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April 2008

Groundbreaking Ceremony for Centre for Translational Medicine (CeTM)

8 April 2008 will mark a new chapter in the history of the Medical School. A new flagship building of the School with state-of-the-art research and teaching facilities will house some of the world's most talented researchers and educators to provide solutions to Asia's medical challenges. Its groundbreaking was officiated by Prime Minister Mr Lee Hsien Loong.

Expected to be completed in the second quarter of 2010, the Centre for Translational Medicine will stand proud at 15 storeys high and provide 41,000 square meters of space for teaching, learning, training, and research. Some of the nation's key biomedical and medical education resources will be situated here, including a state of the art Clinical Imaging and Research Centre and digital media (SMART) classrooms for medical and nursing student teaching.

Some of the most competitive international translational research programmes in cancer and other common diseases will be housed in this building. The site, designated currently as MD6, is also adjacent to the National University Hospital, fostering cross-pollination between doctors and scientists, between ideas and practical applications. Read More.

March 2008

National Medical Excellence Award 2008

Congratulations to Prof Lee Eng Hin, Director, Division of Graduate Medical Studies, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, NUS; Prof Soo Khee Chee, Vice Dean, Duke-NUS Medical School; Prof Yap Hui Kim, NUS Department of Paediatrics; and Prof Donald Tan Tiang Hwee, NUS Department of Ophthalmology. Read More

February 2008

Lee Kuan Yew Distinguished Visitors Programme
Dr Harvey V. Fineberg and Dr Mary E. Wilson

On 6 June 2007, Prof Tan Chorh Chuan extended an invitation to Dr Harvey V. Fineberg and Dr Mary E. Wilson as Lee Kuan Yew Distinguished Visitors at the National University of Singapore.

Dr Harvey V. Fineberg is President of the Institute of Medicine (IOM) of the National Academy of Sciences in the US. He served as Provost of Harvard University from 1997 to 2001, and was Dean of the Harvard School of Public Health for thirteen years. As president of IOM, Prof Fineberg advises the government on issues such as vaccine safety, health care delivery and quality, nutrition standards, and cancer prevention and management.

Dr Mary E. Wilson is an Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and Associate Professor of Population and International Health at the Harvard School of Public Health. Her academic interests include the ecology of infections and emergence of microbial threats, travel medicine, tuberculosis, and vaccines.

January 2008

Visit by Professor Joseph Cooke and Patient Safety Education
28th January - 1st February 2008

Professor Joseph Cooke, Chief Patient Safety Officer at Weil Corneil Medical Center, was recently invited by YLLSoM and NHG as a visiting expert from 28th January 2008 to 1st February 2008.

Prof Cooke paid particular emphasis on the need to incorporate patient safety in the undergraduate medical curriculum, and also discussed the challenges faced in developing this aspect of the curriculum. He then evaluated its effectiveness and shared some innovative ways to engage medical students by making this subject both relevant and interesting.

In between meetings, discussions and visits to the wards, Prof Cooke also participated in NUH’s patient safety walkabouts. He delivered 2 keynote lectures which received an overwhelming response. His lectures emphasized patient safety in clinicians’ day-to-day practice, and highlighted the need for development of clinical quality and safety within an academic medical setting. Prof Cooke also shared his views with the faculty members and educationalists that doctors and nurses should be encouraged to develop a career in patient safety with the increasing demand for such professionals in the healthcare system.

Operation Theatre II: "Just Great!"
4 - 5th January 2008
University Cultural Centre

"Just Great!" is a follow-up to Operation Theatre I: "A Good History", a musical staged by the NUS Medical Society and the student body in jubilee Hall of the Raffles Hotel as part of the Centennial celebrations in July 2005. This new production of "Just Great!" will also be the first ever charitable production of the biennial musical. All proceeds will go to the Medical Students' Bursary Fund, a fund set up in 2007 to help needy medical students with considerable expense of medical school.