Welcome to Medical Career Symposium 2011!

Posted at 12:02 pm

Note: Site is under construction, so some information presented here may not be updated. Registrations will only begin from May 2011 onwards, so check back again then! Thanks!

The Career Symposium 2011 is your chance to find out about your future after graduation. With the new residency programme, we're sure you've many questions to ask and doubts to clarify. We hope the Career Symposium will address these issues, and help you to:

  • Find out more about your medical career after graduation.
  • Gain insight into the prospects offered by the wide array of residencies available to us as future participants in the residency programme.
  • Find out how the new residency programme differs from the previous system of specialist training, and how the residency programmes are different from each other, across different Sponsoring Institutions.

Co-organised by the Academic Directorate and Sponsoring Institutions such as Singhealth, NUHS and NHG-AHPL, the Career Symposium aims to help you gather the information you need to make a better career decision. Each Sponsoring Institution offers its own set of residencies and its own Career Symposium date, all of which are on Saturdays in July 2011.

  • MOH & Specialty Talk - 9th July at Shaw Foundation Alumni House (TBC)
  • NUHS - 23rd July at NUHS Tower Block
  • Singhealth - 30th July
  • NHG-AHPL - Date TBC

Medical students from YLLSOM and Duke-NUS GMS, Singaporean medical students studying overseas and HOs in Singapore are ALL welcome! Come on down and find out more about the different career paths at each of these Sponsoring Institutions, as well as their unique cultures and strengths, to help you make an informed choice for your future.

Here's what to do before the Career Symposium:

  1. Register!
  2. Read the Career Symposium handbook answering FAQs about each specialty, put together by the Academic Directorate. It will be available here soon in PDF format.
  3. Visit the following official websites to learn more about each Sponsoring Institution, as well as a general overview from MOH:
Please mail any inquiries to careersymposium2011@gmail.com

All the best in finding the right career path for you!

Brought to you by the Academic Directorate, NUS Medical Society.