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.