Three student associations form national alliance to represent the voice of all local medical students
Published: 12 Jun 2021
The National University of Singapore Medical Society, Duke-NUS Student Council and Nanyang Technological University Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine (LKCMedicine) Medical Society have come together to formalise the TriMedSoc Alliance, a first-of-its-kind collaboration between the student bodies of Singapore’s three medical schools. The alliance aims to unify the voice of local medical students, and to advance and synergise student advocacy and community engagement efforts.
The collaboration was inked during a virtual Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) Signing Ceremony on the morning of 12 June, 2021. Witnessing the signing were Associate Professor Kenneth Mak, Director of Medical Services at the Ministry of Health, together with the Deans of all three medical schools in Singapore (Professor Chong Yap Seng, NUS Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine; Professor Thomas Coffman, Duke-NUS; Professor Joseph Sung, NTU LKCMedicine).
The TriMedSoc recognises the unique strengths and resources of students from each medical school, and allows representative student bodies of the medical schools in Singapore to come together officially to synergise their student-led efforts.
The MOU lays out a framework of sustained and close collaboration between the three medical student representative bodies, with the goal of developing programmes and activities that support the holistic development of the medical student community in Singapore.
They also reinforce the student-led efforts in the medical student fraternity and the wider community. Following the signing, the TriMedSoc Alliance will also serve as the official student representative body for all medical students enrolled in the three local medical schools.
The founding committee of the TriMedSoc Alliance identified four key areas of collaboration in the immediate to medium term, which are set out in the MOU. These include community engagement initiatives, encouraging discourse among doctors-in-training on pertinent healthcare topics, supporting the holistic development of patient-centric doctors, and intensifying stakeholder engagement efforts to promote an active student voice and representation.
Read more in the press release here.
