SMSV-SNHRC Student Attachment

Location: Sri Narayani Hospital and Research Centrev (SNHRC), Vellore, India
Date: Friday 03/12/10 – Sunday 12/12/10
Time: Arrive early morning; Depart late evening/night
Accomodation & Food: Ashram next to the hospital (twin rooms); $25/night approx. (meals incl.)
Transport: SNHRC will provide a bus to and fro the airport; incl. transport to the rura/semirural areas
Activities:
1. Orientation (Friday 03/12/10)

• Social worker provided by the hospital to help understand the working environment of the hospital

2. Health Camps in rural/semirural areas: Sat 4/12/10 & Sun 12/12/10
Objectives:

• To understand the needs of the community of Vellore, India

• To understand the practice of medicine in rural/semirural areas

• Collect empirical data for possible further research (e.g. BP, BSL, etc)

• To aid the students in clinical practice

3. Hospital rotations
Objectives:

• Hands-on clinical experience

• To understand more about the practice of the respective rotations

• To understand the medical practice in Vellore (India)

• Students are expected to be on night-calls(supervised) if required

Estimated cost: $375
Accomodation & Food- $225 approx. ($25 x 9 nights)
Flight ticket- $150 approx.

For enquiries, email jasmin.tan@smsv.sg

Application Form

Due to overwhelming response, we are no longer accepting applications. For future opportunities, check this site or join us on facebook

Most of us would have heard of the pre-employment grant offered by the Singapore Health Clusters to attract foreign graduated Singaporean doctors back to Singapore to work. Here’s a summary of the latest updates:

• Offered to Singaporeans with good grades (ie there will be a selection and interview process)
• Capped at 40,000 per year (max of 80,000 in 2 years), or 60% of remaining tuition fees
• Three year bond for those taking one year grant
• Four year bond for those taking two year grant
• Applications for UK students open 16th August
• Applications for Aussie students likely to be end January

For more information go to the MOHH website, or the Straits Times Article

Career Symposium 2010 is co-organized by the Academic Directorate of the 61st NUS Medical Society and the 3 sponsoring institutes(NUHS, NHG, SingHealth) for the new residency program in Singapore. The aim of the symposium is to provide an avenue for the institutes to introduce the various residency programs available and to help Singaporean medical students, both locally and overseas, make better informed decisions regarding post-graduation. Some of the highlights of the symposium are:

- Booths for the various specialties with residents and program directors present to answer any queries
- Information packs will be given out with an extensive guide and write-up to the programs offered
- Talks given by program directors and residents to introduce the various programs and share their experiences

Registration is compulsory. You can find out more about the event at http://medcareersymposium.blogspot.com.

Hey everyone, for those planning to go back to Singapore this winter, and feel like spending some time doing an attachment in a Singapore Hospital, here’s your chance! SMSV has managed to secure limited places with MOHH, so apply now with your preferences and dates, and we’ll try to match them as best we can.

Deadline to apply is before 15th June 2010

SMSV is looking for enthusiastic meddies to join our committee!

You will be helping out your fellow students by being involved in organizing a range of social, academic and employment related activities throughout the year.

As part of the committee, you will be representing the interests of your fellow Singaporean meddies (as well as any other students interested in the Singapore healthcare sector). If you have any new ideas for enriching activities, or have opinions on changes you would like to see, this is your opportunity to put them in place.

We welcome any interested medical or allied health student to be part of our committee, regardless of nationality.

New committee members would be part of a ‘general committee’, which would give you the chance to take on different job scopes under the guidance of current committee members. This would give you time to become familiar with what we do, and later you would be able to decide on which portfolio you would be most keen on taking up.

Please fill in the following form (preferably before 15th June 2010) and we’ll be in touch very soon.

(a) MOH Holdings will be in Melbourne and Sydney from 31 May to 7 Jun 2010 for the recruitment of Pharmacists. They are looking at both Registered Pharmacists as well as Graduating Pharmacy Students. Please visit  www.ahp.mohh.com.sg/Auspharm2010.   They will also be posting the details on their Facebook page – Healthcare jobs in Singapore.

(b) MOHH Mid Term Scholarship for allied healthcare students is open for application.  Please see the following document: http://www.smsv.sg/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/MOHH-MTS-2010.pdf

Ministry of Health Holdings has announced when they will be coming to Australia to do their annual recruitment talks. For us in Melbourne, that would be 12th June, venue still to be confirmed.

Graduating students especially might want to take note of this date.

(Source: http://www.physician.mohh.com.sg/10_recruitment_talk.html)

If you’re applying to MOHH, the following are some details you will need to take note of:

Submission to:  physician@mohh.com.sg

Deadline:          Monday May 24^th, 2010

Required documents:

• completed Employment Form (available here. Also available at http://www.physician.mohh.com.sg/download/Employment_Form.doc)
• full personal particulars/CVs
• contact number/email address (important)
• educational and professional qualifications
• career history
• present & expected salary and
• name of 2 professional referees

With the start of a new semester, we welcome the arrival of the new batch of doctors-to-be. For the new meddies from Singapore embarking on this five year journey in Melbourne, this would be both an exciting and uncertain few months. They would have to adjust to life and the culture in Australia, for most being the first time away from home, tackle a demanding course, as well as make many new acquaintances.

Having a supportive group of friends from back home to identify with would no doubt make this transition easier and more enjoyable. Having seniors around to share their stories and give advice would certainly help too.

The senior-meet-junior dinner held on the 27th of March was one such opportunity for the freshies to finally meet their more seasoned colleagues, make new friends, and gain some insight into what lies in the years ahead. For the seniors, it was the chance to check out what our new juniors were like, and hopefully share a little of what we have learnt these few years. We gathered at the South East Flats Pavilion, and shared our stories over a wide range of delectable culinary creations contributed by everyone who attended.

RESTRUCTURED hospitals are looking into giving pre-employment grants to Singaporeans studying medicine overseas, Health Minister Khaw Boon Wan announced yesterday.

The grant will cover part of the students’ university fees. Recipients have to serve a bond in Singapore after they graduate.

An encounter with a young party activist in his Sembawang branch made him realise the usefulness of the idea, which had first been thrown up by Dr Lily Neo (Jalan Besar GRC), said Mr Khaw.

The activist was leaving to study medicine in New South Wales, Australia. ‘Among the 60 international students in her batch, she noted that 40 were Singaporeans!’ the minister exclaimed.

Mr Khaw blogged about this on Facebook. In his post, he said that the ministry’s aggressive recruitment of foreign medical graduates had worked, but Singapore students should not be neglected.

‘I will figure out a way to help them in a meaningful manner and secure their return to Singapore,’ he wrote. ‘I am sure it can be done, to get our kids back!’

Read the full story in Wednesday’s edition of The Straits Times.

http://www.straitstimes.com/BreakingNews/Singapore/Story/STIStory_500241.html