Wong J E L
Faculty of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore.
Ann Acad Med Singap. 2005 Jul;34(6):166C-171C.
This is a proud year for the medical profession in Singapore, as we celebrate 100 years of medical education. A centennial should force us to ponder whether we are producing a doctor that meets Singapore's future needs. A few of the issues that we face include how much time staff allocate to quality teaching; the continual loss of many of the best senior clinical staff in all the teaching hospitals; whether the medical profession should reconsider what, and how, it teaches given the pace of new knowledge; how we incorporate advances into standard practice; how we incorporate issues such as patient safety and effective communication into a curriculum already overcrowded with traditional topics; and how we subsidise the cost of medical education. We have undertaken a major revision of how we choose applicants, the content of the curriculum, how it is taught, the way it is assessed, and the means to recruit and retain role models in academic medicine.
今年对新加坡的医学专业来说是值得骄傲的一年，因为我们庆祝医学教育100周年。百年纪念应该促使我们思考，我们培养出的医生是否满足新加坡未来的需求。我们面临的一些问题包括：工作人员在高质量教学上投入多少时间；所有教学医院中许多最优秀的资深临床人员持续流失；鉴于新知识的发展速度，医学专业是否应该重新考虑教什么以及如何教；我们如何将进展纳入标准实践；我们如何将患者安全和有效沟通等问题纳入已经被传统主题挤满的课程；以及我们如何补贴医学教育成本。我们已经对如何选拔申请者、课程内容、教学方式、评估方式以及在学术医学领域招募和留住榜样人物的方法进行了重大修订。
