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Adj A/Prof Victor Loh Weng Keong

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URL:
https://www.nuhs.edu.sg/family-medicine
Designations:
  • Senior Consultant, Department of Family Medicine, National University Health System
  • Adjunct Associate Professor, Division of Family Medicine, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore
Qualifications:
MBBS (S’pore), M.Med (Family Medicine, S’pore), G.Dip (Family Practice Dermatology, S’pore), G.Dip (Psychotherapy, S’pore), MCFP (S’pore), Masters in Health Professions Education (University of Maastricht, S’pore)
Specialties:
Family Medicine
Special Interests:
Patient Voice, Medical Professional Identity Formation, Primary Care Antimicrobial Stewardship, ,

Biosketch

Adj A/Prof Victor Loh is Education Director of Family Medicine, and Director of Foundations of Clinical Practice (FCP) at NUS Medicine. He is a senior consultant family physician at Pioneer Polyclinic, National University Polyclinics (NUP). His interests in medical education are in family medicine training and humanistic medical professional identity formation (PIF). For health services research, he leads “Patient Voice” under which he is a Personalised Care and Support Planning (PCSP) practitioner and trainer, and leads research in Youth Mental Health (YMH), and Primary Care Antimicrobial Stewardship (PC-AMS).

Awards

  • 2022: NUHS DFM Research Excellence Award - Research Team of the Year Award (PACE-D)
  • 2021: NUHS-Mochtar Riady Pinnacle Award (Team NUH PACE-D)
  • 2021: NUHS Education Collaboration Award (Team) 
  • 2021: Medical Education Grand Innovation Challenge (MEGIC) Special Mention Award (Team Comm-petent)
  • 2020: NUS Medicine Fortitude Award (FM Education team)
  • 2020: NUS Medicine Circuit Breaker Challenge Team Award (FM Education team)
  • 2018: National University of Singapore School of Medicine Special Recognition 

Journals & Publications

  1. Koh SW, Liow Y, Loh VW, Liew SJ, Chan YH, Young D. COVID-19 vaccine acceptance and hesitancy among primary healthcare workers in Singapore. BMC Primary Care. 2022 April; 23(1):1-9. DOI: 10.1186/s12875-022-01693-z 

  2. Zhu CSQ, Yap RKF, Lim SYS, Toh YP, Loh VWK. Humanism in Asian Medical Education-A Scoping Review. The Asia Pacific Scholar. 2022, 7(1): 9-20. DOI: 10.29060/TAPS.2022-7-1/RA2460

  3. Guo H, Hildon ZJ, Loh VW, Sundram M, Ibrahim MA, Tang WE, Chow A. Exploring antibiotic prescribing in public and private primary care settings in Singapore: a qualitative analysis informing theory and evidence-based planning for value-driven intervention design. BMC Family Practice. 2021 Dec; 22(1):1-4. PMID: 34654368. DOI: 10.1186/s12875-021-01556-z 

  4. Liow Y, Loh VW, Goh LH, Tan DH, Tan TL, Leong CK, Young DY. COVID-19 primary care response and challenges in Singapore: a tale of two curves. Hong Kong Medical Journal. 2021 Feb;27(1):70-2. 

  5. Liow Y, Loh VW, Young D. 100 days on: the primary care response to COVID-19 in Singapore. Singapore Medical Journal. 2020 Nov 30. DOI:10.11622/smedj.2020162  

  6. Hwang J, Yong E, Cheong K, Ling ZJ, Goh LH, Lim FS, Loh V, Bagdasarian N, Somani J, Archuleta S, Sng J. Responding to the COVID-19 pandemic: The role of occupational health services in a tertiary hospital in Singapore. Journal of Occupational Health. 2020;62(1):e12172. DOI: 10.1002/1348-9585.12172 

  7. Tan WH, Loh VW, Venkataraman K, Choong ST, Lew YJ, Sundram M, Tsou K, Tan SG, Gibbons B, Entwistle V, Young D, Tai ES, Yew TW. The Patient Activation through Community Empowerment/Engagement for Diabetes Management (PACE-D) protocol: a non-randomised controlled trial of personalised care and support planning for persons living with diabetes. BMC Family Practice. 2020 Dec; 21(1):1-0. DOI: 10.1186/s12875-020-01173-2 

  8. Loh VW, Yip TW, Chua JC, Goh WL. Migrant health elective: They are just like me!. Medical Education. 2020 Apr 6. PMID: 32249958. DOI: 10.1111/medu.14119

  9. Koh SW, Li CF, Loh JS, Wong ML, Loh VW. Managing tooth pain in general practice. Singapore Medical Journal. 2019 May;60(5):224. PMID: 31187144 DOI: 10.11622/smedj.2019044 

  10. Loh VW, Samarasekera DD, Tan TL, Goh LH. Humanising patient care through student eyes. Medical Education. 2018 Oct 1. PMID: 30276847 DOI: 10.1111/medu.13704 

  11. Lee VM, Ang LL, Soon DT, Ong JJ, Loh VW. The adult patient with headache. Singapore Medical Journal. 2018 Aug;59(8):399. PMID: 30175370 DOI: 10.11622/smedj.2018094

National University Health System
  • National University Hospital
  • Ng Teng Fong General Hospital
  • Alexandra Hospital
  • Jurong Community Hospital
  • National University Polyclinics
  • Jurong Medical Centre
  • National University Cancer Institute, Singapore
  • National University Heart Centre, Singapore
  • National University Centre for Oral Health, Singapore (NUCOHS)
  • NUHS Diagnostics
  • NUHS Pharmacy logo
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  • NUS - Yong Loo Lin, School of Medicine
  • NUS - Faculty of Dentistry
  • NUS - Saw Swee Hock, School of Public Health

 

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