Clinical Medicine
The demand for general practitioners and primary care in Singapore has never stopped. The Medical Council, which is in charge of examining and approving medical licenses, recently announced new regulations, stipulating that overseas medical graduates who are qualified to become full-time doctors must first complete one year of basic clinical medicine if they have not directly entered the specialized subject and have not completed one year of postgraduate internship in the local area.
This means that Singapore and foreign doctors who graduated from overseas medical majors must engage in "basic medicine" for one year under supervision, absorb the experience of family doctors and treat patients with different diseases before they can practice medicine independently.
Secondly, this regulation is also to explain that medical graduates should start from general practitioners and meet the general needs of society, which is primary medical care.
Primary care is the most basic medical need of any society, especially in an aging society like Singapore, where the elderly see doctors more frequently. 24-hour general consultation is needed by the people to reduce the pressure on the emergency department of public hospitals.
Explaining the new regulations, the Medical Committee said: "This is to ensure that doctors can practice independently in clinical practice, but also for the safety of patients and to expose them to various diseases of different patients. Such supervision and evaluation can let the medical Committee know whether they can engage in primary medical services. "
This regulation for overseas medical graduates, like local medical graduates, allows them to go through a one-year internship period before formally practicing medicine independently. Moreover, the new regulations are obviously to ensure that the professional standards of overseas medical graduates meet the requirements of Singapore, and at the same time, they also give foreign doctors time to adapt to Singapore's national conditions and medical regulations and strengthen their language skills in communicating with local patients.
With the development of the times, the younger generation of medical graduates will develop into specialists after practicing medicine for two or three years.
At the same time, it is understandable for doctors to further become specialists when they are young, but if they only have high income and high status, it may lead to an imbalance between supply and demand in the overall medical service field.
Most importantly, according to the reflection of local medical graduates, it has become increasingly difficult to enter popular specialties in the past two years. This also indirectly reflects that the supply imbalance of medical staff is very serious.
In addition, the admission threshold of local universities is very high. Although the number of medical degrees is increasing year by year, there are still examples of excellent students studying medicine in foreign universities. Moreover, there are also young people who cannot go abroad because of insufficient family conditions and must give up their desire to become doctors. Therefore, over the years, the call for increasing the number of local medicine has never stopped.
nurse
I. Professional introduction
Nursing is a comprehensive applied science based on the theory of natural science and social science, which studies the nursing theory, knowledge, skills and its development law of maintaining, promoting and restoring human health.
Nursing science includes natural sciences such as biology, physics, chemistry, anatomy and physiology.
Students in this major mainly study related knowledge of humanities and social sciences, basic medical knowledge, basic theoretical knowledge of preventive health care, basic nursing knowledge and basic skills of clinical nursing, and cultivate students' basic ability to implement holistic nursing and provide community health services for clients.
Second, the application requirements
1, China's nursing college education and registered nurse qualification (China's nursing college graduates are generally registered nurses);
2. Applicants need IELTS 6.0 or TOEFL 550 in language (it is understood that Singapore East Asia Management Institute will provide professional nursing English courses, and students without IELTS and TOEFL can enter undergraduate nursing studies after studying nursing English courses);
3. The applicant must be 19 years old;
4. Students who apply for undergraduate nursing in public universities in Singapore can pass the national college entrance examination, and their scores in the college entrance examination need to be above 50-100. Students can also apply for undergraduate nursing courses in public universities in Singapore by taking the A-level exam in Singapore.
Third, the way to study abroad
Route 1. Apply on the basis of college entrance examination results. Fresh or previous high school graduates whose college entrance examination scores exceed a local key score by more than 40 points, and whose IELTS score is 6 or SAT score is qualified, can only be admitted through written tests and interviews held by domestic national universities.
Path 2: Take the A-Level exam in Singapore. As long as students are 17 years old or older, they can take this exam. There are no requirements for academic qualifications and college entrance examination results.
Fourth, the advantages of studying abroad.
First, education in Singapore pays attention to the combination of theory and practice, so studying nursing in Singapore can get a good practice, which is of great help to finding a job in the future.
Second, the nursing profession has a good employment prospect. The nursing profession is unpopular in China, but it has a good employment prospect in Singapore. Nurses with profound professional knowledge, high comprehensive quality and fluent international communication language have broad prospects for international employment and development. The days when nurses only played the role of doctors' assistants are over. All senior nurse interns who have received graduate education increasingly need to have the conditions that only doctors needed in the past.