Resident Physician - Orthopaedic Surgery (Hand & Microsurgery)

About the role

The Hand and Reconstructive Microsurgery (HRM) service is offered within the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery at Khoo Teck Puat Hospital (KTPH), Singapore. The service runs about 1,000 cases per year, covering outpatient management of common hand conditions and evaluation and management of hand trauma, both work-related and accidental. The Resident Physician works at the level of a junior surgeon under the direct supervision of the Consultant Hand Surgeon.

Key responsibilities

• Manage an outpatient specialist hand clinic for new and follow-up cases, and run a local hand surgery theatre list
• Support orthopaedic residents with hand cases and assist the Consultant with the general anaesthesia hand list
• Take part in clinic, ward and audit work, including presenting patients at surgical audits and morbidity and mortality meetings
• Teach undergraduates and interns at the discretion of the Consultants
• Undertake at least one research or audit project per year, with opportunities for publications and presentations at national or international meetings
• Produce one educational resource on hand surgery for the department portal
• Attend department teaching, national hand surgery teaching sessions and present literature reviews and case studies
• Assigned to at least three operating lists per week, with periodic night/on-call duty as tag-on-call with the Orthopaedic on-call team; maintain a logbook

Required profile

• Qualification from a university or medical institution listed in the Singapore Medical Council schedules
• Registered as a medical doctor in the country of qualification and last place of practice, and granted medical registration by the Singapore Medical Council
• At least 3 years of working experience as a Resident Physician (or equivalent) in the relevant discipline, with active clinical practice in the last 3 years
• English proficiency evidence if the basic medical qualification was not in English