Registration For Foreign-Trained Doctors To Practise In Singapore

If you are a foreign-trained doctor, the first thing you have to do to find out if you can work as a medical doctor in Singapore is to check if you come from a recognized medical school.

You can check this in the Singapore Medical Council’s Registrable Basic Medical Qualifications which was last updated on April 18, 2008.

The Singapore Medical Council also grants Temporary Registration. Check
http://www.smc.gov.sg/html/1153709456494.html to find out which groups of doctors can be granted Temporary Registration and also what are the requirements.

However do not assume you can land a doctor’s job in Singapore even if you satisfy all the requirements.

You will need a contact in the hospital. We have the contact with someone in the Hospital whom we communicate with.

This contact is someone senior enough to make a hiring decision.

Another point to note is that Consultant positions are considered permanent decisions so you may have to settle for Associate Consultant even if you are already a Consultant level person back home.