Assoc Prof Tay Sook Muay

About

Dr Tay Sook Muay is a senior consultant anaesthesiologist at the Singapore General Hospital, with special interest and training in Liver Transplantation anaesthesiology and Burns Intensive Care Medicine. Prior to this, she was awarded and successfully completed 2 fellowships at the Royal North Shore Hospital in Intensive Care Medicine and at UCLA Hospital in Liver Transplantation.

Besides her active teaching programmes, Dr Tay also successfully helped to organize "An Experiential Workshop in Problem Based Learning 2004" which received local and regional participation. She also moderated in the 2nd Asia Pacific Medical Education Meeting 2004 and the Medical Student Education Conference 2005. She is also a faculty member in the Simulator Workshop 2008-9 and sat in the PGMI Medical Pedagogy Committee from 2004-7, Singapore General Hospital. Dr Tay contributed as faculty member in the Harvard Medical Institute course 2005 and chaired the educational committee in the Annual Scientific Meeting Singapore General Hospital 2006. She is also a trained facilitator in "7 Habits of Highly Effective People".

Dr Tay is also the current Associate Dean for NUS Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, SGH Campus.

Education and Training

• 1988 National University of Singapore: Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery (MBBS) 
  
• 1997 Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland (FFARCSI)    
  
• 2005 Master of Education (Leadership, Governance, Change), Monash University 
  

Professional Appointments and Committee Memberships

• ​Associate Dean, NUS Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, SGH Campus 
• Instructor: Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS, Singapore) 
  
• Instructor: Fundamental Critical Care Support (FCCS, Singapore) 
  
• Instructor for “Open Disclosure”  2009 (Cognitive Institute, Australia) 
  
• Facilitator for “7 Habits of Highly Effective People” since 2007 
  
• PBL Tutor M3 (2002-3), M4 (2004), M2 (2005, 07, 08, 09) 
  
• Clinical Senior Lecturer National University Singapore since 2005 
  
• Member of the Medical Education Unit in National University Singapore since 2005 
  
• Examiner, OSCE for final MBBS (2005) 
  
• Member of the Pedagogy Committee. Postgraduate Medical Institute, Singapore General Hospital (2004-07) 
  
• Committee member, Committee for Core Skills- Simulation Training Work Group (2006) 
  
• Zone 6 Chief Surgeon, St John Ambulance Brigade Singapore 
  
• Adjunct Associate Professor, Duke-NUS Medical School 
  
  
  

Research Interests

• Burns
• Burns Wound Care
• Nutrition
• Pharmaco-nutrition
• Sarcopenia

Publications

• High Volume Spinal Anaesthesia: A Dose-Response Study of Bupivacaine 0.125%. Journal: Anaesthesia & Intensive Care 1992 (2nd Author) 
  
• Cesarean section in a mother with uncorrected congenital coronary to pulmonary artery fistula.  SM Tay, BC Ong, SA Tan. Canadian Journal of Anaesthesia 1999; 46(4): 368-71 
  
• Case Report: Catheter-related epidural abscess. SM Tay, R Lee. Annals, Academy of Medicine 2001; 30(1): 62-5. 
  
• Audit of Total Parenteral Nutrition in an Adult Surgical Intensive Care.  Annals,  Academy of Medicine 2002; 31(4): 487-92 
  
• Problem-based Learning: an Introduction. SGH Proceedings 2003; 12: 45-9. 
  
• Evidence Based Educational Practice: The Case for Faculty Development in Teaching. CDT Link Nov 2004 vol 8 no 3. 
  
• “Anaesthesia for Emergency Medicine” in Acute Surgical Management. Ed: Hwang NC, Ooi LL. World Scientific Publishing 2004 
  

Oral presentation

• Healthcare in Singapore: Quality, Accessibility and Affordability, 2013 
  
• Mobile Applications in Medical education; 2013 
  
• A cohort study evaluating the impact of a computer-generated rounding report on post-graduate year 1's (PGY1s) work hours and information accuracy, 2013