25 Jan 2011
SINGHEALTH is giving a booster shot worth up to $576,000 a year to medical students.
Yesterday, it announced the launch of a scholarship, the first by a public health-care cluster here, to benefit four undergraduates each year, starting with the current batch of first-year medical students.
Singapore citizens, permanent residents and international students from the National University of Singapore’s (NUS) Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine and Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School are eligible to apply.
The scholarship’s value will be pegged to a Singapore citizen’s tuition fee at both universities. SingHealth will provide about $144,000 for a four-year course at Duke-NUS, and $100,000 for a five-year course at the Yong Loo Lin school.
There will be a four-year bond with SingHealth upon graduation, which can be served concurrently with a government bond that medical students at these schools have to serve.
Singapore General Hospital (SGH), KK Women’s and Children’s Hospital, Changi General Hospital, five national speciality centres and nine polyclinics are under the SingHealth Group.
Professor Tan Ser Kiat, SingHealth’s group chief executive, said the scholarships will be awarded to students who “demonstrate leadership and passion for public service”.
As the academic year has begun, the first batch of scholarship holders will be chosen based on first-year university grades. Subsequent batches will be evaluated based on university admission grades.
More details about the scholarship will be revealed later.
The Public Service Commission and Singapore Armed Forces are among the few organisations that offer medical scholarships here.
The scholarship announcement was made at a contract signing ceremony to mark the next phase of construction of a building to house SGH’s pathology services, and SingHealth research laboratories and education and training services.
The 13-storey twin tower buildings, officially named The Academia, will be ready in 2013.
Prof Tan said he hoped it would become “a place that brings together outstanding clinicians, researchers, scientists and educators”.
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