About ResidencyAbout Residency

The new postgraduate medical education will introduce significant enhancements to the postgraduate training system, while retaining current strengths. The core features of the residency programmes are structured and formative training. The components include:

System: Institutional structures that accord resources for training and education;

Curricula: Planned learning experiences with well-defined curricula for trainees to develop core competencies, enabling them to take on progressive graded responsibilities;

Assessment: Regular formative assessments to ensure trainees achieve core competencies at each stage of learning;

People: Designated core faculty with protected time to plan curricula, guide and supervise trainees and perform formative assessments.

 

About TYMEXAbout Transitional Year Matching Exercise (TYMEX)

The Transitional Year (TY) Programme is designed to fulfil the education needs of graduands who desire a well-balanced, broad-based year in different disciplines within the structured framework of a Sponsoring Institution.

Housemen on the other hand can get to rotate through different Sponsoring Institutions (SIs) and are not tagged to any specialty. They can apply for the specialty of their choice or for family medicine after housemanship.

Both Housemen and TY residents will have structured training and learning.

Possible Combinations:

Option 1    Internal Medicine     +     General Surgery     +    Paediatrics     +    Optional Elective
Option 2    Internal Medicine     +     General Surgery     +    Obstetrics & Gynaecology     +    Optional Elective
Option 3    Internal Medicine     +     Orthopaedic Surgery     +    Paediatrics     +     Optional Elective
Option 4    Internal Medicine     +     Orthopaedic Surgery     +     Obstetrics & Gynaecology    +    Optional Elective
Option 5    Internal Medicine     +     General Surgery     +    Orthopaedic Surgery     +    Optional Elective

The 5 options simply list the possible combinations available but may not necessarily run in that sequence. For example, a candidate may be posted to do a posting in General Surgery first before Internal Medicine and Paediatrics.

Graduates can also rank (in order of preference) the institutions which they wish to have their postings in. For example, a candidate can choose to do his Internal Medicine posting either in CGH, NUHS, SGH or TTSH.

Candidates can also indicate if they wish to do a 2-month elective posting in the following disciplines (dependent on availability):

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