A/Professor Chong Siew Meng relates the teaching of Pathology in the Medical School since 1905. The Pathology Department of the College of Medicine is closely associated with the Department of Pathology of the Government Medical Service. Pathologists in the Government Medical Service taught medical students till 1955 when the chair of Pathology was filled by Professor R Kirts. Undergraduates an...

ONE hundred years ago this evening it is safe to say that William Osler was struggling to keep up his Latin prose compositions while spending most of his time as a theological student at Trinity College, Toronto, on zoological pursuits. The enquiring mind which was to make him a great medical diagnostician was already at work in differentiating and classifying freshwater polyzoa collected from ...

BACKGROUND Patients' sex, race, and age have been found to affect others' perception of their pain. However, the influence of these characteristics on treatment recommendations from laypersons and healthcare providers is understudied. DESIGN To address this issue, 75 undergraduates and 107 healthcare trainees (HTs) used a web-based delivery system to view video clips of virtual human (VH) pat...

OBJECTIVE To study whether using infant manikins during clinical posting could help in teaching newborn examination to undergraduate medical students. METHODS 111 final MBBS students were taught newborn examination either by the new method which included practice on infant manikins at the bedside before examining babies (Group 1) or by the traditional method which involved directly examining ...