctors graduated from the Straits and Federated Malay States Government Medical School. This lecture reviews its development through 5 periods. This article is available only as a PDF. Please click on "Download...

As a small-town upcountry Malay boy, Singapore was to me a great big city when I first arrived in 1947 to join the King Edward VII Medical College. The tallest building was the Cathay Building, a full 13-storey high. It housed the Cathay Cinema and belonged to the enormously...