Resident Dr Shum Oi Han sharing her learning points with A/Prof Goh Lee Gan and Dr Chng Shih Kiat
during her posting at Raffles Executive Medical Centre.
The Family Medicine Residency Program at National University Healthcare System has the training objectives of enabling residents upon completion of the program to be able to:
1) Provide competent clinical care by using data about a patient (history, physical examination, laboratory and imaging studies) along with medical knowledge to create a differential diagnosis, plan for further evaluation, and comprehensively manage patients. (ACGME Competency Patient Care)
2) Apply established and evolving knowledge in the biomedical, clinical, and epidemiological sciences related to family medicine as well as related knowledge in the social-behavioural sciences to their care of their patients. (ACGME Competency Medical Knowledge)
3) Improve the patient care that they provide by continuously assessing their performance, incorporating feedback and pursuing learning related to improvement opportunities. (ACGME Competency Practice-based Learning and Improvement)
Dr Chua Chi Siong, consultant from St Luke's Hospital & NUHS FM (Residency) physician faculty,
attending to his patient in SLH.
4) Provide competent person-centred care by developing a relationship with patients and their families in which health care needs are identified and addressed collaboratively in the context of the patient as a whole person. (ACGME Competency Interpersonal and Communication Skills)
5) Conduct their professional life in accordance with the expectations of the profession of medicine and society, manifested through a commitment to carrying out professional responsibilities, adherence to ethical principles, and sensitivity to patients of diverse backgrounds. (ACGME Competency Professionalism)
6) Function effectively with the system of health care beyond the clinical encounter to call effectively on additional resources to provide optimal health care for their patients. (ACGME Competency Systems-based Practice)
7) Pursue a professional career focused on research or teaching, or as a scholarly practitioner in family medicine.
