MBBS [London], FACEP, FAMS [Emer Med]
Senior Consultant, Emergency Medicine Department
Associate Professor Manning has a career that spans 38 years and 4 countries, each with a unique approach to Emergency Medicine.
He graduated from University College Hospital Medical School , London in 1971, with his first contact with Emergency Medicine being in 1973 as a Senior House Officer at Peterborough District Hospital in UK. His formal Emergency Medicine residency training commenced in Toledo, Ohio USA in 1977, and he subsequently obtained his Board certification in 1984. He worked for 17 years in Toledo as an attending physician in a busy department with a heavy accent on clinical work and teaching.
Associate Professor Manning is a past oral Board examiner for the American Board of Emergency Medicine, while currently examining for the combined MCEM / FAMS [A&E] in Singapore.
His current post as Senior Consultant in the Emergency Medicine Department at the National University Hospital combines clinical work, teaching at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels, and administration at Medical Board level. He is Vice-Chairman Medical Board for medico-legal matters and Chairman of the Mortality Audit Committee.
He completed a 7-year stint as Head of Department in June 2006.
With teaching becoming an ever-increasing component of his work, Associate Professor Manning has written Revision Courses in both Clinical Anatomy and Clinical Pharmacology focused specifically on the needs of emergency physicians in training, as outlined in the curriculum of the College of Emergency Medicine [UK] for the MCEM Part Examination. He has also developed Short Answer Question practice examinations for the MCEM Part B examination.
As the recently appointed Chair of the MOH Residency Review Committee for Emergency Medicine, Associate Professor Manning will be closely involved in regulation of the US-style residency training program commencing in May 2010.
