Dean’s Message

Inspiring Health for All

Let me start by congratulating Team Medicine for winning the 2018 Inter-Faculty Games and bringing home the Tan Eng Chye Challenge Trophy! Well-done all sportsmen and women!

We are all part of cycles in life. I begin with a tribute to our teachers here at the School. The 2,950 teachers include academic clinicians, scientists as well as clinicians from public and private healthcare institutions. Our teachers unstintingly give of their time to teach and mentor tomorrow’s doctors, nurses and scientists. Our students catch the inspiration from their teachers, and seniors, and will in turn pass on the values, wisdom and experience to those who come after.

Service and giving is yet another virtuous cycle. We are a medical school with a tradition of public service that goes back to our heritage and founding more than a century ago. It is a legacy that our students continue to build on, through a number of community projects. Two especially deserve mention because they are iconic examples of our service ethos.

In 2004, a group of NUS Medicine students saw the need to educate the community about health matters and started a basic community health screening service for Singaporeans. The Public Health Service is now in its 15th year. It aims to promote the health of the local community using both primary and secondary prevention strategies, and also spreading awareness of the need for everyone to care for their own health. In 2008, another group of medical students started the Neighbourhood Health Service for