Annals

January 2025

Volume 54 Number 1


CONTENTS
Latest News
Master’s Message (Jan 2025)
6 Jan 2025

The doctor-patient relationship is the bedrock on which the practice of medicine rests. It could be said that without its existence, the medical profession cannot be called a profession, much less a calling. View more.


Release of AMS MME Module 4 (Consent) & 5 (The 4-Box Approach)
16 Dec 2024

We are pleased to announce the release of the Mandatory Medical Ethics (MME) CME modules 4 & 5 which are now available on the AMS Learning portal! Read More


Remembering Professor Chew Chin Hin (1931-2024)
16 Dec 2024

Professor Chew contributed much to academic medicine.  He achieved Fellowship of the Academy of Medicine, Singapore in 1963.  In 1975, as the Master of the Academy of Medicine, he conferred the Honorary Membership of the Academy on our nation’s founding father and Prime Minister of Singapore, Mr Lee Kuan Yew… [Read more]


Master’s Message (Oct 2024)
11 Oct 2024

Last year, my first boss in MOH HQ, Dr Wong Kum Leng, passed away. I consider myself his apprentice, even though I never asked him if he felt likewise. Maybe some things are best left unspoken. View more.


Community hospital subsidies to be enhanced from Oct, says Ong Ye Kung at awards event
25 Sep 2024

SINGAPORE – From October 2024, subsidies at community hospitals will be enhanced to align with those of acute hospitals, and allowed to be used for advanced diagnostics, said Health Minister Ong Ye Kung.


Master’s Speech – CFPS Commencement 2024
24 Sep 2024

Thank you for inviting me to this year’s CFPS Commencement Ceremony.


Master’s Speech – Induction Comitia 2024
27 Aug 2024

Good evening. On behalf of the Council, a warm welcome to the Academy of Medicine, Singapore’s 2024 Induction Comitia, 26th Gordon Arthur Ransome Oration, and 57th Singapore-Malaysia Congress of Medicine!


The Straits Times Forum: Biopsy Meant To Be Diagnostic And Does Not Serve Therapeutic Role
26 Jul 2024

The Chapter of Neurosurgeons College of Surgeons, Singapore, issued a statement in response to the Straits Times article, "S’pore baby with 1 in 100 million brain stem tumour survives and thrives against all odds"