Overview and Structure of Residency Programmes

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8 March 2012

Brief Overview and Structure of Residency Programmes

Structure of Residency System

The core features of the residency programmes include:

Institutional structures that accord resources for training and education
Planned learning experiences with well-defined curricula for trainees to develop core competencies, enabling them to take on progressive graded responsibilities
Regular formative assessments to ensure trainees achieve core competencies at each stage of learning
Designated core faculty with protected time to plan curricula, guide and supervise trainees and perform formative assessments.

There are three Sponsoring Institutions (SI), each with their own training sites:

SingHealth;
National University Health System (NUHS);
National Healthcare Group (NHG).

Within each SI, a Designated Institutional Official (DIO) in collaboration with a Graduate Medical Education Committee (GMEC) has authority and responsibility for the oversight and administration of residency programmes.

He/she is supported by a group of Associate DIOs, Programme Directors (PD), Associate PDs, Core Clinical Faculty Members (CCFM), Institutional Coordinators (IC) and Programme Coordinators (PC).

Designated Institutional Official (DIO) & Graduate Medical Education Committee (GMEC) from each group

	SingHealth	NHG	NUHS
DIO	A/Prof Lim Boon Leng	A/Prof Nicholas Chew	A/Prof Shirley Ooi
IC	Ms Christine Neoh	Ms Michelle Teo Shumei	Ms Jo-Ann Sim

Nationally, Residency Advisory Committees (RAC) comprising senior physicians for each specialty (below) will review the residency programmes in the Singapore context, working with our consultants ACGME-I.

More Information

For more information on Residency Programmes, please visit the following websites:

General information on Residency Programmes on Specialists Accreditation Board website.
Information on Application Process and Further Details on MOH Holdings website.