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Website. www .sma .org .sg. The Singapore Medical Association (abbreviated SMA) is a professional association representing the interests of medical professionals in Singapore. It was established on September 15, 1959, replacing the Malaya Branch of the British Medical Association. [ 2] As of 2020, it had over 8,200 members. [ 3]
Development of life expectancy in Singapore. As of 2019, Singaporeans have the world's longest life expectancy, 84.8 years at birth. Women can expect to live an average of 87.6 years with 75.8 years in good health. The averages for men are lower, with a life expectancy at 81.9 years with 72.5 years in good health. [5]
Kent Ridge. , Singapore. 1°17′47″N 103°46′47″E / 1.2963°N 103.7796°E / 1.2963; 103.7796. Website. nusmedicine.nus.edu.sg. The Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, established in 1905, is the first institution of higher learning in Singapore and the genesis of the National University of Singapore. The School is one of many ...
The faculty garnered a passing rate of 99% in the physician's licensure examination held last August 2009 and August 2010. The faculty was also ranked as the only Asian medical school to be in the top 10 list of foreign medical institutions by the U.S. Educational Commission for Foreign Medical Graduates in 2007.
Pediatric surgery arose in the middle of the 1879 century [clarification needed] as the surgical care of birth defects required novel techniques and methods, and became more commonly based at children's hospitals. One of the sites of this innovation was the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. Beginning in the 1940s under the surgical ...
A general practitioner (GP) or family physician is a doctor who is a consultant in general practice. GPs provide personal, family, and community-orientated comprehensive primary care that includes diagnosis, continues over time and is anticipatory as well as responsive. GPs have distinct expertise and experience in providing whole person ...
Dr. Chew was a senior physician and head of medicine at Tan Tock Seng Hospital from 1965-1979 and also the medical director. He delivered the first TTSH oration in 1997. Dr. Chew served as the Deputy Director of Medical Services Ministry of Health from 1981 to 1991. He helped to break the stranglehold of tuberculosis (TB) in Singapore, as ...
Career and research. In 1982, Lam returned to Singapore and was appointed as the Senior Registrar and then Consultant in Cardiology at Singapore General Hospital. He later became a fellow at the Royal College of Physicians in Ireland and a fellow at the Academic of Medicine in Singapore in 1987. In 2001, Lam was the first doctor in Singapore to ...