I travelled to the Thai border city of Mae Sot late last year with a group of Singapore clinicians to help out at a clinic serving refugees from Myanmar, which is setting up its new Emergency Care Unit. There, I met so many individuals passionate about improving border health despite limited resources, including Dr Tiah Ling. I wrote about her incredible journey and the efforts from the Singapore team thus far in this SMA News piece.
Read MoreIt all began with paracetamol OD cases during my Covid-era paediatrics medical student clerkship, and a question about why we were seeing as many cases as we had. Grateful to KKH Children’s Emergency’s Dr Angelina Ang for guiding me in exploring the question and translating it into a study protocol that led to this piece in Annals.
Read MoreOne of the projects I had the pleasure of working on during my ACEP/EMRA Global Emergency Medicine Student Leadership Programme (GEMS LP) mentee year was a new chapter in the latest iEM EM Clerkship Book on COVID-19.
Read MoreOne of the highlights in 2023 was a mission trip to Ilocos Norte in the Philippines with a team from Singapore General Hospital’s Orthopaedics department. There was lots to learn from the planning process to the exchange of medical expertise and experiences. I wrote about these in a piece that appeared in the January 2024 edition of SMA News.
Read MoreThe inaugural IFEM Medical Student Symposium held on June 14 as part of the 2022 International Conference on Emergency Medicine saw 7 teams of medical students and leading EM faculty from around the world come together to discuss current landscapes, challenges and the future of EM education.
Read MoreWe wanted to help fill the gap of information about the effects of COVID-19 and its measures on the management of chronic conditions here. Understanding vulnerable non-COVID patients’ perception and experiences is an important aspect of having health systems remain vigilant and responsive to the needs of all. This also allows for the evaluation of COVID-19 related measures and can inform decisions to ensure adequate care and self-management for vulnerable non-COVID patients, who have come to be seen as casualties of an “invisible epidemic” of deprioritization.
Read MoreIn looking for creative ways to grow medical education within the various COVID-19 restrictions, a novel platform of computer-based emergency case simulations was born, as featured in the Education in Medicine Journal.
Read MoreHow can EDs function optimally when an infectious disease outbreak hits? COVID-19 spurred several EM clinicians to explore putting together a conceptual framework for ED design.
Read MoreFormer venture capitalist turned green tech advocate Peggy Liu reveals why she chose to leave corporate success for non-profit advocacy, and how she is hoping to turn China, one of the world's biggest polluters, green
Read MoreAnastasia Georgievskaya is co-founder of a company that is using artificial intelligence and machine vision to tackle skin ageing. She has organised the first beauty contest judged by robots, and developed an app that tracks age-related facial changes - and she's just turned 24
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