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The Infectious Diseases (ID) service receives consults from paediatric medicine, intensive care units, bone marrow transplants, paediatric general surgery, neurosurgery, orthopaedics, otolaryngology, ophthalmology and neonatology.
Within the Hospital, the service also plays an important role in the infection control committee and infectious disease outbreak control, pharmacy and therapeutics committee and clinical pathways committee.
At the national level, the service consults on national programmes such as National AIDS Task Force, National Hand-Foot and Mouth Disease Task Force, National Bioterroism Task Force, Health Science Authority for the evaluation and licensing of new anti-infective drugs and is also involved in the Singapore Infectious Diseases Society. The service also extends its support to the National Tuberculosis Control Unit in reviewing and managing paediatrics tuberculosis cases and contacts.
Infectious diseases seen in the programme are of a wide spectrum and include Varicella-related necrotizing fasciitis, melioidosis, fever of unknown origin, tuberculosis, pneumococcal empyema, human immunodeficiency virus infections (HIV), candidemia in leukemic patients, neurocysticercosis, neonatal syphilis and cytomegalovirus and toxoplasmosis, needlestick injuries etc.
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Duration |
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2-year posting
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First Year
- Blue letter and telephone consult as 1st line in consultation with ID paediatricians
- Infectious disease day and night calls
- Ambulatory infectious disease clinic including vaccination and travel clinic
- ID rounds to Children’s Intensive Care and Neonatal Intensive Care units
- Tuberculosis control unit
- Book study/ review: Sarah Long’s Principles and Practice of Paediatric Infectious Diseases 2002 edition or Mandell, Douglas and Bennett’s Principles and Practice of Infectious Disease, The Red Book 2003
Second Year
The Fellow will continue to do infectious disease consults at KKH and will be posted for short periods to
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Communicable Disease Centre, Tan Tock Seng Hospital’s HIV and Travel clinics for one month
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Sexually Transmitted Disease Clinic at Kelantan government clinic for one week
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Burns Unit at SGH for one week
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Microbiology for one month (including Bacteriology Laboratory at KKH, Serology Laboratory at KKH & SGH, Virology Laboratory at KKH & SGH, Parasitology Laboratory at SGH/NUH and Mycology at SGH
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| Expected learning / learning objectives
The aims of the programme are to train the fellow to become a clinical consultant in paediatric infectious disease involved in patient care, teaching and research. The training programme includes microbiology, HIV medicine, infections in immunosuppressed hosts, infection control, neonatal infection, travel medicine, vaccinations, neurological disorders.
At the end of the first year of attachment, the fellow is expected to
- Give lectures in
- Needlestick injuries (HO/MO Orientation)
- Antibiotics in paediatrics (HO/MO Orientation)
- Antibiotic rounds (hospital-wide) and others
- Be involved in Paediatric Medicine teaching sessions and public talks
- Participate in adult infectious disease hospital rounds at the Singapore General Hospital and National University Hospital
At the end of the second year of attachment, the fellow is expected to
- Present a poster or make an oral presentation at one infectious disease international conference and one local conference per year
- Conduct one research project per year and publish at least one article per year (unless the recruitment period is over 2 years)
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Teaching Programme
The Fellow will be actively involved in the inpatient neurology consults and run the outpatient neurology clinics under supervision of consultant(s).
The Fellow will be rotated to the Child Development Unit, EEG Laboratory, Botox Clinic, Neurological Multidisciplinary Clinics (spasticity, paediatric orthopaedic-neuromuscular, spina bifida) during his/her attachment.
Arrangement can be made for elective rotation to the diagnostic imaging centre and neurophysiology laboratory at the National Neuroscience Institute if needed.
Daily routines:
- Inpatient neurology rounds
- Outpatient neurology clinics
Fixed schedules:
- Paediatric Orthopaedic Clinic/Spina Bifida Clinic/Neuromuscular Clinic
- Botox injection clinic (once a month)
- Neuro-rehabilitation meeting (once a month)
- Combined clinical neurology meeting (once a month)
- Neurology round/case review (fortnightly)
Teaching Faculty
Dr Chong Chia Yin
Dr Zainal Muttakin
Dr Emma Best
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Funding
Candidates should be self-funded or have funding from external sources/institutions
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Application Procedure & Form
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Duration |
SMC Registration |
Hands-on Training
(Set up, Scoring & Reporting) |
Research |
TOEFL |
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1 year |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
If applicable |
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6 months |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
If applicable |
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3 months |
Yes |
Yes (no reporting) |
No |
If applicable |
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To apply, please complete the KK Fellowship Online Application Form | |
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