Not Again.Hospitals going to recurit overseas medical studen
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SINGAPORE: Hospitals here are looking to recruit overseas medical students ahead of their graduation by offering them a pre-employment grant.
The idea was first raised by Health Minister Khaw Boon Wan last month as a measure to increase the pool of doctors in Singapore.
Sharing more details about the grant on his blog, Mr Khaw said they are testing out the sustainability of the idea and the hospitals are working out the details.
Some of the key components of this scheme could include, having the grant target Singaporeans studying in top medical schools recognised by the Singapore Medical Council in the last two years of their medical programme.
The selection will be based on merit and students must possess good grades especially in their clinical training years.
Mr Khaw said the grant could cover a significant part, say 60 per cent of the student's tuition fees for the remaining years of study.
This could be subject to a cap of S$50,000 a year.
In return, the students will serve out a bond at the hospitals here, possibly for four years instead of the usual five as currently practiced by the NUS medical graduates.
In 2007, there were less than 4000 doctors in the public sector and today there are more than 4,600.
As more is being done to ramp up local training to reduce the shortage of doctors, Mr Khaw said he hopes that this pre-employment grant scheme may "become redundant" in the future. - CNA/vm -
Under the useless mechanical graduate YCT who got all his economic wrong when he curbed medical undergraduates to a mere of 200. Unfounded, empirically unproven, unscientific, irrational fear that oversupply of doctor can induce artificial demand.
The govt also did not review this silly policy in view of the aging population and let it ran auto-pilot for ages.
It must be a cruel joke when they limited undergraduate medical students to a mere of 200 than did a 180 degree turn by opening the floodgate for foreign trained doctors to come.
It must be a greater cruel joke when foreign born doctors have to communicate with old aunties and uncles thru sign language or thru clinic attendants.
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Most of the news from them are negative. Seriously cock up.
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I believe this goes like this in singapore's healthcare industry. there is seriously a lack of available singaporean doctors here. u can ask those who worked in the medical or healthcare industry. so I think, they have no choice, but to look overseas for doctors. now with the 2 new hospitals Khoo Teck Puat and Jurong General Hospital up and running, the shortage of sporean doctors have becoming more acute.
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Number of foreign talent too much......... need to reduce the numbers really....
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FOREIGN TALENTS ARE MOST WELCOME.
ONLY SAY FUCK TO LIVERPOOL.SAY FUCK TO LIVERPOOL FANS.SAY FUCK TO RAFAEL BENITEZ.SAY FUCK TO POOLMAN
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I say fuck to the government!
I say go eat shit!
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The two of you are trying too hard...
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Originally posted by 4sg:
Under the useless mechanical graduate YCT who got all his economic wrong when he curbed medical undergraduates to a mere of 200. Unfounded, empirically unproven, unscientific, irrational fear that oversupply of doctor can induce artificial demand.
The govt also did not review this silly policy in view of the aging population and let it ran auto-pilot for ages.
It must be a cruel joke when they limited undergraduate medical students to a mere of 200 than did a 180 degree turn by opening the floodgate for foreign trained doctors to come.
It must be a greater cruel joke when foreign born doctors have to communicate with old aunties and uncles thru sign language or thru clinic attendants.
Expand medical undergraduates and doctors to all industries, that's about the story of employment in Singapore.