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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:

  1. SingHealth;

  2. National University Health System (NUHS);

  3. 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

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