TOC Exclusive - The Role of the Pre-Employment Grant

My first exclusive piece for The Online Citizen, about the proposed "pre-employment grant" for foreign-trained Singaporean doctors, is published here. Here's a sneak peek.

The PEG works on a simple premise: MOH will pay up to 60% of the fees for medical school, up to an annual cap of, say, $50,000, and in return they serve in one of Singapore's public healthcare institutions for a period of four years upon graduation. This four-year service bond is expected to include the year-long internship/housemanship that all doctors go through after graduation.

You can read the entire piece here. Comments are, as usual, welcomed.

There's a time and place for everything

Call me old-fashioned, but I believe Parliamentary debate and proceedings should be conducted in a serious manner. These are hallowed chambers in which legislation affecting the entire country are discussed, formulated and passed, and there should be zero tolerance for frivolous questions, and floor time should be used judiciously. In other words, leave the banter outside of the chambers, thank you very much.

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