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...
Commentary
Management Training in Critical Care Medicine
Critical care medicine as a specialty has grown rapidly, both clinically and academically, over the past 25 years. In the USA, certification of competence...
Review Article
Critical Care Medicine in the Western Pacific Region
The Western Pacific region includes a very diverse group of countries varying in their culture, economic development and per capita income, disease prevalence and...
Original Article
The Posterior Cruciate Ligament: An Anthropometric Study in Asians and Evaluation of Safe Limits for Bony Tunnel Creation During Reconstruction
The posterior cruciate ligament (PCL) provides the main restraint to posterior translation of the tibia on the femur and is stronger than its anterior...
Others
Inaugural College of Obstetricians & Gynaecologists Lecture: Recent Developments in Obstetric Care and Maternal Fetal Medicine in Singapore
Has it done any good to pregnancy outcome as promised?
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Others
History of Psychiatric Education in Singapore
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...
Editorial
Sleep Disorders: Sleepless in Singapore
Sleep disorders are common afflictions in both the paediatric and adult populations, increasingly recognised as major public health concerns. Recently, the Institute of Medicine...
Others
The Teaching of Anatomy: The First Hundred Years (1905-2005)
When the Straits and Federated Malay States Government Medical School opened its doors on 3 July 1905 in what was to be the historical...
Original Article
New House-Officers’ Views on Unprofessional Behaviour
The need for incorporation of biomedical ethics and professionalism into the formal undergraduate and postgraduate curriculum has been increasingly recognised in the last twenty...
Original Article
Evaluating the Effects of an Integrated Medical Ethics Curriculum on First-year Students
Knowledge and confidence, and positive or negative attitudes in relation to medical ethics, are affected by medical ethics education. Mainstreaming and formalising ethics education...
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...