{"id":1177,"date":"2024-09-24T07:57:29","date_gmt":"2024-09-24T07:57:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nus.demowebsg06.com\/?page_id=1177"},"modified":"2024-10-01T02:39:41","modified_gmt":"2024-10-01T02:39:41","slug":"year3","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/nus.demowebsg06.com\/undergraduate\/year3.html","title":{"rendered":"Third Year Orthopaedic Surgery Posting"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Third Year Orthopaedic Surgery Posting<\/h1>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t
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Phase III (Year 3) Clinical
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This is a 6-week posting which comprises 1 week of front-loading lectures and 5 weeks of clinical posting in NUH and other restructured hospitals \u2013 Changi General Hospital (CGH), Khoo Teck Puat Hospital (KTPH), Ng Teng Fong General Hospital (NTFGH), Sengkang General Hospital (SKH), Singapore General Hospital (SGH), and Tan Tock Seng Hospital (TTSH). Students are taught the techniques of history taking and physical examination for common musculoskeletal conditions and exposed to the clinical settings of elective and emergency cases in the wards, operating theatres, ambulatory outpatient clinics and bedside teaching.<\/p>

Students also spend at least one session in the paediatric orthopaedic clinics in Kandang Kerbau Women\u2019s and Children\u2019s Hospital (KKWCH) for exposure to common paediatric orthopaedic conditions.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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At the end of the 6-week posting, students will be able to<\/strong><\/p>

  1. Gain knowledge on normal functional anatomy and physiology of the musculoskeletal system.<\/li>
  2. Develop skills in history taking, physical examination and interpret them in order to reach an appropriate provisional diagnosis and differential diagnoses.<\/li>
  3. Learn various investigations and diagnostic tests<\/li>
  4. Learn treatment principles of common orthopaedic conditions.<\/li>
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    Teaching tools:<\/strong><\/p>

    • Bedside tutorials<\/li>
    • Ambulatory teaching<\/li>
    • Clinic attachment<\/li>
    • In-patient team attachment<\/li>
    • Pre-op clerking of patients<\/li>
    • Interactive subspecialty teaching sessions<\/li>
    • Self-driven practice-based learning & improvement through postings to Ward work and Outpatient specialist clinics attachment.<\/li><\/ul>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t
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      Phase III (Year 3) Clinical Orthopaedic Posting This is a 6-week posting which comprises 1 week of front-loading lectures and 5 weeks of clinical posting in NUH and other restructured hospitals \u2013 Changi General Hospital (CGH), Khoo Teck Puat Hospital (KTPH), Ng Teng Fong General Hospital (NTFGH), Sengkang General Hospital (SKH), Singapore General Hospital (SGH), […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":1143,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"elementor_header_footer","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1177","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nus.demowebsg06.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1177"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nus.demowebsg06.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nus.demowebsg06.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nus.demowebsg06.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nus.demowebsg06.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1177"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/nus.demowebsg06.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1177\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1191,"href":"https:\/\/nus.demowebsg06.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1177\/revisions\/1191"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nus.demowebsg06.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nus.demowebsg06.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}