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WANTED: Bright young doctors keen on doing research while practising medicine.
A new programme to grow the number of 'research clinicians' aims to take on board dedicated, exceptional young doctors who have begun their specialty training, within six years after medical school.
They will undergo a minimum of 64 hours of formal training to introduce them to research work.
They will next be paired up with the best research-clinicians in their field, for the next 18 to 24 months for work in areas ranging from ethics to biostatistics - without disrupting their clinical practice.
Fifteen vacancies will be open every year.
The programme is being run on the premise that doctors with some training in research will make better clinicians because they will be able to think more critically about research, Professor Judith Swain, the executive director of the Singapore Institute of Clinical Sciences, told The Straits Times.
This programme, a tie-up between the National Healthcare Group (NHG) and the National University of Singapore's Yong Yoo Lin School of Medicine, hopes to attract young doctors who are interested in getting into research, added Prof Swain, one of the mentors driving this NHG-NUS Clinician Leadership in Research programme.
It was announced during the NHG Annual Scientific Congress last weekend.
Other programmes include taking in doctors who have already decided to reduce their clinical work and focus on research.
Read the full story in Tuesday's edition of The Straits Times.
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