Emergency Medicine

Dr Ken­neth Heng, Emer­gency Medicine

Most Emer­gency Physi­cians are drawn to the spe­cialty because of the excit­ing and var­ied clin­i­cal work, flex­i­bil­ity and lifestyle. Emer­gency physi­cians are the true gen­er­al­ists who man­age prob­lems across the whole age spec­trum. They are resus­ci­ta­tion lead­ers and coor­di­na­tors of acute care who are pro­fi­cient in a wide range of resus­ci­ta­tive skills.

A grad­u­ate of the Emer­gency Med­i­cine (EM) res­i­dency will have expe­ri­enced a 5 year appren­tice­ship that cov­ers not only the essen­tial top­ics of emer­gency med­i­cine, but incor­po­rates many other aspects includ­ing pre-hospital and dis­as­ter med­i­cine, obser­va­tional med­i­cine, com­mu­ni­ca­tion and teach­ing skills, depart­ment man­age­ment, sim­u­la­tion, ultra­sound and much more. A res­i­dent will rotate through med­i­cine, car­di­ol­ogy, surgery, trauma, orthopaedics, anaes­the­sia, inten­sive care, pae­di­atrics and emer­gency med­i­cine and ben­e­fit from the inte­grated inter-department teach­ing. Built into our pro­gramme are prepara­tory courses to guide the res­i­dent through the inter­me­di­ate MCEM exam­i­na­tions in res­i­dency year 3 and Exit Exam­i­na­tions in year 5.

Emer­gency Depart­ment at TTSH

Trauma at Tan Tock Seng Hos­pi­tal, unique because of the sys­tem and loca­tion, is one of our strengths. We have the high­est trauma and SCDF ambu­lance vol­ume amongst all the hos­pi­tals in Sin­ga­pore and there is plenty of rich clin­i­cal mate­r­ial. Through grad­u­ated respon­si­bil­ity, close super­vi­sion and men­tor­ing by estab­lished and much sought-after teach­ers, sup­ported by a great bunch of fun and friendly nurses, our pro­gramme is com­mit­ted to grad­u­at­ing com­pe­tent, con­fi­dent emer­gency physicians.

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