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The Postgraduate Medical Institute of the Singapore General
Hospital (SGH-PGMI) is committed to the continuing education and training of
healthcare professionals. Since its establishment in 1994, SGH-PGMI has been
offering a rich variety of programmes designed to meet the learning needs of
these professionals.
SGH - The Seat of Medical Education
SGH-PGMI can be said to have been born at the seat of medical
education. SGH has a long and illustrious history in medical education and
training. It is where Singapore’s first medical and nursing schools were
established in the early 1900s. It is also Singapore’s first postgraduate
teaching hospital and principal training ground for specialists.
SGH will also be the grounds of the new National University of
Singapore (NUS) Graduate Medical School. This alliance between NUS and Duke
University is scheduled for launch in 2007.
Educational Leadership
The Institute believes that educational leadership will
provide the needed vibrancy and dynamism to operate in a fast changing
environment.
Reflecting its push for educational leadership, the Institute
has partnered non-traditional training providers to enhance its teaching
resources. With this, SGH-PGMI is able to offer programmes ranging beyond
conventional continuing medical education to include biomedical engineering,
healthcare management development and medical pedagogy.
It has also harnessed the synergistic benefits of SGH’s affiliations with
established local and foreign institutions. For instance, implementing the
Telemedicine series with Stanford University, through the use of distance
learning technology, has enabled SGH-PGMI to extend content delivery to a
regional audience. Besides SGH, this series reaches audiences in the Chinese
University of Hong Kong and Makati Medical Center (Philippines).
Opening Doors to Training Opportunities
There is regional interest in postgraduate medical training in
SGH. The hospital is a “one-stop” postgraduate training centre. Its 28 clinical
departments provide a comprehensive range of medical, surgical and clinical
support specialty training. Moreover, its team approach towards patient
management provides opportunities for learning in an inter-disciplinary
environment.
The Institute coordinates training programmes open to foreign
medical specialists. These programmes include fellowships and training
attachments, hospital management courses and medical learning tours. Since
1994, over 400 foreign doctors representing more than 30 nationalities have
taken up these training opportunities.
The PGMI Learning Experience
What makes a good learning experience? For SGH-PGMI, this means enabling
programme participants to benefit from:
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A rich portfolio of continuing medical education and continuing professional
development programmes including:
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Clinical Skills Training (Basic and Advanced)
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Evidence-based Medicine Programmes
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General Practitioner Education Programmes
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Healthcare Management Development Programmes
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Hospital Case Conferences
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Hospital-wide Clinical Meetings
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Medical Pedagogy Programmes
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Scientific Meetings
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Telemedicine Programmes
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A blended learning environment, in which a combination of didactic lectures,
small group teaching, skills training, clinical attachments and medical tours
is used.
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The knowledge and expertise of specialists working in Singapore’s largest acute
care tertiary and most established postgraduate teaching hospital.
Symbols of a Legacy of Teaching
The symbols on the Institute’s crest reflect the hospital’s
legacy of teaching: the staff of Aesculapius represents the field of medicine;
the book symbolises education; while the Bowyer’s Block clock tower represents
SGH and its tradition as a teaching hospital. Inscribed on the crest is the
Latin motto “Melius Medicus Scientius”, meaning “The better doctor is the
learned one”.
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