The latest edition of SMA News (Sept 2025) features a DIT special spread where our Doctors In Training committee highlighted key issues facing junior doctors and offered insights and suggested solutions to pressing challenges. I was asked to write a piece offering guidelines for junior doctor rostering, an area that I’ve seen cause many a junior doc much anguish, stress, and even contribute to burnout and patient safety issues. Together with Calvin, we came up with some suggestions we hope will take out the “monster” in “roster monster” and show what fair, transparent, effective rostering can do to improve healthcare workplaces and patient care.

Our poster as featured in the ongoing ERC Congress in Rotterdam! Proud of our study team that prepared for and visited Hyderabad in March this year, scouring through data and interviewing EMS personnel to help identify gaps and potential solutions to better manage heat injuries.

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.

The 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.